I found some old drone footage that I shot a couple of years ago using my DJI Mini 2 drone. I was out at Magnolia Bluff on a moderately windy summer day not really paying attention to anything or I would have shot more footage of the hawks that were flying around.
I stitched them together using the cross dissolve transition between the videos.
Each video has the vibrance effect added to it to pump up the color.
I’m really loving the FCP on the iPad. Being able to use the Apple Pencil makes editing so easy.
The jog wheel is another feature that makes editing easy. Moving through video one frame at a time is amazing.
A colection of drone footage. The DJI Mini 3 Pro is an amazing device and the pictures and video it can produce never disappoint.
Clouds and sunlight are a beautiful, vibrant mix of visual pleasure. Being able to shoot video at a couple of hundred feet above the earth makes it even better.
Yesterday I spent a good chunk of time looking through the videos that I had shot and assigning keywords and scrubbing through to see what sections I like to each video and which I didn’t. I thought I was done with all of that but then I started looking at them and went through the whole process again today.
I don’t know if everyone goes through that if they walk away from a project and then come back to it or if it’s just some weird mental hang up, I have. Part of my brain was saying I was being compulsive while the rest said I had every right to do what I wanted. Either way, I do feel everything is categorized the way I want it now. So that’s an accomplishment in itself.
My brain though is saying that I wasted my time yesterday doing the same thing.
I have decided that I’m not going to change any of the keywords. I am also going to try and use all the videos as is without any additional tweaking. I don’t know how rational of a decision that is especially when I start putting all the videos in a timeline, but I’m going to try.
I am also beginning to remember what I must do to favorite a clip add a keyword so I’m developing a kind of muscle memory for final debt pro on iPad. That makes me feel pretty good.
I had to go back through some of the tutorials to remember how a video gets reversed. There are quite a few videos in the footage that I shot backwards for some reason. I don’t remember why but I realized that they needed to be reversed or they really didn’t make sense.
I also shot quite a few in slow motion so they need to be speeded by about 500% to make them fit with the other clips. Both reversing the clip and increasing the playback speed are in the same general portion of the app, so it was pretty easy to do both.
That’s it for this entry my cat is telling me that I’ve ignored him enough this evening and he wants attention.
Well, I decided that I’m going to redo my video of lake Leotta Park.
Looking at the video as it is right now the first thing that I’m thinking is that my redo is going to be a lot shorter than the original (2:56). I just get the sense that with what I’m learning from the tutorials, and looking at other sources online, the video that I shot it’s probably going to be about half of what it is right now.
So, I downloaded the original video files that I had for the first video, and I have them on my iPad Air now. I haven’t really done anything with them besides look them over. I haven’t assigned them any keywords or made any of them favorites. I just have them in a folder on my iPad. All the fun begins tomorrow.
My cat moo has been annoyed and with me lately spending so much time on an app. He kept bumping my legs with his head, so I had to give him some attention today.
The real work begins tomorrow, and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.
My Final Cut Pro 