{"id":8008,"date":"2014-10-25T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=8008"},"modified":"2014-10-24T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:39:07","slug":"how-i-am-making-videos-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=8008","title":{"rendered":"How I am Making Videos These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bazillion years ago when I started making videos on my “BHD YouTube” channel<\/a>, I was using video recording capability in my first compact digital camera. I then used “Windows Movie Maker” to edit the video by cropping off the ends, merging segments together, and adding opening & closing titles.<\/p>\n

Man, eight years ago is a long time, and it was so much easier back then.<\/p>\n

Five years ago I acquired my first HD video camera. Production quality improved, but editing capability became much more difficult since WMM could not handle those types of files and I had to go through many shenanigans to convert raw video from MP4 to AVI in order to edit them.<\/p>\n

Three years ago, the process of editing video became impossible since WMM wasn’t working any more and there was not a decent freeware replacement available. Also, Google bought YouTube and foisted its disastrous complexity and entangled “all of google” connections to its platform. I had enough. I gave up. (I distrust Google as much as I hate Microsoft.)<\/p>\n

But now…
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\n… I discovered a much simpler video camera — GoPro. Just a basic GoPro (Hero) without the bells and whistles of bluetooth and wifi and other advanced features that make it hard to use. No — simple. Just simple. I like that.<\/p>\n

GoPro provides free video editing software that is easy to use and allows direct editing of MP4 video files. It has many features that I have yet to discover, but the more simple cut-and-edit with music overlay features that are easy to figure out and use.<\/p>\n

So, I am back “on line” with videos. I still will not make many more videos, because my spouse thinks that video production is a waste of time. But now at least I have the capability to edit videos again. And the YouTube platform has had its kinks removed so it is easier to use than it was three years ago when I gave up on it.<\/p>\n

I was just fooling around with the software the other night, and here is the next production from the same 60 minutes of raw video that I took one day when I led a motorcycle ride for my club. Enjoy!
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