Thanks Sunbeam, your comment is really appreciated. The act of the first step in making a video is of course the original filming & doing that, while navigating or in a any tight spot can be difficult or even add to the danger as illustrated by my explanation of the bear standing sequence. The Mokai & C-Dory are controlled using the right hand other than the C-Dory helm & so is my camera, so in the midst of some challenging circumstance there can be, while filming, considerable shifting of camera & controls. Sometimes JoLee will film, but she would much rather enjoy, what we are seeng at the time, than try to preserve it on video, as would myself at times, though not so much for me, because I've changed from a hunter of animals with a rifle or shotgun to hunting them & the recording of adventures by camera.
I too prefer a narration when viewing this type of video, but it does make editing more difficult. In fact the whole editing process was much more trying this time. I use a Sony HD camera & Sony uses a different video format that hasn't matched well with most editing programs, so in the past, I've used their Sony Vargas editing software. With the loss of my dell notebook computer from this last trip, I have started using a Mac, which was given to me by one our sons. For this, I bought the new Adobe Elements 14 editing software. learning the Mac & editing software of which the software for my video editing purpose is not user friendly, combined with not doing any editing since 2012 made this a time consuming challenge. YouTube added to the difficulty by making a new channel with this video, that I can't combine with my original pre Google-YouTube joined channel, that has 22 movies & many subscribers. It takes two hours to upload a 15 minute HD video to YouTube & I did this four times with deletions trying to make it go to my original channel along with many hours learning how Google & YouTube work to figure out a process that might work. Nothing would, so just to see the channel that has all my past C-Brat video links, I have to use the C-Btat links or do a video search using the title of one of my old videos or something similar & my present YouTube/Google account only brings up & shows me having this one uploaded video.
I realize this is much more than most want to know, but your appreciated comments led me to a explanation of some of the challenges in the video making process.
Jay
