"Korea Dreambus" Pilgrimage and Documentary Film

Happy Easter! He is Risen! I'm spending my Easter at home, mainly because I have what feels like another sinus infection. But in all honesty, it's a blessing to be home alone on this sunny spring day. I puttered on my porch, getting ready for what I'll be planting this year and organizing the porch garden-to-be. In awhile, I'll bake some chicken breasts and get some sort of dinner going. But in the meantime, I decided I was going to start playing with my footage in DaVinci Resolve. Saenamto Shrine, Seoul Except..I can't yet because apparently all the media are in formats not supported by DaVinci. I've asked my editor to suggest what app or website to use to convert everything. So, that's going to be another long and tedious task that isn't filmmaking but is part of filmmaking. I am chomping at the bit to start actually playing with footage and getting the beginnings of an assemble edit underway. But it's all good -- I'm learning more and more as ...

Anyone who has created a video -- even a short one -- knows that organizing and managing the media (video and photos) is an essential step in preparing to edit. It can be a behemoth of a task, depending on how much media you have. If you're me, you overshoot everything, and you end up with about 4,000 video clips and photos from Korea to organize and manage. I've had to break this into a few smaller chunks so as not to get overwhelmed.  The first step was to create Albums in iCloud. I organized these by the locations of my pilgrimage trip: Seoul, Seosan, Ulsan, Eonyang, Incheon, and Returning Home.  This was fairly easy to do, as everything is automatically date stamped, and I knew from looking at the images where in my journey they were from. Haemi Martyrs Shrine I also had to prep my computer for editing. This meant several steps: clearing off non-essentials, backing everything up, and upgrading my OS to run Davinci Resolve (DR).  I looked up the minimum required system...