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The Daily Bucket. Sequence Friday: video editing. The Red-tailed Hawk nest "Big Project" and... [1]
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Date: 2023-07-14
Video editing is a brand-new thing for me, and I’m awfully clunky at it right now. For one thing, I don’t have all that much video to work from, and for another I’m not sure I have the requisite talent, but lack of resources and knowledge and creativity have never kept me from making a fool of myself.
What was I thinking?????????????
Besides, isn’t this a “sequence” diary, the kind that has spectacular stills, one after the other, showing action frozen in time in such a way as to send shivers of awe and delight down your spine? And make you wish you were that good a photographer?
Yes, it is.
And you want one of those varieties of the Daily Bucket, you’re gonna need a different author.
😋
Way back when, I remember when Sequence Friday began, I put up a video, offering video per se as intrinsically a kind of sequence, and everyone seemed to be o.k. with that.
Now, I recently acquired this video editing program, OpenShot, a free download, and I’ve been trying some modest experimenting with it. One thing that I was very eager to be able to do was cut out portions of my videos with annoying background noise, for example automobiles passing close by, or portions that got all jiggly or out-of-focus, etc. But I wanted to be able to put the video back together smoothly after excising the garbage parts, and maybe add some helpful text and things along those lines.
Not looking to do anything fancy or Star Wars-worthy, just clean up my videos a bit and make them easier on the eyes and ears.
So, I had been watching and taking video of a Red-tailed Hawk nest with three chicks (or eyas, as is the more proper name for an unfledged nestling hawk; plural eyases) over the course of twenty-three days and seven video sessions. Using my new editing program I’ve cut the seven videos into one, compressing the duration from 25:24 to 12:10. Not quite the ten minutes or less I had targeted, but about a minute’s worth of the video is actually the transition title cards; they do add up even though they’re only about six to ten seconds long, each.
Without further ado… (it’s twelve minutes long, so watch however much you want to).
As best I can tell, by June 8 there’s only two left on the nest. Whether the third has already left the nest or the third became lunch for the others I cannot tell. I’d prefer believing the former, but nature is what it is.
If you'd prefer a much shorter vid, here’s this one I made and published on June 15.
Here’s the best I could do for extracted stills. My camera isn’t a professional video rig, after all. Yah, yah, I know. Excuses, excuses. But excuses are all I got.
At least it’s plain to see there are three nestling hawks.
Mom/Dad is off to find more nom nom nom
“It’s not fair! You get all the ‘tention.”
“I’m gonna be a big ol’ buzzerd one of these days, just you wait and see.”
And then there was just one.
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