Overview Video Creation
In order to submit a board game to Boston FIG an entry must be accompanied by an overview video. The video should be around 5-10 minutes long. It should cover an overview of the game, how the game is played. and get you interested to want to play it.
I don't own a copy of Adobe Premiere which is one of the gold standard video editing programs. While looking for free alternatives I found AVID. The download was around 2 Gigabytes in size! It took an impressive 5+ minutes just to unzip and extract. The install program files to finish successfully so I had to try again. After another 20 minutes, I got it installed. The program massively slowed down my i7 CPU / 16GB RAM laptop to the point of crawling. The interface is not something that you can jump right into. It took me quite a while (and a YouTube video) later to figure out how to do something simple like trim a clip in the timeline. After getting all the video added and timeline set I tried to export it as a video. I could not get it to export. The files that it was generating would not play in VLC or Windows Media Player. After over 2 hours of frustration, I uninstalled everything.
Here is the video entry that I will be submitting.
It took an entire night to create.
It took an entire night to create.
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