I can see the allure, but is it really a good use of my time? Also, why are these trailers so long?
So of course I whipped one up for "Ostracon" using the picture from yesterday's post and an orphaned audio clip from a dead project. I gave myself a time budget of 30s, because that's my attention span for a commercial.
Darwin never said it, but David did. Welcome to the future.
That only took about ten minutes and was rather fun, so my ruling is that I might as well have one as not. I bet if I spent thirty minutes, it wouldn't be so lame.
But it's still not a priority.
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Those of you who screw around with video more than me, is there a good, free video editing program that'll output to .avi? It doesn't have to be very robust, just capable of doing what I did up there or fiddling with the occasional webcam/Skype video.
An atlatl to anybody who helps! In fact, atlatli for everybody! This shall henceforth be known as Atlatl Day.
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250 words? Yes
Short Story "Ostracon" - almost done.
Book "Lived Too Long To Die"
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Reading - ?
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That only took about ten minutes and was rather fun, so my ruling is that I might as well have one as not. I bet if I spent thirty minutes, it wouldn't be so lame.
But it's still not a priority.
Those of you who screw around with video more than me, is there a good, free video editing program that'll output to .avi? It doesn't have to be very robust, just capable of doing what I did up there or fiddling with the occasional webcam/Skype video.
An atlatl to anybody who helps! In fact, atlatli for everybody! This shall henceforth be known as Atlatl Day.
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250 words? Yes
Short Story "Ostracon" - almost done.
Book "Lived Too Long To Die"
- - - -
Reading - ?
*101
Nice! "Mesolithic errantry" is what got me.
ReplyDeleteDavid, I'm curious: are you e-booking all your stories these days, or are you still submitting to magazines? I just started reading DWS's "New World of Publishing" so now I be all like curious and stuff.
I'm definitely submitting to magazines as much as I've always done, I'm just dipping my toes into this New World of Publishing.
ReplyDeleteI need hard data!
I'll be e-publishing some loose series ("Alan" and "Jeremiad") and some cool one-shots, probably in chunks of six. I'll bring out a few long books for the Kindle, too.
I'm definitely a 'hybrid', though. I'm pursuing all avenues. Anyways, it's a good way to learn the ropes regardless of actual profits.
Ha, making your own book trailer. I kind of like it.
ReplyDeleteI just use Windows Movie Maker, which came free with my old PC.
ReplyDeleteAs for the usefulness of trailers, I'm not convinced that they help sales all that much. But I enjoy doing them, so why not? I've only done a couple so far, and had fun with it.
Yeah, Windows Movie Maker got the job done.
ReplyDeleteI might as well have something in the "Videos" section on those sites that allow that, even if it's just an excerpt read over dramatic pictures.
I could do Science! and put book trailers on some stories and not others and see what happens...