How to make a video on the road?

[chilswelluk]

First of all this question is more about the practicalities of making video on the road, rather than the technical details. I have a good grasp of video making and am relatively proficient with Adobe Premiere. The problem is how do I approach video making on the road? I will mainly be camping, and the idea of sitting for hours in a tent editing video does not fill me with much enthusiasm. The focus of the trip should be the trip, and not the video! Plus it means taking a high spec laptop, which is something else to worry about getting broken, stolen,charged up and something else to lug about.

But on the other hand I would really like to have my own website and regularly upload videos of my trip. These would be for friends, family and a wider audience. Over the years I have seen some really good threads on here of people making videos of their trip. They would often update every few days and it would make really exciting watching. The videos were also well edited, which must have taken a substantial amount of time. How do these people do it? One option is to shoot raw footage and send it to someone back home, who does all the editing. But that is asking a lot of people and to pay someone to do this would be outside my budget.

Plus another consideration is, how do people manage to upload this video, particularly in countries where Internet is very slow? Decent quality 4k video takes up a lot of space, and I can only envisage spending hours in places waiting for my video to upload. Plus I like to go off the beaten track (try to avoid towns / cities) and spend a lot of time in nature (often weeks) and Internet satellite solutions are extremely expensive. I know I could just shoot all my video and edit it once I return home (after 8 months) but that is not making a video on the road, plus going through that much film is likely to be extremely tedious.

So how do people go on? Do I have to face the reality that I will have to spend hours / days editing video in a tent, and lugging around a lot of equipment? How have other people got on who produce decent quality video on the road? I use the word decent, as I have seen many videos over the years which are just terrible. There is often no story line, editing or thought gone into the video and they are extremely boring to anybody but the person making them and their immediate family. This is something I want to avoid and would like an element of professionalism to my videos.

Any advice would be much appreciated.