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Jim Miller February 20th, 2008 05:20 PM

A Walk In The Park
 
Sometimes you just have to make lemonade from lemons.

My wife and I went to the park today so I could do some testing with the A1. I forgot to color balance so the footage was quite bluish. A little more tweaking of the color and some sound effects and we had ourselves a mysterious little movie on what was a really nice day in the Florida woods. She had a good laugh out of it. Shot 30F all manual settings. Shot and edited in about 5 hours.
Enjoy http://www.vimeo.com/711732

Russ Motyko February 20th, 2008 05:49 PM

Jim did you shoot in a wider aspect ratio than 16x9 or was the footage stretched during the upload?

Jim Miller February 20th, 2008 05:54 PM

I shot 16x9 and cropped it but it somehow got squished a little more during the compression

Andrew Slankard February 20th, 2008 06:45 PM

That was good footage man, I thought it looked cool. Personally I think white balance and such, while the norm, is sometimes overrated. I like the bluish tones, it gave it a more film-like look. Good stuff man. :)

Morgan Crossley February 20th, 2008 10:25 PM

cool footage Jim!

wondering what your gain settings were at though? might be vimeo but there was a bit of noticeable graininess in some of your shots.

Bill Busby February 20th, 2008 11:16 PM

My post has no value at all :) But is it me or does anyone else always get the jitters with Vimeo? I've never ever seen anything that played smoothly from there. Slow servers or something?

Will Mahoney February 21st, 2008 07:53 AM

I thought that it looked good. The bluish tone and music brought it together. Nice job.

Jim Miller February 21st, 2008 09:15 AM

My gain was at -3. I was also using the vividrgb preset. sharpness was at 0.

I did notice the jerkyness towards the end on a pan. It is not present in the original, just the vimeo version. I seem to see a lot of the jitters lately on Vimeo clips. Oh well. While we didn't start out to shoot any specific story (just testing some 30f shots) we had fun making a little something from nothing.

I'm thinking now that I like the look of 24f shot at 1/48 better than the 30f shot at 1/60


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