OMG .. never realized that ..

Thinking about Alaska today .. we are scheduled to go back in July 2023 .. We've been there many, many times.  We especially love the enchanted forest at Icy Strait Point.

Icy Strait .. 4 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ED-ix_D1Y

Cold weather is not my "cup of tea" either, an interesting short video though.

Going back to 2016 this is simply a drive up the coast road near our place in Spain taken off the dashcam. It shows the totally unspoilt coastline in our area that is just the same today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyWvyQIA26A

The thing is that we are very lucky in that we have a choice of both as we live very close to Gatwick airport and Spain is only a two and a half hours flight away for us. The only problem now is that since Brexit we can only spend 180 days a year in the EU, and only 90 days max at one time. We don't want to take up residency as owning properties in both countries can cause double taxation problems, and I don't want to give away my small amount of savings to something that I don't need to!
The 180 days thing is at least a "rolling" number, so we tend to do 5/6 weeks maximum at a time and pop back home in the UK for a while.
As we have been doing it for years "on and off" (and more since we both retired) it can get a bit confusing sleeping in different beds/driving different cars on alternate sides of the roads/eating different foods/different language etc, and a few hours later it all changes! However, all the time that we are fit and able to do it then we will continue.
Regarding traffic, yes on the open roads most are relatively free of vehicles especially out of season, but the main resorts are a bit of a nightmare and to find a parking space can be a pain in July/August, but we can walk to a lot of the places that we need to fortunately.

Wow that was excellent, I appreciate how good that is considering from where you were seated! Was "all" of it recorded on the day or did you use extra footage from somewhere else?
Yes, the editing is first class and I would think that it took a fair bit of time to finish? also what camera was you using at the time.

One other factor is experience.  This was not my first event like this.  It did take a fair amount of effort and time to edit.  But it was a labor of love.  My goal was to get it down to 15 min.  So, in that sense, I failed.  But my wife always wants these video memories to be longer -- not shorter.  If I cut things too much, she notices.  So it's too long for general audiences but, for us, on a cold winter's night, just right
Do you have any Cunard experience?

I know exactly what you mean regarding how long a big project should last. You shoot loads and loads and what do you leave in and leave out?  Obviously, you don't want to bore people with too much "baby on lawn" style footage.
What I tend to do is run though all the shots to make sure that I have enough of the main things and people that will matter, even if it means recording extra footage afterwards (if possible).
I always make sure that it has a start that establishes where the venue is, then the middle with all the important parts including onlookers/audience (if it has any). The end can take many forms depending what type of video I am filming, it can end with a fade out of the outside of the venue or a dance or whatever, but I always wind it down without a sudden stop, and if it has an audience, fade out on them. 
I am a bit ruthless on a lot of shots and do cut them tight in post unless they are important, this is probably left over from my old "proper film" days when it was expensive to buy.
After I have finished it, I run it on the TV in front of my wife for an honest opinion to see if it conveys what I am intending it to show to others, as it's easy for me as I was there. Very often I will alter parts before I am satisfied, and I will overdub music if it is feasible. I try and make sure that any part of the audio track is as good as I can get it and I always use a separate sound recorder. If it's a band I will (if possible) plug a flash drive into the mixing desk, but I will still use the audio recorder with mikes as I have had a few disasters in the past with the singer or some instruments not mixed properly!
Regarding Cruise Liners the answer is no, they have never appealed to me and the only sea voyages that I do these days are on the cross-channel ferries or to Nothern Spain, if I am not flying for some reason.

I never heard of this .. Certainly a wonder of nature .. Good video work ..

I'd would have narrated instead of the lengthy title cards, used more live sound and sought out comments from others in the group .. but that's me -- It's your memory of the experience, (what caught your eye) so in that sense it's perfect as it is. 

It's interesting that this has become a tourist attraction.  But why not?  And I'm quite sure the video, nor any pictures, capture the impact of seeing something like this in person. 

Thanks for posting.

Thanks Gordon.  I agree with Paul voice over would have helped to explain what we are seeing.  Bear in mind some viewers will be watching your video on a phone so reading a board of text would be impracticable.

I find the audio side of making a video more demanding than the image editing.  Researching, writing, recording and tidying up narration to drop onto the timeline takes effort.  Then there's the cutting into sections and finalising the editing.  I only do this when my narration is on its track as often a clips length is governed by my narration.  Then there's the finding of appropriate music and the mixing of audio, music, camera audio and any additional effects.

Very few of my videos don't have narration probably because I've a story to tell.  This SD "North Head" from 2010 is a good example.  Unfortunately being SD the quality looks poor nowadays https://vimeo.com/31188015

Thanks Paul, I've has to do similar twice when I've recorded myself outside and wind was a problem.  I try to match up the waveforms to replace my "windy speech".  But the first time I couldn't as the wind made the original waveform unrecognisable so it wasn't a great success.

Last year at the beginning of this video https://vimeo.com/538265156 I had to do the same.  Not much problem with wind but I found in order to match the waveforms I had to speed up my post recording considerably in places to match and keep lip sync.  Any variation would have been noticeable as I'm front on to the camera.  Fortunately with Vegas Movie Studio you by default maintain pitch when changing the speed.

No walk around my village this afternoon as it's raining.  I'll have to exercise up and down the carparking areas instead.

Great video of Samoa, eric. Thanks.

Sorry Paul, it's a typo.  Should have read AWOL (Absent without leave).  Possibly not a saying used in your part of the world.  I'll correct my post.