Question Less Tedious Ways To Log Dives?

[Blackcrusader]

$10 a video huh? If you can find that on FIVER, go ahead but buyer beware. I edit, white balance and color match video (mostly my own and for the company I work for) but have done a couple commercial pieces. I charge $50/hour for editing and $75/hour for editing, WB and color match. I would shoot myself in the face if I only made $5 to edit a full dive video only to have someone who knows absolutely nothing about editing review my work and give me suggestions. But on FIVER, you are not getting divers to edit them which means you may not get the content you actually want.

Good luck and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

 

[kjnwds]

I really think the problem is not logging here haha =)
Btw, shearwater computers log well, don't know but probably Garmin too. Can also export the log and use subsurface for additional info/analytics. That's a much better waste of time than recording 3rd person videos of your dive (?).

Or just record your ramblings after the dive. Have a smartphone ready and just say a couple of things, save recording with date and time and book. No typing, done on the boat in 5 secs

Or just sync the logs from the computer and forget about it.

 

[Kharon]

I download dives from my computer to my desktop.

 

[TMHeimer]

So writing a few lines of text is mindnumpingly boring, so your proposal is to replace that with an edited full production video of every dive that instantly posts to social media?

That seems like "Man, I don't want to study for this high school math test. I think I get a phd in physics instead!"

You want mindnumpingly boring? Try watching an entire dive shot from a gopro.

Easier solution: hire a video production team to do all the work for you! You wouldn't have to do anything but go diving... and pay them.

More realistic option: use a dive computer that downloads to a phone, fill in the blanks with a voice to text app.

I agree. I guess it depends on how much you want to write with pen & paper. Each entry I make takes me MAYBE 5 minutes (but I don't include stuff about equipment used, weighting, etc. since it's always the same).