Video: Developers speak about Flex Camp

On July 27 a couple hundred Flex developers invaded the Adobe Systems lobby in San Francisco to attend an engaging evening of demos, chat, and coding. Now you can see what it was like.

The evening was part meet-and-greet and part code-heavy edutainment, with plenty of excellent pizza and beer to go along. It was the first Flex Camp and the Adobe Developer Center wanted to capture the energy of the event. Those who were not there might be intrigued to attend an upcoming Flex Camp in their area — or at least check out their local Flex user group and get in on the action.

Craig Goodman and I walked around the lobby with our film crew, whom we had signed up just a day before, and interviewed eight developers, each of whom had a different perspective on the event: why they were there, what they do with Flex, and what they hoped to get out of the event. Check it out!

This was an exciting project for me too because it was the first video shot in HD that I would be editing. HD certainly makes it easy to hide jump cuts and insert instant close-ups that were not part of the original footage — all in an effort to make the final delivery as smooth as possible. I’m pretty happy with how it tuned out. It took about three days — thanks to some technical snafus — to gather all the clips, do the edit, refine the piece, and finalize the closed-captioning. (Thanks to Neal Morrison, DP, and Scott Kinzey, sound; both did lights. Thanks also to Julie Campagna for typing up the transcript on short notice.)