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Melbourne Grommet

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Created by aro > 9 months ago, 31 Dec 2012
aro
VIC, 52 posts
31 Dec 2012 2:47PM
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Could you please tell me if you like the GoPro angles or the slow motion shots.
Still learning to edit.

matto
VIC, 210 posts
31 Dec 2012 6:21PM
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nice vid.

keep it up. wish I had started when I was 11.

morandi
VIC, 77 posts
31 Dec 2012 7:45PM
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Very impressive. What size C4 is he using and did you modify the chicken loop / through of the bar? I have an 8 year old who is keen but only weighs 30 kg.

surfingboye
NSW, 2707 posts
31 Dec 2012 9:08PM
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kid rips.
good on the parents for getting him on the water.
good on steve for supplying kick-arse kites.
yewww...

1 Jan 2013 11:12AM
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morandi said...
Very impressive. What size C4 is he using and did you modify the chicken loop / through of the bar? I have an 8 year old who is keen but only weighs 30 kg.



5 and 7 are his two main kites, but he also won an 8m Reo at the Merrimbula Classic this year.
The Catalyst is a great kite to start young ones on, come as small as 4M

Chicken loop and depower line are standard, this years kites I think he will need to shorten the chicken loop, which is easy to do.

aro
VIC, 52 posts
1 Jan 2013 9:08PM
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Morandi

As Steve said i havent had to adjust anything on the 2012 c4s and if you are looking for some kites or just some advice email me.

pgc
VIC, 886 posts
2 Jan 2013 5:04AM
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hes a shredder

Puetz
NT, 2185 posts
2 Jan 2013 12:52PM
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... well done Aro, nice work on the editing (and ripper kiting btw, kick my arse on the water for sure).

My (hopefully helpful) comment is abit techy and really nit-picky but its about the slow-mo action. Get your dad or whoever helps you with the editing to read this and maybe explain it better than I have written here.

When I watched your video I noticed not all the slow-mo bits were totally smooth, sort of a little choppy. Don't get me wrong, its not a bod thing, just something I noticed and something I always wanted to get better at myself. I wanted to get my little video projects to the next level and look better but I wasn't sure how. I did a little experimenting and found a little technical thing you can do.

What I found was keep the speeds you reduce the footage too at even steps to the original footage frame rate. The slower you make it, the choppier it looks. Sometimes you may want this as an affect or a certain look, and can look cool but sometimes you don't.

To explain myself a litte, I use Sony Vegas and what I found is, keep the steps you slow your footage down to, even steps so that the frame rate is a multiple of the original footage. What I mean by this is, say original footage is 25 frames per second (which is normal for alot of video cameras), then edit it to exactly half, or exactly 1/4, or 1/8th etc. From my experiments, keeping it in steps like this rather than say, making it 30% of full speed, but rather make it 25%, or 12.5% etc etc.

When it comes out when you finish, you find the slow-mo is a little more even and appears smoother. If you slow it down really slow, no matter what its gunna look choppy but you can make it a little more even and more artistic. The other way is to use extra software or plug-ins but can be expensive.

Do your own experiments and find the one that works for you and you'll find your videos will look just that little bit more cooler!

cheers for now,

Robbie

sir ROWDY
WA, 5374 posts
2 Jan 2013 11:52AM
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Good to see there's some kids coming up! Keep at it buddy!

bobajob
QLD, 1535 posts
2 Jan 2013 2:12PM
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Awesome, good to see.
Hows it go, more talent in one finger.............

aro
VIC, 52 posts
3 Jan 2013 10:29AM
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Puetz.
thanks for the advice we will definately try that in my next movie.
and i will have a few more tricks by then

Puetz
NT, 2185 posts
3 Jan 2013 10:19AM
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aro said...
Puetz.
thanks for the advice we will definately try that in my next movie.
and i will have a few more tricks by then


... no worries, I know its a bit nerdy but paying attention to little details sometimes can make a cool video look 'really cool'. Well done and have fun with it!!!

cheers,

Robbie



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