DSLR Beginners Series Episode 2 - The Edit

Ok, it's episode 2 time. In this episode we look at the process of importing footage, how to bring it into the timeline adding some music and doing some basic editing.

Hopefully the quality will be quite a bit higher now and I hope it sets you up with some basic editing skills. Also, you can always go to my Vimeo channel and watch it in HD!

DSLR Beginners Series - Episode 2 The Edit from Simon Wadsworth on Vimeo.

I hope that helps, comment if you need anything!

DSLR Beginners Series Episode 1 - Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Setup

So here it is the first video tutorial in the series. Enjoy, apologies for the sound quality, the next one will be better.

DSLR Beginners Series - Episode 1 Premiere Project Settings from Simon Wadsworth on Vimeo.

I'll put the next one up this afternoon and it will cover getting your bins sorted, where to put your footage and the start of the edit.

At any point if you want something included in a tutorial just ask in a comment.

Addition to the blog

Hi everybody,

I'm adding a new element to this blog starting today. I've been starting to make a few little films with my new camera and I'm loving it big time. It's a Canon 60d with a few bits of cheap glass on it. The first (very short) film is here for your viewing pleasure.

Leah Crane - Winter Slackine from Simon Wadsworth on Vimeo.

I shot it for my girlfriend Leah as she was trying to get some showbiz job slack lining between two cars (she didn't get it, boo). It was a last minute rush job before we went to Greece for a climbing trip which generated another short film but is far from finished yet!

I've been scouring the internet for all sorts of tutorials to get this stuff learnt as quickly as possible and there is some great stuff out there namely www.philipbloom.net in his education section. The only thing that I have noticed is (obviously) everyone concentrates on their platform and that is very often Mac and FCP. I don't like Macs and I'm more than happy to argue until the sun goes down about why. I am not saying they are bad, I just don't like them end of story.

As a result I thought it was time someone started doing some basic, decent quality tutorials from the beginning of the learning curve through to a finished short film. I'm going to use the Slacklining video as an example to start with and post some tutorials that will show the way I worked on it on my Windows 7 PC.

It'll probably go up in a few hours hope you like it and please comment on everything as it's the only way I'll be able to make things better.

The start of the training

Okay, so I've jumped in at the deep-end with the training and I'm hitting it as hard as possible. It's now been one week since the regime began and I'm seriously drained but I need to keep going to see what my body is made of, I'm pretty sure if I push it too hard I'll soon know about it.

Step one a little endurance work to get myself eased into things. This consisted of 4 days of heavy endurance sessions and 2 days of campussing. That's 6 hardcore sessions in a week and left me with only one day for recovery. I must admit, I was ruined by Sunday.

So this week, the second week of my training and it's time to start getting strong so I am purely campussing this week. Well, that was the plan anyway. Monday consisted of a full campus session followed by a full size session on the comp wall at the climbing works and yesterday was the Westway comp followed by a campus session. My forearms feel completely blown out but I need to keep hammering away at it and not let it start to slide. This evening it's a footless session in the garage on a load of crimps and assisted one arm pull-ups on crimps, nice :(

At the moment I'm not sure what grades I'm climbing but up until now I've probably been at around 7c bouldering and 8a sport as my max redpointing grades (I did do a 7c+ but only one). I really want to tick an 8a boulder and an E8 but it's going to have to wait for a little while. At present I'm way, way, way off the pace of the British bouldering team so it will be interesting to see how my climbing improves now I'm "on it".

Anyway, procrastination over, I'm going out for some training.

Back in the UK

Well hello there! We have now been back from our travels for 3 months now and are well and truly back to the grindstone! Leah's doing the coaching and setting thing in London and I've started my own business doing Audio Visual Installations. We did the BBC's and Leah came second and I came 21st which I was pretty pleased with considering I'm out of shape and weak.

In theory I will soon be going on a new routing trip to a secret location and the ultimate goal from now is to get ready for BBC's 2012. It's a long way off but I need as much time as I can get.