Just in case you thought I haven’t been posting because I’ve been hanging out at the tavern too much, think again. I work every day on my own business and put out some non-related video as well.
Two weeks ago I went to Seattle with my “big” camera (I have 2 smaller ones) and shot video at the Urban Assault ride. Here’s one of the programs I cut together out of the footage. Coast.ies is my son Johnny’s business. I cut together a shorter “spot” for him and one for UAR. I’m still working on a slightly longer piece for UAR.
Coasti.es . . . Leading the Coaster Brake Revolution
Shooting video happens in real time. I was at the event for 5 hours and took an hour and 43 minutes of footage. Logging, capturing and editing takes 10 to 20 times the amount of footage for the first (36 second) program. I don’t know why I always forget that.
Still, it was great fun.
p.s. for the geeks among us . . . I output this from Final Cut to a self-contained Quicktime movie and let YouTube do the compression. I don’t like it. It’s too jerky, although they go for good sound. I need to research how to export full digital video files with the best codec at my end. I suspect YouTube isn’t set up to compress DV quality video files at their best settings.
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Is your John the one on stage with the beer, or the one balancing a bike on his face?
Mine is Johnny who’s doing the announcing and wearing bunny ears. John with the bicycle on his face is Johnny’s good friend and teammate for the event and the guy drinking the beer is Josh who puts on these events, Urban Assault Rides in multiple cities.
Very environmentally sensitive from a solar-powered sound system to beer glasses made from corn that went into the compost bin. 400+ people at the event and only one black 35-gallon or so bag of garbage.
About the bunny ears . . . at many of these events people dress in costumes but the Seattle group was unusually sedate this year.