Few words of last summer and what I did plus some drone footage. I bought DJI Mavic Air. Couldn't use it too much during summer because every place was full of people enjoying hot weather. It took this long to get some drone footage here.
Summer 2018 video is first video in long time I made new music for. It is also first video edited with DaVinci Resolve 15. But that is not all. It is also first video with drone footage. And first with new microphone. So there is lot of new. I will start with DaVinci Resolve 15.
I moved to DaVinci Resolve when 14 was released. It was first version which didn't require too much from computer. At some point I added Fusion to setup. Now it is included to Resolve. I can't comment on that because I didn't use it this time. Maybe next time. Resolve 15 was familiar to use and it had one minor improvement on one very frustrating feature of 14. I like to do cross fades. I do them as I edit. Problem with 14 was that these fades stayed with clips when I changed order of the clips. In 15 fades disappear when I move clips to new locations. I can't tell how much easier this made the editing.
Fairlight was unstable when you used VSTs. I learned to save often and stop playback when opening VSTs. I am not sure if it was fixed in this because I kept those habits. Now Fairlight has own effects. I will still use VSTs but it is nice to have those audio effects there in case you need them. I don't have reverb plugins on video editing computer. Having build in Reverb plugin is useful when you need something like that. I am not so sure how useful chorus effect is for dialog. I hope having own effects has made Fairlight more stable with other effects.
I bought DJI Mavic Air this summer. I have planned to buy drone for some time. DJI released Mavic 2 drones soon after I got my Mavic Air. I don't regret not waiting. I wanted small drone I can easily take with me. Mavic 2 drones are bigger than Mavic Air which is just small enough to go into big pockets. Batteries last about 15 minutes if you don't want to try your luck and run out of power when drone is in air. Fly more combo is the way to go. You need more than one battery.
You can expect more drone footage in future. I probably should have had all the video drone footage. I wanted to have one joke but it probably doesn't work as well as I wanted. I am not sure if difference between super sharp drone footage and mirrorless footage with small depth of field is as big to other as it is to me. Next time I know not to be too cinematic when combining other footage with drone footage.
This was first time in year I didn't go to Taiteiden Yö with intention to shoot videos. Few years ago there were many events out doors to shoot. Last years there have been more events but almost everything has been indoors. I made this choice after trying to figure out what to shoot and finding only one which would work as video. Next year I probably just go there to enjoy the events and forget video and stills. This is what I got this year.
I found cycling again this summer. I raced on road at the turn of the millennium. I didn't stop cycling after I stopped racing. It just didn't feel fun and I rode too hard remembering how fast I rode when I raced. After few weeks I was too tired to continue or pushed through over training symptoms until I hated cycling and didn't want to ride any more.
Something happened this summer. I didn't feel I had to ride faster. I felt I could ride fast enough and it was fun again. I am riding slowly but it doesn't feel too slow. I could ride correct speed based on my current form. This may not sound like big thing but it is. It has made riding bike fun again. So fun that I bought new bike.
When I saw fat bike first time I wondered why anyone would want one. Now when I have one I can under stand. It is fun. It is not harder to ride than mountain bike with cross country tyre pressures. Bigger tyres make it easier to ride over roots and provide enough suspension even without suspension forks.
Original plan wasn't to buy fat bike. I just wanted mountain bike without suspension fork. Fat bikes were only ones fitting the specification. There are full suspension fat bikes but most are still without suspension forks. When I learnt you should be able to ride on almost any terrain I knew I had to get one.
Only down side is that pedals are wider apart than in other bikes because of bigger tires. It takes bit getting used to if you ride other bikes too. It takes few kilometers to get used to when I ride fat bike after riding cyclo-cross bike and vice versa. Other than that I am happy with the bike.
I spent way too much time watching Tour de France. It was too hot to do anything other than ride bikes and watch Tour. Next video will be about something else. Not sure about what yet. I have idea for one video but it has to wait for when it gets darker. I will make something before that.
I really hate how Youtube compression messes these faster videos. It looked better on rendered video but Youtube had to mess it even though video had settings Youtube should prefer. I have one idea how ti fix it but it waits for paid version of DaVinci Resolve 15 to be available. It is in paid Resolve 14 but I won't buy it because 15 is coming soon.
We would have had long lunar eclipse if it didn't happen behind clouds. Here are some shots I took instead of lunar eclipse. To be honest I had wrong camera gear with me to shoot moon so it wasn't such a loss for me. I only missed the experience.
