OK,

Here's one to look at.  It is a promotional video that I did for my real work--leading the North American Collaboration Center for the Nortel Microsoft Innovative Communications Alliance.

A little background.  Released to support Microsoft's release of OCS 2007 as part of Nortel's Unified Communications solution, the production company originally secured to produce the video was--well, lets just say they were uninvited.  Knowing that I did video, our Marketing dept. asked if I could do it--about 5 days from due date--and I still had my real work to do.  And--I wrote most of the script too.  The saving grace was that there were several other videos that I could pull material from, so probably 30-45 seconds was not "mine."  The sine wave was done in After Effects and was synch'ed to the background music.  So some long nights and a Saturday yielded the following:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaEZwK9lLgU

Comments are welcome if they consider the above factors.  Given more time, there's lots I would do differently.  Most of the people in the video are my employees.  Even the Voice Over was done by an employee.

FWIW--It has been widely distributed, and they are happy with it.  Also--The engineer discussing the Proof of Concept towards the end is a Liquid user too.

I liked it. I think my only criticisms are at 1:59 and 3:49. You have a set of cuts that are a little too short IMHO. Particularly at 1:59 to 2:02 where you have 3 separate scenes. But for a last minute get-it-done-now shoot, it was really quite good.

Thanks Dave.  Completely agree with you.

Wonderful job on such short notice. Great shots that absolutely pertained to the subject at hand.

Were some of those video backgrounds from dvd-makers by any chance?

evangary 

 

It's good!  I hope your employer came up with some sort of reward for your extra work.  That production company probably would have charged a hefty sum.  But you did have an advantage of really understanding the subject of the video. That probably greatly influenced your treatment of the material.  There really is no substitute for expert knowledge of the subject you are presenting. Plus, you are a talented videographer.

excellent ! It looks very professional.

Possibly it could have been shorter

 

 

 

Thanks one and all for the comments.

Evangary--I don't know where the backgrounds came from as I will most often copy them off of the CD/DVD and onto a HD for cataloging and quick access.  While I am sure they were not any of the DJ stuff I own, it is possible that they were from a collection of backgrounds from Media Mixers, but more than likely, they were one of the free backgrounds offered weekly by MotionLoops.com.  Just sign up for their news letter and they give a new looping background each week, free for the downloading.

Fred thanks for the link. I went there. I add this to Digital Juice and Copilot backs.

I won't say anything else than that honest people do honest work.