Wish I had the patience and number of cams to do that editing, mind you it must have been a tad cold standing filming
To be honest, these days many people have a decent compact that can do video to a fair resolution. This was shot on my Panasonic GF1 with 20mm + 14-45mm lenses, and GT’s Canon G10 + GoPro helmet cam. I also used a full-size tripod + one of those mini flexi things. Editing done using iMovie (excellent software) on a Macbook. My other clip on Vimeo was shot on 2 GF1’s and a Nikon D90 with a few different lenses, again using tripods.
While it was me doing the filming, I was moving around quite a lot, often running between 2 cameras to trigger them, and climbing a couple of trees too. I’d also done a bit of planning, having ridden the trail a few times, so I had an idea of what sort of shots I wanted to get, and the overall effect I wanted to achieve (not wanting to sound too arty-farty like!) which cut down on wasted time.
I admit it’s a fair old commitment to do it (we spent around 2.5hrs riding / filming, and probably the same again editing, to produce a 2.5min clip), it’s worth it to share with others and receive positive comments like those above, and have a more permanent reminder of your ride, but accept may not be everyone’s idea of time well-spent when you could be riding!
Gives you a good idea of the effort required to make some of these top-quality films too!