Those of you who know me, know that I coach my kids sports. This past baseball season I had two GREAT parents that offered to photo and video the action during the games. This is great since while I’m coaching, I don’t get to take any photos of my kids. By the end of the season we had 1000+ photos and about an hour of 1080p HD video.
My goal was to chop this down to a 15~20 minutes and create DVD’s for each player. Simple, right? After 2 weeks of 2-5 hours per night give or take, my master piece is about 2 hours away from an Oscar.
I started with the photos. I went went through each one and trashed any that were out of focus, off angle or just had something wrong with them. Then I went through again, this time I tagged them with the players names and rated them 1-5.
The video was given to me as a bunch of sequenced AVHCD files that I was able to import in to Adobe Premiere Pro. Little did I know that these HD files impose a huge drain on the computer. I had edited SD footage in the past with no problem.
I was amazed at the amount of time I put in to this project. From when I sat down it seemed that time would speed up and the next thing I know, 4 hours had gone by. Don’t get me wrong, I had a blast doing it and learned a lot along the way. Granted, if I was more knowledgeable with the software and the techniques, it would not have taken as long.
Would I do it again? You bet!
