Better batter
Jul. 20th, 2020 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrI may have gotten... a little ambitious. This video is nearly ten minutes long.
Got an email wanting to order three large batter bowls. I've already made nearly everything I need for my August 2 firing, but figured, Why not? Throw four, just to be sure, I'd still have plenty of time to dry and bisque them in time to glaze. And I'd been reminded, looking for music for my coffee cup/painted mug piece, of another Trout Fishing in America song, 11 Easy Steps, that begins "Still spinning around; lowering my orbit."
But I'd already done a video throwing bowls, another one trimming. What would make this one different?
That's when I thought, What if I record the whole process? Wedging, throwing, extruding coil and pulling handles and trimming?
Reader, I wound up with 11 files of video to edit together. The shortest was 19.2 megabytes; the longest, 946.8. All in all, they totaled 4625.3 Mb, over four-and-a-half Gigs.
It's a good thing I have a very big hard drive on this laptop.
I had to edit in another song to make the soundtrack fit, a medley of 11 Easy Steps and Dream, another Trout song. Discovered a few new tricks in iMovie, like how to cross-dissolve between clips, change the framing, make a title card. I'm damn proud of the result. And maybe a little exhausted. Might not be making any new videos for a little while.
Still spinning around...
(Music by Trout Fishing in America; 11 Easy Steps, from Family Music Party and Dreams from Closer to the Edge, Trout Records)
Got an email wanting to order three large batter bowls. I've already made nearly everything I need for my August 2 firing, but figured, Why not? Throw four, just to be sure, I'd still have plenty of time to dry and bisque them in time to glaze. And I'd been reminded, looking for music for my coffee cup/painted mug piece, of another Trout Fishing in America song, 11 Easy Steps, that begins "Still spinning around; lowering my orbit."
But I'd already done a video throwing bowls, another one trimming. What would make this one different?
That's when I thought, What if I record the whole process? Wedging, throwing, extruding coil and pulling handles and trimming?
Reader, I wound up with 11 files of video to edit together. The shortest was 19.2 megabytes; the longest, 946.8. All in all, they totaled 4625.3 Mb, over four-and-a-half Gigs.
It's a good thing I have a very big hard drive on this laptop.
I had to edit in another song to make the soundtrack fit, a medley of 11 Easy Steps and Dream, another Trout song. Discovered a few new tricks in iMovie, like how to cross-dissolve between clips, change the framing, make a title card. I'm damn proud of the result. And maybe a little exhausted. Might not be making any new videos for a little while.
Still spinning around...
(Music by Trout Fishing in America; 11 Easy Steps, from Family Music Party and Dreams from Closer to the Edge, Trout Records)