I missed submitting something yesterday, here or elsewhere (yes, I have fingers in other pies). The main goal for yesterday was to submit a lyric video. I’ve never done a lyric video before. Seemed simple enough, though, so I thought I’d give it a try.

I recorded a song in one take, just voice and guitar, and saved it as an mp3 file. Then I tried to use no less than three free video editing software applications available in Ubuntu’s repositories to create a simple uploadable-to-youtube mp4 or avi file. None of them seemed to be able to generate and edit slides, so I started making my own jpeg images using Gimp, hoping that the transition and timing process involved in editing imported graphical content was fairly straight forward. It wasn’t.

I feared I would have to resort to Powerpoint. Truthfully, now that I’m looking back on everything, I don’t know why I didn’t just start there. Not having it, I almost went through the hassle of installing Wine so that I can use a pirated version of Windows Powerpoint. Thankfully, before it was too late, I came to realize that the Libre Office Suite that comes with Ubuntu already has a PP knock off [edit: LibreOffice deserves waaaaay more credit than that] called Presentation/Impress (name depending, for some probably simple but as of yet unknown reason I’m too lazy too look into).

Not that the project is quite finished yet, but in a few short minutes, I was able to successfully accomplish infinitely more than I was able to in the previous 5 hours of attempted work. I had to leave to attend a social function (RPG game night, highlight of the week if you must know) before I got to the time editing portion, and I didn’t get home till late, so no dice for finishing up yesterday. As for today, I’ve been lazy and largely unproductive for the most part up until pretty much just now.

Anyways, with any luck, I’ll have a new video posted to my youtube account within the hour. Two if I hit an unexpected snag. If so, I’ll append a link below. If not, I’ll probably talk about why not in a subsequent post. Cross that bridge when I come to it I guess.