I finished my annual slow motion launch compilation video today. Got it down from an hour and a half to under 15 minutes.
I had to take out nearly 50 launches and trim every one to the bone to do that. But there are still 103 individual launches, including a couple drag races with two rockets at a time.
Last year, I posted a video compilation of all the rocket launches I'd filmed up to that point, played in slow motion. I decided this will be an annual thing.
I got less video than I wanted to, but that turns out to have been a blessing. They're not all my rockets - some are from the Rocket Camp kids I taught last summer, and some are other CMASS members' rockets.
I missed my self-imposed deadline of December 31 for this year's video. It was a lot harder to trim down this year, because there are about 84 individual launches in this video!
But it's done. Enjoy.
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My first annual slo-mo launch supercut is finished! Here are most of the launches I have done since I first got started in July of this last year. The first three are choppy, but after that I realized I had the 60 frames per second function on the camera.
I was worried I wouldn't have enough footage of larger rockets to make a good video. Smaller rockets are less impressive on video than larger ones. But I realized, once I slowed the footage down, that in slow motion, even tiny Estes rockets look almost majestic.