Little Creek

I drove up into Teton Canyon today and found a quiet little vacant campground next to the creek to experiment with video on my new camera. I mounted it on a small tripod, placed it on a log in the creek and let her run for a minute and a half.

I shot the video at full 1080p (HD) resolution at 30 frames per second. The camera actually allows 60 fps but I’m already seeing that’s overkill.

I resurrected my Vimeo account and uploaded this video. I’m using their free account which allows up to 500mb uploaded per week and this one ate up 260mb. The free account compresses the 1080p down to 720p so obviously I wasted a bunch of space, besides, the content is intended for online consumption. My cameras video recording setting has been changed to 720p :-)

I had initially uploaded this video to my YouTube account but after undergoing their compression algorithm, the results sucked! It has to do with the fact that this is a fixed scene with things (i.e. water flowing) happening around it.

I like Vimeo, the video below is great and if you click on HD you can see the full sized video. Their plus version is $9.95 a month, for 5GB a week. I’m sorry guys but I’m paying $7.99 a month now for unlimited NetFlix and I’m maxed out at the moment…

I’ll be sticking with YouTube for general content and Vimeo for quality shoots.

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5 comments

  1. Very nice video, would love to sit on that log with bare feet in the water, however the sound of that water makes me want to p!!

  2. I’m glad it played well for you Shelia! Unfortunately, p!!ing in the watershed here is a federal offense, three years in the slammer I believe, something about the damn trout…

  5. Not an easy chore if I had my camper with my bed I would think very hard about doing that. There is nothing better than to have a running stream next to you while camping. Thanks for the offer.

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