I regret that some people took offense to remarks that were made when I misquoted myself on the subject in question. #Zarban2016

Dapper Dan pomade can, lower left.

I got 51, but only after messing up by trying to enlarge the picture so I could see the damn thing and accidentally getting 2 extra strikes. It's the horror stuff that I find most frustrating. I recognize them, but there's no way I know what movie they go to.

Also, did I spell The Crow wrong or something? I got the other one but there's still one crow left, right? Maybe it's one of the other black bird movies.

Oh jeez now I'm embarrassed. I didn't want THIS group to find out about my American Girl obsession.

But thanks for the kind words. It really was fun for a long time (7 1/2 years!). I'll maintain the site for years as is and clean the spam out now and then.

(Also, I don't know how many of you know Wordpress, but I hacked the hell out of that code. For awhile, that was part of the fun, but the thing is a beast to mess with anymore. I can't even update my plugins properly because I hacked the main ones of those too.)

These turned out nicely. A timeline for my town. What do you think of the date redundancy? It started as a way to separate different items, but now it's bugging me.

EDIT: never mind; replaced the redundant dates with icons.

:-)

This is very weird. The output MPG file from rough cut 1 displays a distinct audio and video stutter at 0:01:46 every time I play it, yesterday and today. (The source file and playback in APE don't display it.) But the version on YouTube DOES NOT feature that glitch. Oh well.

EDIT: By the way, I know this is all super basic to you guys. I really appreciate the feedback. It's been mostly fun, when I'm not cursing APE for crashing or just being weirdly unintuitive.

There is a scrolling title template, but it doesn't allow you to paste in a whole spreadsheet of names. You have to type or paste them individually, like the cave men did back in the 1700s.

I've posted a new version, fully edited and with the lighting improved, but missing a photo that the host talks about near the end. I've since added a factoid about each of the battles as he talks about them. Other than that, this is about as good as I can figure out how to make it, I think. I welcome feedback on sucking less. I have 8 or 10 of these to do, and I doubt the camera work is any better on the others.

https://youtu.be/zZ3pJXfZ7UQ

https://youtu.be/R_v0NF_m75U

This took forever to output and all afternoon to upload. And it's just a rough cut. I've done a bunch of more work on the second half of the video today, finding regimental rosters that show local soldiers and whatnot.

After searching around for a pan-and-zoom tutorial, I found one that mentions that the default for images is for APE to down-res them to fit in the frame. The only real problem image was a scrolling list of local Civil War vets, so I deselected "Scale to frame size" and redid the image scroll, and it looks great.

Still figuring out the keyframes thing. (And thanks, Teague.) I get that the yellow lines in the clip show in and out points for fades, but I seem to keep accidentally putting a keyframe in the middle of a clip and not being able to see it and deleting them and starting over.

The appallingly unintuitive copy-and-paste for titles also took a while to get (don't copy! "duplicate"!).

Well, Davinci Resolve was a bust. Just kept crashing, even after uninstall/reinstall.

Oh, those look terrific. Very powerful. I'll just... um... start using one of them.

The heads that he physically handles are dummies. The part at :18 where he waves his arm in front of the head on the table, the arm is clearly painted in.

He had to stop the film to get the dummy heads put into his hands, so I'm guessing a black bag got put over his head at the same time, but there's also some optical dodging going on too. I suspect that the bag was too obvious most of the time, and he dodged that spot (waving a little piece of card on a wire in front of the projector to keep light from getting to that area of the print) when copying to the final master.