I didn’t go diving in the last week at all because right now I am in bandung, a place in Indonesia where we are quite far away from the coast and where much of the natural water that we have come in the form of hot springs, not exactly ideal for diving 😛 As far as I know, here in bandung the only place where free diving is done is at the pools at UPI (A university here in Bandung).

I was meaning to go there with my cousin (as he goes to university there) but I didn’t get a chance because I left my diving gear in the other car. Kind of blows as I wanted to meet the guys from the Bandung Free Divers club. If im still in bandung this coming sunday I will definitely try to make it there and say hi to the divers and do some training with them. The problem is we are heading into Ramadan and I am not exactly sure as to whether or not the Bandung Free Divers will continue with their training during Ramadan. I guess I will just message them and see.

Since I didn’t do any actual diving I had some time to look through some of my videos and create a youtube Intro video for my channel. I thought why not, I have a bit of time on my hands and I was keen to play around with iMovie and garageband so I had a bit of a play and the video above is what I came up with. It’s a combination of the scenery and the diving videos that I have taken. It’s got some scenery that include beautiful sunrises in sydney, the coast of Tulamben Bali and a selection of new and old dive clips that I have collected.

To add to the clip, I was looking for a track that gave the impression of flying, gliding but at the same time is action packed with a strong beat, however with that tinge of peace and serenity to the sound. The track that I found that I believe matches this video can be found by “Searching Youtube for DEMEX – Summer (Beach Mix) Trance “. I think the track represents what free diving is, its an extreme sport where you push your body but at the same time feel at peace with your surroundings. The track has that powerful beat but at the same time has the mellow pipes in the background. If you are into trance this is a great representation of free diving in music !

I think I have the hang of using these editing tools and would like to create some better edited videos as I get more diving done throughout the year. I thought it would suck to sit and edit videos but its quite relaxing and fun to see the final result, kind of like building apps and developing software I guess.

Also since I got a new macbook it doesn’t take me 3hrs to render a 1080p video so I can edit and create video’s faster and learn from any editing mistakes faster as I don’t have to wait ages for the file to generate ! This was extremely annoying on my old macbook 🙁

One of the things with youtube is that when you use music from their library or you use any copyrighted music you have restrictions on where the video can be viewed along with some other really annoying limitations. As a result I think I am going to have to learn how to create my own music using some tools like Fruity Loops or similar, that way I won’t have any copyright issues and I would also be able to create tracks that match the clips better. I know its not going to be easy but it should be fun, making/building anything is always fun 🙂

Anyway I hope you enjoy the new video …