“Speed Date” and Revised “The Barrier” Videos Posted

I posted one new video and a revised old video on YouTube this week. I am slowly working away on my backlog of projects.

“Speed Date”

This project began as an experiment with NAWMAL about four years ago. It came together quickly. Unfortunately, the feedback I got was quite negative. I think the main sticking point was the computer-generated voices I used. I intended to record actors eventually but didn’t do that for the initial version while I worked on the script.

The blowback caused me to abandon the project.

A few months ago I revisited the project. Initially I recorded the voices myself and used voice.ai to give the different characters distinct voices. This worked better, but my acting skills are not much better than the computer-generated voices.

I brought in Mona Dallmann, who acted in my film “My Most Difficult Case” to rerecord the dialogue.

I finally finished editing “Speed Date,” this week.

You can watch it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH7FUnTkeMM

“The Barrier”

One of the comments I get about the videos I’ve done with NAWMAL is that the movements all seem too slow. As an experiment I revised my video “The Barrier” by speeding it up. It was a bit tricky because after speeding up, the voice pitches were too high. In my initial attempt it turned out that threw the sync off. I didn’t pick it up until someone posted a comment on YouTube.

I reworked my process, and I now have a new version of the video that fixed the sound sync issue.

 

The new version is available on YouTube now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi2cWiRUjX8

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