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Scott Mensing
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Over the past couple of years, Bo and I primarily used his handheld Sony HandyCam for all of our filming. It worked great for what we needed and we learned A LOT with that little camera. But since we've been fortunate enough to make the next step up into the filming industry with Midwest Whitetail, we needed to take the next step with our equipment.
Late last week the man in the little brown truck dropped off a package that Bo and I had been eagerly awaiting - a Sony DSR-PD150 digital camcorder. We studied and reviewed so many different camera manufacturers, models, styles, etc. before making this decision.....I was just glad we finally came to an agreement and bought the camera that met our needs the best - the Sony PD150.
We have started messing around with the camcorder a little bit and it is easily going to take us all summer to get all of the settings and adjustments set and fully understood. Just the smallest tweak on these cameras can make so much of a difference in the picture. But hopefully by September 15, we will be experts with the PD150! We are extremely excited to see how this camera is going to better our filming capabilities so make sure to check out our first Midwest Whitetail video for the Great Plains show, which should hopefully be uploaded sometime in August.
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Scott Mensing
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Turkeys
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Video
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
I was able to put together a short version of the footage from Friday morning's Missouri turkey harvest last night. Later in May, we plan on compiling all of our footage from our turkey hunts from this spring and put together a full length video of our turkey hunting experience from this spring.
It seems that with more practice/experience with iMovie (Mac's video editing software), the films are becoming much easier and quicker to produce. Depending on the footage, we may be able to start having two or three minute videos each week showing our hunts - which would be a great add to our blog. Also, some time this week, the little brown truck should be dropping off a new Canon HV40 camcorder that is capable of filming in full 1080 HD. I cannot imagine what our new videos will look like under full HD conditions, but hopefully we will be able to find out this weekend!
We hope you enjoy the video. Please let us know what you like and what you don't.... We are always open to suggestions on how to make our films better for the viewers. It can be tough seeing some of the small things when you have been looking at this footage for 5 - 10 hours... Anyways, Bo and I are really happy with how the video turned out and we hope all of you are as well.
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Scott Mensing
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Turkeys
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Video
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
I was finally able to put together our first full video for Bo's recent turkey hunt on our Kansas lease. It's amazing how an hour of footage turns into a five minute film. Editing definitely isn't as easy as some people make it out to be. But, I think the video turned out pretty well for our first shot and I hope everyone enjoys the clip. Thanks for the camera work too Ben. I'm sure as the season progresses, our filming and editting abilities should get much better. Make sure to turn up the volume! Enjoy!
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