Some ideas are just better left alone

I’m spending way too much time on this video tribute thing. Like 5 hours a day too much kind of thing. But my perfectionist gene is rearing its ugly head and I’m getting caught up in the nit-picky. Example: if I use ‘fade in, fade out’ on the title cards they come out blurry. But if I use ‘zoom, fade out’ they are clear but the colour goes shimery (hard to describe). So I keep playing with things trying to get them exactly as I want them, and that just ain’t gonna happen. Also, I opened a youtube account so I could try uploading the video so far (just I see it), and the screen there is larger than the movie maker screen I’m using to the make the video (which is causing some of the blurriness problem I think).

And it’s really hard to know what will fly and what won’t. I’d like to insert a bit of humour in the piece but it’s really hard to know if it’ll come across as humourous, and wouldn’that be, uh, deadly. And timing…how to know if I’m giving people enough time to follow along. I mean, *I* know the script so it races by quickly in my mind, but I have to give someone seeing it for the first time enough time to process it. And since the video is along the lines of a mini-biography I also have to address certain issues in Pernell’s personal life that can’t be ignored. That’ll take a good deal of delicacy and I hope I can do it.

And DAAAAAANGGG!! I’m gonna have the song I’m using in my head for YEARS to come!!