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Today at work I:

1. Fought NYSEG over some accounts they failed to transfer in our tenants' names. Of course, NYSEG was closed for Veterans Day, so they didn't respond, but hopefully I'll hear back tomorrow.

2. Filing. Ugh.

3. Made a sample lease extension PDF for Mom Boss to do... something or other with. Maybe post on our website? I'm not entirely sure.

4. Wrote up a three-page report on a new apartment building that's just opened downtown and will probably siphon off some of our high-end market.

5. Made some new slideshows for the display screens in my office windows.

6. More ad copy stuff, blargh.

7. Poked Lawyer Man to give me copies of his video intro and outro template clips so I can use them to maintain a standard theme for downtown virtual tour videos.

8. The thing with the dude and the mattress, oh my fucking gods. (Don't ask. Seriously, don't ask.)

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Today not at work I:

1. Church Board of Trustees monthly meeting, during which my phone lost its connection to Zoom audio FIVE BEFUCKENED TIMES, what even. Which was particularly frustrating since I'm the clerk and was taking the minutes! But I persevered, and I even got out a draft of our weekly meeting summary advertising/communication thingy within about twenty minutes after the meeting's end.

2. Roasted asparagus.

3. Baked salmon.

4. Ate dinner, hallelujah.

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Now I shall read fanfic for a little bit before I collapse into bed.
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Today's adventures in learning how to edit videos:

I imported some of my own phone camera videos into Lightworks and have been playing around with them, in addition to watching more tutorials.

Thus far, I have figured out how to make text crawl up over the screen, which apparently is called a roll rather than a crawl? Or at least Lightworks uses "crawl" for text that marches in a single line across the screen from right to left, whereas a roll goes across the screen from bottom to top.

That is useful for video titles!

The problem is that while I can fuck around with the font, the size, the spacing, the color, and various other text effects, I can't find a way to adjust the speed of the roll/crawl, and the default is P A I N F U L L Y S L O W. *headdesk*

I think I need to make Lawyer man put his title sequences onto a USB drive and hand that to me (and/or put them on the shared office drive) so I can just muck around with those instead of trying to create something from scratch. I should probably also get Miss California's into and outro sequences. We do want to create a unified "feel" for all our company virtual tour videos, after all.

I've also managed to do something with grouping and un-grouping audio tracks, but I can't tell what's on which track and I'm not sure I can adjust their volume independently? Maybe some of the other tutorial videos will explain that.
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Things I have done today:

1. Long phone chat with Susan from noon to not-quite-2pm. It was good to catch up!

2. Changed linens. Also rotated my mattress, which I think will help my sleep quality. I try to do that every time I swap my summer blankets for my comforter and vice versa, but I forgot to do that in October and the dents in the mattress were getting uncomfy.

3. Laundry. Ugh.

4. Swept leaves off my back porch/deck thingy and checked on my container garden.

5. Cooked salmon and broccoli for dinner. Yum. :D

6. Downloaded the free version of Lightworks and watched several tutorial videos. I still don't feel ready to mess around with anything complicated myself, but I think I can get to "make a basic video from three or four clips" by the end of the week.

7. Some church Board of Trustees stuff.

8. Kept compulsively checking news sites. I don't even know why! I think it's kind of a rebound from determinedly avoiding the news from Tuesday through Saturday morning, and being on a very news-light pattern since... hmm... April-ish? That is, I'd read local news in my local paper, but avoid national stuff as much as possible. And now I think I'm bingeing a little in reaction.

It's like the bends, but metaphorical, you know?

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Anyway, I'm going to read fanfic for about twenty minutes and then go sleep on my newly rotated mattress. :)
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Hey, does anyone have advice on free video editing software?

I need to learn some basic video editing quick for work, and like BLEEP am I paying money for it.

What I need to do is:

1. add a title sequence (animated clip with sound) at the start of an apartment tour video
2. maybe edit out some background noise
3. replace video of bathrooms and other tricky areas with still photos (mirrors are the devil)
4. add a closing sequence (still image, scrolling text, and sound) at the end

Lawyer Man has also been adding little text overlays to reinforce some of Mr. Geniality's spiel, but I think that's unnecessarily cluttered and would prefer to leave that info in the video notes on YouTube.

So far the programs I've found recommended are, in no particular order:

-Lightworks
-OpenShot
-Shotcut
-HitFilm Express
-VSDC Free Video Editor
-Movie Maker Online and/or Movie Maker 10
-VideoPad

Please do not recommend iMovie to me. I don't have a Mac; it will not do me any good. This is especially annoying since the videos were all shot on an iPhone and I may have to do some interesting file conversion contortions, but we work with what we're given. *sigh*
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I should do church Board of Trustees EXCO stuff this evening but I did a bunch of that last night and I dunwanna. *flops*

Possibly I will write things instead?

Or maybe not. Writing takes effort to make the words go and I'm not sure I have that in me tonight.

I think instead I will just go to bed absurdly early, because general free-floating stress, and also because I have been reading some comparison articles about free video-editing software/online programs and my brain is full now.

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I really need to print out Miss California's editing guide tomorrow since that will affect my software choice. I keep forgetting to do that.

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She does her editing on her own laptop. I think she has a Mac. She probably uses iMovie.

That is not helpful for me. *sigh*

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