Croft Trials Club - 3 Middle Aged Men in the Mud

No Sections this time, just very slippery gullies and steep hills ....as always, great fun & great friends, although we missed most of the group

[@jackmckinnon8256]

that looks bloody tricky and hard work :) the camera doesn't do the steepness of that bank justice

[@andybeaman]

Just bought an Insta360x4 to try and get a better perspective (and to stop chopping people’s heads off when camera on my chest mount) TBH I thought it looked ok(ish) until I watched the other two ride it and the shape of the bank throws you vertical at the bottom and I bottled it 😳🤣… it is probably as high as a bedroom window and steep run up with a small gap on an angle… I was too chicken 🐔

[@andybeaman]

I like the 360 footage but if you are close to trees etc there is too much fish eye distortion

[@jackmckinnon8256]

@@andybeaman i'm thinking of getting a go pro to film the trials here in Nova Scotia, what sort of editing program do you use and whats a good starting set-up ??

[@andybeaman]

Hi, my earlier videos are just using iMovie but then I went to Davinci Resolve (the free version) and much better. I have had three GoPros and haven't had any problems. Anything after the 9 has proper image stabilisation which makes a huge improvement. Probably takes me 4 hours to produce a 20 minute video but I enjoy it as much as riding the bike. I will have about 60Gbs of video from a day on the bike so takes ages to filter out the boring bits :-)

[@jackmckinnon8256]

@@andybeaman thanks Andy, thats great info :)