www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/03/21/shooting-and-fishing-videography-demo-reel/
Shooting and Fishing Videography Demo Reel:
Samples of my professional hunting/skeet shooting, archery, and fishing videography.
Earlier Version:
www,mattkprovideo.com/2026/03/20/i-once-met-chuck-norris/
I met Chuck Norris once, when I applied for a job on a new TV show he was starting up,
“Walker Texas Ranger”
I was actually offered the job, but it was an unpaid internship in Dallas,
Where I didn’t know anyone or had a place to live.
I toyed with the idea of sleeping in my car, eating set food and showing….. somewhere- I hadn’t figured that out…. I was around 23/24 years old….. I could have done something like that back then.
I turned the job down.
I’ve often wondered what would have happened if I stayed on that job.
When I say I “met” Chuck Norris, he was in the room as I waited for my job interview. I never spoke to him.
Noble Willingham, who went on to play “CD” on that show, was there. He was regaling the room with his impersonation of Jack Palance from “City Slickers” ( everyone in the room loved it, we were all chuckling)
Chuck was there with a semi famous martial artist, Benny Urquidez.
He was talking to what I assumed was one of the show’s producers about some new leg training device.
www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/03/18/hunting-fishing-shooting-and-archery-footage/
Here are some samples of videos I have shot for various hunting, fishing, rifle range and archery related projects.
Fishing video for “Bass Coach” Ray Tomasits.
Shot with Canon DSLR’s and a waterproof GoPro.
Fish animation:
A music video that incorporated some fishing footage from older productions of mine:
This is a video I shot and edited for a charity clay shooting tournament:
(Check out the shots at 16 seconds as an example of the kind of shots I can get for you.)
A commercial I shot and edited for a Houston area shooting range:
Some brief clips of footage I shot for a rifle-centric documentary
( I can’t post the whole documentary because I don’t have the rights to it).
15 minutes of edited rifle range footage I shot to be used in an upcoming documentary:
Some uncut GoPro footage of archery:
www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/03/17/new-to-topaz-ai/
March 17, 2026, 3:53 pm. I am brand new to using Topaz AI. ( I just downloaded it a few days ago)
I bought it mainly to upscale video.
The Youtube show I am paid to edit is shot via 1280 by 720 zoom calls. I’ve tried to get the client to get newer better 4K cameras or even just use his iPhone on a cheap Walmart tripod- to no avail.
The footage I get from the client is a split screen conversation between two people (sometimes more than two!) so if I want to make it 4K I have to somehow upscale it 300%.
I tried to upscale the video (in Adobe Premiere) 300 percent and it looked terrible.
I tried to upscale the footage using after effects “Detail Preserving Upscale” but I have found that once you go over 200% it looks bad.
When I want to do close ups – that means I have to blow up the footage 600% to fill the screen with one persons face. That looks terrible even with “Detail Preserving Upscale.”
I asked on a lot of online forums and everyone suggested I use TOPAZ AI.
So I bought TOPAZ and used it on one episode. I didn’t have time to learn how to use it the right way, I was on a strict deadline and wanted to get this done as fast as possible.
I imported the raw unedited one hour and a half Zoom footage into Topaz and exported it as “4K, 60 fps.”
I did it at the end of my work day as I assumed 90 minutes of upscaling would take a long time to render. I was right, when I woke up the next morning it STILL wasn’t done. Luckily I just got a new computer with a fast processor and lots of extra hard drive space.
Now what about close ups? I wondered if I could do cropping or trimming right in Topaz. I am assuming it CAN be done but I didn’t have time to research how to do that.
So I took the 1280 by 720 original footage into After Effects. I imported the video into a composition set to 640 by 360, 60 fps, moved the position of the footage so that one person filled the screen.
( I added some basic color correction such as contrast on an adjustment layer before exporting.)
Then I exported it using the Quicktime > Animation codec.
This took more time than I wanted to spend on this…. I knew I was probably doing it wrong… but I felt the need to keep moving.
After Importing this close up footage into Topaz AI, I set it to export as 4K/60fps…
I thought the close up footage looked really great. I don’t think anyone would know it was originally from such small format video.
Then I took the close up footage back into After Effects and added my graphic overlays, Lower Third Super names, etc…
I imported both the huge 90 minute upscaled video file and the almost as huge close up file into Adobe Premiere, and just edited the footage as if that was its normal size. This went off without any problems.
Finally, I exported whole edited thing as one big file and uploaded it to the clients YouTube channel.
I KNOW I am doing this the dumb way, the wrong way.
I am sure there is a better way that would take less time and work.
Ideally, I would like it if I could install TOPAZ AI as a part of After Effects. So that I can only upscale the exact parts I want, with the shots with two men upscaled 300%, and the close ups I want set to 600%. Then instead of rendering the whole thing, I can import the after effects composition into Adobe Premiere and cut the un-rendered comp and only have to render once Im fully done.
I googled “add Topaz” and I saw how to click “plug ins > install after effects plugins”
and after that I saw in After Effects: Effects > Topaz > Enhance
But their enhancement options were just “2X Upscale” and “4X Upscale” and not the 300% and 600% I need for this ongoing projects.
Please don’t laugh at my ignorance.
(And yes I know- from a business point of view, I should have the attitude that is the client is happy with small 1280 by 720 footage then I should be too. I am doing this partially for the client and partially for me to learn how to use TOPAZ for my own projects in the future.)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Matt
www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/03/11/history-buffs-november-2024-washington-dc-visit/
History Buffs November 2024, Washington DC visit
This is a (partially) edited video “souvenier album” of the trip took on the weekend of Election Day, November 2024 to the Historical sights in Washington D.C.
I hope I can find the time someday to make a shorter, tighter edited version of this.
Mostly shot with my iphone, but some of it was done with my Sony Camcorder.
Edited with Adobe Premiere, with some Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects work.
1) My plane takes off, then I land in Washington D.C.
(Don’t ask how I took footage from the ground of a plane I was allegedly in.)
2) Bill and the other history buffs pick me up at the airport.
3). 13.07, the infamous “Exorcist Steps” right outside of downtown D.C.
4) 1.24 The “eternal flame” at President John F. Kennedy’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery right outside Washington DC.
5) 2:07 The visitors center right as one enters Arlington National Cemetery.
6) 11:15, The changing of the guard at the :Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.”
7) 19.11 Earl Warrens tombstone
8) 19:30 the National headquarters of the VFW. This was of interest to us because this is where most of the testimony of witnesses to the Warren Commission. Many books claim the Warren Commission hearings were held at the National Archives- but this place matches the photos in many historical photos from 1964.
9) 23:52. Our attempted visit to the Capitol Rotunda, interrupted by some kind of gasoline carrying troublemaker.
10) 26:07 We got to go in the next day.
11) 42:29 The Watergate Hotel. You can pay for a tour of the room that the “plumbers” ( burglars) stayed in as they prepped to break into the headquarters of Democratic National Committee.
12) 45:50 The John F Kennedy Arts Center. I will NEVER call it by that OTHER name.
13) 47:50 Exterior shots of the FBI building. As I video-ed them, I highly suspect they were video-ing me.
14) 56:11. Fords Theater, where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
15) 1:14:27, the Lincoln Memorial and Washington monument at night.
16) 1:17:44 The National Archives.
17) 1:24 Mount Vernon, most of the group didn’t go to this. It was just Ed and me.
18) 1:35:40 The Washington DC Hilton Hotel where President Ronald Reagen was shot in the 1980’s.
19) 1:40 “Charlies Angels” joke shot.
20) 1:40:15 Ronald Reagen airport. Ironic, considering that Reagen fired the nations air traffic controllers for attempting unionize and strike.
21) 1:41:10 out the airplane window shots of me leaving.
http://www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/03/06/dr-dawn-elmore-30-years-of-service-award/
Dr Dawn Elmore 30 years of service award
March 6, 2026
Scobee Planetarium, San Antonio College.
Version edited with Adobe Premiere and After Effects:
These are the original, unedited iPhone video clips:
www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/03/06/2-men-reading-newspaper-animation/
2 men reading newspaper, animation
made with Adobe Animate and After Effects
http://www.mattkprovideo.com/2026/03/03/disney-magic-feb-25-2026/
These are my home videos that I shot on the Disney Magic cruise ship, starting on February 25, 2026.
Obviously, these are just home videos and not actually affiliated with any part of the Disney company.
On the Trail of Delusion, Episode 31, Josh Sundloff on Reason and Reality,
Josh Sundloff is the host of the popular Tik Tok show “Reason and Reality”
www.tiktok.com/@reason.reality
Music by: Power Music Factory Channel URL : / powermusicfactory • [Suspense Music No Copyright]Suspense Background
Video editing and motion graphics/ animation by Matt Kordelski https://mattkprovideo.com/
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