Love what you’ve done with these clips, you’ve really made the most of them and brought them to life with some imagination in the editing room. Inspiring stuff.
Btw, there is a drone community if you'd like to add the #drone?
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Thanks! I have no idea why I let them sit idle for over a year and didn't really do anything with them. I guess I just didn't see the potential in many of them at first. It has been a while since I last had to edit something, but I definitely enjoyed it and it made me want to keep at it and do more of these.
Me too, I’ve got tons of unused footage so maybe I should try this too. You’ve given me some good ideas after seeing how you played with your clips. I need to be in the right mood for editing though as my laptop is a little slow and very frustrating. Maybe time for an upgrade 😎
Yeah do it! It'd be really cool to see people go beyond with the footage they have and see what creations they came up with in an edit. I said to another in a different comment that Hive definitely needs more people on the filmmaking side of things. There's so much potential for it on here.
I don't have power issues but I definitely feel that. Even as I was editing (it has been a while) I found I was losing interest fast. It really didn't take me long to create that though. Maybe 15 minutes of editing in Adobe Premiere Pro. Though I think I felt a bit limited as I realised many of the clips I did have were very similar to each other.
Honestly I didn't even really bother colour grading. I just slightlty tweaked the colours and used an Adjustment Layer to give it a more faded look. Slapped on a 15% top & bottom Crop in that Adjustment Layer and that's pretty much the full extent. Minus the fade in and fade out.
I feel just the same when I look at my back catalogue but maybe with a little effort in the editing room it allows for those clips to become something different. I’m going to have to wait for an upgrade but once that’s done I’ll definitely be coming back to them.
By the way, your choice of music was excellent. Where do you source your tunes from?
I used to listen to this type of music a long time ago. There's a ton of YouTube channels around with small artists. If I recall, Wavevision and FOMH were some.
But YouTube is one of the worst places since it's just full of music and takes so long to find something decent. I use things like EpidemicSound or Pond5 for sound effects or music most of the time; EpidemicSound is only £10 a month (so like $13? One post here on Hive covers it). These services are really useful though since they're full of sounds and music that allow you to search via tags to filter things. It speeds up the process a lot when you know what you want.
Another big plus to these services is that you can give them your social media profile URLs and they'll whitelist them so if you do use any music, you won't fall victim to any of the usual annoyances with automated copyright protection algos running wild. That also means you're allowed to profit from it. Pond5 is a bit expensive so I don't really touch that anymore. That's for the bigger filmmakers making shows for TV. :^)
Seems if you sign up for EpidemicSound they'll give you a free trial for 30 days. Should be enough time to mess around with it and see if it's worth the cost if you start using it frequently. For the price and the library, I think it's worth it if you're being active enough in obtaining footage.