My latest video is up on Youtube. It took a little bit longer than I expected mainly because of the voice over. Where I’m staying if there are people around I can’t record. I’ve got just a basic microphone and it pickups everything, I mean everything. If a person coughs down the hall it’s on the recording. Anyway, I was delayed two days but everything is good now.

Although I think that I am improving in a lot of areas there is one area that has been a little bit difficult, and that’s on sound. I’m not sure how to put this, but I know the basics of sound editing, but there are so many variables that I start to get confused. This video has four tracks, sound track for the video, sound effects for clicks, background music, and narration. They all have differing volumes and each need to be adjusted. I’m guessing, but on this video I’d say there was about forty or fifty clips with sound and each need to work together… it can be mind numbing at times.

The description on youtube:

A few years ago I spent some time in Nepal. If you’ve seen my Varanasi video, I left for Nepal shortly after being there. Anyway, I had a great time in Nepal. In Chitwan National Park we rode elephants, bathed elephants, took a canoe ride down the Rapti River, and then were given a cultural show by some high school students. It was a great time.

I don’t have very much footage of my time in Kathmandu, but what I do have shows what it would be like to live there. So busy and so many people walking around, and surprisingly, at least where we were there weren’t any cars.

Then I went for a plane ride to view Mt. Everest. I still have a hard time thinking that I would pay for a flight to see it. I didn’t want the opportunity to slip past me though so I ponied up the money and got to see in context what Mt. Everest actually looks like.

If I’ve done my count correctly, this is my tenth video since I started up a couple of months ago. I am starting to feel a little more comfortable talking into a microphone, and I think it’s starting to show. Let me know what you think.

Please leave a comment to give me some feedback, It’s tough getting people to watch my videos, so you could be a true hero to me if you watch and leave a comment.