Not a ton of Drone footage here but, a production I am personally very pleased with. This was a truly amazing place in an Isolated and intimidating setting!
Mini 3 Doing BATTLE in Arches National Park, Lost & Found Slot Canyon Adventure!
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Another incredible adventure and story - thanks so much for sharing! Excellent work!!!
RockyMtns
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Great video, as usual. Could you provide a brief tutorial regarding how to zoom in and rotate views as a video in Google Earth? That's a super useful technique. Thanks.
Amazing, as always. You make my day every time I find one of your gem s on this forum. I cannot finds these kinds of rocks here in Miami.
I, too, would greatly appreciate a little tutorial on how in the heck you do the opening map tracing, as mentioned by RockyMtns.
Dale
DaveS
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Great video. So interesting and riveting I don't care that there were only a couple of drone shot in the beginning. Always fun to watch Karl "Yoda" Decker and his Padawav, Spencer, tackle a new adventure!
I did just sign up to use this "studio" version. Looks cool and I am experienced with Key framing but, I have not had the time to train myself with it yet. . . All I do is "create a project" left side menu button, in the basic google earth. Search known places and add or add place marks for places that are not in there. Once you select a place, ie Utah, google gives you their standard view of it. From there double click and use the navigation tool in the lower right corner, Compass, tilt. . .to get a custom view you want, then in the lower right corner a button will appear asking if you want to "Capture new view," that you just established. That is how I Build a "presentation" adding and sequencing all these "views" of each location I want to highlight. Then I play back the presentation by pressing the presentation button. When you do, there are arrow buttons to advance to the next subject in your presentation like a slide show but the camera IS moving between the views not switching frames. . .
All this was a HUGE PITA to learn, many hours and still learning, but a fast learning curve. The next part is the coolest yet the biggest PITA. You can not control 'the path" the camera flies between subjects so you have to continue altering some of the views you capture to adjust the camera's flight path. I like the camera low often so sometimes I'll even add a "Dummy View," No real subject, to keep the camera low while flying up the road/route, whatever. This won't be nearly enough to have you easily building these cool Google earth presentations. Search youtube videos for more, if doing it this way you will likely want to search with Google earth PROJECT in the title. A full tutorial would be a HUGE video in and of itself, days of editing for me but, I do believe with this info it will cut off 10 hours of the hard work and frustrations I endured to get things to where I'm at now. Do note, google earth is outputting 60FPS so in a 30FPS time line you can run 1/2 speed with good results. In settings you can also slow the whole thing down if your internet speeds can not render the google earth scenes fast enough to maintain good detail. Then speed that up in post production. . . It is ALOT of work and learning, as is key framing the arrow to move with google earth as the world whips around. There are many skills earned from years of work and practice for me with no teacher, but with YouTube tutorials. I am please with the payoff but, I do want to move onto the Studio Version so I can have more control and an actual "render" of the clip VS being at the mercy of my slow internet speed, eventually once my priorities are met, moving, trying to stay fit and agile, managing rentals, life in general I think I have to wait till the dead of winter to have a bit of free time for another painful learning process, should be easier since I know much already, fingers crossed!
Cheers Brother!!!
PS the next video coming is SUPER EPIC, Spectacular and Gnarly climb to find two of the Army's Golden Knights Paratroopers Cliff Jumping off the TOP! WOW!
All this was a HUGE PITA to learn, many hours and still learning, but a fast learning curve. The next part is the coolest yet the biggest PITA. You can not control 'the path" the camera flies between subjects so you have to continue altering some of the views you capture to adjust the camera's flight path. I like the camera low often so sometimes I'll even add a "Dummy View," No real subject, to keep the camera low while flying up the road/route, whatever. This won't be nearly enough to have you easily building these cool Google earth presentations. Search youtube videos for more, if doing it this way you will likely want to search with Google earth PROJECT in the title. A full tutorial would be a HUGE video in and of itself, days of editing for me but, I do believe with this info it will cut off 10 hours of the hard work and frustrations I endured to get things to where I'm at now. Do note, google earth is outputting 60FPS so in a 30FPS time line you can run 1/2 speed with good results. In settings you can also slow the whole thing down if your internet speeds can not render the google earth scenes fast enough to maintain good detail. Then speed that up in post production. . . It is ALOT of work and learning, as is key framing the arrow to move with google earth as the world whips around. There are many skills earned from years of work and practice for me with no teacher, but with YouTube tutorials. I am please with the payoff but, I do want to move onto the Studio Version so I can have more control and an actual "render" of the clip VS being at the mercy of my slow internet speed, eventually once my priorities are met, moving, trying to stay fit and agile, managing rentals, life in general I think I have to wait till the dead of winter to have a bit of free time for another painful learning process, should be easier since I know much already, fingers crossed!
Cheers Brother!!!
PS the next video coming is SUPER EPIC, Spectacular and Gnarly climb to find two of the Army's Golden Knights Paratroopers Cliff Jumping off the TOP! WOW!
RockyMtns
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Thanks Karl... and Randy also.........
I'll wait for a snowy day to break into the process.
Thanks again!
I'll wait for a snowy day to break into the process.
Thanks again!
Jack43
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Hi Karl and Randy,
You are insane (positively meant) Holy Cow, from time to time I was afraid for you, how you squeeze through such tight places, just incredible! With me crept in again and again an oppressive feeling, although I sat here in front of the monitor on a comfortable chair!
The Lost and found Canjon is fantastic, and one wonders how nature has created it. Thank you for the very exciting 17 minutes that you have given me with the video...you two crazy guys
cheers and of course looking forward to the next video!
Paul
You are insane (positively meant) Holy Cow, from time to time I was afraid for you, how you squeeze through such tight places, just incredible! With me crept in again and again an oppressive feeling, although I sat here in front of the monitor on a comfortable chair!
The Lost and found Canjon is fantastic, and one wonders how nature has created it. Thank you for the very exciting 17 minutes that you have given me with the video...you two crazy guys
cheers and of course looking forward to the next video!
Paul
Here's the CRAZY PART, later that same evening, after one celebration beer and with swelling confidence we decided to do a very short "easy" canyon with only one rappel. No way to get trapped we reasoned, minimal commitment! So very little risk, even if the rope did get stuck we would be down in one and on our way to the exit. . . we thought. After quickly reading the description we missed a VITAL detail that was not too clear in the route description. We got trapped 50' down a vertical canyon, on a large ledge with 130' to go and no good way to pull the rope!!! It was not set up to pull since the route was described as a single rappel and rope retrieval after completing the canyon!! OMG!
Night was falling quickly as well as the temperature. It ended up being 17 degrees that night. . . I was VERY CONCERNED, holding back panic but prepared and thinking fairly clearly. My adrenaline added considerably to my strength and I made an aggressive but safe choice on how to escape my fear and that prison quickly. I got out in 10 minutes with no upward assistance, just a vertical wall with a few unreliable features and a double rope to pull on manually run through my rappel device at my harness to rest on and arrest a fall, something I have done before, getting Spencer out being a heavy non rock climber was ROUGH even with as much assistance as I could give him. . . which was LOTS! I promised him I would have him out. I was his only chance and we both knew it.
There were easier, more time consuming ways, using prusik knots with slings that I did have but, with darkness approaching and freezing temps I felt the clock was ticking and it would only get more difficult to operate. We both climbed out "Protected by the rope(s)" in the event of a fall, which did happened to me when brittle sand stone flake broke under foot, one of the few helpful features. . .gone. . .hurling at Spencer. . .
I think I did make the right call as Spencer escaped just as it become completely black, zero light pollution and no moon. It was an eerie feeling hiking out in total darkness with only the i phone flashlight which was using up its battery! Spencer had dropped his phone during his struggle to climb out. . . Several times we turned my phone off to save power and witness a staggering bright sphere of stars and the Milky way blanketing the sky above while moving through the cold in complete darkness. The whole scene had me feeling very very small, weak, and vulnerable. The GPS map on my phone was our only sure link to the truck and I knew it. The battery level was slowly eroding our only sure link to shelter and reasonably enduring the coming sub-freezing night. DRAMA! Completely true story in every detail, cool easy little canyon got super scary for me! The battery easily lasted, we got back to the truck no issues in 15 minutes and watched a cartoon movie on my I pad over a warm freeze dried dinner! Spence did wake up that night at 4AM, left the back bed and slept in the cab with the truck running and heat on full blast and he is a big warm Scandinavian sleeper. . . No ****, LOL. We did the canyon the next morning and found Spencer's phone. I was SUPER Nervous, all went smoothly. Video of it all but the part where I thought survival was more important than cameras, the escape. . .
Night was falling quickly as well as the temperature. It ended up being 17 degrees that night. . . I was VERY CONCERNED, holding back panic but prepared and thinking fairly clearly. My adrenaline added considerably to my strength and I made an aggressive but safe choice on how to escape my fear and that prison quickly. I got out in 10 minutes with no upward assistance, just a vertical wall with a few unreliable features and a double rope to pull on manually run through my rappel device at my harness to rest on and arrest a fall, something I have done before, getting Spencer out being a heavy non rock climber was ROUGH even with as much assistance as I could give him. . . which was LOTS! I promised him I would have him out. I was his only chance and we both knew it.
There were easier, more time consuming ways, using prusik knots with slings that I did have but, with darkness approaching and freezing temps I felt the clock was ticking and it would only get more difficult to operate. We both climbed out "Protected by the rope(s)" in the event of a fall, which did happened to me when brittle sand stone flake broke under foot, one of the few helpful features. . .gone. . .hurling at Spencer. . .
I think I did make the right call as Spencer escaped just as it become completely black, zero light pollution and no moon. It was an eerie feeling hiking out in total darkness with only the i phone flashlight which was using up its battery! Spencer had dropped his phone during his struggle to climb out. . . Several times we turned my phone off to save power and witness a staggering bright sphere of stars and the Milky way blanketing the sky above while moving through the cold in complete darkness. The whole scene had me feeling very very small, weak, and vulnerable. The GPS map on my phone was our only sure link to the truck and I knew it. The battery level was slowly eroding our only sure link to shelter and reasonably enduring the coming sub-freezing night. DRAMA! Completely true story in every detail, cool easy little canyon got super scary for me! The battery easily lasted, we got back to the truck no issues in 15 minutes and watched a cartoon movie on my I pad over a warm freeze dried dinner! Spence did wake up that night at 4AM, left the back bed and slept in the cab with the truck running and heat on full blast and he is a big warm Scandinavian sleeper. . . No ****, LOL. We did the canyon the next morning and found Spencer's phone. I was SUPER Nervous, all went smoothly. Video of it all but the part where I thought survival was more important than cameras, the escape. . .
Jack43
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OMG and holy smoke, This reads like a mega exciting thriller! You have really had huge luck and that makes me of course enormously happy Karl! It's gone well and certainly you learned some new things again I think
cheers and thanks for the thriller
Paul
cheers and thanks for the thriller
Paul
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