Three Boards, One Day

A cheeky little edit that sort of made itself whilst filming Freestyle rider Tom Steele for the day. The plan was to warm up at this spot and head onto some big street obstacles to get some footage together. Unfortunately, as Tom is all muscle, he weighs about 20 stone and two boards couldn't quite withstand his bulky tech skills. The third just about held out as long as my camera battery.

Still, I feel this video has a moral life message that we can all learn, 'if you try hard, you'll make it one day'. Even if you get some broken bones in the process and spend all of your money on errrrrrrr, boards just keep trying and you might land that trick just as your camera battery dies.

The real message though is that 'if you lie to people you can get what you want quicker than trying hard'. My battery wasn't really going to cut out, I just got all psychological on Tom's ass to focus his feet onto his board. Which worked. HEELS TO WHEELS, that's my motto.

Over and out

Lt Meat

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• Tom Steele
• switch heelflip
• freestyle
• skateboarder
• skateboards
• newport
• skateboarding
• hari mehrotra
• craig scriven
• mike walton
• lies
• canon 7D
• magic bullet

[planbsk8r33]

nice did you color grade with magic bullet ?

[LtMeat]

@planbsk8r33 thanks, yeah it's graded in Magic Bullet Looks, I found a nice preset and then messed around with it a bit to get this effect. I tend to experiment a bit with skateboarding edits to see what feel I can get from the different grading settings.

[tfok12]

Awesome stuff Dave! Love it. switch heel was niice.

Little tip: Don't use mp3s with FCP, that's where you're getting that clipping from. Solution. drag and drop your mp3 into the FCP bin, then right click on the song, and select 'export using quiktime conversion'. export the song as an AIFF file, then re-import it, and use the AIFF version!

[LtMeat]

@tfok12 thanks Tim, that's really helpful, the audio problems have driven me nuts in the past. I pretty much just ignore them now. If I convert the mp3 to an AIFF is the file then kept in the project capture scratch folder or would that be specified when I convert it?

[TEamDEmoCLanSKater]

Recon you can PM me postcode? how to get there type of stuff? :)

[tfok12]

@LtMeat just specify when you export, you can put it anywhere. Then just have to bring the AIFF back in

[mikesouthnp]

awesome edit david

[waltography]

Love it Dave, edit music and post all awesome