I am having the GL2 for almost 2 weeks, this past weekend I shoot a video for the second time after reading many experiences from GL2 user in this forum. So I give it a try and make this landscape clip, hopefully it looks nice to you. It was filmed by frame mode. I don't know if the exposure is ok or not. I still need to learn and practice more.

The shooting location is in Toronto, Canada

<a day without rain>
http://www.dvshortfilm.com/temp/a_day_without_rain.wmv

Thanks!

Very beautiful!

Love that closing scene.

Looks like Canada ;)

That was really nice Alex, I have not tried "frame" mode yet but have to someday. I will then read the many posts on this too.

I thought your colours were odd at some points, have you played with them in post? Maybe it is the wmv coversion however most of the colours were very good.

You have a nice eye, thanks for sharing.

What tripod and fluid head do you have?
I see a very smooth panning in your video, that i cannot make with my manfrotto 190 and 128rc fluid head.

Alex. Very well done. I also really loked the closing.

Just plain beautiful - thank you very much . . ..

Thank you for all the good comments, I would say that without some of you guys advises in the last 2 weeks since I have the GL2, I would not do this nicely.

But I think some of the shots might be too bright and the colour too green, don't you guys think so? Maybe very subjective thing.

Regarding to the tripod, you know what, surprisingly I just use a Velbon CX-586, I can't afford to the Bogen/Manfrotto yet.

Very nice, Alex, and a testament to how much music can add to the total experience.

If I might suggest, I would encourage you to learn about color correction techniques. Your pictures need a bit more contrast, IMHO, to really make them pop. A good place to start a real education is with Photoshop, and the books by Michael Kieran. You can look him up on Amazon. You can take the shortcut and pick up a book like "Color Correction for Digital Video," but you won't really get an understanding about color correction like you will with Kieran working in Photoshop.

Good luck!
Wayne Orr, SOC

Great job Alex. I really like Enya anyway so that really added to the beautiful scenery. That ending with the bird was perfect! You're on your way!

Thanks for sharing that Alex. It was very well put together and your shot composition was very good. It was very nicely done overall.

The exposure looked fine throughout.

You'll want to do like Wayne said and start working with your contrast levels. You don't need to adjust them a lot, but a little will make a big difference. And work with the brightness as you adjust the contrast. Those two adjustments will really develop the scenes.

Ben Lynn

I am editing video in MediaStudio Pro 7, there is something called "Colour Correction" function. I just use "auto" because I don't know how to change colour in detail. It seems like complicated.

The colors are nice, the pans very smooth, but the editing to me is a bit too much in a hurry. The music and images are of the more lingering sort, and especially at the start, you seem to be in a hurry to move from view to view.

The clarity of the images and stability of the shots is certainly top notch!

Alex

I love your panning, VERY smooth. I have tramendous ammounts of coffeine in my system at any point in time and my panning leaves a lot to desire. Someone already mentioned color correction so I won't go into detail, but see if there is a filter in your NLE that will take and convert broadcast pallet to the computer pallet, his will add a little more saturation and contrast.
Also, and this is only my opinion, the part where the girl sits under the tree reading a book looks too centered. I would maybe push her off to the left a little bit.
The ending is indeed a fantastic footage and I liked it a lot. As far as shooting in frame mode, I would say that maybe not because you will loose resolution and instead use the DVFILM (http://www.dvfilm.com) to do the deinterlacing.
Great job overall

Hi Rafal, is the dvfilm working fine? Does it support Canon GL2 NTSC? It shoot 30f. Do you have any sample I can see?

Hi Alex! That was a nice video, very pretty!

It's kind of funny, but I made a video like that last year, except it was a day WITH rain. :D Just thought it was ironic...

Great video! Keep up the good work!

Alex

DV film works GREAT, but a sample would be too large to post. You can download an evaluation copy from their site ( see link in my previous post ) and run some of your work through it. To answer your other question DVFILM does will take any AVI or MOV file, however if you already shot in frame mode, than the program won't help you much in deinterlacing, you can still use it to convert your footage to 24p motion or add film grain or red boost.

Next time you're out, shoot a scene with a lot of motion in it in frame mode and than shoot it in regular interlaced mode, deinterlace the interlaced footage using the trial version of the DVFILM. I think you might be pleasantly surprised.

Great work Alex, I live in the GTA and am also doing a short film right now which uses a lot of landscape images. I have to say your piece was inspiring!

You can see some of the test footage I shot for the film last weekend in this post:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30338

Thanks for checking it out.

I thought the ending was excellent. Good job.

Nice work.

Oh, by the way, Alex, what settings did you use in the last scene. Was that at dusk?

I am using Canon GL2 and I turn the ND filter on to turn down the brightness.

it kind of looked like you used a green enhancing filter on some of those shots... did you use any filters on the camera or anything??

ending shot was really cool. The rest is normal and nothing original. DO try to zoom out more slowly cause it takes out the relaxation of the music with fast zooms. Keep on filming and try to add more effects to the movie...nature effects/cd's.