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Posted By:
Don Maxwell
Date Posted:
May 27, 2015
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This is cropped from an iPhone video frame that Carol made recently, as I was returning from taking our next door neighbor, Maggie, for her first seaplane ride.
There's a video at: http://youtu.be/nRhqvgPMcig
In it you can see a little more of this shot and another of flying overhead after sunset, with the lights visible.
Date Taken:
2015-05-25
Place Taken:
Shangri-La-di-da on the James, in Virginia, USA
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - May 27,2015
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One of the interesting things about this shot is that the red nav light was too bright for the camera--except in the reflection. Also, the video caught some of the strobe flashes, but not all. Here's a shot where the strobe is out of direct view but the water is lit up:
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Carr, Frank - May 28,2015
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Very nice video Don, you're getting fancy with the split screen at the end, nice! Really nice to have the plane at your house, to
capture the best weather experiences!
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Don Maxwell - May 28,2015
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Thanks, Frank. I made the video mainly for the kid--she's 13--and her parents. But I agonized over that split screen trick for a long time, because effects like that call attention to themselves and pretty much interrupt whatever story you hope to tell with a video. It's like saying, ""Hey, look at me! Aren't I clever!"" But I had those two shots--inside and outside--and liked them both. And the outside shot was her dad's view of it, shot on Carol's iPhone. So in the end I did the split trick. If it had been a more serious endeavor I probably would have picked one and canned the other.
Apple's new version of iMovie is what I used for the video. It isn't the most powerful video editor, but it's probably the most elegant, in that it does a lot of things and does them very simply. Well, that's Apple's credo, I guess. On the other hand, what I like least about it is that it makes the fancy effects so easy that people are likely to overuse them. A useful analogy, maybe, is with playing recordings of music: you want to hear the music, not the sound system.
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Carr, Frank - May 29,2015
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I'm surprised Don you are using iMovie. Especially the newest version. With the GoPro I find that I like their ""Studio"" software,
which, after I came to terms with it, I find it easier than iMovie, but then I'm a neophyte.
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Don Maxwell - May 30,2015
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You're a better GoPro user than I am, Frank. Figuring out how to use ""Studio"" was too daunting for me, and I gave up on it, at least until I need to do something with its time-lapse feature. I usually just open the GoPro as a device in the Mac's Finder, open a video in QuickTime Player and then use QT's ""Trim"" function to export brief clips to use in iMovie. That gives me control over the whole process, allows me to save the HD clips on a hard drive, and work with them in iMovie. Of course, ""Studio"" would probably do all that quicker and easier--if I'd just take time to figure it out. (A pro still-photographer friend likes Adobe's Lightroom, but I have the same complaints with that as with iPhoto.)
It took me quite a while to appreciate iMovie, but I like the new version pretty well. It does most of what I want, and it's easy to use--once you discover where the neat tricks are stashed. FinalCut is more powerful, but too complicated for casual use.
But I don't like iPhoto, and (having suffered through several computer system changes in the past) especially not Apple's idea that the filenames of photos and videos should be numbers only. I usually change the names of useful shots to something that will still make sense to me a few years from now and in some altogether different operating system.
There's yet another transition going on right now, to interconnect via the cloud all these little mobile gadgets--phones, tablets, and laptops--and stationary computers. Right now, you can access and work on documents and projects on your phone, say, and also on your other devices, all automatically, without any need to transfer or sync files manually. There are growing pains, but it's interesting and even useful.
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Carr, Frank - May 31,2015
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Don, I claim nothing about using GoPro or GoPro Studio. But it's strange after believing that Studio was more difficult than learning
how to fly, it made peace with me, or vice versa. I think I'm fully capable of using maybe 5% of its capabilities, which means I can
make a plain jane video, save it, put it on iTunes, and upload to YouTube. Nothing like David Geers' videos.
As for the Cloud, my first experience with iCloud resulted in double everything, contacts, phone numbers. Now I figure if NSA wants
my stuff they can work for it.
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Carr, Frank - May 29,2015
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Not at all did I think ""hey look at me"", Don. I took it to be a very good (and pro) edit of the flight. I still maintain it is was good
editing! I wish I had a video of my first flight. But I do have a B&W snapshot. From 1956!
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Don Maxwell - May 28,2015
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I really like the shots Carol made with her phone--because the airplane's lights show up so nicely. I'm tempted to try for another arrival further into the evening, when it's really getting dark. Carol's shot has quite true lighting, closer to what my eyes registered at the time than the GoPro shots from inside the cockpit, which make everything seem a bit brighter than appeared to me. There was plenty of light to land safely, but it would be cool to have a video of the conditions when I was tying the plane down for the night, like the silhouette shot at the end. But I wouldn't do that with a passenger.
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Buck Bray - May 30,2015
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Great video of sharing the joy with your neighbor. I liked the split screen and interspersing of the two videos.
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