Video editing rant

[RoadTrekker]

I am sure that many of you have trolled through many YouTube videos and watched many boring shots of bikes riding down a long road without anything interesting going on or any information. This gets tediouse and you soon loose interest.

Here are some suggestions for better videos:
1. Try placing your video camera in different positions on the bike, forward , backwards, sideways, low down near the road.
2. Try to avoid obstructions like the side of your helmet or your windscreen
3. Add a external microphone and clip it inside your helmet and do a presentation as you ride, about what you see and and are feeling.
4. Never make a single video clip longer than 1 minute unless it is recording something exceptional.
5. Get off your bike and record some footage of the sights around you.
6. Take a small gorilla tripod with you so that you can mount the camera on your bike , in a tree, on a fence to take that great shot of you and your bike.
7. Do not go crazy with using special video wipes and transistions they make it look amaturist.
8. Most of all decide on a theme for your video and keep to it and keep it short and to the point.
9. You can allways make a seperate video for your own use to include the special video clips that mean more to you than to a spectator.
10. Personnaly I do not like to include photos in a video as it becomes boreing especially without a commentary, plus the quality drops off as well.

Remember that the best video is the one that you have not taken yet!