'How to' vid .....

ge_rik

ge_rik

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I decided to produce a newer 'How I built my garden railway' video as my previous one was too long and is now over two years old. I tried to fit it to the length of a piece of music I had which meant I had to keep it short and tighten the editing. I did try synching the scene changes to the rhythm of the music but that turned out to be a lot harder than I thought (any tips anyone?).

Anyway - y'ere 'tis.
http://youtu.be/y7zAn8Nuc24 M... and inspiration in the early days. Rik
 
a great vedio :thumbup:
 
Brilliant effort MATE! only one critisim if I may be so bold..... "Bolero" would have been a better choice of music, starts of slow and reaches a crescendo right at the end, where your video shows the final product....
 
Thanks
Trouble is, I can't get Torvil and Dean out of my head whenever I hear that.

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tramcar trev said:
Brilliant effort MATE! only one critisim if I may be so bold..... "Bolero" would have been a better choice of music, starts of slow and reaches a crescendo right at the end, where your video shows the final product....
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BTW - I edited this video on Serif's X5 video editor which I got on an offer from them for £10. I tried my usual editor (VideoStudio) but for some reason it kept blanking out the video whenever I added text. Serif's editor is a bit rudimentary in places but once I got the hang of it, I found it's actually got a few features missing from the more expensive VideoStudio (eg freely cropping the size of the video image)

Rik
 
Thanks Tony
Fair comment - I do have a few more detailed videos already, eg:
How I cast open wagons in resin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhKc...ntertaining and watch-able anyway [/quote]
 
The video was fine and I liked the fleeting glimpse of the railbuses!
 
Hi Rik
Your video is very good a far better effort than i could produce.
It is short and i found it informative and as for different ways to lay track i threw the rule

book out of the window and did it my way and its been down for 12 years
graham.
 
BTW - my original 'How to.." vid was more detailed but I think it suffered from being a bit too long according to the stats on Youtube. By half way through (3 min 45s) the video retains 50% of viewers and by the end (7min 35s) only 27% are sticking with it.
http://youtu.be/Wu1aJtd64bM M...ntertaining and watch-able anyway [/quote]
 
Hi Mick
A bit more here - but I'm in the process of improving the gearing as at present it's seriously under-powered
http://youtu.be/RZIzmiPudpM R...leeting glimpse of the railbuses! [/quote]
 
ge_rik said:
I decided to produce a newer 'How I built my garden railway' video as my previous one was too long and is now over two years old. I tried to fit it to the length of a piece of music I had which meant I had to keep it short and tighten the editing. I did try synching the scene changes to the rhythm of the music but that turned out to be a lot harder than I thought (any tips anyone?).

Anyway - y'ere 'tis.
http://youtu.be/y7zAn8Nuc24

My aim is to encourage others to have a go.
BTW - I appreciate there are other ways to construct a garden railway ;)

Thanks to Chas and Paul Holt for their guidance and inspiration in the early days.

Rik
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It depends on the features of your editing software. You need to be able to expand your timeline to include frames as well as minutes and seconds. Split timing is essential. I have edited pantomimes etc shot with three cameras and for an non professional like myself like myself it can soon turn into a nightmare.
 
Super video.....don't you just love Youtube
 
ge_rik said:
Maybe I should produce a few more. For example, the pages on my blog which get the greatest number of hits are on tracklaying and ballasting. The trouble with that topic is that there are so many viewpoints on how to do it.

Rik



Mate you can only show your method, and they are sensible and proven.... It's up to others to use a bit of their own imagination; you can lead a horse to water etc....
Inspirational though, I may produce a vid on how to lay individual cobblestones. but I'd be the only one who watched it:D:D:D
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Great video! Just the correct length. I avoid videos, on Youtube, that are more than five minutes. And if I do watch one that is longer I skip through it. I have quite a few of my own films posted there. Sometimes I go back and watch the early ones. I can see much room for improvement in some of them.

By the way, how do you place your own choice of music on the soundtrack? I use the suggestions that come up in Youtube's box.
 
Madman said:
Great video! Just the correct length. I avoid videos, on Youtube, that are more than five minutes. And if I do watch one that is longer I skip through it.
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Thanks Dan. The initial stats for this video are now there and so far the retention rate is much better than the longer original one (see post #11). This video retains 75% of viewers by half way through and just over 50% by the end (though this tails off to 25% by the end of the credits - a bit like people leaving the cinema before the national anthem plays). However this may change over time as more viewers watch it. I assume the viewers so far will mostly be from the forum and so they may be more inclined to watch until the end as the content will be of more interest to them than those who stumble across the video through a Google search.
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I have quite a few of my own films posted there. Sometimes I go back and watch the early ones. I can see much room for improvement in some of them.
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Ditto - that's partly why I wanted to update my original 'How to...' video. I can see why people may lose interest in some sections of my original video - too many photos in some places.

Madman said:
By the way, how do you place your own choice of music on the soundtrack? I use the suggestions that come up in Youtube's box.
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I've been tempted to use Youtube's soundtrack not least to avoid problems with copyright. But I've accumulated quite a few pieces of Free Royalty Free music clips and so tend to dip into those. I use my video editing package to add a music track. In both editors (VideoStudio X5 and MoviePlus X5) I can add as many audio tracks as I want - though why anyone would need more than two eludes me. The potential of using my own music is to try and synch the scenes to the beat of the music but so far I've not managed that very successfully. I've tried using timings but the beat rate in this video seemed to be somewhere around 4.56666666 (recurring) seconds which was a nightmare to try trimming each clip. I may do as Dragon suggests above (post #13) and expand the timeline to frames which will be more accurate.

Rik
 
dragon said:
ge_rik said:
I did try synching the scene changes to the rhythm of the music but that turned out to be a lot harder than I thought (any tips anyone?).
Click to expand...
It depends on the features of your editing software. You need to be able to expand your timeline to include frames as well as minutes and seconds. Split timing is essential. I have edited pantomimes etc shot with three cameras and for an non professional like myself like myself it can soon turn into a nightmare.
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Thanks - I'll try that next time. I did struggle using timings as the beat rate wasn't a nice neat number of seconds (see above). I can empathise. I film and edit our local am dram productions using two cameras - one filming from one side of the auditorium on one night and then from the other side on another night. Blooming actors don't always say the same things or stand in the same places on each night so editing presents some interesting challenges. However, filming on two nights means I can edit out some of their fluffs (which I save for the outtakes).

Rik
 
tramcar trev said:
I may produce a vid on how to lay individual cobblestones. but I'd be the only one who watched it:D:D:D
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Not necessarily. There are some far more obscure videos on Youtube. You never know, one showing the laying of cobblestones may go viral. For some unknown reason my very first Youtube video showing the view from the front of the train ended up on a website of the 'World's Funniest Videos'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJXMSUSHBFM I didn't think it was that funny. Rik
 
[blockquote]Madman

By the way, how do you place your own choice of music on the soundtrack? I use the suggestions that come up in Youtube's box.
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"I've been tempted to use Youtube's soundtrack not least to avoid problems with copyright. But I've accumulated quite a few pieces of Free Royalty Free music clips and so tend to dip into those. I use my video editing package to add a music track. In both editors (VideoStudio X5 and MoviePlus X5) I can add as many audio tracks as I want - though why anyone would need more than two eludes me. The potential of using my own music is to try and synch the scenes to the beat of the music but so far I've not managed that very successfully. I've tried using timings but the beat rate in this video seemed to be somewhere around 4.56666666 (recurring) seconds which was a nightmare to try trimming each clip. I may do as Dragon suggests above (post #13) and expand the timeline to frames which will be more accurate."

Rik

So what you are doing is putting the soundtrack in the video before putting the video on Youtube??
 
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