Technical limitations aside, I now understand why a lot of people don’t create videos for their blogs. The process is extremely time consuming.

I spent pretty much an entire day performing and frapsing the material to include in the video. It then took several hours to learn how to use Premiere Elements and nearly two days to piece it together, add music and try different editing theories. And I needed half a day just to figure out how to encode it properly and upload it to Vimeo. All between work, raids and real life!

The video itself is reflective of the learning process. It starts off with longer pieces edited together randomly, followed by me trying to time scene transitions and actions to match beats in the music. Later on, I do some experimentation with time stretching. The result is a video that starts off slow but ends well.

If you have a short attention span, you can probably skip to about 9:40 or so.

I don’t think I’ll be doing a lot of entertainment-focused movies in the future, particularly if the quality hinges on timing and hundreds of clips. However, I might do some instructional videos, because I can’t see them taking nearly as long to complete. Otherwise, the process is simply too time consuming.

Songs in the Video

  • Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
  • I’ve Got a Plane to Catch – LOST Soundtrack
  • Time Is Running Out – Muse
  • Last Battle – Ocarina of Time Soundtrack
  • Fanfare – FFVII Soundtrack
  • Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash