Thanks Mike!!! This is going to help a lot! :)

Bryce and Michael,
many thanks.
I will change a few of my movies via this guide.

Wil

This is a full promotional video shot with the Canon XH-A1 for Airsoft Louisville:

You can watch it here:
Airsoft Louisville Full Promo on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/2678385)

Hope you enjoy it. Comments welcome.

Tony

Great footage Michael! I just got my camera about a month ago myself. Isn't it awesome!? I particularly liked the footage of the dog. Keep up the good work.

JD

Do you guys have the updated presets list. I lost mine and when i tried to upload from here they are scattered every where. If any body have a complete list that would be a blessing. Happy new year to all.

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/attachments/canon-xh-series-hdv-camcorders/8435d1214754985-xh-custom-presets-download-library-copy-james-lynch-preset-list.xls

Hi, hope you dont object but thought I would put my latest film up for your expert critique.
It was filmed early morning at ullswater on my way back to Scotland, it was so cold that morning, in fact -8 centigrade most of the morning but it left a mist hanging over the water.
cheers john

ullswater By john estcourt On ExposureRoom (http://exposureroom.com/ullswater)

Woww nice film !

Did you use a preset i like the colors.


Grt Arnold

hi Arnold, preset was pana look, but i colour graded it in post to bring out more of the colour in the sky.
thanks for the positive comments.
john

Great work, John.

Last time I was there the visibility was about 20 feet due to the incredible downpour. Nice to see the area looking so good.

hi colin, visibility was great this time and the light perfect, just a slight mist over surface of water, prob those sprouts again!

Hello,

this is the first wedding event I filmed (my own daugthers wedding). Half of the shots I did myself and half were done by someone else.
I used the Canon XH A1 wiithout any other special equipment.
I created this trailer as a kind of teaser, at least that was the intention.
Please give me your comment as this will help me to improve myself.
Video is password protected : Reinout

This is a password protected video on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/2637490)

greetings,

Rudy

Since I know you guys are all such ballet lovers and never tire of seeing my daughters dance, here's a clip from one of their recent Nutcracker scenes, shot w/my A1 -- slowed down 67%, panalook2, no color correction:

Nutcracker Angels on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/2750903)

Only thing that caught my attention is I thought their was too much camera movement in some of the shots, other than that I liked it. But then again I'm no expert.

filmed all on xh a1.

Matt Meola Promo vid. on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/2793798)

Some really good looking shots in there, but a lot of others were not so hot looking. kind of grainy, and lots with blown out highlights and invisible blacks. Might try tweaking your settings to not loose the information in BOTH the highlights and blacks, which i know is hard since it's very high contrast situations. The shot at 1:00 and another one, on the same beach i think, a few shots later looked proper for sure.

Yes, thanks for the input. A lot of that footage is older when I didnt know what I was doing with the camera, so the good looking footage is the newer stuff

Filmed this just before Christmas last minute and I also used my brand new best friend Mr litepanel pro. Posted this on another board. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!!!!!


Greg & Heather Highlight on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/2780266)

It all looks great. Very tough to center the frame on a fast erratic moving target and much of the footage is right on the bullseye. The heck with 'perfect color footage' 110% of the time. Get the action and tell the story. Volcom takes 'perfect footage' and has a couple of 300 lb wrestlers take it to the back room and stomp on it, make it look old, add grain and hair and scratches, puts it back in their movie, and makes millions. That's what the crowd wants. For surfing footage, always totally perfect color and focus means you've sold out, might as well get a suit and tie and get a job on Wall Street. This video could use a little audio interview with the subject, some background. Otherwise it looks like about a year worth of clips and some very good surfing.

For all who is always interested in XH-A1 footage:

FilmWork - Demo Reel on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/2818373)

A new Save the Date video.


http://www.vimeo.com/2823382
P-your VISION Productions (http://p-yourvision.com)

Hey Guys,
Just some real world testing here of a modified trucolor preset vs. PF vision. Shot in a DARK reception, so certainly real world testing. thoughts?

www.grantdigitalmedia.com/presets.wmv

PF Vision is the same except Shp 3 instead of 9 and NR2 H
My modified truecolor is ...
GAM 2
KNE L
BLK S
SHP 2
HDF M
NR2 H
CMX N
RGN -7
GGN 3
BGN 12
RGM 40
RBM -12
GRM 6
BRM 12
BGM -3
All other settings 0
whatya think of the footage...

Bill,

I like the pfvision a lot better.

I sure would have liked to have seen the truecolor vs pfvision vs your modified pfvision. Could you do that at your next shoot and post?

Thanks for sharing,
Michael

Michael,
I don't use the original truecolor because I find it too soft. I was trying this one out, so that's the only reason I even used it. I don't necessarily like it, but in the dark it was brighter. I find the colors in the NLE to be a little too much. I might use it if I get in this kind of situation again...
Bill

Also, you can't really see the difference once it's rendered. I just watched it from here. The NLE shows a radical difference between these 2 pictures. Very interesting.
Bill

Thanks for sharing! That little extra bump in brightness has saved me a few times since putting together this preset. Granted it's not a HUGE difference but I believe the presets can only do so much in such a harsh situation.

I like to keep NR2 off as I like a sharper image. It's all personal preference. :)

This new movie was shot on the A1! I just purchased the DVD and I must say , they did a great job! They used the M2 adapter. On our summer trip we visited the campus where it was filmed. Their website tells how is was made. Groovy Marsha!

Home (http://www.adventfilmgroup.com/Home.html)

Enjoy

Footage from the Tennessee vs. Gonzaga Basketball game on 1/7/09. I got to sit court-side, which was awesome.

Shot on the Canon XH-A1 with Letus Extreme and Redrock MicroMattebox. I mainly used a Nikon 50mm f1.4 lens.

Pearl Harbor on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/2834987)

Pigeon's Dancing on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/2838505)

Had the day off from work and I was extremely board, and needed some footage to teach my girlfriend how to edit. Short fun video we put together in a couple minutes, enjoy!

My friend's wedding.

21min, wmv 343MB (clean pause)
ht tp://www.videoproduce.cz/images/Josef_a_Jitka_net.wmv

Enjoyed it, thanks for sharing....tell the young lady nice job in editing.

...Should be entitled "Rats with Wings" ......j/k

haha agreed, they do have disgusting habits.

all footage filmed with xh a1

Barrels, big turns and more insane surf during the 2008 winter season. WARNING - Music lyrics contain explicit language, HAWAIIAN REWARD | SURFLINE VIDEO (http://www.surfline.com/video/featured-clips/hawaiian-reward_21286)

surfing is awesome ha. nice footage man

Hi all,

Link: Alexis le pompier / Alexis the Fireman on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/2895821)

It all started during the summer of 2008. Wanted to make a short with my son Alexis (he's 3 1/2) being a fireman but it's been a little hard to keep his attention span for more than a few minutes. We had to give up the project considering the amount of work required and the fact that Alexis wasn't really enjoying the process anymore.

The short then got recycled in an hopefully interesting trailer instead...

Fortunately, the Premiere has been done with his little cousins last Saturday and they all enjoyed it very much. He was so proud of himself being the hero of his own movie!

But the best part was to look into his eyes and know without the shadow of a doubt, that I was the coolest Dad on Earth!

Feel free to comment!


Benoit

Hahaha... very nice. Ik like it. Is this shot with a XHA1? If yes, which preset did you use for the shots inside, your boy behind the desk? I see very good skin tones in that part.

Hi,

Thanks for watching.

Yes, I shot it with a XHA1. If I remember correctly, I used the preset "Panalook2" (I shot it last summer). I did some CC in Magic Bullet Looks but I would need to redo it. I also need to deinterlace the footage - I made a mistake in the configuration during the render. I shot it at 24F.


Best regards,

Benoit

Hi
Here's a link to see watch an experimental short film we shot two months ago
Sota la Sorra (Short Film English Subtitles) on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/2905108)

It's long...

Cheers

One day shoot, some good sun, some light overcast
Panalook 2, 60i, -3db, AV mode, no ND filter, edited progressive
Been shooting in the AV mode lately, seems to give more of a point and shoot flexibility for action and changing outdoor lighting.


HSF Contest # 2 By Bill Thesken On ExposureRoom (http://exposureroom.com/members/IslandStyleFilms.aspx/assets/553b83e1d6cd407a80fa2258bb634412/)

Music by Tommy Tokioka
http://www.royal-t.net/

Christian,
I enjoyed your pigeon clips. The video reminded me of a song that my brother wrote years ago. If you would like to hear "Pigeons" send me your email address. I promise it will make you laugh.
Fred Tims

FTVideo@optonline.net

YouTube - 1/20/09 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d13Hc-EJ2Qo&feature=channel_page)

Well done, the transition are very nice and smooth.

This film has quite the history. "Waiting" was originally a 30-40 minute short film entitled "The Ornament" which I shot almost a year and a half ago. Unfortunately, as most things in film, things never went to plan. Everything from a random life events, to a busy schedule, to simply the fact that the film wasn't coming together like I had envisioned. Approximately only 25% of the film was shot so editing anything close to what I had envisioned for "The Ornament" wasn't anywhere near possible. So instead of just letting the footage collect dust on my hard drive, I decided to cut the footage together and see if I could come up with anything that would resemble a narrative. I had to get really artsy with the editing but overall, I had a great time cutting this piece together. I thought of it as an "editing exercise" or "challenge". I hope you guys enjoy this somewhat experimental romantic love story.

PS: This project also features the debut of my new production logo! Woo!

Vimeo link: Waiting on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/2964348)
HD: http://www.torresstudios.com/films/waiting_web.mov

Hey guys,

First video post! This short was made during a ski trip. We got bored at the cabin so ran out and did this in 1hr. Enjoy!

http://www.tonyfilms.net

Some feedback would be nice. =)

Recorded settings:

XHA1
60i
Manual
60-120 shutter
No presets or CC
Vegas Pro 8.0

This was something I did for the my city last summer, covering Popcorn Festival which is held every year in honor of Orville Redenbacher, who started his company in our town.

Once again, Its pretty mellowdramatic, but I tried to show the effort, time and emotion put into the Popcorn Floats every year. It was with the VIVIDRGB preset, but I also used the LetusExtreme and it wasn't that long after I got it. I didn't know much about it and I didn't know about turning off the OIS. And that screwed with all my shot. Opps!

I noticed a few mistakes recently with seeing the edge of the Letus too...

Thanks!

Popcorn Festival Floats on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/3020196)

This one was a project my group and I did in lighting for film class. We had about 4 hours to do this. I didn't work in HD because SD was just faster to render and work with.

Tony Films | "The Crooked" (http://www.tonyfilms.net/?cat=1)

Too bad the language is so unacceptable....it could be a nice teaching tool, but unfortunately that's not gonna fly with my group. But thanks for sharing.

My team and myself recently and surprisendy won on a German Filmfestival with our shortfilm "SunnyRose" (made 100% with XH-A1). I took 5 minutes to cut a little trailer:

SunnyRose - Trailer on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/2884261)

Alle comments are wellcome.

Have fun!

rollerblading edit, filmed during the first month of my A1, February-March

60i
1/120

lots of grain on some clips, obviously from not knowing about turning off AGC, but still on some of my darker clips now-a-days, i get some grain, even with gain control at either -3 or 0, huh....?


PURPLE is Subtle on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/2979552)

Too bad the language is so unacceptable....it could be a nice teaching tool, but unfortunately that's not gonna fly with my group. But thanks for sharing.

Yea. The profanity in here is pretty abundant. I didn't agree to that but it wasn't my script. I would "beep" it out but it'll be odd. Thanks though.