HD Train Videos

The northbound Tropicana Juice Train made good time through Ashland on September 20, 2008, passing by the station around 11:30 led by ES44DCs 5337 and 5478. The train made more smoke than the locomotives pulling it - an ailing refrigeration unit 6 or 7 cars from the tail end belched exhaust as it rolled by.

I've been meaning to do this for a while since I got my HV20. So I finally went out today and filmed some trains, I work with them so I thought it would be interesting to see how the footage turned out.

Recording selection was Cine mode, audio was captured using the rode video mic and in some scenes I used the Cannon tele converter..

Editing was done using Sony vegas Pro 8, using template HD 1080-50 (1920*1080 25fps).
Rendering settings used from Eugenia for Vimeo MP4...

Hope you enjoy.....:)

P. S I need to buy a new tripod any suggestions...

During Christrmas 2004, my wife and I went rail cruising on some of Switzerland's most scenic routes in the Alps with our new Sony HDR-FX1 camera. Routes include the Bernina Express, Glacier Express, Mont-Blanc Express, Golden Pass Line etc. View from Hotel in St. Moritz. We dedicate this to Chris Harnett and Sue Knight of MITV.co.uk/ for their inspiration and friendship. Edited by the legendary Don Smith of newsvideo.com. Thanks also to George Drury, author of The Railfan Guide to Switzerland for help in trip planning.

While out railfanning in the Marshall area we caught this train as it was approaching Overlook siding. The head is garbage most likely from Montana. The Auto Max cars come through every now and then so catching this was a hit for most of us out shooting trains that day.

I screwed up the video in the first part of the shot. I was too busy taking stills with my Canon DSLR, oops!

Hope you like the picture in picture, I figured I would try that out since I have a couple Video Cams laying around.