Here we see the crew working the Rotary thru it’s paces!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQZ1tclS27U[/youtube]
Man do I ever need to work on my editing!
P.S. It was there when I previewed???
Ya have t work on your posting videos, too…
what Ken said…musta had a “Brain Sneeze”
Editing video is an art that requires talent i don’t have. Posting on the other hand isn’t all that hard. Come on Sean - get with it! Did the file freeze?
lickin my lips…love the rotaries…
Reqardless on how the video came out, it show how good the snow Rotary worked… Most do not work like your is doing… Looks real… Nice work unit…
Got any details on how it was built? Tks for showing it.
Very interesting Sean, I liked it. The apparatus seemed to work quite well.
Looks good Sean. That rotary works awesome. Are you using a movie maker program like windows movie maker? It really makes a difference. Ill shoot 50 clips each being a minute or less and use a handful worth keeping. Keep the camera down to train level. Get clips of the train coming toward you and some clips of it going past you. Use a short fade between clips that way you have a smooth transition between clips. Plowing is a little harder because you have to do a few things at once and you only get one chance. Make the video 6 minutes or less. If you look at youtube the average person looses interest after about 3 minutes or so.
With the movie makers you can cut parts out that you don’t like. Maybe a shaky start or the giant person that walked by.
The key to good video making and editing is to take lots of short videos and then keep the best ones, keep the camera low, use a bean bag for the camera to sit on or a small tripod. Once you have the clips, make smooth transitions between clips. That’s how I like to do it. Once you do it enough you will get an eye for it. I might run a live steamer 50 times around thelayout before I get all the clips Im happy with. Then I just piece everything together.
Love that rotary Sean.
Good tips Shawn. I think the best advice is to get down level with the train and it will look less toy like.
Windows movie maker is pretty good.
I was trying to show the flying snow! Hard to do so close.