Please have a look and critique the video teaser I made. Did it with fcpx and photoshop. Im just starting with fcpx and finding my way around it.

Mercury Teaser

Thanks and enjoy!


-ReggieT

Very cool, nicely done. The only thing I can say is the close ups of that guy in the glasses. Looks like you blew up the original video and it loses some image quality. I'd have shot his lines twice, once close up, once as the wide shot you have. Cutting between them would be just as seamless, and kept the quality. Other than that, really nice.

Hi ReggieTrias, very interesting visuals, really well done! I agree with BenB on the digitally enlarged head shot. Breaks your own quality standards .
One general comment (which has nothing to do with the editing quality of this video): Although it is tempting to play with words and book entries and so on to support the spoken text, it is counterproductive from biological reasons. When you offer the same content to the eyes and the ears, the foremost task challenging the brain is to compare both inputs to find out whether they fit. While performing this comparison, the brain is not longer able to completely digest the provided information. So from a neurobiological point, it is much better to support the wording with visual complement rather than visual repetition. By the way, a lot of people could drastically enhance their PowerPoint presentations by considering this fact

Actually FvH, as someone with an educational psychology degree, that's not true. It actually reinforces the retention of data. The brain is very sophisticated and can do billions of unconscious tasks at once and still retain petabytes of data per second. I understand your thinking, but from a true neurological science point of view, it does in fact work to present related data through various sensory modes at one time. Hearing words and seeing them to in fact reinforce the message very well.

Unless there's some data on the subject that I'm unaware of.

Thanks guys,

maybe If i could apply the right amount of balance between those two information then maybe i send a better information in my upcoming videos. thanks!