Con-Vulsion Level 4: Baltimore Comicon pt. 2

Originally uploaded to Youtube on May 30, 2013

This video is long overdue. For that, I am sorry. If you saw my update on why there has not been an update, you know that we have had much more important concerns since December, so we have not had a chance to edit.

Furthermore, there were multitudes of problems with the editing process. None of the videos we shot with the camera would come up in Sony Vegas for some strange reason. We had to convert them to another format. The converter we had made them look like ass. I tried another converter, and I, still, could not pull them up in Sony Vegas. I converted one of the files by using the Windows 7 version of Windows Movie Maker, and it let me keep the files in HD. It, also, did not look too bad. I wound up converting them one by one using that. I got them all done, with the exception of the longest piece of footage. I had to transfer that to my laptop and use the Windows XP version of Movie Maker. Unfortunately, that left it in 720x480 instead of HD. I, then, used Sony Vegas to upscale it. It does not look that bad.

The last problem we had with this was that the battery on the camera actually died on us. Because of this, a number of the shots from the con were taken on my cell phone. I figured it is better to have a lesser quality shot than it is to have nothing at all. When the sound and audio quality drop in these videos, it means that you are looking at footage shot from my cell phone. I am sorry about that in advance.

I wanted to try something different with this video. I wanted the second video to be all about the con itself. Almost all of the footage presented here is of the many booths set up on the show floor. I removed the audio and replaced it with music. I like the final product. I think the music takes what would have been a long and boring video and turns it into something that is fun to watch and listen to. Also, I love how beautiful most of the footage is after all I did to it.

I did forget to mention one song used in this video in the credits. The intro to this video, as well as all of the other Con-Vulsion video, uses the song Convulsion by Skinny Puppy.

Anyway, enjoy the video. There are two more coming after this.