AJ Courier-a Part 2 - Streets of Papakura
0Sing the sub-title to the tune of Streets of Philadelphia for the full effect.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zxy6igcMps
Not just Papakura, of course, but the rail replacement bus continues to take us up Great South Road, passing through Takanini, and Te Mahia, until we reach Manurewa train station. Lots of traffic around this time of day, just after noon, on a Saturday, and while there are bus lanes at some points, there are none in others, and lots of annoying intersections and merging points anyway that render them fairly moot a lot of the time. So we do not travel as far as the video duration might suggest.
This time I did not have to combine one large video with any smaller one (my phone only records up to 4GB at a time before automatically splitting to other files, that is usually around the 20 minute mark, so we came in just under here) so I did not bother loading it into HitFilm Express, which is what I normally use to combine files, and at the same time apply a sharpening effect to slightly counter the fixed focus of my phone's wider angle lens. So the text on some of the shopfronts might not be as sharp as the other, I am actually curious whether it makes much different, especially after applying YouTube's transcoding.
Once again, I have only run the audio through a bit of a high pass filter, and slightly dropped the overall volume, so those who want just the general feeling of being on the bus themselves can do so.
Or you can throw on some favourite tunes as if you had noise cancelling headphones on. Maybe leave the video at around 20% or so for that experience.
Personal listening recommendation, for the run-time of the video, I suggest the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ONiiK1ZKs
I know little about the subject matter but the music is on point.
To be continued...
Additional content available on Patreon, including some behind the scenes and exclusive short walks: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57001491
Camera: LG G7 ThinQ, wide angle F/1.9, 16mm focal length, fixed focus
Audio editing: Audacity
Recombine audio: XMedia Recode
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