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3.11.17
Alright,
so this entry is “late” as it should have been done by the 10th
at latest. Why wasn't it done? Heh, heh, heh... Tardiness,
procrastination, slackness, and the list goes on. For a while, I've
done a great job at typing the entry while the videos were uploading,
with there even being the odd occasion where I'd type the entry
before
even uploading. Let's get back to that! While I'd really rather not
type this right now, I hate
the
feeling of doing last week's “homework” in a new week, so I'm
getting this done today so I focus clearer for next week. Now, let's
discuss the following: Nighttime
Traffic on Highway of Heroes @ Thickson Road, Newcastle
Public School, and
Farrow
Avenue (Newcastle).
Remember
the Highway Life video?
Yeah, that video was done last summer in 2016. I wanted to get
another highway video done, this time at night! The purpose of the
video was to do a comparison between 1080p and 720p @ 60 frames per
second, but I unfortunately didn't get around to doing
that in this video, so you'll just have to make do with the 1080p
only. Either way, the video turned out “noisy” or rather
grainy and blurry in other words, so nobody's likely going to want to
watch it. Even if they did, they probably wouldn't bother watching
the whole 12 minutes! Or would you? Maybe if you were really bored?
Anyways,
I believe I used Night Mode + HDR + 1080p for this video. As already
mentioned, it looks like the
8MP BlackBerry camera
did not cope well with the darkness, fast moving subjects, and all
those lights. Still,
it has not, and will not stop me from shooting the occasional night
video. The
fact that Daylight
saving time 2017 in Ontario will begin at 2:00 AM on Sunday, March
12, means
that nighttime will arrive much later. That may likely put me off,
since I don't like to leave the house at late hours, but still won't
completely stop me from filming night videos.
I've tried to look into what kind of sensor it is, but unfortunately,
there
doesn't seem to be a clear source for what the BlackBerry Q10 or Z10
uses.
What is it?! Is it an ISOCELL? A Sony Exmor? Carl Zeiss? Wish I knew!
Oh well... Maybe I'll find out someday. If I don't, not a big deal
because I'm not going to be using this camera forever, that's for
sure.
Ah,
Newcastle. Have I ever been to this place? No, can't recall ever
coming here, though of course, it's possible that I may have been
there when I was much younger. If I haven't, then great! It was truly
an all-new adventure! Either way, one thing's certain is that it was
my first time filming in Newcastle, as you will learn from watching
the video. The
title and entry makes it clear as daylight that I chose to visit
Newcastle Public School for my first video out here,
but why? Why did I choose Newcastle Public School as the first
subject to film? Well, Newcastle is a small town with not a ton to
see or do within the urban area, and because I've been filming
schools quite a lot lately, I figured that I'd check out one of their
schools and make it my first video of this town. And so I did.
Unfortunately, it just had to be biting cold that day, which took
away some of my joy, but whatever. It was a really cool place to
wander around, and had a lot to see. In fact, I'd even
say that
it was more interesting than Military Trail Public School,
thanks to all the parks, fields and those xylophones!
I would have loved to have spent more time hammering out tunes on
those xlyophones, but the combination of a running nose, and biting
cold weather, made it difficult to film and look down for extended
periods of time. Gosh winter! Are you going to end soon?! Even today,
as I write this entry, it was freakin' -12°C! During the March 6-10
period, it was comparatively mild, until Friday settled in, and then
the weekend decided to go even lower! Wow! This is not what March is
supposed to feel like in this part of the country! Come on! Warm
up!
Alright, onto discussing the next place I filmed in Newcastle.
Because the entry is late, no photos have been uploaded to Instagram
during the March 6-10 period, but they'll come after I proofread
this, upload it, and then Tweet the videos along with it.
The
2nd
video I filmed in Newcastle. So, as you can tell from the title and
what not, you obviously know that I filmed a road that goes by the
name Farrow, but why exactly did I decide to film such a random,
rustic road? When I was looking at the map of Newcastle for a
location(s) to film, I saw a
few potential spots that would be ideal to film. This was one of
them, since it wasn't too hard to find, and the fact that it was
going to be random, quiet and rustic, made it more appealing for a
secondary video from Newcastle to go with the idea of doing a school,
then a road video. I was going to talk about the audio, but there's
no point since there's an “ATA1201058-like”
excuses slide to give you the scoop. Instead, I'll go into more
details about the abrupt ending. There's an explanation for that too,
but it served as an important reminder to myself to stop
filming
once you've recorded around 25 minutes worth of videos, when the
temperatures are very cold. By that, I'm talking like maybe -8°C
and lower. Before, it used to be hard to get close to 30 minutes of
footage outdoors in biting temperatures, until I discovered that
attaching a portable charger prolongs it. Brilliant! Right?
Unfortunately, as I've learned that day and today, is that the phone
still
shuts
off after a certain point, even
with the charger attached! What?!
WHY?!
I
don't know if it's something phones are supposed to do, regardless of
whether there's a charger attached or not. Maybe it was the type of
power bank? Maybe it was the phone? Maybe Canada is just too damn
cold! Who knows! The
only way to find out for
sure
is to test various types of smartphones,
with various types of powerbanks on
days of around -8°C,
but
heh. That will surely
require a lot of $$$$$$$.
Cash aside, I'd love to see how the iPhone 7 Plus, Nokia Lumia 950
XL, BlackBerry Passport, LG V20 and Google Pixel XL fare outdoors,
with
and without
power banks. Oh ho ho ho ho hooooooooooo! Anyways, I've complained
about shut offs for long enough, so now I'll complain about the
video's sharpness: why did it have to turn out so bad, all because I
enabled stabilization in the editing software? You see, based on what
I've seen in a fair bit of my 2016 videos, that is the very reason
why I haven't bothered to stabilize my videos within Movie Maker: it
degrades
the quality a
little too much!
Sometimes it'd degrade it so badly, that I'd go back, turn it off,
and republish a
video before
settling on a goodcopy.
Yeah, I know. I'm sure 4K videos probably wouldn't suffer that –
ok! This has gone from being about Farrow
Avenue
to Avenue
of Complaints,
so I'll just continue with this below. Aside from the finger biting
cold and shut offs, Farrow Avenue was a nice, quiet road to wander
down and film. I
would have done more additional coverage on it, had the camera not
die after 13 minutes.
Thankfully, it happened when I was almost near the end.
Alright,
so as
I was fussing
about from above, I believed that it is only 1080p or
lower videos, that suffer most from the WM stabilization, obviously
because the resolution is simply lower. The shakier and lower the
resolution,
the more your video suffers. That said, most phones that do have 4K,
also have their own, proper, built-in OIS, so they wouldn't even need
stabilization support from any video editing software. There
are some phones out there with 4K and no optical image stabilization,
but probably not very many. So! The outdoor videos have been coming,
so where's the commentary video I've been talking about for like the
past two or three entries? Still
in the works... Sigh... I've
got the audio and what not, done
for it,
so
I can safely say that it should
be on the channel the coming week. Not Monday, but likely
Tuesday-Thursday. I've also filmed an outdoor video, so that will be
uploaded along with it, but my priority will be finishing the
commentary first, before I start editing it. Gaming videos? Meh, as
you'll know from reading more recent entries, they're not a priority,
but that doesn't mean that I've stopped. Maybe when I can become more
consistent and organized with other things, then
they'll come, but there's certainly no rush here.
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