A full day, recording and editing subtitled lyric reading videos for We Robot. I accidentally set the shutter speed too high, so the videos were a little darker and therefore more noisy than they should have been, but the conversion wasn't so bad that I needed to re-record everything, but I did make a note for the future.
I was undecided whether to record them at all, but all of them have had some views, and there may not be any subtitled videos for the songs. I fully expect that some day, perhaps soon, the option for automatic AI generated subtitles will be available for all videos, even music, but there are benefits to manual subtitling. I can add drama by singling out certain lines, and of course, AI still makes liberal mistakes. In poetry, the correct words are very important.
For me, the process is recording, converting and combining the separate audio and video streams. Then editing to the correct length, and playing the video, noting the frame numbers for each line. Then copying each line as text, to make a series of images in Photoshop, then saving these out as separate images, and overlaying them all using an AviSynth script. Creating 13 1-minute videos in one day like this is perhaps the best I can manage.
Tomorrow I have a meeting about the public mural. I'm still musing about subjects, and materials, mainly materials, the general look and processes for what might be a work of monumental size. This will be an important work in every way. But all aspects of it are uncertain so far. It is, for example, rather late in the year for any sort of outdoor painting or public spectacle.
