Kevin Bae: And welcome back to the casual hike this episode is
from the first day of spring March 20 2023 just kind of
walking around my neighborhood I was experimenting with an Insta
360 camera for making YouTube videos so I will link to that
video in the show notes and check this out hope you enjoy it
see the neighborhood
let's see how this goes for a guy
to sunny
so let's test out the wireless go to and my Insta 360 Camera
sounds gonna work I've got both microphones hooked up one of my
shirt and one and the selfie stick with the little mini dead
cat want to see if it gets the background noise or the
background sounds I guess I shouldn't be called noise as
well as my own microphone
now pardon my breath because it's been a while since I've
walked this dog is only the second day starting to walk them
again after about six months of of not so the hills in the
neighborhood here are a bit much I'm not I haven't conditioned
myself again
so you can hear a lot of heavy breathing
so I'd like to see how this whole setup works and the hikes
I go with I go on with Godfrey out in the mountains or on the
trails so let's just run the neighborhood
it'll be kind of a good little test I hope
all right Gopi that's the official command by the way go
pee
Godfrey does not like the camera over the top of his head
suspicious of it so we'll just move it back out we could test
the wind
so hi that looks
how's it going
some hoping to see too with a setup. I can record audio that's
longer form without the video. For Podcasting purposes for
audio only. I know when I turn the camera on it picks up the
audio from the microphones. Just be use for use on the video
pardon my throat clearing some hidden get the my subdivision
subdivision speak clearly duffel Hills nothing's flat I'm either
going up or I'm going down right now it's on a pillow and of
course my dog has to stop and take a dump right at this moment
even though I let him out before I go on a walk Jesse would get
this over with before we go he never does think it's his fan
club sure the sound of his bag is really pleasant
started away now the bonus with this microphone and camera setup
at least the way I have it I handle the level ear mic going
into a zoom F to field recorder which is recording separate
audio on an SD card and then that's the output of that goes
into the wireless go to and then I also have the second
microphone on selfie stick for the Insta 360 camera
not too far from the wireless go to and then the wireless go to
goes right into the camera so this way I should be able to
record just straight audio this random blather while I'm walking
without having to constantly record video
so the object the object is so I can have a longer form for an
audio podcast where maybe you get all the sounds of me walking
around with a stupid dog and I lost my train of thought that
happens to me all the time while walking I'm looking around
looking at different things and I just lose lose track all right
let's extend this again let's see how this goes all right.
This is this is quite the hill I think I just hit the dog with
the camera. This is a pretty good hill I think it's one of
the steepest that I walk because it's it's short but it's pretty
good incline
You're going to reach the top
the temperature is perfect it's like maybe about 50 degrees or
so maybe a little over
should not neglect to walk Godfrey here because kind of
conditions me for the bigger hikes with all these hills but
I've been lazy have late
neighbors say hello
now we're going down a long hill this one
this is the longest hill but it's more gradual than the
others
you only feel that on the way back because right now I'm going
down
okay Gopi
I'm trying to move this camera through the trees with a selfie
stick like it's a drone but I have to watch at the same time
because people at the dogs poop here and don't don't necessarily
pick it up it's like a landmine.
Now on our walk in the subdivision there are of course
no garbage cans so I have to keep his poop securely sealed in
a pocket if it's not in the summer
but there's only to maybe three real designated places where you
can go to the bathroom where it's kind of no man's land
otherwise it's everybody's property and I've never been
comfortable in that my dog create waste and other people's
properties because I don't want it myself and but I do pick it
up which is not a big customer that I guess here I don't see a
lot of people picking up.
Come to the end of the road. The end of the subdivision with the
biggest lot in the area it's like four acres from what I saw
online with like its own walking trails in the back. That's this
place here. Which of course you can only see if you're looking
at video so I don't know why I just pointed to it and
referenced it
that kind of move I just swept the camera up above Godfreys
head that can spook them but I'm hoping to get them used to it
because if I use this thing out while we're hiking, I'd want
them not to get spooked and just kind of ignore it he's doing
pretty good considering his first time I've used this and
I'm putting it pretty close to his head the other thing I'm
interested to see with this whole setup is that I really
think it using the latest software for this stuff
I know it's supposed to be simple but it's like I put in
the video and there's maybe I'm just used to like I guess the
old school stuff where you're gonna have to do everything for
yourself and a lot of this just kind of happens automatically
select clips and you let the software do its job and it's
it's difficult for me I feel like maybe the loss of control
is a problem we'll see I'm gonna give it a shot
I'm doing this in multiple clips over the walk
to see if that helps me put it together All right now we're
entering the longest Hill this is the one we just finished
walking down now we're walking back up
pretty much after this one is done the rest is easy
quit the walk the entire walk when I do the whole thing it's a
couple of miles maybe takes roughly 45 minutes or so an hour
depending on the heat humidity my level of energy was pretty
decent walk. know back when I lived in the Chicago area. I
would walk Godfrey just about every day. It's all flat. So we
do probably three miles or so stop off at a park where you
could then play fetch Tiger himself out and then we go home.
But here we're not next to a park so he doesn't have that
luxury anymore. But I'll tell you these hills as him and I
both get old it's I think it's enough
which we are the same age now. I'm 56 He's eight. So that means
we're about the same
if you count dog years in the traditional sense
we just finished the biggest hill going around the corner to
head back towards home. When that quakes we take one final
side street take that to the end.
came around to the corner on the last side street neighbor
the German Shepherd
guys got a really nice boat
StarCraft think that's what it is it's really nice red stripe
red canopy over the top
got a little music going got a little fire going enjoying cool
evening and I got a lady came down our street saw me and
Godfrey maybe took a look at the selfie camera and totally on a
stick turn right around and went back nobody wants to be on
camera not even me I say even me like like I usually love being
in front of the camera I hate it. I don't even know why I do
it as a big ass frog. A big terracotta frog in front of the
house
meanwhile, we have we have actual frogs and toads that come
visit the patio below my deck at night we had a tree frog living
in an old PVC pipe that I have yet to trim off I don't know if
I should trim it because he's living in there but it looks
ugly. The old owners of my house had some kind of a pond and he
had pipes going from the water spigot into that pond and then
they covered it all up and filled in with concrete and left
the pipe sticking out it's now got these beautiful white PVC
pipes unevenly cut not capped off just sit in there
if I can ever verify that the frog has moved out cut the pipes
and kept on being the warm and nature loving person everybody
knows that I am
leave it there so you can live when I'm just too lazy to cut
the pipe take your pick
Now I mentioned like they have different recordings, audio and
audio for the video. But the reason is is the reason is is
reason is video can't be that long people get bored especially
just walking around. Even if you like the nature scenes I don't
think most people are gonna want to see an hour or two of trail
walking
when you know maybe 10 minutes 1520 is the most but the audio
part I can cut that up all the blank spots. Leave a lot of the
just plain walking in with no with no talking. And I think
that would be fine for the podcast I'm putting together
because it's really just me walking through the woods with
the sounds saying a few things of About the trail itself what
it looks like what's happening you get the sounds of the water
and everything that can be longer form half an hour maybe
an hour but the video can't be so if I have two sets of audio
but yeah I don't have to do anything special I just keep
talking and then the audio that's captured on the videos
there and when the video is off I just get to play an audio for
podcasting purposes
so I just finished the last okay connection is not supported
during quick capture I hit quick capture it means do that turn
that off
try that again
I don't know I must have hit a button that wasn't paying
attention to anyway we just finished last call the SEC now
we just finished off the street turn corner turn another corner
and then the last hill and then we're home I wonder what the
angles are supposed to be any selfies? I know all the I have
not that savvy with angles lighting it's too much to think
about I just kind of want to do it whatever happens happens
hopefully it's halfway decent that's also why I'm getting
trying to get these other pieces of equipment
here the woodpecker
anyway that's how I'm getting these new pieces of equipment
because they do things that maybe my phone just can't do or
it takes a lot of work I'm just gonna see if I can throw these
things in the in the app that comes with the camera and see
what he can give me hoping I don't have to do a lot of work
for it
up there somewhere in that pine
comes in Amazon truck ready to kill us stay tight Godfrey
something bigs happening in that house I don't know what
second last till almost at the top
right almost done. Cut the last till the climb Hello
We go up the last hill Oh pray we don't get killed
here I'm
gonna put a fence everywhere around their whole yard neat
next door neighbor
this house over here on my left just sold and people just moved
in so I don't know if these are the new people or not
you all right, all downhill from here that's my house with the
jeep. If you're seeing on video, I'm gonna see if I can pull some
snapshots from this, some stills. I'm not sure how any of
this works yet. Hopefully I can I can include that in the
chapter images. So we come to the end of the walk. This was
truly a casual like walking the dog doesn't get more casual than
that. Well, that was the walk around the neighborhood. I hope
you enjoyed it. I'm trying to tighten this up and figure out
easier ways to record these so hopefully I can get more
episodes up a little bit more quickly. But until the next time
go for a walk