Gerry , this is a very good job. I was in Fez few years ago and you have capture the feel of the place..really amazing, I really had tears in my eyes. As a traveler it is extremely inspiring to see this. I can't wait to be on the road to India with my HV30.
I have watch your video Moon over SF, can you tell me the reference for the song you used , I have it in french as Samba Saravah but I like the version you used.
Thank you Man, you made my day!

Thanks Robert, I'm really glad you liked it, I spent a lot of time on it. Seeing the flock cross the hills was a very beautiful, tranquil moment for me. Such a great little camera, I have a tiny bit of regret for selling mine. The music from the moon time-lapse is Bebel Gilberto Samba da Bencao from the record Tanto Tempo.

Cheers,
Gerry

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Blood Brothers is a short film by my wife Lydia that we completed a few weeks ago. It was made for Tropfest, the most popular short film festival here in Australia. Unfortunately it didn't make it in though. I think Tropfest tend to favour comedy style happy movies, so this probably wasn't exactly their cup of tea. That said, another film I shot DID make it into the finals of Tropfest, but I'm not allowed to talk about that one of course. At least until it's been shown.

Blood Brothers was shot entirely in one day including the bluescreen shots (our downstairs living area), 3 external locations, plus the ADR dialogue recording in my little home studio here - because I didn't have a shotgun mic or anyone to do the sound on location. It was all shot on the HV20 with the SG Pro (R3) using Nikon lenses including all the bluescreen shots.

The total budget was less than $70 Australian (roughly $45 US), but about $50 of the budget was spent on lunch at the Thai restaurant up the road and snacks. The rest just paid for the toy gun, police hat and badge I got to use :) Speaking of which, both police are me. I used the deform tool in Vegas to make the one on the right look short and fat.

Pretty much the whole film was put together in Vegas 7. Including all the masking, compositing, chromakeying etc. The titles were done in a cheap Flash animation program called SwishMax and a couple of backgrounds I'd fixed up were done in Photoshop Elements 5.

The movie can be viewed at these locations -

Blood Brothers - A Lydia Kurnia Film By Lydia Kurnia On ExposureRoom (http://exposureroom.com/members/fkurni.aspx/assets/06b9a4f548864f6fac28fe4ab29544a6/) (best quality streaming versions + original download)

Blood Brothers - a Sci-Fi short film on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/2978357) (HD streaming version is good + original download)

It's a 6 minute film, but for some reason the file size ended up really small. It still looks fine though if you want to download it. I'll eventually upload it to YouTube and a few other sites and will also upload a before and after version sometime soon.

Comments welcome.

Glenn

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I think it was quite well done. Camera work, blue screen, editing and all.

Also the music helped re-inforce the mood to an amazing degree.

Hi Bruce, thanks for having a look!

Hey guys I went to a event Friday night,
there where dudes painting on,and airbrushing on hot chicks.
They had go go dancers,take a look and tell me what you think,it was dark so I did get a
little bit of noise on the footage,but one think I must say the hv30 is good in low light !
Go Go Dancers ,body Art. on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/3121983)

Awesome footage Anthony.

The HV30 did do good in low light as far as I saw.

Thanks for posting!

Thank you Kali carter,
Nice run,and gun camera good picture really work well in Low light.

Hey guys I just shot this last week for a test shoot.
Only to find out that I end up with bad Audio,the framing is off a bit just to let you know.
However Now I know what to do when I shoot this over next month.
At the very end I used a little After effects cs3,a little dark''but I will shoot this project over
I had fun for the most part.
Ok guys Rip it up......lol
KILL JAKE,NARK,COP, on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/3195653)

This is my second HD vid produced. Just got my HV30 a month ago.
I am still learning and have a ways to go.
I tend to overdo panning, zoom, and effects. I had to modify this one numerous times.
Constructive criticism welcome.
Tallships. Dana Point CA on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/3249204)
Dave

Dave - at least for me - the Vimeo playback was simply horrible - moire pattern throughout the standing rigging and very soft / out of focus images.

Dave,

Welcome to the Board. I think you will find it a great place to help you acquire this intruiging new skillset you are in the process of learning. I saw some of what has been mentioned, but that is more the compression and vimeo that anything you did.

You have a nice eye. You are correct about zooms... it is a hard trait to learn to undo. Watch TV critically some time.. 99% of all shots do not involve a zoom, and 95% of all cuts are straight cuts (fades and other fancy transitions are next up for being overdone by newbies right after zooming).

Show your work and also self criticize -You will also pick things that are incongrous to a viewer, like having a rowboat headed in one direction in one shot and 180 degrees opposite in the next... but this is how we learn.

Often handheld is our only option, and you have a steadier hand than I do. However I suggest you use a tripod whenever possible. Here is a little trick for pans... get a decently stout rubber band and attach it to the tripod head handle. To pan pull on the rubber band instead of the handle... the stretch will smooth the pan dramatically - try it.

Oh and music. A caution. You violated the music copyright of the music of Gordon Lightfoot and Enya (I think it was Enya). You may want to explore Digital Juice, SonicFire or Sony Cinescore for your background music - all royalty free once purchased. All of us have probably used music like you just did for home productions and films for small friendly audiences, and violated copyrights by doing so - yet when just seen by family and close friends no one is likely to notify the holder of the rights to that music.. Posting it on a national site is a little dangerous...

Keep shooting, and keep up your own self critique of your work. Nice start.

Welcome aboard.


Chris Swanberg

ps There is a forum JUST for displaying your work... in the last sections below, try it you will get more folks looking at your work. Be warned, posting your work here with a lot of pros and such sometimes requires a thick skin, but everyone gets some helpful feedback by doing so.

Chris +1 on the rubber band pan technique.

Dave,

Welcome to the Board. I think you will find it a great place to help you acquire this intruiging new skillset you are in the process of learning. I saw some of what has been mentioned, but that is more the compression and vimeo that anything you did.

You have a nice eye. You are correct about zooms... it is a hard trait to learn to undo. Watch TV critically some time.. 99% of all shots do not involve a zoom, and 95% of all cuts are straight cuts (fades and other fancy transitions are next up for being overdone by newbies right after zooming).

Show your work and also self criticize -You will also pick things that are incongrous to a viewer, like having a rowboat headed in one direction in one shot and 180 degrees opposite in the next... but this is how we learn.

Often handheld is our only option, and you have a steadier hand than I do. However I suggest you use a tripod whenever possible. Here is a little trick for pans... get a decently stout rubber band and attach it to the tripod head handle. To pan pull on the rubber band instead of the handle... the stretch will smooth the pan dramatically - try it.

Oh and music. A caution. You violated the music copyright of the music of Gordon Lightfoot and Enya (I think it was Enya). You may want to explore Digital Juice, SonicFire or Sony Cinescore for your background music - all royalty free once purchased. All of us have probably used music like you just did for home productions and films for small friendly audiences, and violated copyrights by doing so - yet when just seen by family and close friends no one is likely to notify the holder of the rights to that music.. Posting it on a national site is a little dangerous...

Keep shooting, and keep up your own self critique of your work. Nice start.

Welcome aboard.


Chris Swanberg

ps There is a forum JUST for displaying your work... in the last sections below, try it you will get more folks looking at your work. Be warned, posting your work here with a lot of pros and such sometimes requires a thick skin, but everyone gets some helpful feedback by doing so.

Chris,
Thank you for your response with such helpful info.
Funny what you said about watching TV. I now look at it from a different perspective. I see that they rarely do all the trick fly-ins and other effects.
Very very helpful response. Thanks again!
Dave

we shot this video last weekend
most of it was shot on the hv30 let me know what you think.
You know what I like. on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/3388267)

Hi. I've uploaded a trailer shot on the HV20, and published a thread in the "Show Your Work" section. Please go to that page (http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/show-your-work/145336-latigo-de-acero-el-trinomio-steel-whip-trinomial.html) for more info, or just head to the video through the next Vimeo link: Látigo de Acero: El Trinomio - TRAILER on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/3519303)

Here are some subtitles, by the way, since the trailer is spoken in Spanish:
ENGLISH: http://media.dddproducciones.com/subtitulos/L%C3%A1tigodeAcero-ElTrinomio_TRAILER_HD_ENG.srt?attredirects=0
SPANISH: http://media.dddproducciones.com/subtitulos/L%C3%A1tigodeAcero-ElTrinomio_TRAILER_HD_SPA.srt?attredirects=0

Please comment, and feel free to ask any questions.

Thanks for watching!

This is a short film I shot for director Avi Lewin late last year that was a finalist at Tropfest in February this this year. It was shot on a Canon HV20 with an SGPro 35mm adapter. Edited and graded using Vegas.

Currently it's on the Tropfest YouTube page here - YouTube - Left Unspoken by Avi Lewin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_xy7am7cRI)

A HD version would be nice to see I know, but unfortunately Tropfest hold the rights right now and won't allow the film makers to post it themselves.

Comments welcome,

Glenn

behind the scenes of the music video
shot on hv30. Behind the scenes .Tha Flatlinerz Music video on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/3534400)

Custom Pre-settting on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/3770841)

Hey everybody today I had time to sit back, and
Make my own preset, with name on them in
Premiere cs3.most of these clips was shot with the hv30
And one with my Sony cam.
I thought it would be a smart thing to do so when I’m working on
Projects I don’t have to take time out to do color correction,
Now all I have to do is just look for my own presets.
Well I hope you like them take care Anthony.

Wow. Very nice.
What was the music you used? Seems a bit like variations on Ryushi Sakamoto. Love it.

I think it was David Sanborn ,
not sure''

Jellies on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/5783128)