I spent 3 weeks in SE Asia working on two documentaries. I’m going back again for almost a month in October and I have another one I’m working on for the Middle East. What would I do different?

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Tags: bangladesh, documentary, manila, Production, tools, travel, video, workflow

The first stop of my 3 country trip to do some documentary work! The video is embedded below. I’m flying to KL tomorrow afternoon so I won’t be updating again for a few days probably. Hope you enjoy this one.

I think I also finally kicked the whole jet lag thing. For the last two nights, I’ve been hitting a wall at 7:30pm. Kind of obnoxious…annoying really. Tonight’s the first night I made it! WOOT! Bout time and I really got to enjoy Manila a bit more today. This city is a trip. I can definitely see the appeal.

I spent yesterday transcoding and editing. Several crashes. Such is life. Today was back out with the camera and some shopping. Tomorrow, more camera and then the flight out. Going to pull in the stuff from today and do a bit more transcoding overnight and get my stuff packed.

Doc Production Stop One: Manila from J.R. Friesen on Vimeo.

Tags: documentary, manila, travel, video, vlog

I arrived safe and sound. Got some sleep last night and ready to hit the road in HD. We’ll be at the International Graduate School of Leadership (IGSL) later this morning and afternoon where I’ll be getting some interviews and recorded meetings and footage. Followed by some city footage later this afternoon.

I’ll be spending much of my evening actually doing some transcoding and editing of said footage so I can get some vlogs and updates up. Tomorrow’s schedule is still TBD as well as Sunday. I fly to Kuala Lumpur on Monday.

I’m using my Sony HVR Z7U shooting 1080i 60 transcoded for web to DNxHD 720. All footage is tranferred from CF to my portable mirrored RAID box. I have 2TB (redundant) with me and have no problem buying more

Here’s my HD workstation on the road!