Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Lake Michigan Circle Tour 2013 Video

As I mentioned in many of my previous journal entries one of the goals of the trip was to document it through video clips and photographs.  I put a huge effort into setting up the GoPro camera on the bike, charging batteries at night, downloading images to flash drives, etc.  It was a ton of work and ultimately I came home with over 42,000 photographs and movies to sort through.  

Over the course of the winter I sifted through the pictures and began to stitch together short clips based on the geography and timing.  Some parts I sped up if they were very long straight sections, others I slowed down if the terrain was interesting.  It was a very time consuming process because the length of the video quickly got out of hand if I made the speed go to slow.  For example at a 1x speed the original video was over an hour long.  So the short clips got stitched into days and the days got stitched into weeks.  After some Movie Maker Magic I think I created something that tells the story of the trip as much as you can in 10 minutes.  Obviously it can't really recreate the trip but it gives you a little taste.  Enjoy!



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