The lightning tree video
I had so much to learn in order to get this video together. Not all of it was tree related.
It has been years since I have done any video editing in anger. To be precise it has been just under twenty years. Needless to say things have changed a lot since then and so has the software. I’ve been using DaVinci Resolve to edit the videos I’ve been making recently and I have to say I am blown away by the fact you can get so much for free these days. There’s a bit of a learning curve, and this video had me smashed right into that curve. It has been an epic easter adventure of tree work, video editing and voiceovers.
If you’re reading this post and you’ve not yet read the back story behind this tree, then I’d encourage you to do so - you can read it here - “The Lightning Tree is Down”.
Between getting this getting the tree down, recording it, editing the video, cracking on with the woodland and almost closing out my first year at college, it really feels like I am getting somewhere with this Life of Treedom adventure. Anyway, enough babbling from me. Here’s the video…