A Short Video of San Miguel de Allende – Mexico’s Most Beautiful Town

San Miguel de Allende is a beautiful Mexican town. Many claim it’s Mexico’s most beautiful town. In honour of its beauty and atmosphere, we made a short video of San Miguel de Allende in the style of the Super-8 home movies and experimental films that Lara and I used to make when we were young film students in Sydney.

We shot this short video of San Miguel de Allende on our last afternoon in the atmospheric Mexican town where we settled in for two weeks in a colourful casita, as part of our yearlong grand tour of the world aimed at inspiring our readers to travel more slowly, more locally and more experientially.

While we were in San Miguel de Allende, Lara did a silver jewellery making class, I did a Mexican cooking class, we engaged with lovely locals, from a designer and boutique owner to a musician who played romantic Mexican ballads, and we immersed ourselves into local life, as much as that is possible in a Mexican town where 10% of the population are North American expats.

We became completely smitten with the beautiful town despite our initial apprehensions of spending two weeks in a destination that many people had told us to avoid. There are a lot of foreigners living in San Miguel de Allende, but if, like us, you prefer to engage with locals rather than expats, our posts will show you how to do that so you don’t miss out on experiencing this magic place.

A Short Video of San Miguel de Allende – Mexico’s Most Beautiful Town

This is a new HD version of our short video of San Miguel de Allende, because at the time we didn’t have the bandwidth to upload HD quality videos. The video footage was shot with an Olympus Pen EP-2 and edited in Final Cut Pro X.

Because the quality of the video from the Olympus Pen wasn’t fantastic, I’ve made the video a little retro Super-8 looking. We used to shoot with Super-8 cameras and edit films made on Super-8 when we were young film students in the late 1980s and early 90s. While I miss the tactile nature of working with film, the technology available these days to edit footage is extraordinary.

Lara and I both studied film for our first university degrees, were independent filmmakers for a while, and in our past careers taught filmmaking and film production. Since then, the ability to edit a movie on a laptop has become commonplace, something we could only dream of when we sat in dark rooms on massive editing tables on weekends cutting 16mm film for our final year university projects.

Also extraordinary by comparison to the old days of filmmaking is how you can quickly put together a little musical piece using GarageBand and a small portable keyboard. Digital audio recording has come so far as well.

The first time I used Pro Tools in a recording studio many years ago, I knew that the days of tape would come to an end. However, being able to have 24 to 48 tracks of audio playback on a MacBook Pro with Logic Audio is the stuff of my teenage dreams as a songwriter and musician. It’s a fantastic time to be a content creator.

We hope you enjoy our short video capturing the the atmospheric streets of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

A Short Video of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico