Steve Goods
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- (2016)
I used my Iphone SE to make videos on my Camino this month of May.
The week prior to my flight to Madrid, I bought the DJI Osmo Mobile which is a gimbal (a stabilizer for 300 euro).
When walking or moving your phone and record videos, this gimbal reduce the shakiness (watch my videos).
One cool feature is that you can make motion time lamps (with the stand).
The DJI Osmo Mobile connects to any phone with Bluetooth. You should use the DJI app to shoot your recordings. Some days I used another app, the ProMovie but I believe I got more shaky videos. I also made the mistake not to learn exposure and focus on this app.
Even if the gimbal reduce the shakiness, you must be steady with your arm/hand. And when you walk you must walk slow and not jump up and down. The backpack makes it a little more difficult to walk steady.
I carried my DJI in a bag in front of me.
And after every day of shooting, I edited directly on my iPhone in the iMovie app, usually the very same evening.
Im a beginner in photography and I learned by doing on the Camino. It was very easy I think, but the problem was memory space. Needed to free space on my phone, and upload to the cloud, but Wifi in Spain is not always fast. Using your own Mobile Data is not quick enough or dont work to upload.
So sometimes I couldnt edit because of lack of memory space. My iPhone have 64 gigbytes. And upload the video to Youtube could take an hour! Many times that also failed.
I had to delete my edited movies from iMovie since I needed that space to be able to shoot more photos! Now I cant edit them that easily and they are as they are.
The sound is always an issue when you edit your movies. Either the wind noise, or inappropriate talk or low quality. I put christian spiritual music as background so I could edit faster, and also as inspirational since the lyrics often reflects Walking the Way of Life.
The songs in the videos I bought from Apple iTunes Store for about $1,29.
All my songs has copyright issues. Even if I dont ever want to make money on advertisement, Youtube can prohibit the videos with a copyrighted music to be shown, sometimes on just certain devices.
Should I choose music and lyrics I liked, and risk that the videos is not shown on Youtube - or just use any non copyright music (often with no lyric)? I chose music from iTunes and songs with a meaning (lyrics). Please tell me if a video is not shown, then I might upload it to Vimeo instead.
You can watch day by day movies on Youtube;
The channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiTZXp0_O3PaHPxJ4pr53Qg
More videos will be uploaded. From Finisterre, Muxia and Porto.
Some videos have the lyrics in the subtitles. (Making the subtitles takes time)
Be sure to use the subtitle function and click on Settings (on the low right of the window/video screen). Here you can also choose HD video quality up to 720 p/1080 p.
My travel blog was http://www.bread4life.eu
I had to prioritize my time on the Camino. Make videos or to blog. Socialize or spend time with my phone.
I chose making videos and I edited my videos in the dark when most people slept. Therefor my blog is not updated with articles as I would have hoped.
With more experience and by editing at home in front of a big screen you should be able to come up with "better" videos. Less shaking while moving camera, improve photo quality, edit mistakes e t c.
Much time were spent on cafes just to be able to check Wifi speed and to wait for uploading videos to Youtube, or to free space by uploading to the Cloud as Dropbox.)
This is not for everyone, to say the least. I just hope my videos will be inspirational to others, thats why I took time and effort to produce them.
If you have any questions, just shoot ...
The week prior to my flight to Madrid, I bought the DJI Osmo Mobile which is a gimbal (a stabilizer for 300 euro).
When walking or moving your phone and record videos, this gimbal reduce the shakiness (watch my videos).
One cool feature is that you can make motion time lamps (with the stand).
The DJI Osmo Mobile connects to any phone with Bluetooth. You should use the DJI app to shoot your recordings. Some days I used another app, the ProMovie but I believe I got more shaky videos. I also made the mistake not to learn exposure and focus on this app.
Even if the gimbal reduce the shakiness, you must be steady with your arm/hand. And when you walk you must walk slow and not jump up and down. The backpack makes it a little more difficult to walk steady.
I carried my DJI in a bag in front of me.
And after every day of shooting, I edited directly on my iPhone in the iMovie app, usually the very same evening.
Im a beginner in photography and I learned by doing on the Camino. It was very easy I think, but the problem was memory space. Needed to free space on my phone, and upload to the cloud, but Wifi in Spain is not always fast. Using your own Mobile Data is not quick enough or dont work to upload.
So sometimes I couldnt edit because of lack of memory space. My iPhone have 64 gigbytes. And upload the video to Youtube could take an hour! Many times that also failed.
I had to delete my edited movies from iMovie since I needed that space to be able to shoot more photos! Now I cant edit them that easily and they are as they are.
The sound is always an issue when you edit your movies. Either the wind noise, or inappropriate talk or low quality. I put christian spiritual music as background so I could edit faster, and also as inspirational since the lyrics often reflects Walking the Way of Life.
The songs in the videos I bought from Apple iTunes Store for about $1,29.
All my songs has copyright issues. Even if I dont ever want to make money on advertisement, Youtube can prohibit the videos with a copyrighted music to be shown, sometimes on just certain devices.
Should I choose music and lyrics I liked, and risk that the videos is not shown on Youtube - or just use any non copyright music (often with no lyric)? I chose music from iTunes and songs with a meaning (lyrics). Please tell me if a video is not shown, then I might upload it to Vimeo instead.
You can watch day by day movies on Youtube;
More videos will be uploaded. From Finisterre, Muxia and Porto.
Some videos have the lyrics in the subtitles. (Making the subtitles takes time)
Be sure to use the subtitle function and click on Settings (on the low right of the window/video screen). Here you can also choose HD video quality up to 720 p/1080 p.
My travel blog was http://www.bread4life.eu
I had to prioritize my time on the Camino. Make videos or to blog. Socialize or spend time with my phone.
I chose making videos and I edited my videos in the dark when most people slept. Therefor my blog is not updated with articles as I would have hoped.
With more experience and by editing at home in front of a big screen you should be able to come up with "better" videos. Less shaking while moving camera, improve photo quality, edit mistakes e t c.
Much time were spent on cafes just to be able to check Wifi speed and to wait for uploading videos to Youtube, or to free space by uploading to the Cloud as Dropbox.)
This is not for everyone, to say the least. I just hope my videos will be inspirational to others, thats why I took time and effort to produce them.
If you have any questions, just shoot ...
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