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I saw this last night and couldn’t stop laughing. If you edit on Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express, take a moment to watch this “tutorial” where the host does EVERYTHING wrong (intentionally). Make sure you watch it all the way to the end.

FCP Quick Tips – episode #183 from Rob Imbs on Vimeo.

Hilarious! Rob is brilliant.

* Found via Pro Video Coalition.

I don’t usually do this, but I have a couple videos I worked on that I want to share with you. I shot and edited two Godaddy contest commercials written and directed by Kevin Frei.

(Please be aware that they contain innuendo, so you might want to skip them if you’re offended by that kind of content.)

…and the other one…

I was the Director of Photography and editor on these projects.

Do you like them? Which do you prefer? If you have a moment, will you please vote for them here.

I watched a video yesterday from CollegeHumor.com, and I was blown away by the production value and the visual effects, but the writing just wasn’t funny. They were spoofing The Matrix, and they didn’t do a great job. I won’t bother posting it here.

Fast forward to later in the evening, and I’m browsing the bios of some of the folks I follow on Twitter, and I stumble on twitter.com/nevadagrey. She’s a writer in LA, and she writes and produces a show on YouTube. It’s the opposite of the CollegeHumor thing. Not a huge production value, but I think it’s very funny.

Nevada Grey writes, produces, and directs it (and plays the role of the mother, I believe). The acting is pretty darn good, and Noell and I laughed aloud several times while we watched the first episode, and then the second…

Here’s the thing though: When I first watched The Office, I recommended it to people I knew, and some watched it, and they reported back that it wasn’t very funny. I realize there are different senses of humor, so I cautiously recommend you watch this video. I think it’s very funny. I’m curious to hear what you think.

It only has 1,320 views at the time I’m typing this. Realistically it should have hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. Someone should give her a television show if she wants one, if she doesn’t already have one.

And this leads me to a bigger question — Why aren’t there more shows out there like this? Now that we have the ability to produce full video shows and distribute them to the world at such a low costs, examples like this should be popping up all over the place.

Who’s next?

Anyway, on with the show…

Bre Petis creates a lot of very interesting videos, but this one really caught my attention because of the raw emotion over something so geeky. The video is very short at one minute and 16 seconds, but there’s a lot in there. I’d highly recommend watching it a couple times. This kind of energy level and pace is inherently fun to watch, even if you have no interest in robot arms made out of Popsicle sticks.

My guess is they didn’t use professional lighting or even a tripod when they shot this. However, they combine good editing, music, suspense, and emotion, into a short but very successful video.

I watched this several times and laughed over and over again, so I felt compelled to share it. Enjoy! :-)