great stuff guys. looking for more :)

that second video go pro made me sooo DIZZZAAYYY but in the first one why do windsurfers always look heaps better riding on waves? can they go in dead offshore winds?

NOT kitesurfing either but am just after some positive critic/tips on how i could improve my editing. edited with what i would guess is a basic/standard program in my imac.

OH and on the kiting stuff...... where the cameras attached to the kite.. you could do some awesome stuff with stabilising effects... i know its abit of work but when done well it looks awesome.. that Lord Howe footage is awesome!!

@ Sir V

What im mostly referring to is digital stabilization techniques ... theres a fair few programs that use them...

but your stepping more away from editing and more into Compositing/VFX work (which happens to be my job).

Some of the programs that use these type of stabilizing tools are "After Effects" , "Nuke" to name a few.... do a google search on " stabilizing software " as the choices are vast!!!!

I personally use Nuke, which is an overall Compositing package and might be abit over whelming... It has a 3d camera tracker and you can do all sort of amazing **** with it, to say the least... the program is a bottomless pit of learning so be warned! :P



BUT

if approaching it from a more manual side... you could place and axis (to rotate from) buy judging where the central pivot point is on your image... and manually rotate the image to keep it stable!! this is what theyve done in , what i think i first saw in the Naish training videos... and a hand full others!!

the number one plug in for action videos - if i could only live with one -would be twixtor

it allows your computer to build between frames and create nice slow motion


footage slowed down without it just looks yuck - so i would advise anyone to look at getting and mastering that plug in if you shoot action of any sort.

That lord how kiting footage was suffering from some serious jello

- there are plug ins that allow you to deal with that - and the new final cut Pro X has it built in (releasing later this month)

its a trademark of these new affordable larger cmos sensors unfortunately

hey lofty, lord howe looks awesome. do you know how often its windy like that and can you recomend best times of the year etc