17 Jun

Editing lightning strikes from my road trip

02:59

In a previous recording I talked about doing a road trip through three states, talked about the thunderstorms, talked about from clear skies to almost can't even drive to back to clear skies, and I mentioned there was some lightning, mentioned there was some lightning.

Because I did these hours upon hours of videos, got some lightning shots, most of them weren't all that great because you just see lightning in the side of the sky, you look, glance over, it hits real fast. However, I was able to get two really good lightning strikes, two really good lightning strikes, and I spent a while first thing in the morning editing the videos.

I did four edits for each one of the lightning strikes, thus it gave me eight different videos. Part of what I did was I did the first video of the lightning strike and I cut out unneeded stuff, and that was the first edit. Then I took that edit number one and I edited a second time and slowed it down in my app. I slowed it down as much as I could slow it down the app would allow it. Then I took that slowed down version and slowed it down a second time so that I would have a real good lightning strike, and then I took that second slowed down version and I sped it up so that it would be under a minute video.

So that gave me four different videos for that lightning strike. Then I duplicated that process for the second lightning strike, thus I had eight videos just to get two under a minute lightning videos. They came out pretty good. The thing about it though is it took hours of actual video footage from my dash cam to finally narrow it down to two minutes of edited lightning strikes. Rico here, later.

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