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Old March 23rd, 2005, 11:52 PM   #1
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Marina Clip

Took a few clips this weekend at the local marina with my XL2. I color corrected it a bit and added some glow. Still learning to use it and compose shots.

http://home.comcast.net/~chalbers/marina.wmvx

Download it and then rename it to marina.wmv to play.

Hope you like it

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Old March 24th, 2005, 12:37 AM   #2
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Something went wrong with the first upload. The one up now should be OK !
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Old March 24th, 2005, 06:36 AM   #3
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Nice footage, Frank. Was that one kite really doing that, zipping around the screen?
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Old March 24th, 2005, 08:59 AM   #4
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Yes indeed ! It was ! That guy was GOOD.

Glad you like it . My favourite is the very first shot.

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Old March 24th, 2005, 09:16 AM   #5
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Very nice, Frank. Appreciate that you noted what post-production was done...would you mind also sharing your camera settings to give folks a bit more frame of reference about various aspects of the clip?
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Old March 24th, 2005, 11:28 AM   #6
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very good looking stuff!

Every clip you guys post on dvinfo looks so damn good! I need to upgrade from my XM2 :)
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Old March 24th, 2005, 03:39 PM   #7
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Very nice stuff. Myself being at the tail end of winter sure do enjoy watching shots like that. Out of curiosity, what nle do you use?
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Old March 24th, 2005, 10:06 PM   #8
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I actually used my to hands to block the view so I could decide the framing and composition of my shots. I noticed to get much better results by setting the camera really low so I could nicely pick up the grass and flowers blowing in the wind.

This is how I shot it. The camera was totally in it's default settings. I noticed this to give me the broadest dynamic range if I don't do any curving or color correcion settings IN camera. It gives me much more to play with in post.

I filmed in 30p, 1/60 th shutter and 16:9 using a locked 0db gain. I focused manually and set the apperture manually depending on the overexposure visible on the zebra 95%. My ND filter was set to 1/32

In Post I first leveled the highest values to as high as I could. Then I color curved to get more of a filmic look. Added som more saturation and finally did a slight glow effect.

That's it !

I must say ... it lookes SOO MUCH better on DVD ! The compression on the .wmv file doesn't help eighter ! :-)

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Old March 24th, 2005, 10:07 PM   #9
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<<<-- Originally posted by Jeff Boeckman : Very nice stuff. Myself being at the tail end of winter sure do enjoy watching shots like that. Out of curiosity, what nle do you use?
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I use Vegas 5.0d

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Old March 24th, 2005, 10:08 PM   #10
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Thanks for all the great replies everyone ! Really appreciate ! :-)

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