I’ve got a challenge I’m hoping the braintrust here can help me figure out.
I’m trying to find a better workflow to recording and editing sewing instruction videos of new products I've designed for our production team (I'm located in Texas and they are in Indiana). It’s taking a significant amount of time to transfer the video files to a computer, edit them, render them, and save them to a USB flash drive.
I need to figure out how to do this quickly. Saving time is the most important thing. This is taking a significant amount of time and energy. It's taking away precious time that I can be spending with my wife and kids.
How do you guys do it? I'm open to all feedback and recommendations.My current workflow is:* It's a two person operation: one person sews and the 2nd person records the video on an iPhone 6 at 1080P, 60 fps on a mini tripod.
* We use a program called PauseCam because it lets us pause the video without it creating separate video files like it does if we use the regular iPhone video recorder, however we may go back to using the standard iPhone camera record because it can be easier to edit multiple clips then having to find the right points to trim and split a long video.
* After we record all the operations, I transfer the video files using Airdrop (Bluetooth transfer proprietary to apple devices) from the iPhone to a Macbook pro.
* I then import the files into iMovie (editing software that comes for free with Macs). There I have to trim the video clips, move around clips, and insert pictures and text. Inserting Text in iMovie is a headache, it doesn’t have an option for static text without some gimmicky effect. Everything else is pretty simple drag and drop.
* Render/export the video in mp4 format in 1080P. This can take 1 to 2+ hours and the files can be massive (14+ gig).
* Days and weeks can go by before I have the time to edit and finalize the videos with our current workflow. We can forget things or realize we have to reshoot operations and/or video of operations disappear.
Options I’m about to try:Option A.* Download LumaFusion on my iPhone to edit the videos (LumaFusion was recommend by a lot of people on Reddit).
* Record the videos and edit each operation before continuing to the next sewing operation on the iPhone with LumaFusion.
* Finalize the editing, add text, etc in LumaFusion before finishing the sewing instruction session.
* Render the video in LumaFusion and Copy the competed video file to my Macbook via airdrop and then copy the video to a USB drive to send to the production team with the rest of the technical data package.
* Uploading the video to youtube takes too long due to the large file sizes and you have to baby sit it incase there are issues. Our production team prefers a USB flash drive with the video so they can keep it all together in a 3 ring binder with the technical data package, notes, etc for each product.
Option B. * Buy a small android tablet with a SD card slot and preferably a USB connection and a camera that can record 1080p at 60fps or better.
* Find whatever the best editing software on the tablet is and apply the same workflow as in option A.
Option C.* Something better that someone here recommends.
* I'm try to keep everything as simple as possible. For example, we make a powerpoint with the sewing steps. When recording the video, we flip to the page on the powerpoint, record the page with the camera and then start that operation to record. If we find issues in the powerpoint, we fix them and reshoot the operation.
* The videos and powerpoint with the sewing operations help us to remember how to sew something after we have not touched it for a long time and our production team to learn the product. I’ll make the trip to the factory a few times a year to help teach our team new products, however I cannot make a trip for every product.
Things I’ve tried:* I googled a lot and found some good info on Reddit. The recommended free editing software for PC and MAC is DaVinci Resolve. I tried it and liked it, however it kept crashing on me making it unusable. I may need to update my operation system to High Sierra (currently on OS X El Capitan). I liked how you can drop text on black background easily, importing video and pictures was just like iMovie, and rendering video was fast and simple to do.
* If there is a magic device out there that lets me take the video, edit it, add text and render/save it to a finished video quickly I would buy it.* I’m also trying to figure out how to do all of this by myself where I can sew and take the video at the same time without a second person.
- I still do not know how to setup a trigger or remote to be able to start and pause the video recording without having to physically touch the camera.
- I’d also like to find a way to mirror the screen on the iPhone or tablet to a second tablet, phone or monitor that I can mount to the sewing machine or sewing machine table to let me see what is being recorded (the area that is being recorded incase I need to adjust the lighting or the camera on the fly).[/list]
