Carl Viktor

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Do it well or not at all

I know you love electric unicycles, but if you like beer too I recommend you to watch my newest video. I ride my unicycle to the brewery.
The video is narrated in Swedish with subtitles in English, Swedish or Finnish: https://youtu.be/_niD1Quqq5c
Choose your language from CC or video Settings (lower right on the video frame).

Now I have started my YouTube channel about photography and electric unicycles.
In the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5OkB6sx1h0&t=23s I speak Swedish but you can turn on subtitles in English via the cc or settings button. My first video give information about me and in the next one, we will travel to a brewery with my unicycle.

What settings do you use for your insta360 videos?

360 camera with an extra long selfie stick and an electric unicycle is a pretty interesting mix. Happy weekend!

I have been interviewed about EUCs on Finnish radio. I got over 10 minutes of talk time. The interview was done in the Finnish language, but my message to the audience can be found on my blog in English: https://www.carlviktor.art/blog/on-the-radio

I have started my first photo blog. I write in three languages ​​and here is an article that is perhaps less populist.
https://www.carlviktor.art/blog/green-footsteps-with-my-electric-unicycle

When I was younger, they taught in school everything about healthy food, showing a food wheel, a poster. What does a photographer's gear wheel look like? It was just a thought ;-)

A good method to improve the sound quality of EUC videos is to record different sounds you can hear on your route. Today I saved 16 new files with two Rode GO receivers to my mobile phone. The files are sounds that I often hear when I take a ride. My new files, among other sounds, "laugh on the schoolyard", "a bus drives by", "a truck drives by", "uphill on gravel", "downhill on gravel", "slow speed on asphalt", "high speed on asphalt with warnings beeps", "a barking dog"
There are no limits to what you can put through your device.
Later when I edit my next video I have many nice recordings that can replace the bad audio from my ride.
I have made fifty recordings to my cloud library. When I get to the level of 200, I will publish the entire content for your use as well (completely free, only for Electric People members).

To get a better sound in my videos, I often use two receivers and two Rode GO microphones. So when I am out riding, I have one mic near my mouth and the other mic is mounted on the backpack. with this method I can collect sound on what is happening around me as well. With the mobile device I use the same system, but an adapter (as you see in the picture) is needed to make it work with my Android phone. For the assembly I use rubber bands. The wind protection on the microphones is glued. I got tired of them falling off all the time.

There are many channels on YouTube about EUC's. I'm subscribed to four of them. Most people have one thing in common: poor audio quality.
If the image is blurry or is overexposed, it does not bother me. A good story is more important. But if the video is full of wind noise and other disturbances, it does not take many seconds before I click me away to something more interesting.
This week I have started filming my first cinematic video and I make most of the video material with the Fujifilm X-H1 camera.
In the picture you see the equipment I shall use with my wheel. The GoPro 7 black camera is mounted on a microphone stand and I record the audio with a wind protected Rode Go mic. I have also in use an adapter that allows the camera to receive sound from two microphones at the same time.
Invest in a good sound quality and I will give you a thumbs up on your next video!