The First Video is Up!

After many years of planning, I have finally uploaded my first hiking video to Youtube. It's... far from perfect. lol. But it is my first time. My recordings are less than ideal due to using a smart phone and just holding it close to my chest to record. I'm debating whether to continue to make the actually-hiking videos or to do the style I've seen more often of just in-one-place recordings. Perhaps both for now, until I decide which I like better. The whole idea is to allow others a chance to "get out into nature" from their homes if they are unable to go out there themselves for whatever reason.

I used Adobe Premiere Pro for the first time. With the help of Google, it's not terribly hard to get started on. I have access to tutorial videos through work, so I should take advantage of that.

I threw out about half of the footage I took due to bad sounds. Some of the ones I kept still had human sounds, but it was better than the others at least. In the future, I will be more careful to keep those out of the audio.

Here's to the future!

Lock-down, Goal Planning, and the Three Minute Attention Span

It's really tough to do the things you want to when anxiety and ADD gets in the way. I have hiking photos gathering dust, so to speak, on my phone that I should post (at least to Instagram), yet here I am avoiding posting them for yet another day, another week. Is it Executive Function Disorder? Depression? Who knows...

So now it's early April. The weather is a roller-coaster of summer weather, then back to winter, then back to summer. The sky is usually blue and the flowers are blooming (and my sinuses are feeling it). I find myself wanting to get out and enjoy this fine weather, yet here I am "enjoying" the solitude of indoor activities. Alas.

I have written out my "Big Goal" finally, which is: To travel to many parks and take hiking footage and nature recordings to upload to youtube as long videos for relaxation.

In more 'metaphysical' terms, I want to share the good feelings I get from hiking and viewing nature with others who may be unable to go out there themselves.

So... the equally big questions are: How do I go about achieving this? What items do I need, especially to start?

This is where I wish i had someone to guide me, someone who has experience recording nature, who can point me in the direction of a sort-of 'starter' pack of equipment. I would also need some guidance in learning to USE said equipment. (And this is where that short attention span bites me in the ass.)

In parting, here is a photograph of a trail.