My First Video!

[Arkman]

I bought a little go pro for our trip to Jamaica and I finally got around to editing one of the videos. I still have some more to edit and maybe some changes to this one, but here it is so far.

This was also my first time using any camera underwater and first time editing. I hope you like it!

[vimeo]23133548[/vimeo]

 

[a22shady]

cool video

 

[Michael Kazma]

Nicely done! Im amazed at how little life there was. Last time I went to Jamaica there was tones.

 

[Arkman]

Out of the 7 day dives we did this one was probably the one with the least amount of life. Some of the other ones were a lot better. It was still super crazy awesome for me. My last dive before that the water was 42* and viz was about 5-8ft. We saw zero fish. Jamaica was quite the change.

Anyone have any advice/critique on the video.

 

[electrix]

Good job! What did you use for editing? I made my first go pro uw video Saturday need to edit now.

 

[Arkman]

I used premiere pro and after effects. It was very overwhelming and I probably did it all wrong

Thats the only think I happened to have, because my wife bought it with her adobe master collection. If you use a mac, iMovie might be a better option. I think it comes with it and it's fairly easy (i think). Otherwise premiere elements might be good. I don't really know anything about video editing.

 

[jdandvalerie]

Nice video. Just out of curiosity, were you diving at Swept Away. My wife and I were there a year or so ago and had one of the guys (Capt Jack Sparrow), on the boat. He was actually the Captain at the time. Real name was Wade...favorite saying was "Oh my God...."

 

[Arkman]

Thanks for the comment. No we weren't we were at sandals in Ocho Rios. I think the DM name was Shavon. They just called him Jack Sparrow. How was swept away? My co-worker goes there every year and just loves it. I had a blast at sandals, I can't imagine anything like that being bad. All of the people were awesome so friendly...and FUNNY...damn they were funny.

 

[HowardE]

Nice Job... Keep it up!

One thing that several pros have told me is... "Try to keep your scenes to 7 seconds" this cuts down on shaking in the frame, etc...

 

[jdandvalerie]

Swept Away was great...I think most of the dive operations use the same nick names. I wouldn't specifically go there again for diving, beautiful reefs, great vis, but overfishing led to very little in the way of fish. The resort was great.