Sandhill cranes and making the most of audio

Posted: January 12, 2008

My latest non-journalism fascination has been the Sandhill crane. These birds are big, graceful and beautiful. So beautiful, I can even overlook their deafening squawks.

Thousands of these birds migrate south for the winter and settle just blocks away from my Gainesville, Fla. apartment. I enjoy looking at them fly in huge formations as I wait for a bus to go to school.

The Gainesville Sun’s Doug Finger made a very cool, very well done video about these interesting birds. The quality of the sound is impeccable, and the narrator/source used made it both interesting and educational. The video and pictures used are also of excellent quality.

The actual editing could have used some work. The zooming in and out of photos could have been a little better. There is an strange lack of symmetry when the photos are used. There are also a couple of awkward audio transitions when you listen closely.

But aside from some of the editing, this really is a cool video about a cool subject. I’d say the clean, clear audio is what keeps it interesting. Visual stimulation is easy, but the audio is what makes or breaks a video or audio slideshow.

Comments

  1. the babies are called colts? thats pretty cool.

    — Daniel · Jan 13, 10:43 PM · Parmanent Link to Comment

  2. That is really interesting. I thought that there were only a couple thousand that migrated to Gainesville for the winter. Turns out its closer to 20,000.

    — magzalez · Jan 13, 11:09 PM · Parmanent Link to Comment