This grainy shot was brought to you by my point-and-shoot, the Canon A520, which is probably less than $30 on Craiglist these days but comes in handy now and again. Wish I’d had it with me on Saturday night for Lisa’s birthday party music jam!
Tonight I went over to Sai’s to finish work on the school concert DVD we shot footage for a month ago. If you’ve ever edited video you will know how labour-intensive this can be, even more than photo editing due to multiple tracks (audio + video). You need up-to-date hardware — a lot of RAM, a fast processor, a big monitor — to run video-editing software, otherwise you will totally give up in frustration before the project is finished. Sai and I picked up his newly-shipped hardware last week, which sped up the editing process tremendously (I posted on Twitter that our experience at the Purolator in Kipling was the worst customer service EVER and I am not kidding). I was in the same boat in November with photo editing, until I bit the (money) bullet and bought the iMac because I couldn’t limp along any longer.
People wonder why working with digital images (photo or video) is costly and I can tell you, unless you want to edit at the speed of molasses, the computer will need to be upgraded — sometimes more often than the cameras!
And speaking of work, today’s video is from Men At Work: a 1983 live performance of “Down Under” in Dortmund, Germany. I was pretty impressed with the quality of this video.
