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[JordyT]

V8A*ndy said:

JordyT said:

I recently launched a YouTube channel and have just released my 4th 'vlog'... It still feels strange talking to a camera, especially when you get those 'looks' from strangers but it's making us more active and doing new things, which is great.

Noticed a few of you have phantoms - I had been looking at drones etc. for a while now and recently purchased a Mavic pro when it unexpectedly came into stock locally to me.

Camera: Canon 70d
Lens: 10-18mm
Mic: Rode VideoMicro
Drone: Dji Mavic Pro

Would love your feedback, as I'm still new to all of this. Anyway here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCygWX2idu9f5r5XMe...

Jordy

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I get the nervous over water thing. This is my back garden.... Also Norn Iron.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVEzRof8kc

Wow... That's your back garden?? Small world - Where is that?
You definitely know how to fly your drone, love the shot going over the swan and then climbing up over the tree line. The nerves where definitely tested when I was out over the water and started getting 'High wind' warnings..

[V8A*ndy]

JordyT said:

V8A*ndy said:

JordyT said:

I recently launched a YouTube channel and have just released my 4th 'vlog'... It still feels strange talking to a camera, especially when you get those 'looks' from strangers but it's making us more active and doing new things, which is great.

Noticed a few of you have phantoms - I had been looking at drones etc. for a while now and recently purchased a Mavic pro when it unexpectedly came into stock locally to me.

Camera: Canon 70d
Lens: 10-18mm
Mic: Rode VideoMicro
Drone: Dji Mavic Pro

Would love your feedback, as I'm still new to all of this. Anyway here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCygWX2idu9f5r5XMe...

Jordy

Subbed....

I get the nervous over water thing. This is my back garden.... Also Norn Iron.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVEzRof8kc

Wow... That's your back garden?? Small world - Where is that?
You definitely know how to fly your drone, love the shot going over the swan and then climbing up over the tree line. The nerves where definitely tested when I was out over the water and started getting 'High wind' warnings..

Out Strangford direction.

Using a Phantom 2 and a gopro there. It's not brilliant compared to the new stuff around and there is a lot of vibration in the old style gimbal. I think the props need balanced.

You have a good camera for video with the 70d and the Mavic looks a lot of fun.

Here is an old 550d with a Tamron 24-70mm. Obviously there is a lot of tweaking and grading but you can get an idea of the quality available to you once you get to grips with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnDgZmYiSwg

[Quarterly]

justin220 said:

We were given a GoPro as a wedding present, so took it on honeymoon to the Maldives with us, along with my Phantom drone to try and do it justice and make a holiday video.

Not perfect but quite chuffed with the end result for a first go. The end part with the stars is my favourite. The GoPro is a cracking piece of kit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUE_kCkxzR0

That is a great little video. Agree the star sky at the end is lovely.

[sgreenham]

lost in espace said:

Thanks that was great!

Thank you very much!

singlecoil said:

It's certainly well made, but it would have benefitted greatly from some voice over. As it is it's a collection of clips from the meeting, showing what a wide variety of displays and activities were there, but there's no human element, nothing to tell us how you felt about it etc.

If you want subscribers you need to involve your viewers and make them interested in you, and there's no better way of doing that than by talking to them.

Thank you very much for the feedback. We are slowly getting more used to speaking to the camera in public, which we are doing more and more in our other videos. The main reason we didn't talk much on the goodwood video is that our camera (iPhone 7 Plus) can't cope with voice when there is loud noise behind! And the Member's Meeting is extremely noisy and was very windy track side. I have a external mic now so once I get to grips with it we will talk more. I'm also very conscious that lots of talking via voice over can get very boring. I much prefer to talk to camera as it is more involving. But thanks again for the feedback, it's very useful

gp1699 said:

Hey that was really good! I will watch your others too.

So far I have been able to keep up with the Adventure every week videos!

Check out my walk up Helvellyn

https://youtu.be/TF8HRz-FEzo?list=PLSt8dayj4A2f2Rj...

Thanks! Loving your videos and style! Very good indeed!

V8A*ndy said:

Too many flat caps for me Cracking vid!

Thank you very much! :-)

[singlecoil]

sgreenham said:

singlecoil said:

It's certainly well made, but it would have benefitted greatly from some voice over. As it is it's a collection of clips from the meeting, showing what a wide variety of displays and activities were there, but there's no human element, nothing to tell us how you felt about it etc.

If you want subscribers you need to involve your viewers and make them interested in you, and there's no better way of doing that than by talking to them.

Thank you very much for the feedback. We are slowly getting more used to speaking to the camera in public, which we are doing more and more in our other videos. The main reason we didn't talk much on the goodwood video is that our camera (iPhone 7 Plus) can't cope with voice when there is loud noise behind! And the Member's Meeting is extremely noisy and was very windy track side. I have a external mic now so once I get to grips with it we will talk more. I'm also very conscious that lots of talking via voice over can get very boring. I much prefer to talk to camera as it is more involving. But thanks again for the feedback, it's very useful

Whether it's boring or not will depend on what you say, and whether what you say draws the viewer in, makes them interested in what you are doing and why you are doing it. Otherwise it's just a series of well shot clips with music that the viewer may or may not like.

Talking to camera is ok while you are actually doing it, but that leaves a lot if empty space. If you look at the really popular stuff you'll see very little footage without someone speaking.

Story telling and audience involvement is what makes successful YouTube channels popular.

[jcborden]

Here are a couple of videos we shot with the DJI inspire 2 (mainly and a bit with the Inspire 1).

First is motocross practice:
https://youtu.be/MUSx25fxOkA

Second is wake boarding practice (4K video):
https://youtu.be/fcscvRQ9Txg

Now I need to loook for some kit for ground based video so I can include a mix of footage...

[gp1699]

sgreenham said:

gp1699 said:

Hey that was really good! I will watch your others too.

So far I have been able to keep up with the Adventure every week videos!

Check out my walk up Helvellyn

https://youtu.be/TF8HRz-FEzo?list=PLSt8dayj4A2f2Rj...

Thanks! Loving your videos and style! Very good indeed!

hey thanks for watching! Your camper is epic!

[JordyT]

V8A*ndy said:

JordyT said:

V8A*ndy said:

JordyT said:

I recently launched a YouTube channel and have just released my 4th 'vlog'... It still feels strange talking to a camera, especially when you get those 'looks' from strangers but it's making us more active and doing new things, which is great.

Noticed a few of you have phantoms - I had been looking at drones etc. for a while now and recently purchased a Mavic pro when it unexpectedly came into stock locally to me.

Camera: Canon 70d
Lens: 10-18mm
Mic: Rode VideoMicro
Drone: Dji Mavic Pro

Would love your feedback, as I'm still new to all of this. Anyway here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCygWX2idu9f5r5XMe...

Jordy

Subbed....

I get the nervous over water thing. This is my back garden.... Also Norn Iron.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVEzRof8kc

Wow... That's your back garden?? Small world - Where is that?
You definitely know how to fly your drone, love the shot going over the swan and then climbing up over the tree line. The nerves where definitely tested when I was out over the water and started getting 'High wind' warnings..

Out Strangford direction.

Using a Phantom 2 and a gopro there. It's not brilliant compared to the new stuff around and there is a lot of vibration in the old style gimbal. I think the props need balanced.

You have a good camera for video with the 70d and the Mavic looks a lot of fun.

Here is an old 550d with a Tamron 24-70mm. Obviously there is a lot of tweaking and grading but you can get an idea of the quality available to you once you get to grips with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnDgZmYiSwg

That is one clean engine bay! Loved the shot of the roof coming down too, gopro?

Thanks for sharing that... I've actually been looking at fast zoom lenses. 10-18mm is great for the vlog stuff and have a 50mm prime but think something for the more 'cinematic' stuff would work well.

Off to Donegal this weekend, so hopefully get some nice shots with the Mavic.

[Southwestdave]

Although no cars in either video, the first one does have vintage tractors. Thought I would share a couple of examples of my evolving video production. Any (constructive) feedback would be much appreciated.

https://youtu.be/PgLvKZcW1sQ

https://youtu.be/Fx8PXDHKeWI

[singlecoil]

Southwestdave said:

Although no cars in either video, the first one does have vintage tractors. Thought I would share a couple of examples of my evolving video production. Any (constructive) feedback would be much appreciated.

https://youtu.be/PgLvKZcW1sQ

https://youtu.be/Fx8PXDHKeWI

The first one looked promising with a couple of interesting characters, but I quickly got fed up of having to continually adjust the volume control because of the bangingly loud and to my mind inappropriate music.

Second one was good though I started skipping bits due to the length.

[Southwestdave]

singlecoil said:

The first one looked promising with a couple of interesting characters, but I quickly got fed up of having to continually adjust the volume control because of the bangingly loud and to my mind inappropriate music.

Second one was good though I started skipping bits due to the length.

Thank you for the feedback, I take the point about the music, I was trying something different in style as I had produced another tractor/ploughing competition video, with a more traditional sound track (https://youtu.be/gIipfAmgxcg). But it might have been a soundtrack too far :-)

Appreciate the feedback on the second film.

[sgreenham]

Southwestdave said:

Although no cars in either video, the first one does have vintage tractors. Thought I would share a couple of examples of my evolving video production. Any (constructive) feedback would be much appreciated.

https://youtu.be/PgLvKZcW1sQ

https://youtu.be/Fx8PXDHKeWI

I really enjoyed the videos (not something I'd expect to say about ploughing). I thought the music worked really well in the first video and gave it character. I also think the levels were fine. Good stuff

[singlecoil]

sgreenham said:

Southwestdave said:

Although no cars in either video, the first one does have vintage tractors. Thought I would share a couple of examples of my evolving video production. Any (constructive) feedback would be much appreciated.

https://youtu.be/PgLvKZcW1sQ

https://youtu.be/Fx8PXDHKeWI

I really enjoyed the videos (not something I'd expect to say about ploughing). I thought the music worked really well in the first video and gave it character.I also think the levels were fine. Good stuff

What did you watch it on, did it have some sort of automatic level control? Reason I ask is that on my Windows computer the music was MUCH louder than the talking.

[sgreenham]

singlecoil said:

What did you watch it on, did it have some sort of automatic level control? Reason I ask is that on my Windows computer the music was MUCH louder than the talking.

On my TV. Seemed fine to me. Didn't have to alter anything. If you don't like some music, then you would have a tendency to turn it down I suppose

[singlecoil]

I certainly didn't like the music it's true, but even if I had I would still have turned it down (or turned the talking parts up) while watching.

The music on the track is heavily compressed and so seems to be a lot louder despite the maximum levels being the same as the talking



The area under the curve is much smaller during the talking segments.

[sgreenham]

singlecoil said:

I certainly didn't like the music it's true, but even if I had I would still have turned it down (or turned the talking parts up) while watching.

The music on the track is heavily compressed and so seems to be a lot louder despite the maximum levels being the same as the talking



The area under the curve is much smaller during the talking segments.

Wow, somebody has a lot of time on their hands. As I said before it sounded fine to me and I enjoyed the music. I love the fact that YouTube gives the opportunity for creators to create, that's the important thing.

[singlecoil]

sgreenham said:

singlecoil said:

I certainly didn't like the music it's true, but even if I had I would still have turned it down (or turned the talking parts up) while watching.

The music on the track is heavily compressed and so seems to be a lot louder despite the maximum levels being the same as the talking



The area under the curve is much smaller during the talking segments.

Wow, somebody has a lot of time on their hands. As I said before it sounded fine to me and I enjoyed the music. I love the fact that YouTube gives the opportunity for creators to create, that's the important thing.

I'm sorry you have decided to take a negative point of view on my comments.

Actually it didn't take long to do, run Audacity, screenshot the waveform, upload it. I would have done it anyway because the first thing I do when someone disagrees with me (as you did with the levels) is to wonder if I have made a mistake. Hence my asking if your viewing device had some kind of automatic level control.

So I tried looking at the waveform to see what exactly was going on, and having done so, took an extra couple of minutes to publish the results.

I would never dream of commenting on someone's YT efforts unless invited to do so, but we were all invited, I felt I had something useful to say, and I did.

[sgreenham]

singlecoil said:

I'm sorry you have decided to take a negative point of view on my comments.

Actually it didn't take long to do, run Audacity, screenshot the waveform, upload it. I would have done it anyway because the first thing I do when someone disagrees with me (as you did with the levels) is to wonder if I have made a mistake. Hence my asking if your viewing device had some kind of automatic level control.

So I tried looking at the waveform to see what exactly was going on, and having done so, took an extra couple of minutes to publish the results.

I would never dream of commenting on someone's YT efforts unless invited to do so, but we were all invited, I felt I had something useful to say, and I did.

Here's a picture of me NOT altering the volume on my TV;

[singlecoil]

sgreenham said:

Here's a picture of me NOT altering the volume on my TV;

Whatever.

[Southwestdave]

sgreenham said:

I really enjoyed the videos (not something I'd expect to say about ploughing). I thought the music worked really well in the first video and gave it character. I also think the levels were fine. Good stuff

Really appreciate the feedback and the nice comments, cheers.