It looks as though it would be(a lot better).I'd been thinking of posting some film but its a shame it loses so much in convertion.What a great bird though. Finches are special. There's a bend in a country road where I film Twite, Linnet, Chaffinch and Goldfinch taking grit. They're regular as clockwork.
Well, you have to take a balanced view - it's seen by the maximum possible audience, it can take any format, its fast, its free, anyone can find your clip easily - the loss of quality is the downside. If you look at some of the network TV programmes or professional music videos on YouTube & think what it cost to make them, and look at how they look on YouTube, it's amazing that a clip filmed on a Coolpix 4500 attached to a telescope is watchable at all. Where do you film your Twite?
You're right. It's a great medium. I've been watching clips of North American Warblers- a favourite goup of mine, and most of which I've never seen on film before. There is also often a certain adhoc charm not only in amateur footage but in the texture of posted films, even though it is in equal measure frustrating. The place where I film the Twite taking grit is in Perthshire. In the same place I've seen ten or eleven raptor species and most recently film of Ring Ousels and Short-eared Owl.
Part of the problem is the amount of pixelation that you get converting to YouTube format - the original is actually a good bit better (but not perfect)
It looks as though it would be(a lot better).I'd been thinking of posting some film but its a shame it loses so much in convertion.What a great bird though. Finches are special. There's a bend in a country road where I film Twite, Linnet, Chaffinch and Goldfinch taking grit. They're regular as clockwork.
folkq 3 years ago
Well, you have to take a balanced view - it's seen by the maximum possible audience, it can take any format, its fast, its free, anyone can find your clip easily - the loss of quality is the downside. If you look at some of the network TV programmes or professional music videos on YouTube & think what it cost to make them, and look at how they look on YouTube, it's amazing that a clip filmed on a Coolpix 4500 attached to a telescope is watchable at all. Where do you film your Twite?
sligobirding 3 years ago
You're right. It's a great medium. I've been watching clips of North American Warblers- a favourite goup of mine, and most of which I've never seen on film before. There is also often a certain adhoc charm not only in amateur footage but in the texture of posted films, even though it is in equal measure frustrating. The place where I film the Twite taking grit is in Perthshire. In the same place I've seen ten or eleven raptor species and most recently film of Ring Ousels and Short-eared Owl.
folkq 3 years ago
nice film, pity about the pixelation
folkq 3 years ago
Part of the problem is the amount of pixelation that you get converting to YouTube format - the original is actually a good bit better (but not perfect)
sligobirding 3 years ago
great video
myjugsarehuge 4 years ago