For a long time I would buy videos or record them off of RFDTV. Now I watch them on YOUTUBE on my new 32 inch smart TV I bought for the train area. The thing that drives me nutz with train videos is why? do they almost always match bluegrass music or banjos to trains? Today I watch a video with some guy screaming WOO over and over at the top of his lungs. Very distracting from the guy giving information about the trains. While we are blessed with a large amount of videos I hate to keep the audio completely off.
RMax, I fully agree with you. You’ve must have seen the video with the E8 and the screaming railfan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lutNECOZFw
He was having fun, but gentlemen like him are part of the reason why prototype railroaders sometimes refer to us as “foamers”. [:P]
Being, what my Canadian friends call, a “Yank”, I prefer to listen to smooth jazz tunes when watching train related videos (especially fast pacing action).
(Disclaimer: I’m not advocating downloading and modifying videos without permission). Paul Brown, Chuck Loeb, Joyce Kooling, and Fattburger are my favorite artists that, to me, have tunes that coincide well with a train’s rythmic motion. [8]
I learned about “dubbing” from a relative. Whie there are some really neat video/audio editing programs available, there is a free program called Audacity. Fun to learn and use. You can actually take a video that you’ve downloaded on to your computer and dub in your own preferred music or sounds. I don’t want to creat a ruckus here, so I’ll just say that you can Google the “how to” on YouTube.
This video was shot in Fullerton Ca. and was good. There were tons of freight, passenger ad commuter trains. Everytime a train went by the guy went nutz.Many people think I am crazy for still messing with this hobby. This just reinforces it! LOL
There’s a lot of professional quality railfan videos on you tube with no music once the video starts. There’s a lot of older railroad safety films as well that is worth watching because of the vintage steam,diesels and freight cars.
Here’s one of my favorites.
Isn’t it great. Everyone gets to be a producer, director, actor - the Internet is so empowering.
Too bad most folks aren’t very good at it.
Paul
Paul,
It used to be difficult for a good number of people but programs, nowadays, have become more user friendly. Imho, the learning curve is similar to that of someone getting into DCC for the first time.
Most are not professional photographers,actors directors.dolly grip men , camera operators or anything and some are kids and teenagers.
I won’t criticize their work since most just want to share their model railroad and railfan videos.
I think I saw that video receintly. The whole video was one whoo-hoo after another for the whole video’s length. Very annoying. Like he was having an orgasm.
Yes a pet peeve of mine as well, MRR did the same thing with its Olympia Railroad video build…hated the ever present banjos. I guess city dwellers think everything in the woods seems to involve banjos, hillbillies, and bad Burt Reynolds movies. [zzz]
STOP with the bad music on your train videos, the world is begging you.
Everytime a train went by he sounded off.
Banjo music isn’t as bad as heavy metal or rap and maybe a tad worst then that is “I been working on the Railroad”. [banghead]
Regardless of hillbilly, rap, urban, country, classic rock, redneck, jazz, instrumental, elevator or heavy metal, if the background music over powers the visual experience, the creator forgot what they were trying market.
Old time or folk music played correctly is quite complimentary with good railroad video as both are about history. Banjos have been mentioned…true a twangy bluegrass picking style (Scruggs/three finger) seems not to work as this style really did not become popular or even known until just after the big war in 1946. Old time banjos styles such as clawhammer and thumb lead have been around as long as the steam locomotive and go quite well together along with chordal (double stop) fiddle styles. Then of course there is true American folk music often rendered on guitar and song which is also goes rather well with RR videos.
My opinion, but I’m a bit biased as my other life is spent playing old time music
HZ