Celeste HD-DVD "Bloopers" feature
 

I'm currently working on an HD-DVD version of my film The Last Son of Celeste and I wanted to share one of the bonus features! The blooper reel! It's a good way to have some laughs and see some rough uncolorcorrected footage.

http://www.torresstudios.com/celeste_bloopers.html

here is the some screen grabs to:

http://www.torresstudios.com/images/celeste_dvd01.png

http://www.torresstudios.com/images/celeste_dvd02.png

Very Entertaining. I find the un-corrected color not too bad. It gives me a much better feel for how the M2 looks for standard footage. The color in your film was great but seemed so different than anything I have shot that it was hard to compare.

Great Job.

Might try the .MP4 codec... Yields resonable quality at high compression for web friendly distribution...

Argh! my connection's been cut down to 64kb/s because I used over 12Gb this month! I'll check it out in a few days Marlon.

So sick of all this - Australia has one of the worst "broadband" setups in the developed world, we get lower download limits and lower speeds. In fact it's got so bad that it's currently a political issue in the run up to our next federal election!

Stupid government telecom monopolies....

Doesn't Final Cut Studio 2 have a new ProRes 422 codec that shows HD quality at SD file sizes? I haven't used it but that's just what I read on the Apple website.

PapaRoach "Forever" Music Video
 

I don't know what camera they shot the performance stuff with but the narrative is all canon xh a1 with the m2

http://music.aol.com/video/forever-n...-roach/1926846

Too bad, I get this message:
We're sorry, content protected by Digital Rights Management is not available on the Macintosh.

I know I already commented on this, but I have to say, really good music video.

Interesting...I hadn't seen the actual video for this yet. Papa Roach did a YouTube contest for user submitted entries on YouTube.

a timelapse today.
 

minor cc, infact it still does not look impressive but here we go.

http://dcrin3.com/a1/timeMurrieta.mov

Thanks for posting the results.

The timelapse seems to work well - when you say it isn't impressive are you referring to the coloring? the time lapse effect? the shot itself?

placing it closer to the moving objects so they fill more of the screen would certainly make for a more visually dynamic result, or some night shooting with light trails, day to night transitions, etc, but I thought the timelapse showed as it should

Would love to hear your method for creating it.

Trish

This is quite beautiful!! What interval did you use between individual frames? How did you bring it into the timeline? What software did you use?

Best,
Dino

the coloring itself is what i was refering, also i meant for it to go all the way to dark but i ran out of tape. i am not that efficient with cc in post i fear.

well the entire clip was 1hr 2mins. the song was 3mins 56secs long. i divided the entire clip into three. one was 14s regular speed, the other was about 1min 42 secs, and finally one was 2mins. i joined and reduced in premiere.

14s + 1min 42secs = 28mins real-time
2mins = 30mins real-time

a1 vs hv20
 

a1 vs hv20


http://www.camuser.co.kr/cam_vm/VID_...est_720P-1.wmv

That is just awesome to see the comparisons. I am actually going to be purchasing those two cameras in that next week. Pretty awesome to see how the HV20 can make people believe that its a higher end camera. Great work with it again, Thanks, Saul

Interesting comparison. From these test it would seem as if the A1 has more latitude and reproduces colors more accurately (to be expected from a 3ccd camera). The HV20 appears to have a more contrasty saturated image. But I have no doubt the footage could be treated on post to match one another.

I'm curious to know what your thoughts are about his test Jung.

Glidecam 2000 with the A1
 

After seeing the Merlin Initial usage post, I thought I'd toss up my first usage with my Glidecam as well, so people could get a fair comparison. I too hadn`t used it before hand, this was taken I think the second day I had gotten it out (it collected dust for months since my prev camera was too small to balance on it). Anyway hope I don;t steal the Merlin post thunder, just thought it'd be a good comparison since the situations are similar. I did film it over a month ago, just don't think it ever got posted. Enjoy.

www.kiukle.com/temp/glidecam_a1.mov

I think its about 52 megs....sorry about that, best to right click save as.

First attempt at a wedding. A1/H1/Panasonic consumer cams
 

The original story is here
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=95682

This is basically the highlights left over of anything remotely interesting there. I don`t think I have the knack for wedding editing, not something that seems to come natural to me, but I hope as a gift to the bride and groom they will enjoy it. :D

This was improperly using my A1, someone else who doesn`t know camera on the H1, and a panasonic that sat by itself the whole time on a tripod. :D

http://www.kiukle.com/temp/shortwedding.wmv
25 megs

I can`t wait to work with people who are passionate about video, and to learn all the hardware...it will be a glorious day :)

Looks nice...

WASTED - Short Film
 

Hi everyone. Here's a short film made in a 48h film contest.
First time we entered this kind of contests, so it was kind of hard, but fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8tUvZ3B8ps

First clip from my A1. - Slalom Skiing in Prineville Oregon
 

Took my camcorder camping to roll some first footage.. I shot my brother-in-law slalom skiing behind his boat..

You can watch it online @
http://vimeo.com/252704

or download the quicktime file from Vimeo here (Higher Res).
http://vimeo.com/download/video:4072987

Yes, I was in full-auto mode. Yes, it is a little bouncy even with motion stablizer on, but I was in a boat without any additonal equipment. :) and yes, my lense was a little dirty.. Sh*t, I was camping. :)

Enjoy,
Luke

Well, realized later that Vimeo doesn't allow you to download files without an account.. Even though I recommend you do sign up for an account because it is a pretty cool way to share with just the people you want and you get 250mb a week.. not bad...

Anyways, I put up a mirror of the quicktime file.
http://www.filmerica.com/john_ski.mov

That helped, the first time I went to see, I was told to get an account, and the lores version didnt do much for me.

I liked it, all this talk of HDV and lots of motion has left me scared to death to shoot action, but this seemed to work well at least. :)

I prefer some more color, but that's just me, is this raw form the camera with no preset?

Anyway, I thought it looked good.

Yes, its as raw as a steak.. I got the camera two days before I left to go camping. Now that I am back, I got it loaded with the presets from Dvinfo, and they are wonderful. Cant wait to go out and use them.. Could have done some color correcting in post, but this was more just for fun and to see how workflow would be with the camera.

Very brave taking your shiny new XH out with so much water flying around! Some nice shots there though, I really like the one around 30 sec in where the sun's glare is reflecting in the water with the skier shot from the side.

regards

Paul.

Time lapse
 

I want to compress 1 hour of footage into about 2 minutes. What is the best way to capture on the A1 with it not having a time lapse function?

Sorry,put this in the wrong place!!! DOH!!

Hi Phil.
Shoot your scene for one hour, straight, and then, on the editing software, speed up the footage.

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which lenses, adapter did you use?
looks really nice

Cool Video
 

Artistic, very nice. I've got an A1, and I feel that I've just scratched the serface of it's potential. I just finished a Shoot this past weekend, actually my first. I used the preset 5296Film, but it didn't take when I attemped to import it, the file was low light so I had to manual set the prameters, and man it was sweet!! after that.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...deoID=15243420

I've found that with this camera, if your very carefull, the viewer might not even know it's not file, it's just a matter of learning where to stop pushing.


Your video is great,

Tim Arnold

None. Everything done with the camera lens. Used the Vivid RGB preset and played a little in post with CC and a little blur.

Hello Nathan,
I have just looked at your wedding video! Beautiful video!!!
You could say to me where I little to find the file sounds of the flash (audio) photo which you use as transition in the small slide show towards the fine of your film.
Either you can send him(it) to me by e-mail in the size(format) MP3 at my address; ( bernard.m@neuf.fr )
Thank you to you for your help (assistant)!!!
Excuse me for the translation,
but I am French and my English is very bad!!!
Bernard.M

Yosemite Sunset Timelapse
 

52 minutes of footage of Half-Dome in Yosemite during sunset sped up 8000% (literally). No sound, just a quick lighting test. Let me know what you think.

Also, I apologize for the crappy youtube video, but i don't have a server... and I can't figure out how to encode the file correctly.

http://www.youtube.com/v/httt_ai5aHo


Specs: Canon XH-A1. Filmed in 24f.

ominous looking... and boy, your shoulder must be sore after that shoot!
Lonnie

Looks good, but maybe mask out the sky and add some time lapse clouds that fade into time lapsed night sky (stars).

great idea. but i would have no idea how to do that. where would i get the cloud/star footage? How would you go about making that happen?

Thanks for the feedback

Mixing A-1 footage with 2/3rd-inch cams
 

I shot my kids' dance show, not something I normally do, but the studio called me the week before and had had a falling out with the video place that usually does it, they were in a pinch so I got a couple friends who have 2/3rd DVCams and I used my A-1, shot in HDV. I downconverted and used multiclip in FCP to cut it after. Verdict: while the Canon wasn't as good in terms of low-light (and this was a LOT of low-light), it held up quite well. This is a promo I did that they'll use at the studio to sell more copies, hopefully...

http://www.mostlymagic.tv/demo/recital_promo.mov

Facing the stage was the A1 left...?

Not bad could probably correct the footage to match a little closer... IMO the A1 shoots pretty flat images which if not corrected in post or via a preset it doesn't seem to be up to the image quality of other cameras... But once corrected it surpasses many of it's competitors in quality...