Peter Shi  


My Trip to Texas by Peter Shi
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February 2022 - My Trip to Texas

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Last Oct. & Nov. I had a trip to Texas. I visited Dallas, Austin and Houston for a week. This is my first time there. I did not drive myself and took the city transportation, so I only had chances to take the urban footages. All video clips were taken with my cell phone, and some still images inside museum with my Sony a7s iii. The tighten schedule did not allow me using the tripod and gimbal. Post editing with Pr cc, Ae cc and Ps.


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Bunny Laden   Bunny Laden
(Group 43)
Hi Peter,

What a trip! You saw a lot in just a few days. I am impressed. The footage was wonderful. The pace and quality of the images are great. I liked the way you varied the music. The titles were helpful. I especially like the font face and style that you chose.

I am a pretty fast reader, but I found that some of the titles left the screen before I finished reading them. I've always been told to leave titles onscreen to give enough time to read them aloud two times. Some people say three times. That would pose a problem for your video because the image pace is fast. You could put the titles on a blank background, but I really like the way you float them over images. You might consider stopping the motion of the image behind the title long enough for someone to read them. For example for the Ann W. Richards bridge, you could scroll the title over the shot of the people on the bridge, then remove the title, and resume the action with the bats flying. I felt I was missing some action by reading, so that sort of approach of stopping action while still scrolling the title might help the viewer. What do you think?

A few things (of the many) that I especially enjoyed:

0:43 The editing sequence of the images taken from the Sixth Floor Museum
1:25 Lady Bird Lake-I love the reflections and the color. Well done!
1:56 The speeded up sequence of visitors to the LBJ space center
2:30 The variety of art you showed from MFAH. I've been there and I think you give a good synopsis of the variety in that museum. Now I want to return!

Thanks for sharing your trip.   Posted: 01/14/2022 16:44:35
Peter Shi   Peter Shi
Bunny,
Thank you very much for your suggestions! I think you exactly pointed out the weakness of this video. It was because when I initially edited in timeline, I didn't think I would put so much scrips, so I cut the clips vert short and did not leave enough duration for words to be add in. I will take into account in future editing.   Posted: 01/30/2022 16:41:23



Dick Burr   Dick Burr

Peter,

For me, your video was good and it was bad.

I loved the subject matter of the video but, it was way to rushed for me. The transitions were way too short or not there at all. My brain couldn't focus on what I was seeing before you were on to the next image.

As for the text, I agree with Bunny completely. At first I found that I couldn't read the text fast enough, so I didn't even try. I had to watch the video several times and pause it so that I could read the sub-titles.

I really liked how you changed the music to fix the different scenes of the video. Very well done.

I'm not quite sure how to rate this one. I liked it but, I didn't like it.

Dick



  Posted: 02/22/2022 17:07:49