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Posted Friday, August 29, 2014 @ 02:28 AM  

I've just uploaded a new video to YouTube which I hope you will enjoy. http://youtu.be/TwbIjgkSH6c

Shot at our recent fly-in it features, aside from the back of my head, my friend Billy in his Druine Condor and the L18C Cubs of friends Paul and Mel.
This is my first attempt at adding a music track to a video. It may be cheesy but I'm quite pleased with it.

(Note to future self: on bright days wear a dark, long sleeve shirt or sweater and don't wear a watch.)

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Posted Friday, August 29, 2014 @ 06:19 PM  

That's lovely, evocative footage Donald. Nice formation flying too, plus great scenery.
You make me very envious right now.

Reflections are always a problem with in-cockpit footage. Whatever I paint black, things like instrument faces still cause reflections, so I've just learned to accept them.

I look forward to seeing more of your footage in the future.

Yours, Bob

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Posted Saturday, August 30, 2014 @ 03:09 AM  

Thanks Bob. Formation flying is hard work, I find.

If you want evocative have to seen 'Gone with the Wind'? Shot from an RF4 it's first up over on the German CFI site, under videos, but here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9cz-CKZ3Ko
To me that is, I think, the most beautiful, lyrical flying video I've ever seen.

I wish it were mine.

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Posted Saturday, August 30, 2014 @ 04:36 AM  

Hi again Donald,

I forgot to congratulate you on your great choice of music, and its neat integration with the visual action. I know from my own efforts that the editing alone takes days of painstaking work to get everything just right.

And thank you very much for the link to that German clip.
Matthew put a GoPro on his under-belly inspection panel, but facing rearwards; thus the airstrip take-off footage. But neither of us thought of having it facing directly downwards to catch the shadow like that. What an excellent viewpoint, and as you say, that's a lovely, uplifting clip.

I must get around to splicing together some of my clips from various viewpoints on HDO, and I'll blatantly copy that downwards view among them.

Meanwhile, I hope you get in many more hours of great autumn flying.

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Posted Saturday, August 30, 2014 @ 06:36 AM  

Bob, I had my footage cut and edited sitting on my hard drive for weeks but something was missing, a soundtrack other than engine noise.
When I got the music, a freebie from the YouTube library, I realised it was easier to cut the video to the music than the other way round and that the music lends a sort of narrative flow to the piece that the video alone doesn't necessarily give. Some parts of mine are longer than I would have otherwise given them but I have one or two nice timings in there that may not be evident but they please me.

As far as shooting downwards goes there may be more to it than just that because yesterday I had to go and try it but my results were...disappointing. Weather and time of day weren't ideal but I'd hoped for better so more experimentation required, I guess.

I, and probably many others here, look forward to more from yourself.

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Posted Saturday, August 30, 2014 @ 08:43 AM    YIM

That is a very nice film Donald. It brought back some very pleasant memories of a flight to Glasgow I once made in similar weather. The sun may not shine too often in Scotland, but when it does the view is breathtaking, particularly at exactly that altitude. The camera position was excellent from the point of view that there was just the right amount of Fournier and just the right amount of the outside world in view. Neither the reflection not your barber's handiwork bothered me at all

Now I'm going to have to go to the airport. Some films are like that.

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Posted Sunday, August 31, 2014 @ 02:37 AM  

Glad you enjoyed it Steve. I had a ball shooting it.

Saying the sun don't shine here too often is a massive slander ...but it sure can be difficult to predict.

Camera mounting locations in the single cockpit are…limited. I've tried it suction-cupped on to the canopy to put it further forward but it's just not rigid enough and the footage is nauseous.

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Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2014 @ 06:49 PM  

Nice videos, Donald. Beautiful scenery and fun flying. Really liked the down view and seeing the Fournier shadow. And the bit of cloud dancing...

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