Who are you looking at? (A video story)

A morning doing the jobs that didn't get done yesterday when my sister and I took mum to for a hospital appointment (It's complicated at mum's age...).
 
After getting the jobs out the way, I sat outside again but this time doing some video (before the inevitable rain arrived). 

Today's image here is a single cropped frame extracted from video and processed in Photoshop.

6 Minutes and 21 seconds of the birds feeding on and around the feeders and the bees on the lavender. 

Link to the video.

Done all this just for the practice simply to get better - as you will see below - video is much more than pointing your phone... By no means perfect and lots of room to get better quality in all aspects, but, I hope you enjoy it for what it is.

How it was done - The footage is a mixture of 8k video at 25fps edited down to 4k and also 4k video recorded at 100fps which renders out at 1/4 speed giving slow motion. 
8k was used so that I could crop in, but I didn't (but maybe should have spent the time).

Most done hand held using my 100-400mm zoom with both in lens and in-body stabilisation at a maximum. Also used a Canon variable ND filter adaptor between the lens and camera body to reduce the exposure down to 1/50th and 1/200th of a second while the lens was around f7 to f9 at 800ISO. 
Filmed in Canon CLog3 encoding and then edited using Apple Final Cut Pro after creating proxies in ProRes 422 to allow simpler editing and a CLog3 to a REC709 colour space LUT used in HD tvs. The camera outputs video in H265 format which all but the most powerful machine struggle to cope with the format. CLog3 is a mechanism that allows 13-14 stops of dynamic range to allow you to create a good high contrast image while retaining highlights and show detail.

The camera doesn't record audio at 100 fps, so, the audio is a separate track added in post. Audio was recorded using a shotgun mic fitted with a dead-cat (honestly - that is the fluffy wind noise suppressor you see on tv news and at the side of football pitches). Recorded using a wireless mic connection into my iPhone with RodeReporter. Copied to my Mac and processed to remove the background noise from next doors fish pond pump using Audacity.

About 5 hours work for 6 minutes of video .
Isn't video complicated?
I am no expert - just a rank amateur. Just picked all this up over a few months. 
I now marvel at the camera and behind the scenes work used in tv and cinema films. And they have proper cameras!

Hopefully it was worth it today for a few minutes of simple quiet nature.

Back to photo's tomorrow ;-)