I was out on a hike recently with my folks and took some drone footage of the area. I decided to try out a mirror effect on the drone footage and it came out rather nice. This is a first rough cut at it on a low resolution version of the footage. The entire thingContinue reading “Using a mirror effect on drone footage”
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Bees love Artichokes?
I had no idea this was a thing. Was in Napa recently and noticed an artichoke bush and saw the bloom and then saw all those bees in there. It was beautiful! Bees love artichokes.
Editing spherical videos with GoPro Max and GoPro Quik
🎥 GoPro Max (360) has this easy to use editor that lets me create dynamic flat videos from spherical videos ☺️ The way it is shot is a fixed sphere that moves with me as I move. Then while the video is playing in the editor I can “point” the 2D viewpoint to any partContinue reading “Editing spherical videos with GoPro Max and GoPro Quik”
AI to re-colorize old photos and videos
Some very promising projects that are re-colorizing old photos and videos. A project called De Oldify has shared some very impressive results. DeOldify is a state of the art way to colorize black & white images. You can try it right now by visiting the free Google Colab notebook for photos or video. The notebooksContinue reading “AI to re-colorize old photos and videos”
Sunset Timelapse in San Francisco Bay w/ Song by Brit Benjamin
If you know me you know I enjoy shooting timelapses. I shot this one recently and was trying to decide what soundtrack to use to it. Then I came across the song “Sea you later” by my friend Brit Benjamin and it went so perfectly with it! What do you think?
Shooting the lava flows in Hawai’i in 4K HDR
I spent several hours near the volcanic lava flows in the Big Island of Hawaii. I am trying to share those videos in 4K HDR and it’s been fascinating to learn how hard it is to access today as different OSes and devices will render a different variant depending on various factors. Here’s the 4KContinue reading “Shooting the lava flows in Hawai’i in 4K HDR”
Mt Stuart Quadcopter Aerial Video
I climbed Mt Stuart recently. It’s so ragged and awesome I still can’t believe I actually made it up to the summit with that crazy 4,000+ ft exposure on the north side. I took my drone with me to the summit but it was too windy to use it there. So I desended 300ft andContinue reading “Mt Stuart Quadcopter Aerial Video”
Spin is an awesome touch video chat
Just tried Spin and was pretty blown away by the experience and the polish. Video chat with 10 people, no sign up needed. Watch videos together, annotate over live video, throw tomatoes, watch pictures and albums together etc. Quite the complete package.
Transit of Space Needle across Seattle Great Wheel
Pulling into Seattle on the big dolly that is the ferry renders some cool natural parallax video action.
Tracking the Tunak Tunak Tun Meme
A hilarious series of adaptations of the original video of the song “Tunak Tunak Tun” by Daler Mehndi. All credit to Aanjo for finding and emailing me these videos and making my day 🙂 The original song: The American version with two guys: The Romanian version with four guys: And finally the version withContinue reading “Tracking the Tunak Tunak Tun Meme”
