Worldcon Chairs Video
Oct. 29th, 2023 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeThe Worldcon Chairs video at Chengdu was a very rushed affair, being squeezed in during the Hugo Award rehearsal and held in a noisy area with no microphones for the chairs to use to give their names and convention names/years/places. When I mentioned it to one person, they said, "Why bother? None of them are here?" That wasn't true: eight of us were at the convention. Unfortunately, the chair of the winning 2025 bid from Seattle was unable to attend Chengdu, so I hope she's able to make the session next year in Glasgow.
I rushed up from Hugo Rehearsal and quickly set up the camera, but people were in such a tearing hurry to get this over with that they did not give me enough time to level the camera. I just had to start recording and hope I could fix it in post-production, which I did manage to do. I also included subtitles because it was virtually impossible to hear anyone. I was so rattled that I initially gave the wrong year for the Worldcon that I co-chaired.
This afternoon, I did the editing, rotating the video -1.6% and masking off the edges so it's not so obvious that the tripod wasn't straight, and adding the subtitles. It's now online on the Worldcon Events Channel.
I rushed up from Hugo Rehearsal and quickly set up the camera, but people were in such a tearing hurry to get this over with that they did not give me enough time to level the camera. I just had to start recording and hope I could fix it in post-production, which I did manage to do. I also included subtitles because it was virtually impossible to hear anyone. I was so rattled that I initially gave the wrong year for the Worldcon that I co-chaired.
This afternoon, I did the editing, rotating the video -1.6% and masking off the edges so it's not so obvious that the tripod wasn't straight, and adding the subtitles. It's now online on the Worldcon Events Channel.
