Saturday, February 27, 2021

Island Times 003


I am finding that it is taking forever to produce a weekly video log. I can’t imagine having to produce a daily YouTube. The learning curve is spectacularly huge. I have watched literally hundreds of YouTube videos on how to post a YouTube video, and I still don’t think I am doing it correctly.

Then there are the learning curves for each of the cameras (Canon 77D, GoPro Hero 4 Black, and dji Pocket 2), the learning curves for each of the apps associated with those cameras, and finally learning the software to post-process and produce cogent final content to upload.

Two of the most problems I have had are with:

  • Creating a workflow for aggregating all the clips and stills from the week into  a useful file structure
  • Post processing the individual clips. Lately I have taken the approach to work on the clips individually ie. color grading and stabilizing and trying to make each clip stand on its own prior to producing final content. Have been doing the former in DaVinci Resolve 17 and the latter in iMovie. iMovie is totally inadequate and unforgivable for in-depth post processing but very easy to put out the final product. DaVinci Resolve has been fun to learn on a clip by clip basis. Bottom line, I need to get better at filming the clips to start with.


I didn’t get into the studio this week to paint. Totally infatuated with having all this fun learning!

Enjoy this week’s “Island Times 003”


Sunday, February 21, 2021

A New Start

Have been spending much of my time during COVID learning about the camera gear that I have acquired since my last post. That has also necessitated learning how to use many new software applications. So I got this idea to do a weekly video log of sorts creating content to post on YouTube. Not for caring about the whole social aspect of the platform I have tried to focus just on using my gear and using the software to generate content. Hope, in the process that I am creating something others enjoy. 

I have entitled these posts Island Times Stories. Developed weekly and about living on an island off the coast of Maine, I have managed to produce two so far. Keeping my expectations low, but it has provided something creative to do during the pandemic. Here are the first to links for viewing.Also by way of studio news, I have started a new acrylic portrait. Progress is visible in Story 002.

Story 001

Story 002