SPMA LCM Regionals 2007 - part 2

Here is the second part.

2007 SPMA Regionals Movie

2007 SPMA Regionals at Santa Clarita
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Here are some swims from the 2007 SPMA Regionals swim meet. I am not happy with the compression quality of these "video sharing sites" so I am going to post a much cleaner, more clear version to one of my own sites in the next day or two. For now, this is a sample of how the day went. Enjoy. :-)

The SPMA Regionals movie is on still schedule for Saturday morning

I finished the title for the SPMA video tonight in After Effects. The title gets rippled by droplets that splash down upon it before fading out. All that which is left to do is the "bumper," or ending panel, and this video is DONE! The sound track will be the song Such Great Heights by the Postal Service and it really works well with the swimming therein.

I have learned so much about taking hand-held footage shot by idiots like me and making it watchable. The trick in filming swimming is varied viewpoints, establishing shots, and of course using a tripod. Right now I am looking for the best video sharing site to host it rather than what will get the blog the most hits. Obviously You Tube is the biggest but at times it is compression makes the videos unwatchable. I want the clarity to be as best as it can be so I am trolling sites like Guba, Revver, Bolt, and a site called Daily Motion which looks really promising. (Some of these services don't work with this blog. I will post which ones don't.)

The SPMA Regionals movie with SCAQ swimmers goes live on Saturday

I am almost done. I am going to make a title graphic in After Effects to open it and a bumper for the end. The running time will be around 4 minutes or so. Filming this meet was primarily done on a whim but now I am inspired.

The next meet I film will be done differently. I saw a tutorial at the the Make Magazine blog on how to make an underwater housing for a movie camera for under $70. It does not look to hard since the materials are primarily "weapons grade" PVC, blast resistant acrylic, rubber gaskets and industrial strength clamps. The problem making something like this is that the price is cheap if your time is cheap. [Link]