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The disappointing part of that ride was the Cop Block (chemical spill apparently up the road). Going straight from that point it's 2 miles down hill at 30+ mph; then snaky woods through 5 river valleys; that's where all the fall color canopy is and all the short steep climbs up and down at 8-12%, that's what I went out to shoot. I was about 1/2 mile from connecting with the bottom of the first descent when I crashed and turned around. ? Good thing I didn't push it; wound up sleeping most of today away healing. Odd part is that road suck going south but going north it's a lot safer. Figures it's 1 of only 2 really bad roads around here. In the end that was still 1000ft of climbing in that video. One section of the ride from the crash to the climb is missing but that was all down hill to the river while I composed myself. The part that always amazes me is how small the hills look on film.
I decided to make the video using the footage I had since I might not get another chance before the snow thanks to injury and travel plans. I agree Lieft most video should be under 3 minutes or the length of the song. If you go longer you have to put text on the screen every 10-20secs. If the section of video is without comments is longer than 10 seconds then it needs to be interesting on its own without comments. Usually it's about 15 secs between 4 second comments. If you have footage and nothing to say about it for 20secs you cut it out and put a transition. If I had got the ride I wanted 50-75% of that foot would have been on the cutting room floor and the in the trees stuff would have been the order of the day. This was far too urban, I don't really spend much time near anything but the cows, farms, and rivers. I can ride the lake area but the roads are narrow and the traffic is nasty heavy so I usually avoid it.
When it comes to keeping it interesting, It also really helps to lay in sound effects. All of the traffic noise is just stock sound effect of traffic laid out so they align with the footage. For a video like this you lay that in as a bed track at 25%-35% and put the music on top of that at 45%. For the fun videos we did; I record the highway by our house, looped it, and then laid that as a 12% bed; you don't notice it in the fun video (summer cruz) unless it's not there; and then it feels like something is missing. That part takes about 10 minutes to do and it really really makes the video more watchable.
In the old days I would have to do this stuff in Final-cut and it would take about 4-5 hours, but iMovie is so simple but empowered that now you can crank these out in about 45-60 minutes if your not a perfectionist 2 hours if you are. And then there is the mobile tech, the two NightRider videos I did completely on the iphone; while watching football that was simple but putzy slow.
5 Lanes, Larry? yikes not for me. We aren't allowed to ride bike on divided highways around here unless there is no other way through. This ride just happens to be a stretch right at the end of the 4 lanes and before the start of the next section. The Cop basically said go that way; handed me a card, and told me if I got a pulled over to tell them I was sent that way by him. Nice jesture but I probably should have doubled back and gone the other way on the milk roads.
Personally I think the Silvio dumped me on purpose because she wants me to buy her one of those new single piece carbon seats
