This looks like it was a lot of fun to make.
"You ruin my family."

Good one.

this project was a practice to test the sound equipment, the 302 mixer and 702 recorder. there's problems as far as continuity (glasses) and color (no wb), even lighting outside 5pm vs 7pm. it was a sound test

It's worth noting that if there are any issues opening the videos, click on the link on the site at least twice otherwise they won't open. I hope to hear what people think!

Eddie

I was a bit worried about uploading this to You Tube because their resolution is so shite. But I put this up as an experiment, and was surprised that the quality has gone up so much.

My mate Andy says it's because I used H.264. All I know is, the sequence is marginally good enough to publish at You Tube's resolution.

Join me as we watch Tiny Little spend four months in a rowing boat crossing the Atlantic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=absM70tXBDU

This is a mixture of MiniDV and 720p25 EX1 rinsed together in Motion and Final Cut Pro, and served on a bed of H.264

This is a film that I did for a class at Academy of Art University. Photo-storyboarding/s8mm to be exact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGCCm9o_GAk

It's only a few minutes long, and is about coincidence and smoking and crime. Please take a look and give your honest feedback! I'm really lacking in feedback - write me a book! I'd really really appreciate it.

I'm anticipating submitting it to the Epidemic Film Festival in San Francisco which has an 8 mm category. For a frame of reference, here (http://www.vuze.com/details/CG4G2H54DYTQEJ653S6WC3F5Z62GDS6N.html?a=SALL&cat=X&ch=X&cs=X&ct=X&page=Scontent%2FDetails&pb=l4376705&pg=1&pr=X&s=S&st=SAZHOT&t=X&vt=1) is the 2007 winner.

Thanks!

Sam

Nice and interesting movie. I also liked your often funny additional text comments.

You might want to have a look at http://www.vimeo.com - the video quality there is nothing to compare with youtube. They even support HD video.

Cheers, Oliver

Quite entertaining, Henry! As Oliver mentioned, your comments added the right touch of humor that made this such a fun piece. Thank you for sharing it with us.

We have a new website up with our new "Creation" production trailer (still English only):

http://www.lightinaction.org

We output the trailers as 1920x1080p Cineformed masters and down-scaled them as progressive-load Flash movies into several sizes.

The "HD" version really isn't HD quality...(we need to change that button), but at least is large enough to watch on a decent large computer monitor.

BTW, we did NOT use H.264, but re-wrapped the fullscale CF AVI masters as MOV's using CF's HDLink to convert, then downscaled them directly to flv's using Adobe Flash CS3 video encoder. Works great and the resulting flvs are very small, yet look good.

Comments?

We have a new website up with our new "Creation" production trailer (English only for few more days):

http://www.lightinaction.org

We output the trailers as 1920x1080p Cineformed masters and down-scaled them as progressive-load Flash movies into several sizes.

The "HD" version really isn't HD quality...(we need to change that button!), but at least is large enough to watch on a decent large computer monitor.

BTW, we did NOT use H.264, but re-wrapped the fullscale CF AVI masters as MOV's using CF's HDLink to convert, then downscaled them directly to flv's using Adobe Flash CS3 video encoder. Works great and the resulting flvs are very small, yet look good.

Here's the final file sizes for the three flash versions: 13MB, 21MB, and 43MB

Comments? Anyone think we could do better by using H.264, or MOV's?

I decided to make a youtube like site but have cranked the quality up abit more so they look abit better but still should play realtime for most viewers.

It's only for underwater clips so if you have some, sign up and load up.

www.hdvundersea.com

Cheers
Paul Wags

How many different people were involved in the Creation trailer?
Did you/your shop shoot all the footage yourself, or did you use anything stock?
As a 1-man shop, I doubt I'll EVER be able to anything as good as that.

How many different people were involved in the Creation trailer?
Did you/your shop shoot all the footage yourself, or did you use anything stock?
As a 1-man shop, I doubt I'll EVER be able to anything as good as that.

Thanks Denis, if I were a one-man shop, I'd be thrilled with what you said! But I can't take credit where no credit is due. I'm the producer/director and we have a 6 person team, (including the main talent).

We all actually wear many hats, as I am the main editor/sound man too. The main cameraman is also our AE FX guru, color finalizer, and crane operator. The "b"-cameraman is our Dreamweaver guru, and second editor. Both guys fly the Sony V1 on our little Merlin (at rare occasions when we actually use it) and both double as dolly/track crew/cameramen.

Our main talent (Cynthia) is also main scriptwriter, but the whole team evaluate scripts. Our main researcher (Stefanie) is also the one ferreting out our stills (most were stock material) and helps with location choices. We also have two others that check our Portuguese scripts (Cynthia is bilingual, as are all on the team)

We do not normally use "stock video" as it is expensive and usually not what we're looking for, however we like and use some of the more recent music (Stacktraxx) from Digital Juice and a few of their transitions/revealers/Jumpbacks (mostly just for this trailer). They can pay me later for this free plug... :)

If we were doing ad's or something similiar as shorts, we'd use a LOT of DJ's material. But for long productions, it is not as useful...except the music.

Two areas we are hurting, is with outdoor lighting and better cams. The little V1 has HUGE bang for the buck, but we need better lenses/control and would like to go to a RAW workflow using CF. That would give us much more control for the outdoor environments we normally use with these productions.

So, unless you have a few years to spend on your productions, you'd be hard pressed to match a team approach. That's why JollyWood stuff looks so good...

This is the Remake of Vanessa Carlton video. I did this video in 2006 for a university project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3jdVLmenXY

Stephen, very nicely done! Thanks for sharing your work with all of us. We're proud to have played our small role in your efforts....

That is an incredibly good Flash video encode (the 720p version). How did you do it?

That is an incredibly good Flash video encode (the 720p version). How did you do it?

Thanks to both David and Laurence for your good words! David, we look good because YOU guys gave us some of the tools for that to happen!

Laurence, the Flash encode does looks good, but does fail a bit in the transitions. Where there is not a lot of movement or abrupt scene changes and the video is stable, it really is very nice for the size.

Encode was simple: from our full size master (to 1920 progressive), we just re-wrapped them to same-sized large MOVs, then directly downscaled them in Flash encoder CS3 to 1280x720 at "high" (700Kbps-using On2 VP6 and Flash 8) quality. I may have bumped the audio quality up a bit, can't remember. Easy workflow, fast and good results. If you have CF material and CS3, you have all the tools you need for nice web output.

On a personal note, I just finished reading "The Language of God" by Frances S. Collins.

http://books.google.com/books?id=JcMCmBnpHGsC

It is a Christian book but one with quite a different point of view. I recommend it highly.

Looks really good! My only question is: why does Adam have a tanline?

Looks really good! My only question is: why does Adam have a tanline?

Ha ha ha! You should have seen him with zits on his back! In fact, if you look really close you'll see a zit up near his neck we forgot to get rid of, and in the pool ...

I threw this together to test some digital blood and stuff

http://view.break.com/447217

Let me know what you think!

Hi Everyone,

Here's a link to the trailer for the short film "Chemistry" on YouTube... let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGjKfSkZCVU

Thanks for watching!

short bmx video i did with hvx200.

http://www.vimeo.com/671515

short bmx video i did with hvx200.

http://www.vimeo.com/671515

Very cool!
However a better wide angle lens would make it even better... ;-)

I think this emulates the "old home movies" feel more than well enough. It's too easy to get bogged down in the details of trying to perfectly match Super8. If your doing this for a client who is a stickler and specifically wants that look, then I say go ahead and buy a Super8 camera and shoot with that. If this is going to be shown to the general public they will more than accept this look.

yeah, can't afford the $2000 century fisheye...

thanks tho!

As I said
"As something to be projected as if it were Super 8, I think the average theatre goer will accept it. Not many specialists sitting in the audience."

Hi Paul

Please get ion touch with the diving fraternity, PADI, BSAC etc and tell them about your site. If they publisize it yoou will get thousands of divers who are filming immediately available for content.

Cheers
Dave (I am a PADI qualified diver)

Even in Germany web videos are becomming big for newspapers. I just came back from a 14 day stint covering the primaries in Florida and California shooting for the German weekly "Die Zeit". I thought some of you might be interested in the footage. I wish, the technical quality would be better but they wanted me to shoot DV and the HV20 doesn`t do too well in that area. And the encoding lets much to be desired. But anyhow, have a look and let me know what you think:
http://www.zeit.de/video/player?videoID=200802069da5b8
http://www.zeit.de/video/player?videoID=20080204ec8ded
http://www.zeit.de/video/player?vide...f7cc&from=left
http://www.zeit.de/video/player?videoID=200801280816e5
http://www.zeit.de/video/player?videoID=200801257f9056
Thanks,
Matthias

Hey everybody, I started a movie review show several months ago and it's evolved over that time. We recently finished a new format. Thought I would show it off on the board where I get tons of info from.

TheCritics.tv


I do all the production myself, and the presenters write their own material. Any and all feedback is welcome. Thanks for taking the time to check it out.

We do shoot in HD, so if anyone would like to check out the HD divx version go here: http://www.stage6.com/The-Critics/video/2154426/TheCritics-tv-Season-2-Episode-1

I've posted a video from our scuba diving in Bali in September 2007 towards the top of my home page (http://www.bubblevision.com). The video is for the dive operator to show silently and looping on a TV on their stand at the London International Dive Show next month.

I would be interested in any comments on the video and whether it downloads/plays smoothly.

Shot with the Sony Z1 in Light and Motion Bluefin housing. Wide shots with their 80 degree port. Most of the macro with Century Optics +3.5 diopter behind flat port. L&M Sunray halogen lights on many shots.

Edited in Sony Vegas Pro 8.0b. The Flash .flv file is 500 kbps video, 128 kbps MP3 audio. I frameserved from Vegas to On2 Flix Pro and did a 2-pass encode and it took over an hour on my quad core! It's hosted on brightcove.com

I'll put a 960x540 version up on Stage6 when I'm happy with it.

Wow - beautiful shots! It looks like if you are also a very experienced diver - the shots are extremely stable.

I think the film would be even better, if you would cut it down to 3 or 4 minutes. It might also be a good idea to change the music at the beginning.

Very nice, more the of slo mo action would have been neat, especially since you have the option :)

Props for using Supersystem too, they're cool

Jay

I dig that man, looks really nice. Did you use any color correction?

Sam

This is the first short I ever created on my XH-A1 and edited in Final Cut. I noticed that the colours really washed out and the picture was brightened up after it left compressor. I didn't use any of the colour corrections in Compressor, just compressed to H264 and cropped for 2.35:1.

Any suggestions?

http://www.vimeo.com/677218

Here's my $.02

It is my belief that audio should be used to reinforce a feeling that the video creates. To fill in the gaps where dialog leaves off or to hint at things to come.

In your clip the only somewhat visually suspenseful thing was the random appearance of "203." So it was up to the music to somehow make the clip suspenseful. But because most of the footage could have been mixed with a dreamy and lighthearted score and worked well, I think though the music tried it just couldn't do everything on its own.

So I spent 3 minutes confused and waiting for something to happen and was completely let down. I think that the clip could have been cut down to a minute without loosing any of the effect. (If anyone feels that an effect was created.)

That being said I think you did very well on the technical aspects of the piece. :)

I noticed that the colours really washed out and the picture was brightened up after it left compressor. I didn't use any of the colour corrections in Compressor, just compressed to H264 and cropped for 2.35:1. Overall nice job on the different cuts/shots, though the action wasn't all that exciting.

In Vegas there's a setting to switch the video to StudioRGB, anything similar in Final Cut Pro? Other than that, try setting your levels and color curves - or use the VividRGB preset for the XH-A1. But you were shooting on what looks like a pretty cloudy day, so your colors are going to be generally muted anyway. The flat indoor lighting probably didn't help either. Were you shooting in Auto? I noticed at the beginning your reverse shots of the guy walking away from the underpass towards the car were darker than the rest.

Ok where to begin...1st teach the girl how to read on camera. Wow, talk about uncomfortable to watch, also what's with her posture? The hand on the hip is not natural. Plus she adds nothing to the review.

2nd, don't sit in front of the monitor, you're blocking the video!
either sit next to it so we can see what you're talking about, or cover you guys with the video when you refer to it.

3rd wardrobe, if you eventually want to get advertisers on your site, you don't want it to look like some high school production.

4th, technically, your chroma key needs a little work. Too many green halos still.

5th, the 2 of you are pretty natural on camera, the dialog back and forth is good, very conversational, not to scripted , which is good.

Sorry to be picky, but I think this is the feedback you're looking for.

I have heard there are some problems with how the gamma curve is handled on H264 - it is viewed differently in Quicktime vs other players, or something along those lines?

The file itself is fine, but it looks washed out in certain programs. Is this the case?

well... I guess it must be new, I posted the title wrong.
=P it's called 'Action Movie Fan'

Let me know what you think about Episode 1-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HjBEyCpZRc

thanks!
-nick

I produced this music video last year (senior year in high school) for a local Columbus, OH group. Shot on the sony pd170 and a panny dvx, edited in final cut. At the time i new very little about lighting, but it's not too bad. Let me know what you think.

http://www.jeffkolada.com/movies/02_mrg_goldstndrd_web.mov

Hi Dave
Hey a fellow diver...
They way the net goes I'm sure word will get around to them about it.
I'll send SSI and email.
Getting some nice clips loaded up now.

SSI Instructor
Ex PADI instructor.....handed my license back to them....

Hey everyone,

Below is a new version of a quick reel for my prod. co Meydenbauer Entertainment. This isn't really meant to be a full reel, but more of a quick introduction/presentation of the work the company and I have done so far (it would more than likely be at the beginning of a DVD or website). Many of you have seen some of our films including The Beautiful Lie and The Ronnie Day Project.

Just thought I'd see what you guys think.

http://www.meydenbauerentertainment.com/Reel.mov

Josh

yeah, can't afford the $2000 century fisheye...

thanks tho!

Depending on where you live, you can rent one!

Great lighting. Good pacing!

Toward the end, maybe just a little too much cutting on the beats, but in the beginning I think those cuts work fine.

I don't know if I'd like it as a force-play before a DVD feature, but certainly as a DVD extra or as a piece on the web.

Good work!

I think it looks great. Good choice of clips. If I were to make any critical comment, it would be that there are a few too many 'clips to beat' at the beginning.

Unfortunately, most of the real suspense came from waiting for this film to load up. Man, must be a really slow server or something.
After waiting that long for the film to load, I was really hoping for some kind of big payoff in the end, but there wasn't any.
I thought most of the video looked nice, anyway.

It is against forum policy to link to works better than my own.

BTW, do you have any tips on how you get those results? I see in your sig that you use an XL2 but there must be a lot more to it than the camera.

Hi David. I guess the story is a bit slight but it is your first film! It's great to try stuff out without worrying too much about tricky plots at this stage. The the first movie I ever made was a suspense film too.

I liked some stuff. I thought the opening shots, with the handheld long lenses did add a bit of a "surveillance" mood which did make it a bit suspenseful, a lot of contemporary thrillers use the same approach.

I could have done with a few fewer zooms, but then I seem to be in a minority about that these days.

Be careful with the long handheld tracking shots - I noticed you had to speed one up to fit it in. It's best to shoot a few of angles and just cut. I know filmmakers fall in love with the long windy tracking shots, but usually they're pretty pointless, and actually that's how my mum would shoot a movie: "I'll just follow you while you walk around, honey"

Not bad George! It looked very professional, something you'd see on TV here. From what I saw, the actors look like they're doing a great job. Nice locations too.

The 'films' in the logo for GH films is kind of unclear though. I don't know if that's just because youtube squished the video to 4:3 but the f looks like an l. You might want to change the font for that.

Wow, that's all I can say. I love the story, it kept me entertained the whole time. Beautiful work. Amazing. Holy crap. Usually I don't like those love type stories, but this was just incredible. I will watch it a second time. I loved the twist, the pregnancy at the end all that. How they were both married. Very good storyline.