XL2 stills at DVinfo.net

Nic Smith · April 20th, 2007, 09:20 PM

Doing a short film soon, and have been playing around with various looks shot with an Xl2. What do you think? Any tips on how to get better shots with similar subject matter? Composition, colour grading, aspect etc..

Matthew Jackson · April 20th, 2007, 11:17 PM

I think your stills look really good... What are you using to extract frames?

Nic Smith · April 20th, 2007, 11:32 PM

Thanks Matthew! All I did to extract was take a sreenshot of the DVD in my dvd player software. It's prob not the best way to take the frames, as some of them have lines that look a big jagged.

Dale Guthormsen · April 20th, 2007, 11:36 PM

I do not think you are going to improve much on any of them.

Would be interesting to list the presets you used for each.

I liked the coldish blue clip of ?? tree moss or fungus?

The horse is hard to tell because of the early spring grass. On this one I might enrich the saturation slightly, perhaps mess with the rgb.

I like the all.

Nic Smith · April 21st, 2007, 12:02 AM

I used the "documentary" custom preset file found here, with maybe a few minor variations, cant really remember: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=48287

Shot in 25p, 1/50 shutter speed, everything full manual. The colours of the stuff you see here has been edited. The blue-green shot simply had a magic bullet look "Berlin" applied and the sunset one had a "Grad Sunset" applied. All the others have just had basic contrast/brightness and slight warming filters.

Christoph Wieczorek · April 21st, 2007, 04:44 PM

I really like the stills...the sunset shot...WOW!

April 20th, 2007, 09:20 PM	#1
Nic Smith New Boot Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hobart, Australia Posts: 17	XL2 stills Doing a short film soon, and have been playing around with various looks shot with an Xl2. What do you think? Any tips on how to get better shots with similar subject matter? Composition, colour grading, aspect etc.. Attached Thumbnails

April 20th, 2007, 11:36 PM	#4
Dale Guthormsen Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Saskatchewan Posts: 3,048	I do not think you are going to improve much on any of them. Would be interesting to list the presets you used for each. I liked the coldish blue clip of ?? tree moss or fungus? The horse is hard to tell because of the early spring grass. On this one I might enrich the saturation slightly, perhaps mess with the rgb. I like the all. __________________ DATS ALL FOLKS Dale W. Guthormsen

April 20th, 2007, 11:17 PM	#2
Matthew Jackson Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 92	I think your stills look really good... What are you using to extract frames?

April 20th, 2007, 11:32 PM	#3
Nic Smith New Boot Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hobart, Australia Posts: 17	Thanks Matthew! All I did to extract was take a sreenshot of the DVD in my dvd player software. It's prob not the best way to take the frames, as some of them have lines that look a big jagged.

April 21st, 2007, 12:02 AM	#5
Nic Smith New Boot Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hobart, Australia Posts: 17	I used the "documentary" custom preset file found here, with maybe a few minor variations, cant really remember: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=48287 Shot in 25p, 1/50 shutter speed, everything full manual. The colours of the stuff you see here has been edited. The blue-green shot simply had a magic bullet look "Berlin" applied and the sunset one had a "Grad Sunset" applied. All the others have just had basic contrast/brightness and slight warming filters.

April 21st, 2007, 04:44 PM	#6
Christoph Wieczorek New Boot Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Berlin (Germany) Posts: 17	I really like the stills...the sunset shot...WOW!