WHICH INTRO DO YOU PREFER?

GoGo Daat Wants Your Input?

"Your Vote Matters!"

     "Help us decide with your vote as to which introduction you prefer? Respond with; the Old one or the New one."

     Deciding what your channel intro should look like is no easy task. The Intro number one is O.K. and I have used it for awhile now. It does the job as to what our channel is about. The second intro is more current and as I have added oil painting in the first window box (in the right-hand corner) for emphasis as we have painting and drawing tutorials to share.

In both introductions, the four separate videos play inside their individual window box at the same time. Four videos within one video so to speak. At first I thought this might be too busy, but I think it's doable and not too distracting, It kind of fun, I didn't want it to be boring. I love the logo in front of the sun image because the contrast is dynamic. 

    In case you wanted to know what application I used to make the intro's, I used Keynote by Apple. It's kind of like Powerpoint which I've used in the past, but Keynote has easy to learn animation features, nothing too fancy, just perfect for my needs. I also use CleanPNG to download free images that don't have a background it's very user friendly. I love being able to add video into the animation, the duality is spot on. You can get very creative and the learning curve is not too arduous. 

     Any suggestions or question you'd like to make on my content would be most welcome. I love getting feedback!

Thank You,

Now GoGo Out and Be Creative!

GoGo Daat

Snow Wrestling Match or Mom Out-Wrestles Son! Extend Footage Techniques!

Mom's the Winner!

Speed-Up, Slow-Motion, Backwards, Fast Forward, Repeat Repeat Repeat, Change Sounds!

    I'm so glad my husband had his iPad with him when we went to take pictures of the fresh snow that had fallen. Little did we know our Son would start a snowball fight and have it wind up as a wrestling match. We must have had some pent up energy due to cabin fever because both of us were stepping up to horsing around. Raja, our spirited German Shepard, felt like joining in and being playful as well.  

    It's not often that we get snow up on Skyline Blvd. in California, so when a neighbor coming down our road let us know it was snowing up top, we got very excited about witnessing it. It's always fun to watch it fall. We all rode in the Tacoma Truck, dog in the back, and headed up the road to see. What was first slush on the windshield became more solid, and fluffy, I couldn't help squeal with delight. It took us about twenty minutes to reach the peak where the snow starts getting thicker and sure enough it was falling heavily. 

"The clip was so short I wanted to experiment to see if I could put some extra footage in."

    Included in the footage GoGo Daat channel on YT teaches you some video lengthening techniques. 

    iMovie is an easy to learn editing platform for the beginning videographer. Extending the video is sometimes necessary for timing purposes. GoGo Daat channel uses these techniques, ie; Reverse, Slow-motion, Forward & Back, Duplicate-Play, in order to increase footage length. Freeze frame is another form of extending. 

    If you have video that is too long, a great way is to shorten it is to speed it up using the timing setting which is usually the symbol of a clock. The settings on iMovie are 2x, 4x, 8x, and 20x, or you can set a custom setting. So if 100 is normal speed, 88 is slower motion, or time lengthened, while 122 would be faster motion, time shortened footage. It is much easier to understand as you explore and discover the vastitude of iMovie. So for example, if you choose 2x, the film footage would be sped up 200 percent. Make sure if your talking you click on preserve pitch, otherwise your subject may be sounding like Mickey Mouse.