skyy3838
October 4th, 2002, 06:49 PM
I'm not talking about "Full Frontal" either.
Been there,done that-I was very dissapointed that Soderbergh
wasn't trying to achieve the "film look" with the XL1S-he basically just treated it like an overly expensive VHS-C cam.
No,I'm talking about footage where someone exploited it to its full potential. Web sites? Videos?Suggestions? They would be highly appreciated!
Thank you!
A.
Barry Goyette
October 6th, 2002, 12:12 AM
A.,
Here's a clip of mine. Shot on the xl1s in my studio. Download the movie to view it at full size (the mac.com viewer shrinks the video size somewhat).
http://homepage.mac.com/barrygoyette/iMovieTheater1.html
Barry
Nori Wentworth
October 7th, 2002, 10:22 AM
Hi Barry,
I'm curious to know which lens you used on your camera? Also what filters/pluggins where used in post. I'm sure lots of us could gain much knowledge from eachother.
Thanks- Nori
Barry Goyette
October 9th, 2002, 03:26 PM
Nori
Sorry I was out of town for a few days, just catching up on the boards. Here's the rundown:
Canon xl1s..Stock IS-II lens. Manual focus and exposure. -3db gain. No filtration...I've done some color, sharpness and contrast work in FinalCut Pro (see below), but essentially, it was shot straight. Concert footage was white balanced on a yellow kodak film box to make it go blue. I haven't used any special plugins, just standard effects available in FCP.
Here's a description of the main compositing technique I use to control color and contrast.
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?s=&postid=25729#post25729
(4th post down from the top)
Barry
Adam Lawrence
October 10th, 2002, 04:24 PM
barry....are you using a PAL XL1-S??? a freind of mine has a PAL, I see the
difference in resoltion between each format..maybe the PAL is sharper or
"cleaner"..due to is higher resolution.
Barry Goyette
October 10th, 2002, 05:17 PM
Redone
No, I'm using the NTSC version...I don't have any experience with the pal version...so I don't know whether it's sharper or not... my clip is probably a bad way to evaluate this aspect of the camera, as there is quite a bit of post processed blurring and sharpening going on...(not one cut is "straight"), as well as significant compression with sorensen 3..which tends to soften things a bit.
Barry