A Video Short

When I say short, I mean short. I just wanted to take a few shots in my (sorf of) back yard to see what the footage would look like on Youtube. I also wanted to test the editing features of the Canon 7D coupled with the other editing features provided by Youtube. I think given it took me about 15 minutes to put this video together, it's not bad.

I started with some shots showing the peacefulness of T-Street beach in the morning. The surf was small and it is winter here now, so there was not much going on at 7:00 in the morning, but it was clear and beautiful.

I wanted to show off the reason why one would shoot such a video with this camera, depth of field. Without the need of a large aperture, I'd just as soon shoot the video with my iPhone. While I didn't worry about image stabalization, I did try to anchor myself as best I could. As you can see in the video I also manually changed the focus to try to tell a story with the different, yet complementary backgrounds.

When editing the video in the camera, I used the intuitive controls. You can't move frame by frame, but you can get close. I imagine this would be helpful for someone who wants to do rough edits before sitting down to a computer to upload all the raw footage. After cutting each video clip, I had the opportunity to either save the file as a new one, or over write the original file. I elected to over write each file since this was not a video I was very concerned about.

The Youtube editing was quick and easy. The toughest task was choosing the music. I ended up choosing a music clip that matched my emotions that morning.