That's impressive, good job. I also like the lighting, looks like it belongs in a Jeep ad!

Just out of curiosity... do you have a copy of the unedited clip by any chance?

Thanx Chris! I'm taking it off my website.

*wow* ... just ... wow.

I, for the life of me can't find your "harbor.wmv" I downloaded it at work but I'm home now and can't find it in the forums. Can you direct me to the harbor shots wmv? Love your work. Very inspiring. Jason

Thanks Jason, it's a few posts below called "San Juan Islands"

This is a 720p clip from back in January of a 3 minute mini-doc I did of a filmmaker at the Sundance FF.

It's an extremely simple piece with merely available light and all handheld shots (true run-and-gun) but it will give you an impression of how well the H1 performs in fairly adverse conditions.

This is one of the first projects I had with the camera and since then I've learned to tweak it better but I've come to appreciate how easy it was, in general, to get decent footage without a whole lot of knowledge at the time.

The H1 makes a nice 720p camera too. :)

http://media.dvinfo.net/xlh1/Elton/CarlosSundance.mov (143 MB h.264 QT)

found it thanks. Jason

It was shoot well. I wished there were more images than scoring to carry the tension, something like Brahkage. Was that 16:9? How did you get the widescreen?

I had been told that the newest Final Cut Update would support importing 24f video. I would like to know if you have any preferences for setting up with 1080i60 or 1080p24 when capturing into FC Studio

was wondering if anyone knew of any music videos online that has been shot on the xl h1, thanks-ramon

How can anyone not love this camera? :)

The clip was originally shot at 60i, deinterlaced and slowed down 50%, stabilized and downrezed to 720p. Enjoy.

http://www.js-films.com/nitro.wmv

I'll share some new settings I worked on for this project as soon as I can.

This is a shot of the new Chrysler Sebring, same preset, 35mm adapter. It looks a bit soft because of this, and there appears to be some problem with the adapter or lens, because inexplicably some of the background trees to the far right appear in focus and they shouldn't be. In any case, the shots were meant for SD and they look fantastic at the lower res.

http://www.js-films.com/sebring.wmv

Btw, if DVinfo could host these to keep my bandwidth at bay, I would appreciate it :)

Luis;
The Nitro looks fantastic. Could you be more specific on your work flow? Deinterlaced with what software? Stabilized with which software?
Thanks, Barry

Hello again. It was stabilized in Adobe After Effects. I can't really tell you much about my workflow yet, but as soon as I can I will :) I will also share my new camera preset which I think looks fantastic. I'm not sure if I should share it as is or if I should modify it a bit further, since it is designed to leave shadows a bit washed out to deal with shadow detail in post.

Ok, as promised, here's my new camera preset...

Gamma Normal
Knee Low
Black Stretch
Pedestal 9
Setup -9
Sharpness 2
H DTL FRQ HIGH
DTL HV BAL 0
Coring -4
NR1 off
NR2 Medium
Color Matrix Cine 2
Color Gain 6
CPH 0
RGN 0
GGN 0
BGN 0
RGM 0
RBM 0
GRM 0
GBM 0
BRM 0
BGM 0

We could call this preset Nitro.

Shadows will be a bit grayish, so you can tweak shadow contrast in post. If you want darker shadows all you need is to tweak the Pedestal Level until your blacks hit 0, but depending on available light condition this value could vary. I also recommend setting white balance manually as the camera tends to balance a bit on the blue side of things. I usually set my balance around 200°K warmer than current light conditions. If light is very dim and you need to boost your gain, you can also tweak NR1 to Low, but do not go higher than this because ghosting will appear.

What 35mm adapter did you use and with which lens?

New footage here.

http://jeffmccutcheon.com/moses_002.htm

enjoy!

Jeff. Looked at the lo res. Seems like you have the system working pretty well. Of great interest to me because I'm just tuning up a self built Micro35 based on Redrock plans I bought last year.

I did notice a kind of washed out appearance (lack of saturation), maybe due to your actual artistic approach or encoding to lo res (I've had that issue before.)

Hi Jeff,

It was great to see some H1 footage through an adapter! I've been keeping my eye out for such!

Don't take any of this the wrong way but most of the footage seemed soft and it seemed as if it might have been difficult for you to "find" the focus during your test shoot. The footage is only sharp in only some places for very brief moments.

A suggestion would be to use a f-stop higher than 1.4. Somewhere perhaps between f4 and f5.6. This will make it a little easier to focus since a completely wide open iris gives you a very small range of focus (usually within inches). This makes it really hard to keep focus on a subject who may be standing still but leaning left to right or forward etc.. Also if you are using the Canon ViewFinder (like I do when I shoot with a Canon and adapter) it can be very difficult to know if you really "have" focus. Again increasing your f-stop gives you more room to work with by increasing your focal range.

I would love to see more footage of your system, keep posting it and try a little bit higher f-stop. Also if you can do some indoor stuff that would be great to see too.

As for the comments regarding a "washed out appearance" this could be due to shooting wide open. The sweet spot of most lenses is somewhere in the middle between f1.4 or f2.8 to f11.

I also played around with some sample frames and tried a few different color corrections - check this out, it's quite impressive what the camera/adapter can do with a bit of post:

Original Frame (http://www.starcentral.ca/dvinfo/jeffmccutcheonoriginal.jpg)

Example 1 (http://www.starcentral.ca/dvinfo/jeffmccutcheonexample1.jpg)
Example 2 (http://www.starcentral.ca/dvinfo/jeffmccutcheonexample2.jpg)
Example 3 (http://www.starcentral.ca/dvinfo/jeffmccutcheonexample3.jpg)
Example 4 (http://www.starcentral.ca/dvinfo/jeffmccutcheonexample4.jpg)
Example 5 (http://www.starcentral.ca/dvinfo/jeffmccutcheonexample5.jpg)
Example 6 (http://www.starcentral.ca/dvinfo/jeffmccutcheonexample6.jpg)

It's a huge step from my Panasonic DVX 100, wich I still got, and there's a lot to learn. I "shot" our cat last evening :-) I had to try the camera at once. Though I had some problems with the codec, when exported the clip. I use Avid Liquid for editing. Anybody with experience in that matter in the forum?

Canoncat (http://home.tussa.com/gibb/Filmar/Canoncat.wmv)

Congrats, I'll be watching this thread.

-Nate

First post here...

As a still photographer and new to the XL H1 i just wanted to share my joy over the EF adapter and my L-telephotolenses.

Way over my expectations to get acceptable footage at first try with 3600mm.

http://www.jerrygladh.se/film/hager500mm.mov


Best regards

Jerry

Jerry,

Welcome to the H1 forum!

Thanks for posting. I have not seen any footage with that lens until now. I'll bet Chris Hurd (the boss at DVinfo) would love to do some astrphotography with that setup. I can imagine the full moon through that lens. Wow!

I'm kind of surprised that you are maintaining a fairly deep depth of field in that shot, with that focal length.

The footage looks like the stock settings from the camera. If you haven't done so, check out the custom preset library for the H1. The default settings render colors far less vividly than after tweaking the settings. Several of us are using the settings by Steven Dempsey called "Panalook". There are several others in the library that you can download and try.

I look forward to seeing more footage from your H1 with that lens. I'm waiting for delivery of my new 70-200 L f/2.8.

Jerry, bra med nye fra skandinavia her på forumet (sorry englishspeakers!)

It's nice to view your footage of the Grey Heron (I suppose?) And I'm also surprised of your depht of field in the shoot. Do you remember your aperture settings?

I'm doing some shoots myself with the XLH1 and the exact same lense as you do. As Ken says there are som nice presets you can try out here at the XLH1 forum. Look at the sticky thread.

Until now I have tried several of the presets, my impression so far is that for the most natural outdoor colors (at least here in Scandianvia this time of year) is the Outsiden presets by Lauri Kettunen.
The Panalook gives a very rich and colorful picture but a little bit to colorful for my taste!

I might be able to put some of my footage online later tonight. Nice to compare different settings.

By the way, many of us wildlifephotographer are discussing different topics over at the Under Water Over Land (UWOL). There is also a UWOL-Challenge starting january 1st. Many of us are attending this challenge.

Hi guys,

I'm just wondering if anybody has any footage taken with the H1 of motorsport events? In particular Motocross racing or Mountain bike/BMX riding.

Im planning to upgrade my arsenal from my 2 XL1s, 1 XL2, 1 XM1 (GL1) to 4 XLH1s, and want to see some footage before I make my decision.

Merry Christmas to All.

Martin

Is there any chance I can get a look at this file somehow?

Sounds interesting, and I am needing to Shoot a documentary in February 2007 - so would like to see how it looks etc

Thanks
Martin

Is there any chance that this footage could be re-uploaded or we could possibly arrange a file transfer sometime?

I would really like to view the possibilities of this camera and greenscreen for my intended purchase.

Thanks,
Martin

Sorry Martin, those were taken down quite some time ago.

Raw SDI from the H1 is great for keying, depending on how you capture it.

Here's a still from some shots I just took out my window:

Well, I'm jealous.

Very nice.

can you run around the pond there and spraypaint the last roof
on the right a neutral gray? The highlight off the white snow
is very distracting. Other than that...it's perfect.

Send us an update when finished.

:)

That's really a painting, right?

Wow Steven! Beautiful shot! I see that it is snowing up there pretty good too! I am a bit farther down from you. But still, I should have thought to go somewhere scenic. oh well, maybe next time.

Nice photo! Loved it...
~Gabriel

it was a work for hire situation so unfortunately I cannot share any clips but I shot a motocross event with an H1 awhile back and I was pretty happy with the results. we also had an HVX200 to do some slow-mo stuff but the P2 cards are completely impractical for the A camera in a situation like that.

Thanks Nathan.
Well, here is my first "real" video with my new XLH1 is the one below.
I gather the new UWOL-challenge, "The Living Skies", and here is my contribution: Underneath (http://home.tussa.com/gibb/Gibbfilm/UnderneathE.wmv)

Geir, as a nature lover, I really enjoyed your film...keep it up!!

Well here it is. My first 'real' usage of the H1 at work. I had about an hour and a half outside the house (the one we`ll be restoring at work) to just play with the camera since it was all of 46 degrees! Any and all critique welcome, be it framing, motion, etc. My thoughts/comments

- the second clip is very shaky due to a bad tripod head, and most likely my shaky hand, but the head wiggles alot even with a slight touch and it was at close to full zoom.
- these are random shots and not intended to be edited together, it was just practice but i thought to share and try and make something nice like I see in the sample clip section instead of just uploading a random clip. Thanks for the inspiration guys.
- I think the white balance was off, and i dare not take more time on this doing color correction as i am on the clock and it was supposed to be a quick practice....hard to tell someone that "quick" and "editing" don`t usually go in the same sentence.

those are all the excuses i have :D Hope you still enjoy it.

http://www.kiukle.com/temp/edgemere.mov
50 megs

just shows the canon is a beautiful camera, with nice images. A real pity about the shaking tripod, its really noticable apart from its good. Nice music too. The main advice i can give you is this. Your eyes dont zoom, so dont use it, watch any hollywood movie and you will see they never use zoom, unless its very intentional, bet you never thought about that beore have ya :) Thanks for posting and keep giving us more footage please!

cheers.

Andy

Here is some more footage shoot with Canon XLH1 + 20x HD L. The file is uncompressed Mpeg2 - 720p, file size 127MB, lenght 1:18

Link: http://media.dvinfo.net/xlh1/pj/muskox-winter.mpg


The footage show the Muskoxen at the Dovrefjell Nationalpark in a beautiful winter scenery.
Originally shoot in 1080/50i (PAL), shutter at 1/50, presets from Steven Dempsey's DISJECTA, whitebalance outdoor, gain -3. Aperture adjusted for proper exposure. I used a polarization filter and ND set to 1/6.

Get the right DOF and focus is my main task for the moment, but I think I managed well in this footage? The camcorder is working very well under this cold conditions. I'm using the FU-1000 viewfinder which is much better than the original vf.

I would like to know what you think about this footage, especially from a technical aspect?

Enjoy

Can you put them up again? been looking all over for greenscreen shots with the xl h1

Raw SDI from the H1 is great for keying, depending on how you capture it.

Would you mind explaining more of what you mean by this please?

Thanks

i see what you mean, the one of the 'lantern' wasn`t supposed to last that long either...i just ran out of shots to fill the song out so I let it go. I`d have preferred more ECU shots but being the house is so old, there wasn`t much pleasant (even in its old form) to focus in on. Can`t wait until its restored.

Hi Nathan.
I've just watch your Edgemere house video, and I think it was nice.
I agreed with Andy on the shaking comments, but next time i guess it wont shake at all :)
It's a fine old house and the music was perfect together with the pictures you've captured. I liked your change of focus on details, I must admit, when I do this myself I get shaky pictures on tape.
I hope you will enjoy your camera as much I do with mine, and in my opinion, it's a great working horse.
I hope to see more of your videos on this site.

PS
I hope my Norwegian/English was understandable to you :)

is there any portable way to capture hd-sdi with the g1

like getting hd recorder or something else????


i got lost with all this cameras and there out puts

like the the v-1 g-1

Wafian HR-1

In between rain, snow and windy weather I shot these scenes.
My wife and one of my daughters join me this time.
It's from the island Runde on the west coast of Norway.
It is famous for it's thousands of seabirds, but this is a little early in the season.
Some clips are a bit shaky because of the wind, but I did use a tripod.
Here's my video, 72 MB/wmv-file: Runde (http://home.tussa.com/gibb/Filmar/Runde1.wmv)

Runde is also a treasure island.
In 1972 3 divers found a treasure, you can read about it here: Treasure island Runde (http://www.dokpro.uio.no/umk_eng/funn/runde.html)

Forget portable SDI for now, suffer through the chunky stuff for a little while longer until more options are developed and produced, then dig deep in those pockets as it's not going to start out affordable, but will get there in time.


Peace


,

I'm not sure where to put my videoclips?
Under "Show your work" or "XL H1 Sample Clips" ?

Heres a link to Mr Otto, the sea otter: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=90364

Nice job Geir. It's great to get a Norwegian perspective on wildlife :)

Thanks Steven, nice of you to say.
I'm a bit comfused, where to put my movies in this forum.
Under "Show your work", or in this tread.
Well any how, here is a directly link to the sea otter: Mr Otto the sea otter (http://home.tussa.com/gibb/Filmar/MrOtto.wmv)