ive spent the last month juggling between my "real" job, digging frigging holes and shoveling rocks, and doing what i actually enjoy doing: film stuff. Well, not exactly film stuff but a stop motion animation project thats like a half hour long..
half hour of stop motion = like 2600 still shots
so ive got like 2600+ still shots, edited out like 300 or so, and ive got a last "scene" to shoot. ive edited the first 4/5ths of it to prepare it for voice/audio. all in all, ive already put in about 70 hours or so on this thing and it'll be probably more like 90-100 before its done and ready for release. i went and got a youtube director's account to enable a post of longer than ten minutes, and hopefully HOPEFULLY it'll be released in the middle of february. HOPEFULLY.
unfortunately the work of ingenuity that is windows movie maker has a bug or something on my pc and keeps crashing... i cant do transitions anymore! WTF!
heh hawaii, i think, is best kept visited. living here is kindof a bummer to tell you the truth. the BIGGEST island in the hawaiian chain, being this one (hawaii), is about 4 hours in circumference. sooooo, after being here for a little while i started to feel trapped. sometimes i feel like i live on the island of south windsor or something. scary. but is it beautiful? yep.
I love film stuff, but understand how time consuming it can be. I took an Animation class in college (where we went over stop-motion animation) and it was overwhelming and it totally turned me off. Editing? I LOVE EDITING. I could do it alll day long. Good luck on fixing the bug on your comp.