Video editing software ~ Adobe Createvie Cloud

Video from the last weekend!

    Recently, I have been trying to have a video embedded into my post.  It sometimes helps what I try to describe in a post.  Originally, I did not really edit my video and just upload the “raw” video file to YouTube.  However, it does not look good.  Therefore, I started to edit my video clips and try to make it nicer.  Originally, I was using a bundle software come with my video cam / my camera.  Then, I moved to Adobe Primer Element.   Overall, Primer Element would be good enough for video I posted.  However, our family also started shooting a video and also edit it.  They are trying much better quality of video to publish.  Then we start looking for more features in the video editing software.   Since we have been using Adobe Primer Element for a while, we thought it would be better to get professional version of Adobe.

   Thus, we signed up Adobe Creative Cloud which offers users to use almost all software family related for multimedia with a reasonable monthly subscription.   Then, we started using “Adobe Primer Pro” and “Adobe After Effect”.   We did not realized those software require additional resources, especially, larger memory size, GPU, faster CPU and etc.  Our PC is not good enough to use those software.  In addition, the file format to save as a project file is not compatible with Primer Element and the user interface is also different as well.  It seems we need to upgrade our PC to use those software.

  This weekend, I will probably work on this project with my son.  Probably, adding some extra memory to see if it helps or not.  Currently the PC only has 16GB memory and it seems to be not enough, the motherboard would be able to support up to 32GB.  So that we will probably buy another 16GB memory this weekend.

YouTube Video for Hiking

Mt. Dana ~ The last video I posted for hiking

It is getting a bit better but I have not establish my "style"

   Some people are probably aware that I started posting some video for hiking.   Since my son got an action cam recorder, I borrowed it and I brought it to hiking.  However, it is not really easy to make a good video so far.   I am still on the way to learn how to make a nice video for hiking.

   One of my goals to start this blog is to share nice hiking experiences with photos.   There are not many photos in guide books here.   I had a hard time to imagine what a trail looks like, especially for non-native English speaker like myself.   Therefore, I put as many photos as possible when I post an article for hiking.   However, once I started shooting video, I also watched videos posted by other people and I found it was very useful.   Also, many kids look for YouTube video when they are looking for solutions, how-to-do, other than looking for books and / or some information in writing.  So the way to find the information is getting changed.

   A video has more information than photos.   When I select photos in my article, I tend to pick nice photos and probably not to pick if photos are not really show impression.  Also, I might need to add some notes / explanation other than just putting photos.  It is still much better than just writing something, but video is totally different.   Even if there is no explanation, people will get more information from the video.   Also, a photo is not really impressive, but it can be a part of impressive video.   It is totally different way to edit a video from developing a photo.

 First video for a hiking (actually back country skiing)

I used a head mount to shoot this video, but it is not very good.   It is not really stable and it is not very comfortable to watch it.   Maybe next winter, I will try to take a better video.

   I am still learning how I can present a hiking with a video, but I really want to revisit many places where I have been.  Then, I will try to shoot a video to share.   I did 3 different hiking recently and I am looking for something to make another video.....