Catfishing Video from Utah Lake

[Cowboypirate]

I mounted an Action Cam on my boat and I've started taping our trips. I am just learning to edit, but I wanted to put one out there to see if people are interested. I'm still learning what to include and what to cut. Generally I'm keeping video of all the fish from the strike to the net/release. We caught a lot of fish that day so it is a bit long. This was taken on June 4, 2020
 
Any comments are welcome.
 
To save space on the forum I put the video on youtube. Here is the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GjZAORwZBE

Careful videoing can be very addictive. Its a real learning experience trying to figure out set ups, lighting, sound and editing - and just try to get a fish to follow the script - I dare ya. I love doing it. One thing I have learned is people (including me) have a short attention span. It rare that people will watch all of a 7 minute video I make. Average is about 3.5 minutes so you dont have much time to tell your story. That is okay with me cause a lot of what I do is capturing memories for our family. Just depends on what your goals are.  That said, if I cant fish, garden or be with family at the ranch, then I am often watching a video about fishing or gardening or cowboy stuff. And I really enjoy local amateur videos cause as it is meaningful to our area. Video on...

Thanks! What editor do you prefer? I knew it was long, but wow 3.5 minutes. All make a note of that. If I am interested, I always watch the whole thing. I just need to remember it isn't on there for me.

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Piscophilic

I use Camtasia. I bought it and it works very well, but in the last 6 months I have switched over to Davinci Resolve (you can get a free version with a few less features). . Davinci has many more features than Camtasia and handles high def better. It is not as intuitive to use however. The mother ship, Adobe, is the best but I just have not wanted to pay the price for what I do.

As to length of videos. I typically come home from a day trip with around an hr of footage and target to reduce it to under 10 minutes in editing. But many people do well with longer videos - it really depends on your goals. I will say my objective is not to monetize my videos or sell stuff, but just keep it fun. If I changed my goals to make money at it, I would be approaching the process in a much different manner.