Thank you. I've seen lots of Live Videos appearing on Substack with people talking to screens indoors, but it appealed more to me to share some the natural world.
I might try more short videos to illustrate some of my text posts but, if I'm going to use an iPhone more (rather than lugging around camera and tripod), I will buy an adapter to attach the microphone I use on my camera to my iPhone. It's good at stabilisation, but difficult to shield form the wind.
My wonderful sound guru friend Neale James of the photowalk podcast, uses his iPhone with a ‘dead cat’ to deaden the wind noise. He is a sound guru, and incredible coach. I have a dead cat for my phone, currently lost somewhere - as too often happens to me! I brought mine from dreaded Amazon for very little cost, and it works well. I must do a concentrated search when I get back home to locate said cat! I am enjoying just taking the iphone out, and it’s pretty much always with me, so capturing moments becomes easier. I may try some woodland videos, chatting about lichen etc sometime, inspired by your success. How did you sort out the loading issues, I get the dreaded wheel of no hope spinning when I try to load a video, and that’s just a short clip!
In the end I downsized it to 540px to create a smaller file size. Then I used FreeConvert to change the 540px version of my .mov file to .mp4 video. From my laptop I successfully (with patience) loaded it into a Substack video post (I found it quick and easy to transfer between phone and laptop with Bluetooth). Then there were lots of settings to play around with, including transcript and clips, which it can auto create but can be manually edited.
I thoroughly enjoyed that Felicity. It really had the feel of being on the walk with you and chatting about the sights. Thank you :0)
Thank you Amy. There's always so much to see on walks if you take the time to look!
What a cracking day to be out walking and well done for experimenting and persevering with video.
Thank you. I've seen lots of Live Videos appearing on Substack with people talking to screens indoors, but it appealed more to me to share some the natural world.
It’s a great way to show the scenery. Well worth doing.
I might try more short videos to illustrate some of my text posts but, if I'm going to use an iPhone more (rather than lugging around camera and tripod), I will buy an adapter to attach the microphone I use on my camera to my iPhone. It's good at stabilisation, but difficult to shield form the wind.
My wonderful sound guru friend Neale James of the photowalk podcast, uses his iPhone with a ‘dead cat’ to deaden the wind noise. He is a sound guru, and incredible coach. I have a dead cat for my phone, currently lost somewhere - as too often happens to me! I brought mine from dreaded Amazon for very little cost, and it works well. I must do a concentrated search when I get back home to locate said cat! I am enjoying just taking the iphone out, and it’s pretty much always with me, so capturing moments becomes easier. I may try some woodland videos, chatting about lichen etc sometime, inspired by your success. How did you sort out the loading issues, I get the dreaded wheel of no hope spinning when I try to load a video, and that’s just a short clip!
In the end I downsized it to 540px to create a smaller file size. Then I used FreeConvert to change the 540px version of my .mov file to .mp4 video. From my laptop I successfully (with patience) loaded it into a Substack video post (I found it quick and easy to transfer between phone and laptop with Bluetooth). Then there were lots of settings to play around with, including transcript and clips, which it can auto create but can be manually edited.
Perseverance pays off! Now you have that technical part sorted you will have fun playing out and about :)