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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Today, I wanted to speak to you a little bit about rendering out mp4 video. I know that’s probably a pretty exciting topic for everybody. That’s what I’ve been doing recently, I’ve been trying to kind of put all of that on this workhorse desktop computer that I’m using. And I’m trying to use Well, first I was trying to use Lightroom, right, you are probably familiar with talking about Lightroom for managing photos and sort of working with them and editing them. It also has limited capabilities of working with the video files that come off the DSLR that are just kind of commonplace with modern DSLR cameras. So bringing those videos over there, they’re normally some kind of MPEG container format of which I’ve seen I guess, MK V or chaos is that sort of Chrysler, I don’t know, isn’t, it might be a different thing. But there’s like a hit like MTS or something like that there’s a handful of these different little container file extensions that I’m trying to sort out, they’re fine, they seem to open to most things, I’m not having a big problem with it. Other than AVC HD, I’m trying to sort those out if I have any of those raw ones around. But I have this library of videos around now, I appreciate having the original files. And if that’s important to you, as a media creator, I recommend keeping those source files around at a higher quality. But for me, with a lot of elements of video, especially a lot of projects that are done, but maybe some things that are kind of like an accomplished project, but I want to keep those media elements around, but not necessarily in their whole quality by any means anymore. So I’m trying to go through and render those things out. And not necessarily about a quality thing, but just about an odd format thing like I was just explaining with MK V’s and Mt SS and three GPS and mo visa those are quite common, but I’m trying to make the system just a little bit more uniform for the video experience of the videos that I have. I’m trying to render those out. I was trying to use Lightroom. To do this. I was trying to use it in mass to render out and refile names, and all of these video elements so that I don’t have any more collisions with these video files. As I’m moving the file names around, you know, image 001 dot mp4 overwrites image 001 dot mp4 created two years later on a different SD card account format. Whatever it is, it’s been a problem before I probably lost media because of that error. So to try and correct that I’m trying to come through and render everything out with an additional date name that I was able to add in Lightroom. But Lightroom kept crashing or at least would not render the video that I had trying to get out from the Lightroom catalog that I had the video stored in so it was kinda interesting. I like a lot of problems with that it did a great job with a handful of the sets of videos like the three GP, I think the MTS and mkvs I think it worked through quite well but any of these mo v files and just sits it doesn’t necessarily even lag, it’s just not rendering frames, it just sits there like it wasn’t asked to respond the computer’s processors don’t kick up at all. It’s not like it’s trying to render a video but not or I don’t know, it’s just like pretends like it didn’t get asked to do anything at the time. So it’s all the struggle of trying to render video so I ended up dumping Lightroom because I was hoping that I could do some automatic file naming and file categorizing with Lightroom and how to do a bulk export of video under the format that I was hoping and kind of have it you know, automate some of that file naming system and export settings and stuff. I ended up switching over to handbrake because I was having such a hard time getting Lightroom to grab onto the video and do anything with it. So I’ve been having a great experience with the handbrake so far. And there are a lot of tools and more modern systems in handbrake that make the file naming and recompression system quite easy. We can set things as same as the source and use the file name of the source. And that’s where he quite well to kind of grab a file, put it in a render queue. With new settings that are pretty automatic, where it’s you know, it’s kind of like a two or three-click operation to get a new video added to the queue. And so just earlier today, I added 100 dot mo v files to the queue, which I hope are set up correctly, I think there are a couple of mistakes I made in there. We’ll see how they render out but I put those in the queue and I’m doing a test of it now. And that stronger computer as opposed to my laptop is burning through those video frames much faster I think it was because I was rendering out about 30 frames a second. So it’s almost like real-time rendering. If you were to think of it like you know, 30 frames a second in the video. Well, 30 frames got rendered of that video and just that one second, so it’s going through it much faster than I’m used to in the olden days. It’s kind of fun to see who knows where it will be 10 years from now.
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You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at Billy Newman under the author’s section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, cool stuff over there. This image was a quick screenshot or a quick capture that we made around the campsite, near Lone Pine, California, and the Alabama hills, and it was a cool campsite. I think we stayed there for about, I don’t know, four to six days or so in November and December of 2012 cool time of year to be out there. And we were fortunate I think Easter this year in Nevada, we had that rain shadow so that it was just a lot drier on the east side of California than it was on that coastal side of this year in Nevada is when we were there a few weeks before that, but a cool thing about this campsite if you guys were to bother to look it up. It matches the broom Hilda saw from Django Unchained. If you were to watch that, we found that out I think right after we camped here at the spot, then we’d watched the movie Django just a few months later. And we were like, whoa, wait a second. We had just been to that spot. that exact spot right there right where this picture was taken. I think I think there’s a scene where it shows Jamie Foxx sitting over on the rock that is currently the kitchen table in this scene. But yeah, it’s kind of interesting. I think the shot was set up a little differently, but it was cool to see and you’re like wow, that’s right where we used to be interesting when you find out a spot that you were or something else was found. And it seems like a remote kind of campsite like this, but I’m sure over the years 1000s of people have been there. You can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value-for-value model that we’re running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you’re welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you’re interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that’s patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo 360 degree photo work over the last couple of weeks which has been cool and I’ve enjoyed it a lot. I liked doing the 360 stuff. I think back in June of 2018 we had done a bunch of podcasts about some of the 360 photography stuff that we were trying to do and some of the video stuff we were doing with the GoPro fusion at the time. And that was all cool and I liked that video a lot this time I was working with a Ricoh Theta zone. And I was going around to a few locations to try and get the photographs. Specifically, I think photographs are a lot in this circumstance, but not so many videos. But yeah, really interested the in the 360 photography stuff that I was able to, edit together and capture during that time. So it was cool. But I went to an area in, Central Oregon, that was pretty cool and went up on like a hillside to do some 360 work. And it’s cool out there because you can see the topography of how the Great Basin was formed at the well I guess like during the whole era of the Pleistocene as it was for a long-standing period. Like a lake, it was just a big lake out there. And then as things started changing at the end of the Pleistocene, I think there were huge changes that ended the Great Basin stuff that ended a lot of the megafauna that was in the area. And that kind of changed the topography of the landscape over the last 10,000 years to be something much more of the high desert sagebrush Juniper tree exposed rock landscape that we see today and a lot less of the forested temperate kind of mountain climate that we have through the Cascades and part of Oregon, I’m sure it was always more dry, given the rain shatter the Cascade Mountains there. But I think that for a long period, as according to signs posted on my drives in areas where I go hiking sometimes but you know, like when you go up to someplace and it says, you know, this area so such and such time ago had these animals in it where you see like giant beavers, or you see like camels or giant sloths, I guess they added the area so there are all sorts of stuff that they had, that ended up being wiped out and 100,000 years ago, 60,000 years ago,
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to, what, 1020 10,000 years ago, something like that. There are a lot of changes that happened throughout the Pleistocene, I guess during what they call the quarternary period, a period of glaciation. That the earth has been involved in for the last 100,000 or 200, maybe million years. I’m not sure it’s the last couple of 100,000 years we’ve been going in these cycles of glaciation. So you know, we’re in an ice age period. So we go into an ice age like we have ice on the Earth right now. It’ll be more ice at a point and then less ice at a point. More is at a point less I said a point, I guess it’s been going on for what they say somewhere around like 200,000 years, these 30,000-year periods of glaciation to nonglaciation. where like, I think we’re coming, we’re like on the far end of the Glacial Maximum now. So we had the, with the Glacial Maximum about like, what, 11,000 12,000 years ago? Or is that right? No, it must have been, like 15 20,000 years ago that we’re at the maximum, then it started receding, I suppose. That’s when we were able to know. That doesn’t make sense. We had like the land bridge, like the Beringia stuff where people got over that was probably 15 to 20,000. sea levels were low or they were like 400 feet, they squared along the coastlines. They came over through the land. So that was all pretty long ago. Well, anyway, at some point, like I was there like I’m gonna figure out Wait, let me remember. Let me think back to 15,000 years ago, where was I? Yeah, I wasn’t here. So I don’t know what happened. But apparently, there’s been some recorded evidence that I learned about, and I think it’s like Montverde down in Chile. And that’s a location where I think they carbon dated something to 15,000 years old, like human remains human element remains, there’s, there’s like a few locations here in Oregon, where they I guess have evidence of the Clovis people that sort of around like the 1112 13,000 year mark. And then there’s other evidence of things that are I don’t know within like it’s time it’s like anything from like 7500 years to 15,000 years ago seems to all kind of be in flux have a date, because there are not many, not many perfect ways to date that. And if it’s a cultural artifact, like, an arrowhead, or a pot shard, or a scraper, there’s some indication of how those things are going to be created or how those artifacts are going to be created and how there’s are going to remain like Folsom points or Clovis points are pretty distinct from each other but they’re not culturally distinct from each other. So it could be like a variation of many different tribes and languages and peoples all well unrelated to each other but related with a similar vein of technology for a few 1000 years of you know, their tool use shape was kind of similar because they’re all kind of from a similar descendency but I think when you get like more than 100 miles away your language is separate over like a couple of generations. You just got to speak different languages. But man wild stuff anyway, so I don’t remember where we started with this. But I was out in Eastern Oregon, exploring the Great Basin, I went up on a hillside and public land and I was doing some 360 photography work with the Ricoh zeta Oh, Ricoh Theta zone. That’s what it is. And yeah, I was capturing some stuff on a hillside really beautiful areas up there where those ridges kind of drop in and out. And so it’s cool when you get like up to a higher elevation, you can kind of see the pockets of where these legs and pools of water and kind of sat and rested for what seems like
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I think I was saying something about recording some 360 photographs up on some public land in the high desert, in Lake County in the Great Basin area of Eastern Oregon, a beautiful spot over there. I enjoy it and yeah, it was awesome to use the Ricoh Theta zone to be capturing some images up in that area, it’s cool when you’re at a higher elevation. And with a 360 camera, you can kind of it provides a little bit of a different perspective, it seems silly to see wider, but when you re when you kind of replay those images, and you’re able to sort of look around in the context of what’s the left and to the right of you, you’re kind of able to put together the context of the landscape a little better, a little faster than you could if you just had a series of individual photographs that had segments of the wider landscape captured in those cool at that higher elevation. You can kind of look down to areas that we had been hiking around earlier in the day through some of the ridges and troughs that would be over in that area. And you can look down you know it’s like 500 feet down in elevation to what we thought was kind of the mountain top pass and then pass that as another maybe 1000 foot or a couple of 100-foot drop in elevation as it goes down toward The lake basin area. So all that was pretty cool. And what was also cool about it is just sort of visualizing how populated that area had been in the past, I think, you know, before the Western expansion of the United States and as 1000s of years passed by in this region of land in the northwest, it had been populated in that region specifically been populated by nomadic tribes that had been able to travel and subsist off of the wild game that was there, I think a lot of like antelope and deer, and it looks like bighorn sheep by some of their planning some kind of sheep, but it looks like that from some of their, their pictographs and petroglyphs information that they left then the dynamics of some of those populations of animals have changed in the time. Now given like modern day, I don’t know, I don’t know if we’re gonna see a lot of sheep out there in Lake County, but there’s one drawn on a rock out there. So they must have been trying to look for it. There’s a lot of them in the southwest as he moved into the I think the Mohawk tribes. For him, that’s more of a 3000 to 25 2000. I don’t know, it’s probably bad. It was 3600 years ago, sort of thing. But, 100 years ago I think it was like Captain jack over there Captain jack’s stronghold for the Murdoch Indian Reservation area. That was like in the Indian Wars of the 1850s. So the last to tell them but yeah, there’s some information about some of the pilot, the pilot Indians, I think the Northern piute that were in that area of Southern southeastern Oregon, Nevada, then into Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico if I kind of understood right, but I know there are some fluctuations in there. And differences in timing and stuff. But yeah, dollar, is pretty cool stuff and is awesome to get out there. It’s, it’s cool to get out and kind of walk around in scenarios of some public land, where we slash and access and still get out to try and do some photography stuff, even in this period where you’re supposed to stay home and there’s a lockdown it was, it was cool to kind of get out and try and do some exploring and some social distance conscious. I mean, that’s fine with me, I don’t, I don’t have to be around a lot of people, it’s better to do landscape wildlife photography worked while you’re sort of in some type of isolation, I’m sure like a lot of hunters are kind of considering something like that to you know, hunters, fishermen, people like hiking or you know, a lot of those solo activities, it’s cool that you know, this kind of this time, sort of is provided a little bit of a reset for probably a lot of people out there to have a bit more time to invest in some of the things that they’d want to, I suppose a lot of folks are probably stuck more in their local area but it’s a great time too, to get to invest in some things that seem more important to you. So that’s what I’ve been trying to do. I hope you guys are doing well. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. You can check out more at Billy Newman’s photo calm I’ve been doing a ton of updates over there. The airplane is taking off. Sounds like prop plans are about to fly over my head. It’s like that scene in North by Northwest. Cary Grant starts getting run down by that biplane.
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That’d be scary. So that’s that in the future. Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast.
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Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com few new things up there some stuff on the homepage and good links to other outbound sources. some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like these blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo.com. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode and the back
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