So I am sad to say that the season at Emerald Downs in ending and that means that…. well I will be out of the editing/shooting gig that I have been loving so much for the next 4-5 months or so.  It sucks, I know, but I probably wouldn’t be doing that much video production anyways.  If I were to stay on, it would be engineer type of stuff, but no real video stuff, not till around February.   Oh well, it gives me a chance to try my hand at some new careers… possibly selling used cars?  I will probably be doing video stuff for hobby for a while, but one good thing is, I have access to the HPX-500 whenever I want, as long as I don’t take it out of Emerald Downs.  So, I will be able to do HD After Effects tests and stuff like that, which is pretty cool.

I have a new little video I made the other day, a simple cloning video, I had never done one, and I got bored one day while Brennan was sleeping so I made this:

Basically what I did, is I set up an extra tripod (you can use a stick or something else) right in front of my face on the left, so that the top would be where the second me on the right would point the gun.  Then I filmed myself on the ground, on my knees and did about 10 takes.  Then I did the same thing with me shooting the gun, and then I did one more take with the tripod gone, for my clean plate.

it was really easy, I just took the three layers, masked out the two with me in them, and then stuck the clean plate on bottom and whala!  Stick some Videocopilot Blood and Muzzle Flash in there and you got yourself a murdering clone!

I am thinking about making a video tutorial on this, so stay tuned… it will be my first tutorial, so bear with me… hopefully its good.

Oh and if anyone in the Seattle/Tacoma/Olympia area needs video done, or has a studio or anything that is hiring, check out my resume… it is quite impressive, and give me a call.

Toph out.