EDIT: I decided to delete the fundraiser. I do not want to ask money for this. I will buy it myself so to not put any pressure on me for making any videos or pressure on anyone else to donate. It is ok.
Buy a camera to make TROM videos. I hope! gofundme.com/f/buy-a-camera-to…
For the past 1-2 years I have been massively struggling in terms of "what to do". I want to DO, I want to say a lot of things like I've been saying for the past decade via videos and books, but I want to have a different approach to things. I would like to find the positive, scientific, smart approach.
We have so much shit in our world: wars, inequality, stupid people, AI slop, consumerism, it is fucking overwhelming. And it is so tempting to get angry at all of this and shout angrily at the world. And this is what I felt like doing. But maybe I can approach things from a more positive perspective. Something different!
Anyway, besides managing our TROM projects I would like to create more content and I am playing around with video.
Listen, most of the time you do not need a special equipment to start something. You wanna run? You do not need running shoes! You wanna make videos, make them with what you have! The content matters.
BUT.
My camera is my Pixel 6a and in low light (inside the motorhome where I plan to shoot) it is potato quality. I tried and tried and I do not like it at all. Plus I cannot see the screen when recording so I do not know when the phone stops recording, which it does very often due to overheating. So I gave up filming a bunch of times.
Anyway, it is a pain for me to record. To give it a try...
Sold my kayak and want to buy something with the money.
My family gifted me an inflatable kayak a few years ago. But lately we did not use it much and since we live in a motorhome we cannot take it with us. I managed to sell it for 180€ and I was thinking to convert that into getting something for me that can be useful. To regift the gift.
So then I found this really great camera: Osmo Pocket 3.
The camera.
I was not aware of this camera format up until a few weeks ago. I watched so many reviews. Basically it is a great camera that films super well in low light. It is small and so easy to use. Has a lot of accessories and features that can make the recording so easy. Like it can track you, has an amazing lavmic, it is so small and can even be connected with the computer and used as a webcam.
Anyway, I really like this camera and I think it can help me give it a try at making videos.
The camera is 2 years old and I am buying it second hand. But it is still expensive for me. It costs around 300€ without the lavmic and a few accessories. I have the kayak money and if I get any support here I could buy it. I will buy it eventually regardless, but I was thinking to make this campaign in case anyone wants to help.
Unfortunately the donations I get from TROM are barely enough to keep me afloat, else I would not ask for this.
I am also not going to promise I will make some videos for TROM like I have planned, but something I will make with this camera for TROM.
Huge post.
That's all. If anyone can help thank you a lot and I much appreciate you. I am trying to keep myself sane and the TROM projects relevant.
In the meantime I am working on stuff for TROM and when I get the money to get the camera, I will get it and try to make some videos.
Bye.
rhempel
in reply to Kdenlive • • •Congratulations - I used Kdenlive for the first time this week to make a video of a talk with one track of audio/video of me talking, and another video track of me stepping through the slides.
I used scissors to cut out the audio mistakes, and then the alpha mask and transform to move my talking head into a corner.
It "just worked" - and it has inspired me to keep going with this kjnd of content.
Bredroll
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in reply to Kdenlive • • •However with the latest releases a change has been introduced that makes it freeze regularly on my PC (which has slow disk access for some reason - note I'm using Windows, at least for now) and I had to roll back to an old version :( Will try this latest release^^