Alright, so I tried to post a video for Day 3, I really did.
Like, seriously, I tried a lot.
I spent around an hour and a half to two hours working on what would have been a seven to ten minute video, and have literally nothing to show for it except the following pieces of knowledge:
- While you can use the Samsung SideSync App to view your phone screen on your laptop, making it easier to film HD video using your camera phone, it isn’t super fond of having a spotty wi-fi connection.
- If you have problems with spotty wi-fi you can use SideSync while directly connected to your phone via a USB cable.
- If you have your phone connected to the laptop via USB it will have the added benefit of actually charging while you are using it.
- If you charge your phone while attempting to record HD video, the phone has a tendency to overheat. Rapidly.
- If the phone overheats, it will randomly stop recording HD video.
- In reviewing the video footage for Day 1, I decided that I had spent too much time checking the laptop screen to make sure that the shot was still good and that the video was still recording, and as a result did a much better job of keeping my eyes focused on the camera while recording, rather than the feedback monitor. In retrospect this was a revelation with unfortunate timing.
- When filming in HD at 60 frames a second, if you are sitting *just* a bit too close to the camera the auto-focus will freak out and start visibly adjusting the focus pretty much every time you breath funny.
All of this combined made for a mess of broken up video, missing segments where I didn’t know how much of the recording was lost when I started re-recording, and video footage that was simply too terrible to actually watch. Considering how late it was getting, I made the decision to just scrap the whole thing and call it a night.
As for actual progress, other than learning valuable lessons about my recording tools and process I put some work into my upcoming video game, and spent a considerable amount of time practicing shading techniques on a piece that I’m working on, which I will not be sharing yet, as it still has quite a lot of polishing to do. Hopefully it will be here soon.