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lorazepam

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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?
 
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 use YT to host the videos
and just post like the others you have seen
video takes up huge amounts of space
and lots of bandwidth to serve
let YT do the client rendering and the heavy lifting
 
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?
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 thought that was sort of the intention of that sub-forum
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
 
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
Yep, all my videos are in YT, and I just enter their link when I post threads with videos (as in the posts in those Ride Report threads I mentioned above).
 
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