A few weeks ago I was in Turkey to shoot a low budget imagefilm for a Hotel there. I did the camera and since i don´t do the editing I only put some scenes I liked together with some music under it.

http://www.madetomasquerade.de/videokrimsundkrams/crystal_h264.mov.zip


-Max

Nice footage Max. Did you use any particular preset ? I like the colour and clarity of the shots. Nice use of DOF by the way.

great footage. love the lighting effects you applied.

great movement in the shooting as well. What did you use to get the smooth dollylike shots? All slow moving but nicely done.

Was the framerate 25?

Trish

Max,

Very nice video. Great lighting and great camera movement as well. Really nice colors too.

Like Trish I have the same questions.

In the Buffet shot, are you pulling the focus manually?

I can't get it to play. I downloaded it and removed the fake zip extension to a mov file, but says its a file quicktime can't understand. Also tried to open in winzip, but no dice either....

Please tell us the preset you used, it's too damn good! Are the clips color corrected in post? What about the method you used to create this file? It's too good and detailed, how did you downconvert it?

Thanks!
Alex

Hi everyone, thanks for your comments so far.
To your questions:
Nice footage Max. Did you use any particular preset ? I like the colour and clarity of the shots. Nice use of DOF by the way.
I made my own preset: cinegamma 2, Knee: middle, Blacks: press, sharpness: -3, colormatrix: cine1, color gain: 5,


great movement in the shooting as well. What did you use to get the smooth dollylike shots? All slow moving but nicely done.

Was the framerate 25?

Trish

I made the dolly shots with a trolley of the hotel, I just put the tripod on it. It wasn´t possible to move it faster because of vibrations.
Yes it was all shot in 25f with 1/50 shutter (Pal Land)

In the Buffet shot, are you pulling the focus manually?
Yes, I pulled it manually

I can't get it to play. I downloaded it and removed the fake zip extension to a mov file, but says its a file quicktime can't understand. Also tried to open in winzip, but no dice either....
I don´t know!!!
Please tell us the preset you used, it's too damn good! Are the clips color corrected in post? What about the method you used to create this file? It's too good and detailed, how did you downconvert it?

Thanks!
Alex
The colors are slightly boosted in fcp.
I downconverted it with Compressor directly out of the Final Cut Pro timeline. The specs were something like this: h264, data rate 2000 k/bit

Thanks for your explanations. Did you use a wide angle lens? If it is so, which model?

Alex

No, I didn´t use one. I think the wideangle capabilities of the A1 are quite nice especially when you shoot HD.

- Max

Really nice soft flow... I like it..

Max, I got it to work finally. It was worth redownloading a few times! Good shots and you could send this to the hotel and let them use it on their lobby TVs.

A new question: any light kit used? Or just a smart use of natural light available?

Alex

Hi everyone, thanks for your comments so far.
To your questions:

I made my own preset: cinegamma 2, Knee: middle, Blacks: press, sharpness: -3, colormatrix: cine1, color gain: 5,




I made the dolly shots with a trolley of the hotel, I just put the tripod on it. It wasn´t possible to move it faster because of vibrations.
Yes it was all shot in 25f with 1/50 shutter (Pal Land)


Yes, I pulled it manually


I don´t know!!!

The colors are slightly boosted in fcp.
I downconverted it with Compressor directly out of the Final Cut Pro timeline. The specs were something like this: h264, data rate 2000 k/bit

Its really smooth. I would never have guessed you use something else other then tracks.

A new question: any light kit used? Or just a smart use of natural light available?

Alex

Most shots are done with available light exept in the first hotel room and at the massage. I had a 3 x 800W Arri lightning set with me. I didn´t use it so much because I had to shoot like 30 shots a day.

very nice.
how did you create your h.264 file? it does not have the famous h.264 gamma bug.