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Dustin.
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I took a lot of video on Yacht Week in Croatia, but I'm really having trouble putting together an edit.

The problem is that the film is of one of three things:

1. Drinking hard
2. Cliff diving with GoPro/Swimming in underwater caves/etc.
3. Chilling on the boat while sailing.

It seems like no matter what I'm trying the edit has extremely chill shots mixed with extremely activity filled shots and not much of a buffer in between. At first I was kicking myself for not filming more, but I honestly took a shitload of video and this is really just how it was all week, 0-60! I found a good song that fits both styles, just can't get the clips to fit together.

I'm really happy with some of the shots I got, because I feel like I improved dramatically over the summer. However putting this edit together is turning out to be way harder than making a ski movie.

Help, tips, or encouragement would be sweet.
Jul 23 2011 8:13PM
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blatt
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If your having trouble figuring out how to piece it together, try story boarding or at least thinking about how you want it to turn out. Maybe try keeping it chronologically ordered?
Jul 23 2011 8:24PM
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WillStart
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If you go to my videos, I put together a South America video that may help you out. I had a similar dilemma, so I just put the clips into segments. Walking around and chilling was one segment, snorkeling was another segment, then another walking around segment, then a kendama segment. i felt like it worked out pretty well
Jul 23 2011 8:25PM
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Dustin.
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I love that man, very nice. I'm loving that it was all shot by hand too because I have to do the same. I was looking to make more of a 3-4 minute edit with a single song, but I think I can still take these ideas and scale them down to make it flow.

Separate question, but how did you achieve that extremely shallow DOF in some of your shots? Did you open the aperture all the way, or was it an entirely different type of lens than I've worked with? I'm only familiar with the T2i kit lens and basic telephoto lens. I figured it's better to learn before I start buying all kinds of accessories.
Jul 24 2011 9:49PM
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WillStart
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Thanks! Yeah I knew yours would be quite a bit shorter, but I figured you could do something similar, as you said.


The two lenses I used for that edit were the Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS and the Canon 85mm f/1.8 non-IS. So each lens has a widest aperture that is wider than that of the kit lens, giving shallower depth of field. Back then I was really into depth of field porn so I had the lenses wide open almost all the time.
Jul 27 2011 7:19PM
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