Can't believe it has been over a month since my last post. Time flies when you are having fun and I've had a couple of weeks of holiday too... in which I did have fun.
Since Shrewsbury I've done quite a bit of video work, not all of which is immediately obvious as it hasn't appeared anywhere yet. I've been getting the Year in the Life 2013 into shape and have definitely decided on a 3 disk set as there is just so much to fit in. It was either that or do another Cob Widening DVD on its own which it doesn't really need yet, if I didn't do that now then no one would see what has gone on since the end of 2012, so 3 disks it is. We don't want to make it unaffordable so it will come out at £22.50 which will pay for the extra disk and the more expensive 3 way case.
I've been editing together a rough cut of the introduction using the music from last years one as a guide track and it is looking quite pretty. I just need to drop some shots from 1863 and all that weekend in and it will be fine. Once I finish posting this I'm off to the garage to start work on the music.
The biggest videoing project I've done recently is obviously Superpower. This was a three day shoot and I managed to amass about 4 hours of footage. Part of the fun was shooting the model railways which constituted a part of the gala this year. I used the GoPro to get a passengers eye view of Bron Hebog, a superb 009 layout of Beddgelert and the S curves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oL7gPM2BhBA
This link will take you to a longer version of this video on the Blog for the layout, definitely worth a read.
http://bronhebog.blogspot.co.uk/
There was never going to be enough for a stand alone DVD so I wanted to get a 20-25 minute package to add to the year in the life. It ended up as about 30 minutes but I didn't want to lose any more from it. The editing was a long job and took me just over 12 hours which I did on the Monday after the weekend. I made a rough edit which came out at about 40 mins and then went through and added captions chopping out some more at this point which took out around 5 minutes but my main aim on the day was to get a 10 minute YouTube package uploaded. In the end I had to bin some really nice stuff to get it short enough and even then I could only get it to 12 and a half mins. This is what you see here.
I came back to have another look at the year in the life version a day or so later and cut it down to the final half an hour version.
Having been working on various other bits and pieces I uploaded a couple of high speed runs to YouTube which people seem to like, I've done the FR and the Port to Rhyd Ddu bit of the WHR. The second WHR section remains elusive although I have put the wheels in motion to get a special train run to shoot the remaining section with a Fairlie as the Garratt mounted camera was unwatchable.
Prince has just had a an outing to Birkenhead which I didn't go to but my second unit - Mr Focus or Chris Parry as he is known sometimes took some nice shots on his DSLR stills camera. I've still to edit this but I'll pop it up on YouTube as soon as it is done, hopefully tomorrow.
Since Shrewsbury I've done quite a bit of video work, not all of which is immediately obvious as it hasn't appeared anywhere yet. I've been getting the Year in the Life 2013 into shape and have definitely decided on a 3 disk set as there is just so much to fit in. It was either that or do another Cob Widening DVD on its own which it doesn't really need yet, if I didn't do that now then no one would see what has gone on since the end of 2012, so 3 disks it is. We don't want to make it unaffordable so it will come out at £22.50 which will pay for the extra disk and the more expensive 3 way case.
I've been editing together a rough cut of the introduction using the music from last years one as a guide track and it is looking quite pretty. I just need to drop some shots from 1863 and all that weekend in and it will be fine. Once I finish posting this I'm off to the garage to start work on the music.
The biggest videoing project I've done recently is obviously Superpower. This was a three day shoot and I managed to amass about 4 hours of footage. Part of the fun was shooting the model railways which constituted a part of the gala this year. I used the GoPro to get a passengers eye view of Bron Hebog, a superb 009 layout of Beddgelert and the S curves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oL7gPM2BhBA
This link will take you to a longer version of this video on the Blog for the layout, definitely worth a read.
http://bronhebog.blogspot.co.uk/
There was never going to be enough for a stand alone DVD so I wanted to get a 20-25 minute package to add to the year in the life. It ended up as about 30 minutes but I didn't want to lose any more from it. The editing was a long job and took me just over 12 hours which I did on the Monday after the weekend. I made a rough edit which came out at about 40 mins and then went through and added captions chopping out some more at this point which took out around 5 minutes but my main aim on the day was to get a 10 minute YouTube package uploaded. In the end I had to bin some really nice stuff to get it short enough and even then I could only get it to 12 and a half mins. This is what you see here.
I came back to have another look at the year in the life version a day or so later and cut it down to the final half an hour version.
Rain coats on: the sun didn't shine all the time
Nice to see K1 back in action for the weekend
Princess made a guest appearance on the platform at Dinas
I don't think I mentioned my new toy, the new larger monitor which you can see mounted on the camera in a couple of the pics above. It is connected to the cameras HDMI output and is really helpful in being able to see the whole picture easily, this allows me to be sure that I've framed the image properly and it also means it is easier to see what I am doing when panning the camera. We got it half price too as it was end of line.
Having been working on various other bits and pieces I uploaded a couple of high speed runs to YouTube which people seem to like, I've done the FR and the Port to Rhyd Ddu bit of the WHR. The second WHR section remains elusive although I have put the wheels in motion to get a special train run to shoot the remaining section with a Fairlie as the Garratt mounted camera was unwatchable.
FR HST
WHR HST
Prince has just had a an outing to Birkenhead which I didn't go to but my second unit - Mr Focus or Chris Parry as he is known sometimes took some nice shots on his DSLR stills camera. I've still to edit this but I'll pop it up on YouTube as soon as it is done, hopefully tomorrow.
