Hiked up Bandera Mountain last week with some friends, here's some video I took with my Flip HD.
I'm getting more and more annoyed with how difficult it is to get the flip footage to work correctly with Final Cut Pro. I'm exporting the videos before editing them, so they're movs instead of the mp4s that flip records, but I still have problems. Depending on which export settings I use I have different problems with the footage (general errors, playback problems in final cut etc.) but there's always something. The whole point of the flip was to be able to record and upload videos quickly, videos like this one really aren't worth the amount of time I spent on this today! I wonder if the Kodak Zi6 plays better with FCP...?
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For those of you that don't want to sift through all of my pictures that I posted on Flikr, of my trip to Spain, here's some highlights of what you're missing.
Dumb Shirt
You can take the monorail to the Kentucky Governors Cup? -- Seen in a Barcelona clothes store.
Cadaques
Cadaques - a perfect little coastal town. And yes, I was standing on the water to take this picture.
Sagrada Familia
Sagrada Familia - crazy looking gothic cathedral that's been under construction since the early 1900s.
Carrer de la Portaferrissa
A street with no cars?! that's crazy talk.
La Rambla
La Rambla - more like a highway with no cars.
poop
There was lots of poop on the sidewalks, and it smelled like it a little too often for my taste.
Tapas!
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Dumb Shirt
You can take the monorail to the Kentucky Governors Cup? -- Seen in a Barcelona clothes store.
Cadaques
Cadaques - a perfect little coastal town. And yes, I was standing on the water to take this picture.
Sagrada Familia
Sagrada Familia - crazy looking gothic cathedral that's been under construction since the early 1900s.
Carrer de la Portaferrissa
A street with no cars?! that's crazy talk.
La Rambla
La Rambla - more like a highway with no cars.
poop
There was lots of poop on the sidewalks, and it smelled like it a little too often for my taste.
Tapas!OK Well I guess I lied about the updates... I haven't been twittering or facebooking hardly at all, and now I'm updating my blog, oh well.
Cadaques, Catalunia, Spain
We're back in Barcelona now after a short road trip up north to Figueres, Cadaques, Perpignan, Girona, and Tossa De Mar. The best city we've stopped at so far is definitely Cadaques (see pic). It was exactly the kind of small coastal town I was hoping we'd see. It seemed like it was pretty much the same as it would've been a couple hundred years ago, no modern hotels or anything. The next day we tried to go into France (Perpignan), but once we got there we realized that a) it didn't seem much different then Spain, and b) we don't speak French at all. We ate some crepes and quiche at a nice little bakery, where the rude cashier/ server lady made us realize how little French we actually knew, so we decided that was enough of a France experience for us and we went back into Spain. We ended up in Girona, where we drove around for at least 2 hours trying to find our hostel. Girona is a really old medieval city, with lots of really narrow and confusing streets, so by the time we had found our hostel I pulled an Austin Powers style U turn in a pedestrian filled walk-way that I'm still not sure if cars are supposed to be on, we drove through a medieval passageway that was probably a foot wider than our car, and I'm sure we irritated a lot of locals. We made it eventually, but ended up in a really nice family-owned hotel that was built in the 14th century and was about 50 yards away from the Catedral de Girona, instead of the cheap hostel we were looking for, which turned out to be closed. That was the day before yesterday, and now we're back in Barcelona with 5 more days to go. We're having a great time, taking lots of pictures and video, but due to technical difficulties they probably wont be online until we get back home (that picture of Cadaques is one I found online). Adios!
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Cadaques, Catalunia, Spain
We're back in Barcelona now after a short road trip up north to Figueres, Cadaques, Perpignan, Girona, and Tossa De Mar. The best city we've stopped at so far is definitely Cadaques (see pic). It was exactly the kind of small coastal town I was hoping we'd see. It seemed like it was pretty much the same as it would've been a couple hundred years ago, no modern hotels or anything. The next day we tried to go into France (Perpignan), but once we got there we realized that a) it didn't seem much different then Spain, and b) we don't speak French at all. We ate some crepes and quiche at a nice little bakery, where the rude cashier/ server lady made us realize how little French we actually knew, so we decided that was enough of a France experience for us and we went back into Spain. We ended up in Girona, where we drove around for at least 2 hours trying to find our hostel. Girona is a really old medieval city, with lots of really narrow and confusing streets, so by the time we had found our hostel I pulled an Austin Powers style U turn in a pedestrian filled walk-way that I'm still not sure if cars are supposed to be on, we drove through a medieval passageway that was probably a foot wider than our car, and I'm sure we irritated a lot of locals. We made it eventually, but ended up in a really nice family-owned hotel that was built in the 14th century and was about 50 yards away from the Catedral de Girona, instead of the cheap hostel we were looking for, which turned out to be closed. That was the day before yesterday, and now we're back in Barcelona with 5 more days to go. We're having a great time, taking lots of pictures and video, but due to technical difficulties they probably wont be online until we get back home (that picture of Cadaques is one I found online). Adios!Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I've been pretty busy transcribing hours of footage for a video I'm editing for Morgan Howard Productions, and I shot the Streets For People Kick Off event last week for a video I'm working on for SeattleIAM. But... I don't have to think about any of that for 9 days starting... NOW. Because I leave first thing tomorrow morning for Spain! Here's a street view of where we're staying (see the blue sign peeking through the branches on the right?). I probably wont be posting from Spain, but I'm sure I'll be twittering and facebooking so check there if you must know what I'm up to. Adios!
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... and I'm not just talking about Obama. As of today I am freelancing full time, or I'm unemployed, whichever way you want to look at it. The plan is to just make the kinds of videos that I actually like to make, and hope that somewhere down the line someone might decide to pay me for it. So expect to see a lot of videos of mine on CHS, SeattleIAM, Current TV, and maybe even a film festival or two.
Wish me luck. Or better yet, hire me for a job!
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Ok the blog is up! If you're reading this you probably know me, and are probably wondering why I of all people would have a blog. Well my plan is to use this to keep you all updated on my attempt at a freelance videographer career, and whatever else I have going on in my life. Doing this kind of work I see, hear and learn about lots of random but interesting stuff, so the topics will probably also be random but (hopefully) interesting.
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