Lyd was taking a charter train up the WHR today and had the weather been nice my plan was to follow the train and get some action packed footage... however it was foggy and rainy and generally horrid. I got a couple of shots of the train leaving Port and then retired to the office with a coffee and a bacon bap to edit yesterdays footage.
Fortunately Paul Lewin can talk the hind legs off a donkey which is an ideal talent for talking to the camera, he also knows his way round Lyd. This made my job editing the last chapter for 'Lyd - A new locomotive' pretty straight forward. Something which people who are new to making videos often overlook are 'cut aways'. These are shots which can be edited into a sequence to cover a clumsy join or just to add some detail. Before Paul arrived I had about eight cut aways of things like numberplates, valve gear and the loco chimney smoking. In fact if you look at the lower of yesterdays pictures you can see I am videoing the chimney cap.
One of the shots I got today was a close up of the name plate. I did the same yesterday but the loco was cold and the plate had not yet been polished so it looked dull; today it was shiny and looked much better. By the magic of television I can slip this in instead of the dull one.
While I rendered this final chapter I had a couple of tweaks to do to the introduction. Once these two were both finished I added them to the DVD burning package and again rendered the whole project to a finished file and burned a couple of trial disks. One I took down stairs to the shop to have a look at and make sure that it played OK and looked and sounded as I expected, the other copy I have taken home with me to watch through on my TV to look for stupid errors. Before it can go on sale it will need to be checked over for spelling and grammar mistakes and in case there is anything shown which should not be. Proofing videos is not as easy as you may think as the caption generator doesn't have spell checker and my spelling is awful; fear not, grown ups will be involved before it hits the streets. (Mind you it didn't stop us selling hundreds of copies of a DVD with a 'Golen Bolts Ceremony' on the menu page... oops.)
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