Thoughts after Mae Hong Son

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[@KelsVaughne]

i found your channel like 2 days ago and i swear ive watched at least 10 hours of your videos since ... your channel is a freaking god send 🙌🏽

[@jaretf8305]

If you haven't watched Fancy California yet (kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnyyi5aGn5mJnLc) it's one of my personal favourites. Same with When your Girlfriend Moves into your Apartment (kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGOvaIt7obd4lbM)

[@azialifaziz6652]

We've all had that phase 😂

[@rkhcreative7761]

Kraig Adams; the hidden gem of youtube.

[@zidanelai1231]

Thank you Kraig making this video. I obsessed with the Mae Hong Son Loop video that you made. Travel it should be very chill and slow down the footstep, the first time I watch the Mae Hong Son loop, I like the moment that you capture, explaining, exploring, also very obsessed with the moment that start from 8:00 - 8:57 from the Mae Hong Son video, I was searching the music, apparently the playlist in musicbed recommend of Kraig Adams doesn't show what is the name of the song. And I glad that you make this video, so now I know the song name was Fireflies by Timbre in 0:57. Thank you Kraig, I know you more into hiking recently, hopefully can see more this kind of travel video from you again. Thank you for inspiring me, thank you Kraig, and musicbed.

[@CarlMateo]

I love seeing these types of videos, it's cool to see what happens in people's minds while editing

[@LincolnintheAdirondacks]

As a travel vlogger, I’ve always admired your travel vlogs. They’re perfect! Especially the ol’ super vlogs

[@bradowens4137]

Hey great stuff man! You really get it about how awesome it feels to live off a small motorbike in remote areas. I traveled solo on a motorbike in Vietnam in 2016 and it was the most fun I have ever had. You have inspired me to organize my GoPro footage and edit my own travel videos. I am planning a new motorbike trip this summer-I will take more footage this time! Keep up the great work!

[@jaretf8305]

Thanks for the great breakdown Kraig. I'm glad you get to talk about the process & your thoughts as it gives us a look into your perspective. Hopefully, you make it up to the Yukon this summer & enjoy the slow & quiet life. I'd suggest making a detour to Atlin & Carcross, BC as well as Haines, AK. Cheers.

[@MegaMiniMedia]

I had a lot of trouble figuring out what to film and what not to film during a recent trip to the UK (which I'll be posting in vlog form soon), and I wish I would have watched this video first! This will definitely help with my next travel vlog, thanks for posting your process! I also loved your point about documenting instead of creating, I've been trying to live by that mantra lately.

[@CVDL]

Thanks for sharing the BTS! You have the EXACT same gear that I'm bringing with me on my around the world trip starting next month, where I'll be documenting the journey as I go, and I absolutely love the look and style of your videos, which gives me hope I can match even a fraction of your quality. Thanks again!

[@Pasecologne]

Hi Kraig, thx for the Video - really nice to see your workflow on the mae hong son film. We did the exact same trip on a 500cc Motorbike 2 weeks ago. We loved it the most in Thailand. Best: Ban Rak Thai Village and the tea :-) Keep it coming and all the best from Germany!

[@timtense]

Just found your channel and I thought that I knew you from somewhere, haha. I'm a fan of your style. Really cool, and great tutorial!

[@sunaalmathew4124]

Thanks for this Kraig! Love your videos. I think information like this would be great to share over a conversation but you do a great job at explaining your thought process throughout the making of your videos, which is super helpful for early creators and beginners like myself. Looking forward to your new content!

[@brenoestrella7905]

You inspire me a lot! I’m going to Japan in June and I decided to make my first travel vlog most because of your videos. About this video, Debussy is the best!

[@xmartyxcorex]

You killed it brother! I recently finished up a week in Vietnam with a local family and am proud as hell of the video that came out of it. We share a lot of similarities about both travel and filmmaking. Keep it up dude!

[@davidfding]

I absolutely love your videos! I am truly inspired by your style of travel videos. I am going to be taking a trip in under two months and intend to shoot with my iPhone 8 with an Osmo Mobile 2. So I think this will be an epic experience filming loads during a trip.

[@canmurtezaoglu]

Kudos on the algorithm liking the video that you created. That's a rare candy. Keep up the good work!

[@quqco]

I really appreciate you uploading this video! I've always wondered what your process was like-- and it was really amazing to take a peek into how you think and the reasoning for your aesthetic choices. Thank you for sharing this with us :)

[@TravelTasters]

Nice video! It's quite helpful to see workflow of others creators, and you really put te story first. Great work! :)

[@joshuastclairmusic]

Kraig thank you so much! You have quickly become my favourite KZbinr. Cheers from New Zealand!

[@MikeWilley]

Great video Kraig. I love the behind the scenes stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[@BrettHarvey]

This is so inspiring, I'm hooked to your channel now...👍

[@thegeldenhuys6159]

Love your content Kraig, have watched so much of it over the past 2 weeks!

[@Larslarson00]

you're my hero kraig- would love to see some bts akin to wedding film school, like handheld techniques, etc. but really appreciate all your content. great way to start the day

[@Kingman1359]

Please do more "how I made this" videos after each travel video. When you thought to shoot, what you were thinking when shooting, how you choose your music, how you apply music to the video, what you're thinking while you apply music, your thought process when trying to evoke emotions during your video. Like do you try to recapture the emotion you felt? Or was it more of a trying to create an emotion in us after rewatching the footage? Thanks so much for uploading this!! Love the content

[@madyati]

At last .. at last .. at last .. so grateful 🙏

[@AlexUgarte]

Loved this man! I appreciate the small insights that a beginner may miss. Great job!

[@SteveCoutts]

Enjoyed the walk-through. Helpful. Thanks dude.

[@socaljoe]

Your films are like a Terrence Malick movie, they capture a feeling, the atmosphere of the journey.

[@ricketts0]

Great video! Found you because I’m a new Sony A7iii owner. Really appreciate the tutorial. I’m an amateur that just wants to take more cinematic family videos. Keep up the great work and yes please to more training BTS vids!

[@KostasLazanas]

Thanks kraig this is great my man!! Loved all of this!!!

[@felipfidelis]

just an incredible work!

[@dep1001]

Great vid, Kraig! Thanks! This is making me realise how much I miss your behind the scenes vids on Wedding Film School. So inspiring and I don't even shoot weddings. Will you be doing something like that again in the future?

[@rustyintheoutdoors]

Hey Kraig, love these "one on one" style videos. Keep it up!

[@mohdsufimdsahimi28]

Superb video kraig 🙏🙏 keep on inspiring people! Cheers 🥂

[@AngcoolJay]

I watched ur thailand vlog and was really amazed and fascinated altho there’s nothing new coz all ur videos generally effortlessly fascinate me. And watching this, i can see all ur hard work. Made me respect u more, as an artist, as a vlogger, and as a person. Please continue inspiring us

[@adventuresofjandk]

Wish more of these guys would actually respond to viewers questions.

[@OFBCyclingWorld]

Nice to see more people using in camera colour defaults rather than log or whatever then have to colour grade. Good on ya Kraig

[@Porpimm]

Hello from Thailand, your channel is so helpful to me. Thank you for sharing

[@jcbouden]

Thanks for sharing Kraig. Cheers from France

[@azrinaz8993]

Master Storyteller, The Sam Mendez of Vlogger. Appreciate the BTS

[@JB-sj4po]

Love your videos kraig. Unique and inspirational

[@TCCR]

Thanks for the breakdown. By the way, I listened to your podcast about second guessing yourself. Just know that you provide way more value to your audience than you think. The combination of entertainment and education is greatly appreciated and inspiring. Keep going.

[@riogaming329]

Just come to Indonesia and get summit semeru mountain. I hope I can accompany for your trip on there

[@RCodyWanner]

when will FCPX create a one button click that detaches audio, expands the front and back by 4 frames, and then creates the cross fade. That needs to be a thing. Also, would love to "interview" you on the next one, ask questions to guide the tutorial, etc.

[@jakubkrasnowski]

Thumb up for a shortcut in FCPX. Two thumbs more for you interviewing Kraig with his next video ;)

[@sentimental7167]

Thanks for doing this! Great work! Not only great vlog but watching you doing this is like learning a language, very informative and clear. My question would be, how do you organize your footage before you start editing? You must have a plan in mind, so would it rather be technical order, like type of footage, perspectives, movements or more motives?

[@-grey]

How do you template out your day to reduce over shooting? What points and markers are you looking for as well as food and coffee? What are some typical shots that you go every time to keep in the pocket to connect moments together? I really want to get into filming my travels, but I think I will spend a lot of time failing, shooting banal and uninteresting stuff that doesn't link, or define the passage of time. So yeah,are there any tent pole type moments that allow the space between for experimentation, while keeping a coherent forward motion?

[@RCodyWanner]

That's so awesome that they made the donation to the charity!!!!! ahhh I love that.

[@DorisHikingAdventures]

Hi Kraig, amazing video again! I was wondering how much time you would usually spend editing?

[@QuickReviewShow]

As a tech reviewer, the amount of editing is insane as a lot of our client will want the video to be redo.

[@anchorsanvils]

I have no idea how you don't have 100 million subscribers by now. KZbin step up your game.

[@Thailand-Wanderer]

Thanks for sharing Craig!

[@efetack]

What about a Live-Video here on KZbin, so we could Q&A a bit ... thank you for the insights and inspirations. Stay awesome as you are.

[@CrimsonEsso]

I would have watched the hour long version for sure. You got a sub.

[@pehpehh_1993]

I really like your vids! Love the smooth cinematographic visuals. I’d like to know how you choose your images/angels. And how you make them look sooo smooth and beautifull. Do you use a specific filter on your lens?

[@mixa3]

If you're going to make second video: The narrative. How do you create a narrative? Is the story happens in editing or you trying to shoot something specific? How do you decide on what to shoot? What about angles?

[@MickaelFjaere]

Been following your content for a while Craig, since you wedding days! I must say I like your sense of humour and awesome videos, myself I am still a rookie on filmmaking, (yes they are shitty videos lol) but I am struggling to learn every day. That said, I have a question, why the hell sometimes when I upload videos to KZbin they are with amazing clean quality and others noisy, grainy and falling apart lol... I know we have to be careful with the rule of shutter etc.. But I just uploaded a video and it’s crap lol... I used a a7iii with 16-35mm F4 only at F8 almost all the time lol. Really sad I haven’t got this figured. Thanks in advanced and keep up the amazing content.

[@Romarides]

I did the Mae Hong Son Loop on my bicycle, Best views i've seen in northern Thailand!

[@ramone011]

Keep on great work, thank you!

[@hoeyba]

Hang in there Kraig! You make a difference 8)

[@TylerRostedt]

Kraig If you're ever in Utah I'll sit with you and ask you a million questions for a BTS on any travel film.

[@sebvky]

This is awesome, can you make this into a series?

[@spainrevealed]

Hi Kraig! Loved the original video and this one. One question - what file format do you upload to KZbin to ensure maximum quality on KZbin? ProRes?

[@jim-runepedersen7415]

KZbin automaticaly converts ProRes (.mov) to .mp4. I recommend exporting in codec H.264 Better quality (.mp4). I also recommend that you export to computer/hard drive before uploading to KZbin

[@theonlywaytofly]

This is great! Thanks!

[@yulianinoriega8598]

Heres a suggestion, have you thought of making these kinds of videos into a live stream session? Thanks for sharing

[@anushanruban]

Lecturing video. However, when I've documented my travel films, I design it in my mind as a "vlog", following different things that I experienced during the travel. But the music determines most of my cuts, how do I come out of that mindset? In my mind I feel that each time a beat drops or something specific in the music, I've to cut.. It feel natural to cut during a melodic part. Can you talk a bit about that?

[@copcu64]

First and foremost ,I'd like to thank you for all your amazing work and videos. Can you please also advise on which transitions you used. Thank you

[@DiqaunColeman]

My man Kraig on the scene!

[@MarkBradfield]

Kraig, love your channel and your stories. When you work on most of your projects (personal), do you storyboard your films first (even loosely), or go, shoot and then figure out how to best tell your story once you've accumulated your footage?

[@RandyRides]

You should just do these live next time... I think that's what you were getting at! :)

[@WorldAhoy]

Super interesting to listen to your process - especially the bike motif for example. Are there any functions you miss in Final Cut? I basically hate Apple, but I'm willing to switch from Microsoft if the software is promising :D

[@dannyi9734]

Another great video. What are you using to hold the camera hands-free when not filming?

[@ExplorewithSvetlin]

Amazing approach to vlogging.

[@AivarsMeijers]

You mentioned that some part is captured on the iPhone. I'm curious could you film and edit travel vlog like this with iPhone and iPad only? I'm using iPad + LumaFusion to edit, but those are just simple family video movies.

[@jordantopp]

Not a bad idea to have someone local to you, come in with their questions and you two have a conversation and turn it into the Shoot and Edit video.

[@dazzysnaps9571]

thanks for taking the time to put this together. I think I saw you took your laptop with you? Do you dump the footage on your laptop while you're traveling and start to edit a bit over there? What's your process around that side of things?

[@CaryC88]

I’d like to learn how to add voice overs and music more than what iMovie allows (just adding audio linearly). Any recommended resources or YT videos?

[@phriend2spin]

Honest question, have you thought about trying out editing on a newer iPad Pro? You can access files directly from an external drive wit iOS 13. Seems like a good mobile workstation now.

[@mon17razor72]

GENIUS!!!👍👍👍 looks good!

[@1000lifelessons]

This was insanely valuable. Love these deconstructions. Quick question. How long do the various phases of the editing process take you? Eg. Marking in and outs of raw footage to trimming to 20 mins to 10 mins to finalizing with sound. I feel like my projects take way too long. I might be doing something wrong lol

[@WhenWillILearn]

Do you have any sources of inspiration for these films are do you feel like it’s all original? They’re so different from the classic youtube travel video. Really inspiring. Thanks

[@mon17razor72]

BTW when you are coming back to the wedding film channel? I need more tutorials!!!

[@marvtadakie]

Hope you do a live stream on the BTS stuff so you could get questions while going over stuff. In the future.

[@AlexAbsolute]

i literally find it either so easy to edit down or so hard, depends on the video

[@cottonuke]

Don’t you worry that with all the bumps on the road，the camera and lens might get damaged under the motorcycle seat?

[@KIXPLORE]

Hey Kraig, Great work. im a fan. just wanted to ask, do you plan what you're guna say or do you have a process on how to create your story? thanks and keep up the good work :)

[@GregoryLeow]

What typefaces and fonts do you use for your videos?

[@JonatanCastro-secondary]

Craig what happened with the MacBook Air? Not using it anymore to edit?

[@bigworldtravellers2664]

Awesome video. How long did it take you to edit the video?

[@bigworldtravellers2664]

@@kraigadams thanks, amazing result! Cheers for the reply

[@patriotdrone]

Kraig, on your Mavic do you use the h.265 codec or stick to h.264? As always, superb content!

[@isaact0ng]

Thank you so much for sharing. Which tripod did you take with you?

[@ralphvincent960]

Hey Mr. Adams I ran into your channel by searching digital minimalism. I'm thinking of starting my own, I have no video editing experience. I own a S9+ and was thinking of using it to shoot videos. Do you recommend using a Macbook air, or Macbook Pro?

[@PhilipHeuser]

thumbs up for the wild and crazy youtube channel :D

[@NisankaeNsp]

Legend! ✊🏽 I used to think KZbin Algorithm is just another form of AI; but now I believe there’s life in it!!! 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for the tutorial, it's really helpful! So your timeline is 23.98p although you shoot on 4k 24fps? If I shoot on PAL, should I set my base to 23.98p as well or 25p?

[@bbrunorocha]

most cameras shoot at 23.98 but in practice i don't really see the difference. Set the same as what the menu says

[@rodrigomafra1645]

you definitely have an audience! yep Im here

[@skeetdeetdee]

I see you're using a 13inch macbook pro, have you switched from the air to the pro?

[@cyrilanne]

Thanks a lot for this video ;) just 2 questions : do you work with proxy files ? Did you try Luma fusion with iPad Pro ? (minimalist way of working ;)

[@giovannitagliabue]

hi! Nice! Can you just tell how you export the videos in fcp? what settings to use to export and upload on youtube? thank u

[@naufalmillenovanto7678]

great "how to" video, really inspire me. would be nice if ryan gosling there hehehehehe

[@rameshonline]

How much time did you spend on editing? Not on this but the original video.

[@Yonghing]

what about the template from instagram at the end of every vlog? love that