Travel Videos I've made

Gjac wrote:
These are very nice videos and stills. Were these taken with a digital still camera with video capability? What system did you use to edit them?

Thank you,

I have used several cameras over the years for stills and videos. The Glacier/Yellowstone video was done with a Sony HX100V Super Zoom camera. The Desert SW and the Smoky Mountain 2012 was done with a Sony hdr-cx700v video camera primarily. The others were shot with a combination of Canon hf G30 video camera, Sony RX100M2, and Sony HX100v.

To edit I first used Power Director for the Glacier/Yellowstone as well as the Smokys 2012. Then the others were with Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 11 and 12.

It takes a pretty fast computer to handle the avchd files from these cameras, and even though I use a laptop, it is a gaming type laptop which has a fast quad core cpu with 8gb ram and a good graphics processor. It also has 2 500gb 700rpm disk drives. If a slower computer is used, it makes it difficult to handle large files generated by these cameras.

You can shoot with these cameras using mp4 selection, and this is a smaller file size, but it is less quality. I sometimes like to slow down a clip on the timeline of the video editor for slo-motion effect, but the higher bit rate avchd codec is better for slowing down clips.

Then there's the upload to Vimeo. The longest of my videos took about 4 hours to upload via dsl connection. But if I render the video at the Vimeo standard mp4 at 750p then it does not take nearly as long.

Thanks for your interest, and let me know if I can answer any other questions.

Keep on RVing
Tom