For the past few days I’ve been working on creating an overview video for Clear Books – an online accounting software system, and one of the companies that Fubra have invested in.
When we decided to do the video I got really excited… “Yes!” I thought. “This is what I’m good at!” I did a fair bit of video editing as part of my broadcast journalism degree, so I assumed it would be a doddle, and fun.
Wrong.
It turns out that actually, editing screen casts together is much harder than filming real people and cutting that up. All the tricks you use to keep viewers entertained go out the window. Couple that with the fact that I had to learn to use ScreenCast (pretty straightforward, definitely recommended) and iMovie (tricky when you’re used to the extra features of Final Cut/Premier Pro) over night, and throw in a ton of technical anomalies just for fun, and I nearly threw my beloved MacBook out the window on several occasions.
It’s not perfect, but it’s the first in a series of versions of it, and I hope each will get progressively better. But for now, here it is:
