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Matthias Messer
Germany
Приєднався 15 жов 2009
Rambles in the distant past with the odd bit of science thrown in
Email: mattmesserpics@gmail.com
Email: mattmesserpics@gmail.com
Easy Timecode with Rode Wireless Pro and Deity PR-2
I think I have found a timecode workflow YOU may want to use too!
Good sound is a very important component of our videos. Many, if not most of us are using some sort of external recording method, be it a video microphone externally fed into the camera, a lavalier microphone with a pocketable sound recorder or a combination of both. If we have a little team of presenters, it gets even more complex. Back home at the cutting table this needs to be synchronised up for the final video.
And that's where the true pain begins!
A workflow using timecode can speed the sound-matching process up dramatically. But, if you look at the rigs (semi)professionals use to achieve this, you would usually give up before you started, thinking that - no - you are not a body-builder who has won the lottery.
There is a fairly easy way that isn't prohibitively expensive. Watch this video to find out more!
Equipment featuring in this video are the:
Deity PR-2 32-bit pocket recorder with timecode
Rode Videomic NTG on camera microphone
Panasonic Lumix S5IIX Hybrid mirrorless camera
Zoom F2 32-bit pocket recorder
Rode Wireless Pro wireless recorder and transmitter
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve (free version)
There are no affiliate links for any of them here, because I have no relationship whatsoever with the manufacturers or any retailers.
Good sound is a very important component of our videos. Many, if not most of us are using some sort of external recording method, be it a video microphone externally fed into the camera, a lavalier microphone with a pocketable sound recorder or a combination of both. If we have a little team of presenters, it gets even more complex. Back home at the cutting table this needs to be synchronised up for the final video.
And that's where the true pain begins!
A workflow using timecode can speed the sound-matching process up dramatically. But, if you look at the rigs (semi)professionals use to achieve this, you would usually give up before you started, thinking that - no - you are not a body-builder who has won the lottery.
There is a fairly easy way that isn't prohibitively expensive. Watch this video to find out more!
Equipment featuring in this video are the:
Deity PR-2 32-bit pocket recorder with timecode
Rode Videomic NTG on camera microphone
Panasonic Lumix S5IIX Hybrid mirrorless camera
Zoom F2 32-bit pocket recorder
Rode Wireless Pro wireless recorder and transmitter
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve (free version)
There are no affiliate links for any of them here, because I have no relationship whatsoever with the manufacturers or any retailers.
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The Green Fortress - A Walk In The Woods
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In search of ancient trees that once were part of a green fortress...The Rheingauer Gebück, 'The Bendings' was a massive hedge made up of mature trees which were interwoven to form an impenetrable fortress. It spanned the entire German Rheingau borough over a length of some 35 km and protected the people living there from invasion by enemies for more than 600 years. We have picked up an old rep...
Old Castle Rheinberg - Kings, Counts and Hidden History
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The picturesque ruins of castle Rheinberg are looking down - some 200 m - to the Wisper-dale, a breathtakingly beautiful valley, just 8 km north of the town of Lorch on the river Rhine. All this is part of a UNESCO world heritage site and if you go there, you will see why. Rheinberg is almost forgotten now, but once it was the home of the Rheingrafen, the counts of the Rhine who acted as stewar...
Switch to Lumix S5IIX from Fujifilm XH2S - Fantastic IBIS in Old Castle Waldeck
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The decision to change horses and buy the Panasonic Lumix S5IIX turned out to be one I shall not regret. I have tried to kill two birds with one stone here by putting the S5 II X through its paces - at least in the areas important to my type of work and also to do a bit of reconnaissance for my ongoing research project, the Rheingauer Gebück. That green fortification went right past the old cas...
DJI Air 3 - No Variable Aperture - And the 180 Degree Rule?
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Following up on my previous video, I explain here how exactly I set up my DJI Air 3 (that also applies to the Mini 4 pro) to expose for good looking video, allowing for motion blur where needed. Where I don't need motion blur - and you'd be surprised how often that is with drone video - I rather go for optimum image quality.
DJI Air 3 - 48mp? What the Reviews didn't tell us!
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I have replaced my DJI Mavic 2 Pro with the recent Air 3. Was that a stupid thing to do? Or is the 12 MP sensor actually good enough? Or perhaps even better than the 1" Hasselblad camera? Here we answer three questions so far not really tested by all the reviews I have found: 1) Is the digital zoom any good in video mode? 2) Can it really take 48 MP images in still? 3) Which max ISO can we use ...
By the Skin of our Teeth - The Windscale Nuclear Accident
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...And a wonderful walk in the Lake District National Park. In October 1957 the Windscale Pile 1 Nuclear Reactor suffered a nearly catastrophic failure: A fire spread from a fuel cartridge and compromised large parts of the graphite core. Several attempts were made to get the reactor under control, but, in the end, it was the Site manager, Tom Tuohy, who prevented the ultimate catastrophe by or...
Hailes and the Blood of Christ - The Abbey and the missing Relic
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Hailes Abbey in Gloucestershire was founded and built in 1246 by Henry III's brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall and existed as a Cistercian Abbey until its dissolution in 1539. It hosted one of England's most famous relics back in the day: A sample of the blood of Jesus Christ, allegedly shed in his final moments on the cross in Jerusalem. In this video, we will learn some interesting facts abo...
The Monks and the Devil - Iconic Tintern Abbey
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Many or most have seen a picture of Tintern Abbey. Yet, few seem to be able to pinpoint it on the map, and fewer still have ever been there. If you leave the M48 at Chepstow and head north along the river Wye, Afon Gwy in Welsch, along the winding A466, you suddenly see a church without roof or windows to your right. In the middle of nowhere stand the ruins of a church so impressive that it wou...
Waterhatch - Secrets of a Sunken Mill
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Waterhatch was a Cotswold sheep farm until the late 1950s. Today, we are left with mystical, almost haunted looking ruins perhaps a twenty minute walk from Sudeley Castle. Water is still rushing over the wheel, telling the attentive walker where to find it in the woods. The little we know has been made accessible by Mike Lovatt: The River Isbourne In the Service of Mankind, 2012, ISBN 978-1-445...
Last Secrets Of The Uffington White Horse
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As so often with old monuments, more knowledge emerges from old graves. The Uffington White Horse in southern Oxfordshire has been carved into the hill some 3000 years ago and then been maintained ever since. Every 20 years at the latest, it has to be scoured and re-chalked, which the people in the local villages have been doing continuously for more than 120 generations. The knowledge about wh...
Birth of the Industrial Age - The Iron Bridge
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Birth of the Industrial Age - The Iron Bridge
The Cerne Abbas Giant - Enigma of Britain's Biggest Phallus
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The Cerne Abbas Giant - Enigma of Britain's Biggest Phallus
The Medway Megaliths - Have I Found Smythe's Lost Barrow?
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The Medway Megaliths - Have I Found Smythe's Lost Barrow?
The Skeletons of Belas Knap - Secrets of a Stone-Age Grave
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The Skeletons of Belas Knap - Secrets of a Stone-Age Grave
Spoonley Wood Roman Villa - Mystery of the Missing Mosaics
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Spoonley Wood Roman Villa - Mystery of the Missing Mosaics
Castle Ehrenfels - Why is it a ruin today?
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Castle Ehrenfels - Why is it a ruin today?
Upnor Castle - The Dutch Raid on Medway
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Upnor Castle - The Dutch Raid on Medway
Who maintains to today?
Don't you find that the level of the MKE2 is very low Even when you boost the gain as far as it will go? I always have trouble with my MKE2. It seems like the only thing they can drive it properly is my Sennheiser g3 But I want to plug it directly in to a recorder.
Interesting you say that. The raw level IS very low - I have to give it around 30dB boost in Final Cut, but I always thought that's because of the low default output on my recorder. I have only ever used it with my Zoom F2 in 32bit float, so I attributed the low output to the encoding. I am actually very happy with the sound in the final edit. Nearly all the audio you hear from me in the films I've made in the past year is from the MKE2. I'm curious to hear it with my Deity recorder. Did you see that Curtis Judd claims the low bias voltage on the F2 could be an issue for more power hungry mics? Perhaps that's the kind of thing you see?
I really enjoyed this. Its so relaxing and wholesome. I knew nothing of this but now want to visit. One day....one day. Looking forward to your next videos. Youve a new subscriber here.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks very much for letting me know!
I visited tintern and its surroundings a couple of months ago and its an excellent visit. This video does it justice. Excellent content. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it. A lot of thought and work goes into these videos and it's just so nice to get some feedback like this! Thanks!
Hii, just watched your great explanation. Found this you tuber, who shows how to use timecode in FCproX ua-cam.com/video/UvXm2fY1FaQ/v-deo.htmlsi=kfGRdMDPegWhntaa
I like your information. Great video. Well done, Matt 👍🏻
Great if it was useful, thanks!
Wasn’t there a whole tile and pottery industry in this gorge as well? There area was also ‘odd’ in that even the poor paid for their children to be educated at a time most were sent to work. The whole area could have a deep exploration…
You are quite right: I completely left out the tile bit, focussing only on iron. It is indeed famous for its tiles.
Autogenerated English: “Dentist’s circles of hell” 😂😂😂
My family left this farm for USA in 1956.
That's amazing! So, was your family the Corfields (not sure I spelled it right)? Mike Lovatt wrote that they moved to Australia in 1956. So he got that wrong? Or was your family the owners after them and stayed only for less than one year? I'd be happy to send you a pdf of the two pages in his book, if you want...
@ yes correct. Some came here to USA (my Nan - her husband, and my father and aunt who were very little aboard RMS Queen Mary in I believe July 1956) , the rest went to Australia
My Nan was a Corfield.
Well, I'm totally chuffed to have a message from a Corfield descendent! Thank you very much for that wonderful comment! You wouldn't have any stray Photo or some other document you could share? If I get sufficient additional information, I'll go back and make a longer video, perhaps including a search for builing remains in the undergrowth north of the pond.
@@MattMesserPics I’ve got to get to my parents and look through old photos.
Lines composed a few miles tintern abbey by Wordsworth,it never the less most inspiring place for the poet.The Abbey is surrounded by green turf and is by the river meandering it's course uninterrupted.The ruin may be existed after it's break up with Rome.Why it's not renovated ?
Thanks for the video. Do the Rode Wireless Pro need you to bring along a laptop to setup / change the timecode functions? Also, wouldn't a standard "stereo breakout cable" work fine for recording timecode in to one camera channel and the Rode Video NTG Mic in the other camera audio channel? (I think the stereo breakout cables sell for about US $12 here in the states). That is what Andrew from deity suggested to me when I asked about using both a Deity TC-1 and my Deity V-Mic D4 in to my Panasonic S5 IIX (The Deity V-Mic D4 is basically Deity's version of the Rode Video Mic NTG).
Thanks for the comment! No, you don't need a laptop - The Rode Receiver can be configured standalone by buttons. But if you are at home anyway, the Rode Central app is a bit more convenient. And you are right: A stereo breakout cable works just fine. In fact, the 'Franken-cable' I presented at the 12:20 mark or thereabouts is one I made myself - A bit stupidly, but I thought the coil cables would be good.(they aren't in this case). Do you have any thoughts about the videomic NTG vs the Deity? Are they as interchangeable as I always thought? My choice of the Rode was a bit random, but I like it.
Cool video man, I have a deity on the way and going to use it to get timecode audio with my Alexa
Glad it was useful, thanks!
Great video. I would also love to go fully TC. My F8nPro and Rode Wireless Pro work together very nicely, but the F2, F3 and Tascam X8 only support Atomos Blue. Unfortunately I cannot jamsync into the Wireless Pro... and sending SMPTE TC out as audio is only possible from the F8nPro. So I was thinking about getting an Atomos One to be able to link all together. But perhaps I would really be better off replacing the F3 with the new Tascam FR-AV2, the F2s with the Deitys and hope Tascam would eventually come out with an X8 successor. But then the problem remains: none of my small cheapo cameras support TC. For me it is a just a hobby, so there is nothing to offset these costs. For a while I might have to cook with what I already have. Things would change radically if the Wireless Pro could take timecode in...
Thanks for that great comment! And, yes, I know the feeling - It can be really messy, taking into account in which direction you can jamsync and which not, so you end up with some device being the master that is not your choice. I am also thinking of selling my F3 and getting the Tascam instead. It seems that as a bonus the Tascam also has even lower noise pre-amps. But about those non-TC cameras: TC via audio channel really works a treat! It just means that you either have to pre-process your footage or ditch FCPX...good luck!
@MattMesserPics I assume (based on specs) that the FR-AV2 has roughly the same preamp quality as the X8. And it is on par with the F3, maybe 1dB difference in noise, so nothing that really counts. I love the X8, so versatile. But timecode... F3 I bought because I found one cheap on Marketplace and I could not resist. I appreciate it being so simple, but it has certain limitations and irritating design issues. The F2s are great, I use them all the time, I got the two for the price of one PR2...
@@ww1www Well, I sold my F2 when I got the PR2, but haven't used that one in the field yet. I just really wanted to have TC...but let's see, I may start missing the F2, it was SO simple to use and reliable - never once let me down!
Respekt und und Danke für dein toll ausgearbeitete Video. Da steck echte Hingabe in Kulturgeschichte Drin. Habe mir auch begeistert alles aus deinem Video in Natura besucht. Außer Die Burg Ehrenfels. Wenn ich nicht in eine Burg rein kann, nicht wenigstens in den Innenhof, spare ich mir eine Außen Besichtigung. Echt schade, das sie immer noch nicht zu Besichtigung offen steht. Die Metall Brücke im Innenhof wurde doch sicher nicht ganz umsonst gebaut ? 😁👍👍💯
Vielen Dank für den schönen Kommentar! Ich habe mich auch schon oft gefragt, warum man innen so teure Absicherungen baut und die Burg dann einfach nie öffnet.
Panasonic do make cameras with TC input on the flash sync port, I'm sure you know this. Then the Deity TC1 can be used on the camera, on the audio recorder and on another camera via LTC.
Yes, thanks, I do know. But the S5II is the only one combining full frame with fast auto-focus, so was the only choice at the time for my application where I rely heavily on good auto-focus. Had the GH7 come out a few weeks earlier, I might have gone for that. I am not too bothered about sensor size, and low light performance is of some, but not huge importance for me. So, yes, the GH7 might actually be the better tool for me and it does have timecode input. I guess it's always the same story: If you wait just a little bit longer...
@@MattMesserPics I didn’t mention the GH7, but that would have to be my next upgrade from the GH5mkii.
Your commitment to quality here is admirable! Very interesting to hear this behind the scenes description of your workflow. As it happens I just made a video about how I handle audio (on this new "Tweedy Misc" channel), and it's much more primitive! I just record audio independently and then use the "Auto Sync Audio" (based on waveforms) feature in DaVinci Resolve. As long as the camera's built in microphone could also just about hear the same sound as the independent recorder (in my case a Tascam DR 10L Pro) then it mostly seems to work. Although I guess with longer video clips, because of the clock drift issue you describe here, it might struggle.
Thanks for that comment, Tweedy! I have actually done the same in Final Cut Pro. But there are two draw-backs: Firstly, I like to keep my footage files outside the FCPX library so that the library file doesn't get so huge (disk space!). By using the Auto-Sync feature, I produce a new combined clip that is stored inside the library file and makes it huge, thus effectively doubling disk usage. Possibly, that is handled better by Davinci Resolve. I'll give it a try. Secondly, I sometimes have such bad audio from the on-camera mic (strong wind, long distance) that the Auto-Sync feature just doesn't work. In that case I also struggle with my hand-sync method. The devil is in the detail, as we say!
@@MattMesserPics I haven't noticed auto audio syncing in DaVinci Resolve using a lot of disk space but I'm not sure how it works behind the scenes. You're right though, it's not an infallible solution, and this approach definitely isn't going to work if you are talking a long way from the camera. If I know I'm doing that I tend to do the clap trick. I also find it's not so reliable for very short video clips where I only say a handful of words - I suppose there just isn't enough waveform for it to do the matching. So I often end up saying some extra nonsense I know I'm going to throw away when it comes to editing.
Well done explaining the way to operate the Doofer,s , as it's even more complex than some surgery's, . And the difference between God and a Dr! God does not think he is a Dr, grrrr .
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Deity has an app for syncing audio and video
I've been curious as to how it's done, and you answered that curiosity comprehensively, thanks. I'll stick to recording video and adding ambient music to it. The chord changes are the only timestamp, it's a lot easier :D
Lucky you - I have a talent for choosing the more complicated way 🙂 Thanks for the nice comment!
@@MattMesserPics The results speak for themselves thanks to all that effort though.
@@leftpastsaturn67 Thanks, mate!
My Personal opinion is that the Image is of Hercules.. And btw the Penis was Extended in the Victorian Era 😁
Yes, you are right, it was extended making the navel disappear, by, as you say, a slightly feverish Victorian 'restorer'.
I have that image as a Tattoo on my right arm .
Good choice!!
The American President you were attempting to refer to is actually named Franklin D. Roosevelt. Otherwise, this was an interesting video. (Your inaccuracy in the name of one of your major players in this video, however, leads me to question the accuracy of the rest of your details...)
I just watched it again myself and I could swear I hear myself saying Franklin D. Roosevelt at the 10:08 mark. So, I can hereby reassure you about the accuracy of the other information conveyed 😁 OK, I know I mispronounced the name...but ever so slightly. Anyway, thanks for the comment!
The old chap and his WW2 version of history. So outdated and Wrong, quite frankly. Alfred was not the only king to have The Great as his title; Cnut the Great might be a little put out. His main base was at Althelney in Somerset. Also, he was not the 1st king of England; his grandson Athelstan was. All that Empire piffle. Someone really should tell him that Empires aren't that great!
After reading my 2nd year's course of William Wordsworth poetry "Tintern Abbey" I'm here to watch how Tintern Abbey is looked like.
I hope you like it!
Thank you for another delightful, beautifully produced and narrated film. It is especially warming to see your son share time, precious as that is, with you on this voyage through history.
Thank you! Yes, sharing this adventure made it even more memorable for us and I am keenly aware of how precious those moments are, you are quite right!
Hmm Cumbrians might have let him get away with shooting cannons at them ...Geordies would have snuck up behind him and tossed him over the walls.
@@philcollinson328 😂
An absolutely fascinating vid Mr Messer & son. I was fortunate to discover your channel upon the recommendation of WC21 (UK) Productions Ltd. I have subscribed and look forward to your future adventures.
Many thanks for the praise and thanks to good old WC21 for looking after us! May I not disappoint with the coming ones!
Gotta love the irony of being lectured on our own history by a german who only decades previously were murdering millions of innocent people and dropping bombs on the very sites he’s now patronisingly lecturing us about. Those brave folk who protected our islands, many being killed by germans must be spinning in their graves at the injustice of allowing this awful german creep to tread on English historical ground.
A fascinating and well presented vid. Thanks.
And thanks to you for liking and telling me!
Marvellous. So nice that your son joined you on this antiquarian adventure and he’ll have this video of his stricken father for the rest of his life. The surviving trees were fantastic. Hedges are the next big thing on UA-cam you know! The countryside and views were spectacular. To my shame, this is a part of the world I know nothing about. Well done for getting up that hill - looked steep. And I’ve never seen tents like that before - are they a German invention?
Thank you! Yes, a night in the woods with your son is a lifetime memory. He even spotted a wolf, fancy that! And we had two shy but nosy foxes watching us cook dinner - incidentally, exactly the Roman dish you did with Tweedy. We collected water (and filtered it) from a forest spring...all the fixings... Now, isn't it strange, us both coming up with the hedge thing? I swear I had this Gebück-Video brewing for half a year at least. Those were no tents, but hammocks with a tarp stretched over. Funnily, that's legal in Germany in the woods, whereas a tent is not. Weird. You are lucky to have Scotland at your doorstep, where common sense still counts for something.
Great historical info, And thankfully yir Son is Better looking than yirsel , grrrrr 😉
Yes, indeed! 😅
I'm glad you found some of those original trees in the end - it was worth it!
Thank you! I haven't got too high hopes for this one. I just had to do it. The obsessiveness of the historian...
Wow
Thanks!
Sweet. Your Old Garden? The Platonic Old Garden.
Thanks! Yes, happy days in the Cotswolds...
Really interesting. I'm pretty sure they can learn a lot non invasively nowadays. That would be great, but it looks so butchered from its original form anyway, it would be horrible to make it any worse by digging it up more.
I have been to Tintern a number of times. Well worth the visit.
Indeed! Thanks for liking!
Went there, Dragon Hill in late 80's and saw a woman and hallucinated, heard the trappings of a horse. Suzie from Leeds... 3.38
What a stunning video, thank you.
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Stumbled right into this channel ! Your work is exceptional ….. thank you ! Kindest regards and best wishes, West Virginia USA
Thank you very much indeed for that kind praise! Sorry, I have so little time to post these days, but more is on the way...
Well done presentation. It’s a shame they had to be celibate. They should have been able to get married and have families.
Thank you - And very true, had they raised families, they could have passed on their abilities and learning.
Interesting. However, I have never accepted that this is a horse, for me it is clearly a fox. Who would have have created a horse with such a tiny head and short legs? And the tail is certainly more like a fox. The tail of a horse hangs downward or held high and the hairs trailing behind, the tail of the fox is held proudly outward containing bones until the very end. And the next hill along is called Fox Hill about 7 miles to the West along the Ridgeway.
Thanks! I guess we'll never really know for sure what it was supposed to be.
We have similar things in Australia that can only be seen from the air, all made from walking & moving stones away from the lighter coloured earth underneath. So strange. So beautiful.
Would you go for this one instead for the mavic 3 classic?
That depends on your application. For Photos I'd prefer the 20MP camera of the Mavic 3. For film I'd go with the Air 3. It turns out that for the way I film, the missing aperture adjustment is much less of an issue than people make you believe.
Oh - And I should add: In terms of flying capability, the Air 3 is the more modern, more capable machine.
Quite interesting but what a lot of waffle, virtually no information whatsoever about the horse. It should have been much shorter. Or better still he should have waited 'till that paper was published before he made it. Very disappointing.
I rarely ever comment on things like this, but I'll make an exception here. May I suggest that you make a note of my channel name and never ever watch one of those videos again. They are all bound to disappoint, as much work as their creation might have been. I think that's the best solution. Cheers.
Just been on holiday and walked the Ridgeway by the Uffington White Horse and castle today; it is absolutely amazing!
When I was a child-6ish we lived in England. We took a trip to Scotland and there were many chalk crests and pictures up there. Have you done any videos of those? I’ve always been curious about them also.
I'm thinking it was basically a trade sign - looking at the time they think horses were introduced to Britain it could be this was just an early precursor to the advertising hoarding - "Get your horse here" kind of thing 😂
Lovely to go there in my armchair.
That is exactly what I am trying to enable people to do! Thanks!
I just happened upon your channel an hour ago and am enjoying myself immensely. Your knowledge of Medieval history, culture and architecture makes the videos both interesting and informative. Many thanks. PS. Thank you for pronouncing Bealieu correctly. I cringe whenever I hear people (even the locals!) call it Bewly. Ditto for when they pronounce Boulogne as Booloin!
Thanks for that nice comment! It seems to be a niche subject, though, considering how little attention that Hailes video is getting. All the more important to welcome a new watcher!
I visited the beautiful horse on the hill decades ago on my one and only trip to England, visiting a university friend who had moved l to London. Being an art history grad, I had made a list of all the ancient sites I wanted to see. My poor long suffering friend wasn’t as into these things. I have a photo slide somewhere of the horse, and the giant as well. Wonder if I can find them. Thank you for this video. It brought back memories I haven’t had in years. Such a magically beautiful and mysteriously evocative part of England.