Video editing is another passion i have that ties in well to my photography, i first found an enjoyment for video editing on tour in Iraq. Most units have some one or in most cases more than one person that ends up tinkering with windows movie maker or other software to put together a montage of video footage of there tour, it’s a good way to pass time when your bored of watching the same films over and over again during down time.

The first video i made was a video of our public order training we had before deploying to Iraq and i really enjoyed making it and it went down well with the guys. My first taste was with Windows movie maker, you get that as standard with windows but as usual i wanted to do more so tracked down Adobe Premiere Pro… At the end of my Iraq tour i created this video with Premiere Pro, and put it onto a DVD for all the guys from the company to use at home and show there family’s. It had full DVD menu with outtakes and other extra videos.

Coy video from Iraq Telic 7 from Mike Hubbard on Vimeo.

Since then I kept tinkering with videos and last year when i eventually made the move to Mac before my tour to Afghanistan i invested in a copy of Final Cut Studio, i figured I’d be making another video of that tour so why not learn some new software at the same time and make a better video! So through reading lots of books and following video tutorials i learnt my way around final cut. Gathered together about 10,000 photos and videos from the company, everyones footage from 6 months. Picked out all the good bits and made this next video…

Herrick 10 – 4 Mercian – Normandy company Tour DVD from Mike Hubbard on Vimeo.