Fast paced. Funny. Emotional. You are hooked in the first 10 seconds.
Much like the time Drake gave away a million dollars.
In this one, illegal Slovakian immigrant David Dobrik gives away money, cars, and EA gaming devices. It’s fun.
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Video editing guru Hillier Smith feels it’s the best so far in 2020.
Here’s why.
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An old dog, I much prefer landscape videos.
But the whole generation who started with TikTok feel portrait is normal.
As an experiment, I shot and edited one VERT video.
YouTube is soon to launch a TikTok competitor called “Shorts”, but it hasn’t happened yet.
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December 1, 2020.
Or is it March 273rd ??
One #COVIDgoal of mine was to improve my video editing. I’ve spent many hundreds of hours working on it. Put together dozens of videos.
Not my best. Not my most important. But my favourite video so far is this glimpse into my daily coffee break at dawn Rathtrevor Beach.
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If forced to show my work to real videographers, that’s the one I’d show.
In the past I was terrified of audio. My first inclination was to delete all audio. Replace it with a musical soundtrack.
But in recent weeks audio has been my favourite part of editing. Selecting the right music critical.
Here’s some state of the art videography. Pros attempting to duplicate big budget Hollywood cinematography with relatively inexpensive gimbals that hobbyists can afford.
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A Mac geek, I sagely advised Rockin’ to NOT buy a first generation product.
Get the MacBook Air. It’s enough computer for 99% of the world.
#Don’tPracticeWhatYouPreach
Myself? I ordered a first generation SILICON MacBook Pro day 1. It costs CAD $400 more than the Air.
The 1% who need the Pro are those wanting to video edit in 4K. Drinkin’ the fanboy Kool-Aid.
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Sam, from Toronto, is one of the top travel video editors. He got started as the video guy for The Chainsmokers.
I’m studying Sam’s work. He’s a master with the drone.
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Sam spent over 500 hours editing this project. A tribute to his brother.
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Of many competing services offering online digital assets, Story Blocks is most famous. And advertises the most.
But I was convinced to join instead less expensive Envato Elements US $198 / year. Both work with Final Cut Pro, my software.
They provide licensed images, audio, videos, graphics, plugins, fonts, logos, tutorials, 3D, graphic & video templates, presentation templates, infographics and much more. I’ll be including those in my videos, websites and presentations.
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One of the main things I like about using their digital resources is the simplicity of licensing. I’m much less worried that YouTube — sometime in future — might take down my YouTube due to copyright complaint.
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We love YouTube. My first upload was Mar 28, 2006.
Google bought the startup November 2006 for US$1.65 billion.
I spun off a hiking YouTube channel Jan 17, 2018.
Finally got it looking good October 2020. I’m studying how to post better videos in future. #CovidGoals
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The best YouTube uploads have dedicated thumbnails like this. The rest show a somewhat random frame of the video.
YouTube thumbnail
Yikes. 😗
Shooting and editing in 4K resulted in a video file of 1.58 GB.
If you click on the cog bottom right of the YouTube video, you can watch in 4K. .
UPDATE – For some reason YouTube doesn’t offer my 4K video in 4K. Another reason I’ll probably stick with the lower resolution 1080p, for now.
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On Oct 7, 2020 a guy still wearing his motorcycle helmet slipped and fell here. Wasn’t rescued until the next morning.
In 2012 a woman fell 100-feet — and somehow survived.
For hiking I’m not often going to be carrying a full tripod. Too big. Too heavy.
But for cycling, I’ll often bring this one along.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours videotaping from tripods. But — until now — have never used one as an extended selfie stick.
Of many similar options, I got the Selfie Stick Tripod, UBeesize 51″ Extendable Tripod Stand with Bluetooth Remote for iPhone & Android Phone. I won’t be using the Bluetooth Remote.
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Like everyone, my iPhone battery life progressively died until it was nearly unusable.
A local shop wanted CAD $112 plus tax to replace the battery.
Apple Canada charged CAD $88 plus tax plus shipping. About $100 total.
3 months warranty.
It’s a bit of work backing up and then restoring the phone. But not confusing. It worked well.
I’ll now be using two iPhones:
