Progress! Here’s the fresh version of my blue dragon watercolor painting from the 3-color challenge from March 13th.
Thank you all for your support and patience while I figured out my technical issues with these!
Ask with any questions 🙂
Crimson Flowers Watercolor – 3 Color Challenge
Hurrah! Here’s the fresh version of my crimson flowers 3-color challenge from March 13th. I fixed the skipping! For the technically minded, I had to use Handbrake to pre-alter the 29.99fps video file to force it to be 30fps. Once I did, Adobe Premiere worked with it just fine.
Medieval Letter F Watercolor
My medieval letter how-to videos continue! We’re up to the letter F! I think I’ll do G and H on Saturday morning. Come join me to chat on Saturday 10-1!
Watercolor Bunny Painting
Bunny time! Here’s one of my sessions from last Saturday, where I paint a watercolor bunny. Relaxing and fun!
What should I do this coming Saturday?
Swift Passage Flash Fiction
An intriguing read! A collection of 99-word stories and poems on the theme of “Swift Passage”. Mine is entry #10.
Later today Carrot Ranch will post a new theme – you should give it a try!
What are you up to today?
Video File from Facebook Live Stream
I need help with a video question. I’ve been making LOTS of videos this past year and am generally comfortable with doing this. When I make Facebook Live videos each Saturday, my Samsung Galaxy S7 phone streams directly to Facebook Live via the Facebook app. I can later download that file from Facebook to edit in Adobe Premiere for YouTube. The file I download from Facebook has a random frame rate around 27.47 to 29.91 to 29.94 and so on. They all work fine for making my YouTube files.
The file from Saturday March 13th came down to me at 29.99. The file plays perfectly fine both as a raw file and in Premiere. However, for some reason this particular file is having problems compiling for YouTube. I’ve tried compiling it with a 30fps rate. I’ve tried 24fps. I’ve tried other settings. The ending file always has ‘jumping frames’ in it. You can see that here –
It’s not even a direct interpolation problem. There can be a section with the paper being stationary and somehow that section gets frames stuck in there with the paper in a completely different position, from far behind or far ahead. So something quite bizarre is going on.
Any thoughts or ideas? I could play the file in Adobe and record my screen and it would be perfectly fine. It’s just the export that is failing for some reason. I don’t want to just use that original file because there’s a few moments of loud noises or trimmed content that I’d like to maintain. I suppose if I really have to I can just post the base video as-is, if that’s my only option.
Thanks!
Twitter for Authors
Twitter for Authors! If you’re an author, you really should have a Twitter account. It provides incredible reach for getting seen by thousands of genre-specific strangers.
Here’s my 40-min how-to. Ask with any questions!
World Cultures – Pre-Industrial Societies
FREE! This Insightful, engaging book covers fascinating pre-industrial cultures to show where our society grew from. And yes, I’m a bit biased on this one, but it’s true! 🙂
Grab your copy today!
3 Color Challenge – Crimson Flowers
Here’s my 3-color challenge from Mar 13 – I randomly chose orange, crimson, and cobalt blue. I created a field of crimson flowers!
Paint along or simply enjoy the unfolding of the flowers!
What are you up to today?
YouTube for Authors Artists
Need Beta-Readers! I’m finishing up my new book on YouTube.
Let me know if you can give it a quick read and let me know what other sections to add. I’m happy for any sort of feedback on wording, the examples I use, etc. Thanks!!
If you have a YouTube channel, post it below so I can subscribe to you :).
