I stand accused of being the “Andy Warhol of real estate video”. I’m pretty sure them’s fightin’ words, but, rather than exacting my vengeance by making a nine-hour film of a dripping faucet, I have chosen instead to assert my classical roots.
Vide: I had planned to do a video for this listing, but it sold before I could get it done. So I did one now for practice. This is just another randomized slide show with music, but it works better for me than the kind of slow, blurry pan and stammer we see too often in real estate videos: “This. Is. The. Formal. Dining. Room. The. Residents. Dine. In. This. Room.”
But: I’m learning a lot by playing with this software. I have this same slide show in a rock video-style presentation, Ken Burns-style fauxtion with angled cuts and dissolves — completely MTV-creepy. What I want to learn how to do is supplant the images from recorded video, retaining the audio, so that the kind of interview I put together last Friday becomes more visually appealing and more informative.
This is doable. As with high-end graphics production, the software is takin’ it to the streets. Neither desktop publishing nor desktop video are necessarily as high in quality as a professional might achieve. But the price is right, and, most often, close enough is good enough.
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Tony says:
No fighting words here. I think that it is great that you are experimenting with some really creative real estate videos. Ultimately, you’ll likely hit on something that could be truly revolutionary.
Though we differ on at least one ther topic, I’m definitely with you on this one. Keep them coming; we are watching.
Tony
May 7, 2007 — 6:55 pm
Greg Swann says:
> No fighting words here.
Not to worry. I was just playing with you. I thought it was funny.
May 7, 2007 — 7:23 pm
Derek Burress says:
“I’m pretty sure them’s fightin’ words,…”
Now Mr. Swann, as a southerner, I must inform you that only a true southerner would write a sentence like that one.
As a southerner who talks like the above sentence, I feel it’s my duty to inform you that if you are going to try to talk southern on your blog that you should at least spell the sentence right. It should read… “Ima purdy shu dems a fightin’ words,….”
Also no southern man is going to take another man’s words as being fighting words. Only females do that. And gosh knows, you don’t wanna piss any of our gals down south off.
I’ll take a bunch of fighting grandma’s any day to the week. Just ask Terri, she should know all about “dem” fighin’ grandmas being “dat” she is an Appy-lach-un gal.
May 7, 2007 — 8:06 pm
Allen Butler says:
Hello Greg.
I believe that Intervideo or even the Windows Movie Maker software will “extract” the audio from a video file and save it as a separate event. Check into it. At least I think that’s what you want to do?
Allen
May 7, 2007 — 11:00 pm
Terri says:
I don’t think they were fighting words. Your videos are very creative. Keep them coming! Have you heard of the new reality show Bought & Sold on HGTV? You should check it out: http://web.hgtv.com/webhgtv/images/pac/59889/start_at_home.html?section=boughtsold,panel=videos. It’s a great show and you can really get a great idea on how the industry works, from the inner workings, to the stories, the drama behind the sales, and the lengths brokers will go to just get the deal. I work with HGTV, and you won’t believe what happens this season. Good luck, and enjoy the show! Oh, the show airs Sundays at 10pm.
May 8, 2007 — 11:10 am