Week Eighteen The Sound Off Season Opens
Well, I didn’t make the the cut on the YouTube beta thing at that London hotel, as I never heard another word after doing their questionnaire. Maybe I is too old! And while I have yet to take the time to create the other-side-of-my-world ‘˜outdoorsey’ YouTube channel, to be called Mounted&StuffedTV, I have just managed to get hold of my editor on Home Cinema Choice and we are looking to do a channel at last for that, too. Well overdue!
I went off to see the Alpine folks on Wednesday, where I got some truly cool video clips in the bag about new product and also got some more material from inside the cars of the two newest Alpine tech staffers, who have been with Alpine a year now. We learn how one of the biggest bass heads in UK competition also designed a bass enclosure for use inside Land Rovers and how another test-beds products in his own car. That he is literally incandescent with sheer delight to be working in his all time dream job, gives my soul avuncular warmth, for it was Talk Audio where both learned about the jobs being out there. It’s called ‘Presenterbloke’
I am on record, for you can see this was done before, by publication date and I think Netflix copied me. (chortle) For unlike prior shoots, where I have been to say, Celsus and then released the videos one by one over time, more recent shoots are uploaded all at once. That last Celsus shoot and all the Vegas stuff was published all at once. I have done the same with this slew of Alpine material. The idea is, if you see and like something, we all know the quiet satisfaction of knowing there is more to go see – and you will. I have a series called ‘Begin Japanology’ that I adore. There’s masses of it. Then there is the advantage of cranking more views over time by getting the material up promptly.
And I have 450 clips and 3,000 subscribers on the channel.
So I truly hope it will be improvement and not a flopperoony when I move to full edit, for I spent the Sunday at the sound off in Hayes almost entirely on the video camera. I attempted to shoot components for an edited effort via my new computer. The Apple i7 lots-of-terror-bites slice of industrial design and Slightly Smug Culture is of course wonderfully rapid and I now have to get a grip of the Final Cut software I paid extra to have pre-loaded. I feel a bit like the grizzle-muzzled terrier on a unicycle, balancing a stick upon his nose as he edges his one wheel out along the tightrope above the circus audience.
‘He was an old dog and this was a new trick.’
Let’s go see how old..
Adam Rayner On Line Editor!