Ladybower Cup Fly Fishing Video.

After an entire day of editing, cutting, pasting and adding sound tracks, my first attempt at video production is complete!

The Ladybower cup competition 2004 video is now available to download! See below.

The video is of this years trip to Ladybower Reservoir and covers the 3 days of our fly fishing competition. Starring me, Gaz, Bov and Willie (and several trout), with footage from 2 different cameras, my Canon mvx10i and Gaz’s JVC. Filming by me and Gaz with a nice shaky bit in the middle courtesy of Bov.

It’s hardly an epic at 17 minutes long, but take my word for it, that’s long enough for your first attempt at production, especially using the editing software for the very first time. It was edited using Adobe Premiere 6.5, like all Adobe software it’s nigh on the industry standard and has features that I’ll only be finding out about sometime in distant future! Even so, the basics are fairly easy to grasp and that’s all I’ve used to produce this video. My thanks to Wez who gave me a brief tutorial on how to use Premiere and got me started. Wez produced his 5 minute movie ‘Playback’ for the local Meniscus Film Festival using Premiere so he’s a bit more familiar with it than I was. You can download Wez’s film here. (38.4MB - .ram file - Real Player required)

Anyway, enough plugging of Wez’s shoddy workmanship, it’s time to check out the newts’s masterpiece! Are you sittting down? Good because the file is HUGE :0( It’s been trimmed down as much as reasonably possible to make it downloadable but still watchable quality. I’m afraid its gonna be a 7 hour wait if you wanna download this film over a 56k connection. If you’re on 500k broadband it will be with you in 47 minutes, and if like me you’re on NTL’s 600k broadband you’ll be watching it within 39 minutes.

I called it ‘Escaping the Dragons in search of the Monsters’. I hope that needs no explaination!
It’s a .rm file so you’ll need Real Player to watch it. If you don’t have Real Player you can download it for free here.

Escaping the Dragons in search of the Monsters —> [171MB - .rm file]
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