My first attempt at video editing...

tawood

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My girlfriend bought me a go-pro and mount, which I've put on my tail every now and again...the problem is, it is just one view, and I think the videos get boring quick. So today I tried taking video with the tail mount, plus my iPhone and my iPad.
Then, I had to edit them together, which I found is trickier than it would seem (at least for a knucklehead like me). One thing I found tricky was creating an "underlying sound track" of engine noise...I used one camera view (the interior iPad) for the sound, then placed the sound of me talking and the exterior camera sound along with this engine noise...getting them in sync took some doing (at one point, when I touch down, one of my tires "chirp", but on the video it sounds like three or four chirps due to the multiple sound tracks). Also, I think I need to move my interior camera, because I'll just apologize now that it shows almost nothing but my GIANT head (I really do have a giant head...I wear XXL hats).

I used Windows Movie Maker for my editing...because it was already on my computer.

Oh, and don't expect anything fantastic to happen. It's just me flying a PA28 into the pattern of my home drome.

 
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I like it!

The interior cam would be interesting on an IFR flight. It's close enough to see you "scan".

Nice landing. :)

I found it a lot more interesting (as in, I watched all of it) than the single camera from behind the prop videos.
 
Nice job. Editing all the cameras and audio together takes hours.

I'd say on your next one, maybe bring the audio level from the ambient audio down a touch -- it drowns out your mic audio.

But very good for a first one!
 
It's good to know other people have audio tracks of their plane running so they can have it play in the background of a video.

There's a lot of things I don't actually film during an actual flight so I do this as well
 
denverpilot said:
Nice job. Editing all the cameras and audio together takes hours.

I'd say on your next one, maybe bring the audio level from the ambient audio down a touch -- it drowns out your mic audio.

But very good for a first one!
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I agree with you with the audio level...I just guessed at the levels for this video...not to mention, the Windows Movie Maker doesn't have a good way of adjusting the levels, with only a small, vague, slider bar. But I know for next time!
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
It's good to know other people have audio tracks of their plane running so they can have it play in the background of a video.

There's a lot of things I don't actually film during an actual flight so I do this as well
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As I started piecing clips together I realized that each video has its own volume, tone, etc, which made each view change too abrupt...the constant audio helps for sure. I used a freeware program that stripped the audio from the sample sound video, then once it was all edited together I put the audio of the plane running back in over the clips as a "music soundtrack"...seemed to work.
 
movie maker IS free but pretty easy to use. once you get used to the 'split' function you pretty much got it. and, you can split audio as well.
 
Your head does not look abnormally big in this video.:D

Good job. The landing chirp(s) are fine. Nice and centered. I like the camera viewpoint of it.
 
Nice. So how long does a video like that take to make for a first timer?
 
the ratio gets better after a few cuts
 
tawood said:
I spent maybe 4 hours to make a little over 3 minutes...
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I can relate. I have to edit videos from clients on a regular basis. I use Adobe Premiere Pro, of which I know how to use about 5 percent of its capabilities (if that much). I once spent the better part of a morning on a 30-second video. But hey, it was billable time.

The first time I opened Adobe Premiere Pro, I pretty much just stared at it for a couple of hours. Then I concentrated on learning how to do well (and quickly) the simple things that I needed to do, and ignoring the rest of the software's impressive capabilities. I literally don't even know what 90 percent of the functions mean much less how to use them. But what I need to know, I know. The results are videos that look like they were edited by someone who actually knew what he was doing. If the clients knew that they represented the whole of my editing abilities, they'd probably find someone else.

Nice job on your video.

Rich
 
RJM62 said:
I can relate. I have to edit videos from clients on a regular basis. I use Adobe Premiere Pro, of which I know how to use about 5 percent of its capabilities (if that much). I once spent the better part of a morning on a 30-second video. But hey, it was billable time.

The first time I opened Adobe Premiere Pro, I pretty much just stared at it for a couple of hours. Then I concentrated on learning how to do well (and quickly) the simple things that I needed to do, and ignoring the rest of the software's impressive capabilities. I literally don't even know what 90 percent of the functions mean much less how to use them. But what I need to know, I know. The results are videos that look like they were edited by someone who actually knew what he was doing. If the clients knew that they represented the whole of my editing abilities, they'd probably find someone else.

Nice job on your video.

Rich
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Thanks RIch...

I did some research tonight on video editing software, and nearly everyone says Adobe Premiere Pro is the way to go...so if I keep this up, Premiere Pro may be in my future.
 
For super cheap and simple editing, Wondershare Filmora and Cyberlink Powerdirector are really solid editors.
They aren't like the complicated ones where there are a million functions and you only use 10.

They both have trial versions.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
For super cheap and simple editing, Wondershare Filmora and Cyberlink Powerdirector are really solid editors.
They aren't like the complicated ones where there are a million functions and you only use 10.

They both have trial versions.
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+1 for Powerdirector.

I'm not a great editor, but I have done some pretty decent ones with this program. My wife does video/video editing for semi-professionally and Powerdirector is her go-to program.
 
tawood said:
Thanks RIch...

I did some research tonight on video editing software, and nearly everyone says Adobe Premiere Pro is the way to go...so if I keep this up, Premiere Pro may be in my future.
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It's super-powerful. I mean, it's like Spielberg powerful. I hate Adobe as a company, but I can't deny that Premiere Pro can do literally anything you could possibly want to do to a video.

For what I actually do, I'm sure I could get away with something less comprehensive. But it's included in my subscription for other software that I need; so as long as I have to have the subscription, I may as well use it.

Rich
 
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