Local anyone with cameras haha. I`m in Warwick, and finding not many people around here know about HDV, its all either lumped with HD and 'thats too expensive' or everyone is just shooting SD. At any rate, I'd gladly film your next surfing venture for some good old practice ;)

I had a shotgun mic and a lavalier mic on the groom, was in his inside coat pocket.

Clean little waves, looked like a fun day. Minus the wet suit. You won't catch me out in that cold water.

New trailer for a short on the A1
 

This is for my second short film Five Minutes Flat. Its only half filmed right now, so the fighting will be redone to look alot better. It was filmed using VIVIDRGB with i think the black increased.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/106785...easer_trailer/

Hi!

Cool action!
Sadly metacafe provides just a pretty bad picture quality - would you mind uploading it to vimeo.com? They are free and also support HD-vids.

With best regards,

Oliver

woah thanks for the tip. I`ll give it a shot

First clip with a1
 

I just have the XH A1, so here's a little impression after one week playing. I used the music that Steven Dempsey also used for one of his clips from "The Village", not very original but it's just to try out the camera. The location is the place we were maried 10 years ago.
VividRGB, Tripod. No adapters. FCP 5.1.4. Quicktime plugin required.

http://www.wijdh.nl/page2/page2.html

Robert

basement show -- low light
 

Here's a song from one of the bands I filmed tonight, it's heavy, be prepared.

The lighting was awful in this basement, all I had was that one work light sitting on the cab in front. I guess you could call this my first low light test.

I had to shoot 30f, shutter was at 1/30, and aperture was at 1.6. I think I was using 0 db gain. Does this look as good as possible given the scenario? Or does someone sense there could have been more done to help the image?

Thanks!

Chris

aaaand here's the link:
http://students.oneonta.edu/nachcj44/bulldozer.mov

I found the position you were shooting from not ideal - both visually and light wise - the band was playing more towards the dark open area and that would have been a better place to be parked to get more of the 'front' of the band and give us more of an audience feel. This would have also avoided the worklight being so close to the camera blowing out the highlights on the guitar player

if the light had been positioned to cover more of the band - off to the side but more frontal (as opposed to direct side lighting) and your camera was positioned in the audience you might have had more to work with

the footage itself doesn't show much noise, if any, so I think the camera did as well as is to be expected in this situation

very pumped up group : )

trish

Yes they are always pumped, haha.

I wish that even one of your suggestions were possible that night, but unfortunately none were. There was no where for me to stand in the crowd, this was the most cramped basement I've ever seen. And also, all the amps and mixers were taking up all the outlets, the only one left was in that corner.

Sadly, what you see is the very best option I had!

Suggested settings for indoor florescent lighting
 

Hi, I'm an amateur starting out. I've been playing with my xh a1 for about a year and will be shooting my first short this week inside, with the existing florescent lighting (and some spot and fill where its needed). I am wondering about any suggestions from folks about suggested camera settings for my horror/mystery as I see that many of you are jogging between 24f and 30f (30 appears to be nearly exactly like 60i except perhaps a bit softer?).

Also, if I shoot in 60i with highest settings, can I in post apply various film looks and still have great quality and blacks or is it better to shoot in 24f or 30f to achieve that softer film like look?

I just did some test shooting and the 60i, and 30f came in normally, the 24 came in as individual clips. I am feeling like "holy crap, now I got to figure out how to deal with these individual clips" before my deadline on Friday for a short film festival. Any feedback is welcomed. What to do what to do.

I use Sony Vegas Pro to edit in hdv.

Thank you

Tony in Duluth

If you are using Sony Vegas 8 you cannot capture 24F,, however you can capture 24F in Sony Vegas 7, I ran into the same problem but it does work great in Vegas 7, then just open that captured footage in Vegas 8 for you editing.

Hope that helps

Paul Cox

Thanks I will try it.

Tony

HUGE waves - surfing footage from Rhode Island
 

Valentine's Day:

Came home from school with all my gear for an epic swell that hit New England. Newport, Rhode Island was firing all afternoon at a beautiful spot right in front of some of the most historic and beautiful mansions in the country.

waves were BIG with up to 15+ foot faces. water temperature was frigid around 40 degrees and the locals were all thinking of excuses to tell their sweat hearts for why they were MIA on valentine's day.....

enjoy:
http://www.vimeo.com/698184

Can't believe that's Rhode Island! Looks like Santa Cruz, except for the wet suits. What frame rate did you shoot it in?

yeah i know looks like Mavericks huh? i shot it all in 60i

Looks like great footage. Unfortunately Vimeo sometimes does not do it justice. It runs a bit choppy. But the editing and music works very well.

thanks

Yeah I noticed Vimeo makes it choppy, which is quite annoying, but I think if you let it load all the way through and then watch it, this helps.

B&W Camp Short
 

Saw some of the great things people were doing with B&W and decided to make something of my own.

All of the footage was shot the next day after I got my A1 so the settings were: 60i. Auto Shutter and Aperture. Factory Color Preset. Auto WB. Auto Gain. Handheld. OIS on.

1. Placed 60i footage into 24p Vegas timeline.
2. Slowed it down to anywhere from 80 to 30 percent of original speed.
3. Increased saturation and contrast.
4. Used Levels filter to crush blacks.
5. Added Film Effects filter. (Dust, Hair, and a few Scratches.)

Used the Sony AVC template for Render. 1280x720. 4mbps.


Uploaded to Vimeo:
http://www.vimeo.com/710112


Any advice and critique is welcome. I am especially hesitant about the really high contrast of the piece. I know its probably much too high for most applications but I figured since this was more of an artistic piece...

Also, what do you guys think of the dust/hair/scratches? Should I keep them or take 'em out?

This was a fun piece. A nice retrospective for the campers I'm sure.

I did a project where we were simulating old film stock and had an opportunity to try out the dust/hair/scratches filter on my NLE - our marketing team came to the conclusion that we either had to go "all the way" and really sell it, or just leave it out. To me, your video is in that 'half-way' area. Sometimes I noticed it, other times I barely noticed it at all depending on where the hair/scratches lined up on your footage. The result is that the viewer can't tell if you're doing the effect on purpose, or if your camera was just malfunctioning occasionally. I would say that if you're going to use the effect, go big and really make it look authentic!

And personally, I liked the contrasty look!

-Brendan

I agree with Brendan. Sell it all the way and put some blur in there too. Way too sharp for and old time film look. I liked what you were trying to do though.

Jim and Brendan thanks for the encouragement. I find it nearly impossible to step back and make a decision after I've seen the same footage 700 times. Its really good to get some feedback. :)

I will make the adjustments and upload a new clip for comparison.

Maybe add a yellow or brown filter to everything to funk it up a little, make it look old timey...

PINK-The Series... Download HD Teaser
 

Last fall I posted several links to my new web series "Pink" shot on the Canon XH-A1. Since then we've had just shy of 5 million online views (from Myspace, YouTube, Revver and iTunes).

We're gearing up now to shoot 25 more episodes and will eventually release the series in HD, probably by download and on Blu-ray. We've had lots of request for this, but we've been waiting to get more content together, etc.

But, in the meantime, we have decided to release an HD teaser from Season One. So if you're interested in checking it out please click the link below. This forum is the first place we're posting this information, as kind of a test. Currently we have it available as a 720p WMV file. An H.264 QT version will be up soon too.

http://www.blakecalhoun.com/pink_teaser-01.htm

Thanks!
Blake

Downloading as we speak. I'm looking forward to the next season.
Really liked the first one.

Dude, I can definitely see this on Showtime or something. You should like combine all of the episodes from Season 1 to make an hour long episode and send it in. This show is bad ass. I finally finished the rest of season one, and the line about how Pink is her favorite color is just an awesome line.

Thanks for watching the show and glad you like it!

We've been approached by several entities to explore the idea of taking the show to television or a feature film. We are definitely looking into this. But for now we're forging ahead with the next season(s) to be seen online (with a DVD in the works - playing the episodes back-to-back to make roughly two hours worth of content).

Wedding clip #3 - Church and photos
 

Hi all!

This is the link to the clip #3, the exit from the Church and the photo city-tour (as from Napoli's tradition).

http://www.vimeo.com/731186

Enjoy!

i like!

handheld on most of the clips?

Yes handeld. Only in church on a tripod (video not uploaded). Next wedding video will be shooted almost entirely with the Glidecam Smootshooter stabilizer.

Good movie in a beatifull town
 

Hello Robert, I liked your video in New York, You used adapted music and good images.
Did you use a tripod?

Hi Luca,

Thanks, it was actually shot on a Panasonic GS300 SD camera, without Tripod but for some shots I used the Manfrotto 585 Modosteady, as sort of handheld tripod / steadycam that can only be used on smaller cameras. Not on the A1 unfortunately (to heavy).

Reagrds, Robert

Latest wedding HD clips
 

Hi again!

Here below I write the links to the latest clips.

The clip #4

http://www.vimeo.com/739922

regarding an exciting "serenata" with the famous neapolitan song "Anema e core".

The clip #5

http://www.vimeo.com/744898

regarding the screenshots and end credits.

I hope you will enjoy with these clips.

first HD nature
 

comments welcome

shot with xh a1 and letus extreme

http://www.vimeo.com/692055

http://www.vimeo.com/712837

Some really pretty shots and the music went well with the video. My only gripe is that it made me feel guilty for spending the day here on the computer instead of getting outside.

Campus Movie Fest...
 

Well here is our video we made for Campus Movie Fest.

We shot with two canon XH A1, one with a letus lense adaptor and 50mm nikon lens.

The awards were last thursday and we won best comedy (??) and viewers choice and will be entered at the reginal level. The whole team got ipod shuffles lol...

Anyways enjoy...

http://www.ourstage.com/video/channe...IPYZ-vigilante

pretty cool. We did one again this year as well. Also on an XH-A1.

http://www.ourstage.com/video/channe...mpus-moviefest

lol.

Looks great josh, who are the actors? They look really familar, hmm.

you know its true...we spend so much time on the internet and check out those wonderful videos with wonderful feedback and wishing about having a video like that... and not enough with our camcorder...thats why i decided one day to just go out and shoot video and do nature...it took me two hours to shoot and one hour editing and uploaded it on the internet .and wow i got my first feedback..just like that....i may not get a lot of feedback but hey its a start, its my first nature video anyway ..


so go out and shoot video/edit/upload and then you will get your very own first FEEDBACK....