Blogger to Vlogger
*Insert a really weird but attention-grabbing video of me in a bathroom stall here*
So a little over a week ago, I took a trip to a magical land far, far away from my usual.
What magical land is this you are probably asking?
None other than the magical land of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
While planning with my best friend the dates I would be flying up to visit, I asked a really random but relevant question: you want to make a vlog?
She of course said yes and misspelled 'vlog' to 'clog.'
"That is going to be one crazy clog!"
Yes, Han, it is one very crazy but special 'clog' indeed.
In my last blog, I did not bring to life the adventures that were created in Philly for me.
To be honest, while writing my last blog, I was kind of in a depressed state of mind; the emotional high I had sustained for over a week leading up to my PA travel adventures and the adventures themselves came to a quick crash when I had to leave Philly behind and board my Delta flight 3621 to Raleigh.
I can be quite the drama queen in wearing my heart on my sleeve; so maybe all-in-all I was being just that.
It was like being in a 'show-hole,' where you get so invested in a particular Netflix TV Show, and then it comes to an abrupt end after you have been binge-watching for who knows how many days; these were my travel-hole moments.
Now, a week after my 'travel-hole' era, I pulled out my handy-dandy laptop and opened a new application on my computer: Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018. With all my high-resolution GoPro videos, I wanted an application that could turn these simple clips of my best friend and I acting wild {really just me acting crazy} and talking about our adventures and turn them into something that I could willingly watch over and over again.
GoPro has their own video editing application, but it has this thing about taking forever to load up and then instantly crashing; and I don't have patience for that.
Adobe Premiere Pro is a beautiful application with unlimited opportunities in which ways to present your final project. Additionally, it can be very challenging to work on it when you have close to zero knowledge about Adobe in general.
My second year in college, I took a Digital Arts class; oh, the beauty of general education classes.
Well, what this course was about was really just the professor teaching me and a few other honors college students how to use Adobe's Photoshop.
Yes, that is right; one whole semester dedicated to learning Adobe Photoshop; and let me tell you, I think I got pretty good at it.
But I didn't have a semester or a professor to teach me about Premiere Pro. And I am a very anal person when it comes to my edited-videos looking exactly how I want them to look.
I could not figure out how to make my title(s) do what I wanted them to do. I had a specific vision in mind, and I was getting beyond frustrated with the amount of time I was putting just into making the title and it not turning out the way I wanted it to.
So you know what I did?
I ran to YouTube.
All in all, I spent an ungodly amount of time making this Vlog, but I really don't care. My creative mind loves this kind of stuff, is obsessed with it even. And on top of that, I can relive some of my most favorite moments from my trip through this Vlog.
Blogger to Vlogger, here I am.
You haven't seen the last of my impeccably-beginner video making skills.
Shout out to my friend, Morgan who directed me into Premiere Pro's path.
I don't know if its an American thing, how all the hustle and bustle of life seems so attractive. How in the quietest of moments we catch ourselves dwelling on the past or mentally preparing for the future. How we constantly plan to live but never, just live.
I catch myself in these similar moments literally all the time and promise myself every time that I am going to live to enjoy the now. But its hard. Breaking a habit, changing a mindset, jumping out of a comfort zone - its tougher than it looks.
But then there are those moments you live through that you can lock your phone away in your purse and not even miss it. Where the magic you've seen in movies truly comes alive. Where you can altogether unapologetically just life.
How beautiful is it to find people who make you want to live each moment in the moment, filling the present with your presence, disallowing the past and future to drain out the now
"No matter where you are going or where you've been, take in this moment. Because you will never be here again." -JM Storm.
So a little over a week ago, I took a trip to a magical land far, far away from my usual.
What magical land is this you are probably asking?
None other than the magical land of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
While planning with my best friend the dates I would be flying up to visit, I asked a really random but relevant question: you want to make a vlog?
She of course said yes and misspelled 'vlog' to 'clog.'
"That is going to be one crazy clog!"
Yes, Han, it is one very crazy but special 'clog' indeed.
In my last blog, I did not bring to life the adventures that were created in Philly for me.
To be honest, while writing my last blog, I was kind of in a depressed state of mind; the emotional high I had sustained for over a week leading up to my PA travel adventures and the adventures themselves came to a quick crash when I had to leave Philly behind and board my Delta flight 3621 to Raleigh.
I can be quite the drama queen in wearing my heart on my sleeve; so maybe all-in-all I was being just that.
It was like being in a 'show-hole,' where you get so invested in a particular Netflix TV Show, and then it comes to an abrupt end after you have been binge-watching for who knows how many days; these were my travel-hole moments.
Now, a week after my 'travel-hole' era, I pulled out my handy-dandy laptop and opened a new application on my computer: Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018. With all my high-resolution GoPro videos, I wanted an application that could turn these simple clips of my best friend and I acting wild {really just me acting crazy} and talking about our adventures and turn them into something that I could willingly watch over and over again.
GoPro has their own video editing application, but it has this thing about taking forever to load up and then instantly crashing; and I don't have patience for that.
Adobe Premiere Pro is a beautiful application with unlimited opportunities in which ways to present your final project. Additionally, it can be very challenging to work on it when you have close to zero knowledge about Adobe in general.
My second year in college, I took a Digital Arts class; oh, the beauty of general education classes.
Well, what this course was about was really just the professor teaching me and a few other honors college students how to use Adobe's Photoshop.
Yes, that is right; one whole semester dedicated to learning Adobe Photoshop; and let me tell you, I think I got pretty good at it.
But I didn't have a semester or a professor to teach me about Premiere Pro. And I am a very anal person when it comes to my edited-videos looking exactly how I want them to look.
I could not figure out how to make my title(s) do what I wanted them to do. I had a specific vision in mind, and I was getting beyond frustrated with the amount of time I was putting just into making the title and it not turning out the way I wanted it to.
So you know what I did?
I ran to YouTube.
All in all, I spent an ungodly amount of time making this Vlog, but I really don't care. My creative mind loves this kind of stuff, is obsessed with it even. And on top of that, I can relive some of my most favorite moments from my trip through this Vlog.
Blogger to Vlogger, here I am.
You haven't seen the last of my impeccably-beginner video making skills.
Shout out to my friend, Morgan who directed me into Premiere Pro's path.
I don't know if its an American thing, how all the hustle and bustle of life seems so attractive. How in the quietest of moments we catch ourselves dwelling on the past or mentally preparing for the future. How we constantly plan to live but never, just live.
I catch myself in these similar moments literally all the time and promise myself every time that I am going to live to enjoy the now. But its hard. Breaking a habit, changing a mindset, jumping out of a comfort zone - its tougher than it looks.
But then there are those moments you live through that you can lock your phone away in your purse and not even miss it. Where the magic you've seen in movies truly comes alive. Where you can altogether unapologetically just life.
How beautiful is it to find people who make you want to live each moment in the moment, filling the present with your presence, disallowing the past and future to drain out the now
"No matter where you are going or where you've been, take in this moment. Because you will never be here again." -JM Storm.
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