Just curious about adding a thread that members could post videos of their rides in. I have a camera, and the main purpose is as a "dash cam", but if I figure out how to actually download and edit them, it would be nice to share the roads I live near, and to see the roads everyone else rides. What says the hive?
Member videos
- Thread starter lorazepam
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Woodstock
Well travelled
- Location
- Woodstock, NY
I will never post but if there was a what's your video view link I would view randomly for ride ideas.
- Location
- The Pacific Nothwet
I don't know if the site has the server capabilities to host videos. There's no problem linking media though.
- Location
- The Pacific Nothwet
Post them (the links) in the section they fit best in is my gut instinct.
Scott Free
Well travelled
- Location
- Ill-Annoy
I have posted a few on YouTube. It is remarkable just how much time it takes to produce a five minute video that doesn't seem boring or dumb. I probably spent ten hours assembling this one-minute "movie trailer" for the Hügellandschaft ride a couple years ago, and that was starting with a canned iMovie template:
I did this one to try and document the IL-IA-WI loop of the Hügellandschaft ride a couple years ago. I started with about two hours of raw footage and easily spent ten hours trying to make a "story" of it... and, because I had forgotten to turn on the camera, it doesn't include crossing the Mississippi River on the ferryboat!
This one, from the time a friend and I rented Himalayans to go explore in Montana, probably took two weeks of off and on work, probably twenty or so hours, I threw away about 90 percent of the footage I shot, and I still am only lukewarm on whether it's interesting or boring:
I have assembled another video of my ride up Potash Road/Shafer Trail in Utah, but never posted it because I still think it's kinda dull, even though I trimmed it down to nine minutes from a good hour of original footage. At least to me, making an interesting video that tells the story of a trip is a huge amount of work. What I have been doing more recently is just inserting 10-30 second video clips into regular ride reports (text and photos) that I occasionally post when I think I've taken a trip worthy of reporting. This is a lot easier.
I did this one to try and document the IL-IA-WI loop of the Hügellandschaft ride a couple years ago. I started with about two hours of raw footage and easily spent ten hours trying to make a "story" of it... and, because I had forgotten to turn on the camera, it doesn't include crossing the Mississippi River on the ferryboat!
This one, from the time a friend and I rented Himalayans to go explore in Montana, probably took two weeks of off and on work, probably twenty or so hours, I threw away about 90 percent of the footage I shot, and I still am only lukewarm on whether it's interesting or boring:
I have assembled another video of my ride up Potash Road/Shafer Trail in Utah, but never posted it because I still think it's kinda dull, even though I trimmed it down to nine minutes from a good hour of original footage. At least to me, making an interesting video that tells the story of a trip is a huge amount of work. What I have been doing more recently is just inserting 10-30 second video clips into regular ride reports (text and photos) that I occasionally post when I think I've taken a trip worthy of reporting. This is a lot easier.
I think of it as just part of the hobby
I really dont mind editing, I must be ill
- Location
- Niskayuna, NY
I've been posting some highlight-reel videos in Ride Reports here, such as the one I did a few minutes ago (https://www.royalenfieldowners.com/...-loop-in-the-catskill-mountains-region.14458/), one I did in May (https://www.royalenfieldowners.com/...the-hudson-river-in-ny-south-of-albany.14268/), and so forth.
I thought that was sort of the intention of that sub-forum, but if I'm wrong it certainly won't be the first or the last time.
(I also duplicate those ride reports in my M350 gallery, https://billanddot.com/Meteor350/, along with farkle pics and captions that I put there, too.)
I dont know how much storage or bandwidth there is to work with on the forum
so to keep that a moot point I let YT do the lifting for nothing, and you get a bigger audience
pretty sure the database can figure out a dupe so stuff in multiple subs should not cause much grief
all said, I am not a forum admin guy
- Location
- Niskayuna, NY