Getting started with apps

I have some experience in making videos, nothing special or anything but the basics. Iv'e worked with Adobe Premier Pro in 2019 but that's 2 years ago now so I would definitely need a refresher on where everything is and how to do certain things. So when it came to looking at apps, I also used Premier Rush or that's what it was called 2 years ago. I really like this app as it's more or less a simplified version of premier pro where you can still achieve the basic stuff pretty easily. Having adobe free with college made my decision even easier to stick with Rush as it's familiar to me and free! Over the years iv'e also tried out IMovie and Kinestar but to me Rush was the best.

First examples

I trialled out some footage I have from my previous projects (as i'm not currently in the middle of making any ceramic projects ) on Rush to see if I still remembered how to put things together. I'm sorry about the quality in the videos, these were mostly shot on an iphone6s but i've just got a brand new iphone12 so the camera quality should improve in my coming blogs.

This first video has 2 different shots of the same unloading of a kiln firing (my first one at home!) but obviously they don't sync as they're the same length but one is a continuous shot of the whole kiln being unloaded while the other is just of one shelve being unloaded. These are just examples of idea's i'm thinking of for my actual video, a side by side of a different POV of the same process.

In this second video, I put together 3 different time lapses to join together the whole designing and glazing process. I'd like to show the whole process in my real video but by doing this I can realise what camera angles I could use. As in these clips it's harder to see the detail that's going in the glaze process because the camera is set up far away. (The camera angle was far away at the time because I had so much to glaze in such little time - deadlines of course).But for this project I can sped more time thinking of things like this.

Looking at a different point of views.

When loading a bisque kiln I was on the top shelf and I dropped a bead all the way to the bottom! I was so annoyed as I didn't want to unload and re load the kiln (it takes time), so as I couldn't see where the bead went I suspected it actually landed on the bottom shelf which meant I wouldn't have to re load it. I obviously can't just look down there so my only option was to grab my phone start recording and see if I could see the bead somewhere on the shelf. After 2 attempts I managed to get the camera angle right and low and behold the bead was on the bottom shelf so I was all good to fire! The video footage I got back was really interesting to me as I obviously can't see inside my kiln so this gave me a new perspective on what my work looks like.

Overhead shot I used to capture the glazing process.