Colorado - Ouray CR 10 Chimney Rock - Video Travel Guide

JimFox

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Colorado - Ouray CR 10 Chimney Rock - Video Travel Guide

Creating Travel Guides is something that I have desired and done to a limited degree in the past. This last summer though it hit me that doing a Video Travel Guide as opposed to using just still photos is the real direction that I wanted to go.

Two reasons for it. 1st, I love to share and educate others on photography and the beautiful locations around us. 2nd, it would be a great way to share FocalWorld with other photographers who may not know about us since the Video's will be hosted on YouTube.

I have done processed 3 video's so far. I recorded about a dozen places during my fall color trip, but I picked 3 to process first to get a feel for how to process them since this is all pretty new to me.

It took me a while to find a competent easy to use Video Editor since I am way to busy as it is, so I needed something simple with enough bells and whistles to accomplish the task. After some research I settled on Movavi. It has some quirks and glitches, but seems the most stable for being an inexpensive editor ($39). I had also bought an inexpensive Action Cam ($50) to start with. I didn't want to throw a ton of money away at the beginning incase this turned out to be something that wasn't going to work out or something I wasn't going to enjoy.

So if you are still reading, here is what I need from everyone.

Please view the 3 videos (I am copying this text to all 3 to start), and give me feedback.

I need feedback on everything. From the Titles, transitions, to the text used in the video. Any suggestions for the disclaimer also is desired. Just anything that comes to your mind, share it. It's been a journey just editing these 3, as I have refined my process with each one. But now, I don't want to edit anymore until I get the feedback and determine the exact look and wording of each one.

This first batch is a real learning process, and the video's I do a year for now will probably look nothing like this first set, but a guy has to start somewhere. :)

Thanks so much.

 

AlanLichty

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Interesting - this one felt a little more polished than the first two I viewed although that may be just because I have gotten used to your videos :D

This isn't an area I have visited before and I was expecting more of a deep forest instead of the steppe country. My fondness for shooting on cloudy days and with damp conditions appears to not be adaptive for those roads according to your descriptions.

Are you using some sort of head/hat mounted camera for these videos?
 
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