This is my 2nd attempt at this video, the wind hammed the dog snot out of us that day though. Even with a foamie and fuzzy sock on my mic still got bad wind noise.

what you hear is after digital reduction and mastering.

Video still turned out fairly well I think so I am sharing it, I would really like opinions on it.

I liked it very much. The editing from interview to pre-flight to taxi and takeoff etc. is a very nice touch and helps to keep interest up. I wonder, (I don't know) if you were to bring his voice volume up in the mix and then add some compression if he might be a little more intelligible. His natural speaking style is to begin each sentence with full volume and then trail off as he finishes his thought. I missed a bit of what he was saying.

A thoughtful and interesting guy.

I am tempted to upload what the original audio was for giggles, I have done a ton of work to it to get it to where it is, in the original file you almost can't hear him period the wind is so loud and the hanger metal is banging so badly.

He will be back in town Thursday next week. Hopefully going to re-shoot it then.

BigNickMontana wrote:I am tempted to upload what the original audio was for giggles, I have done a ton of work to it to get it to where it is, in the original file you almost can't hear him period the wind is so loud and the hanger metal is banging so badly.

He will be back in town Thursday next week. Hopefully going to re-shoot it then.

Well you did a good job with what you had. The important comment though was about the way you directed the thing. It's not your typical amateur editing. It was interesting with the voice over the various scenes leading to the takeoff.

My goal was to keep it as short as possible while keeping it as visually interesting as I could. I had through about splitting the hangar roll out totally at the beginning and then doing the dialog and then takeoff at the end, but when I looked at it like that it was like reading a really really long paragraph, or series of paragraphs with no spaces between them.

I'm mentally picking it apart, I've watched the whole thing probably 40 times by now.

Hopefully when I can redo it with some better audio it will really make for a strong video.

Wow, I just checked the analytics on this video, I can't believe that people have already watched 1,758 minutes of this video, I'm pretty flattered.

To think I almost didn't upload this because of the sound quality, I can't wait to see what the next one does, he is going to be back in town Monday next week, we are going to re-shoot it then.

Great video of a man who loves aviation.

I think a clip on microphone would have solved the volume changes.

Now that you have this one under your belt, how about interviewing every BCP member so we can see what makes them tick.

MAU MAU wrote:Great video of a man who loves aviation.

I think a clip on microphone would have solved the volume changes.

Now that you have this one under your belt, how about interviewing every BCP member so we can see what makes them tick.

I have a little something like that up my sleeve. need some more equipment first though.

I am probably going to buy a lav mic setup pretty quick here.