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Jim Miller · February 20th, 2008, 05:20 PM

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

February 20th, 2008, 05:20 PM	#1
Jim Miller Major Player Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tampa,Florida Posts: 236	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

February 21st, 2008, 07:53 AM	#7
Will Mahoney Major Player Join Date: May 2007 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 259	I thought that it looked good. The bluish tone and music brought it together. Nice job. __________________ http://exposureroom.com/members/WillMahoney.aspx/ www.youtube.com/truckaccessories

February 20th, 2008, 05:49 PM	#2
Russ Motyko Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 56	Jim did you shoot in a wider aspect ratio than 16x9 or was the footage stretched during the upload?

February 20th, 2008, 05:54 PM	#3
Jim Miller Major Player Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tampa,Florida Posts: 236	I shot 16x9 and cropped it but it somehow got squished a little more during the compression

February 20th, 2008, 06:45 PM	#4
Andrew Slankard Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: California Posts: 65	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. :)

February 20th, 2008, 10:25 PM	#5
Morgan Crossley Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 113	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.

February 20th, 2008, 11:16 PM	#6
Bill Busby Major Player Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 959	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?

February 21st, 2008, 09:15 AM	#8
Jim Miller Major Player Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tampa,Florida Posts: 236	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