A cup of tea, a keyboard, a single text editor window floating in a vast expanse of calm, blue desktop.
Good morning world, time for another summer Friday!
(A full size version of that screenshot also exists here.)
I put together another short video excerpt from Kodsnack last night. I am using Descript to put everything together, and I am having great fun doing so. I mainly went to Descript for the transcription and captions, and I feel I have a lot left to learn about how to do other nice things. Descript is quite different from more old-style video editing tools in that it does not really want you to use the timeline to drag things around. Instead, you do a lot of work with the transcribed script. Which is all nice and very powerful, and I can already get the basics done quickly. But I need to sit down and learn more about everything else, because my timeline-oriented mind still feels more at home in Imovie and the way things work there. I especially want to figure out animation options, because whenever I open those inspectors in the side panel, I just see numbers and confusion where I was hoping to find something more graspable like Imovie's or Keynote's options. It is great to stretch your mind into ever so slightly unfamiliar territory like this. I am looking forward to things clicking all of a sudden (and then most likely wondering just what it was I did not understand before).
I am also sure I will be able to pick it up quickly, because so far Descript's documentation has been great. The interactive tutorial project especially helped set me on the right track with just minutes of time spent. And I keep remembering little things I saw in there that I should go back and figure out how to do in my own projects.
All of which is to say: I now have a Descript subscription, ho ho ho.
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(1337 is not very convenient to write on my keymap … Perhaps I need some new layers?)