The Digital Video Information Network - EX Series Sample Clips

Tyres� castle video with the Ex1

Alfredo Silva — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:14:23 GMT

Having little fun with the camera in a beautiful environment in Sweden (with my luck under the sun, almost all the summer it is in clouds). Been an outlandish I admire the equilibrium of the Swedish society with the nature.

Here is the results:

Tyres� Castle on Vimeo

If you also are willing to compare the compression quality here is on Youtube: YouTube - Tyres� Castle

I hope you like it.

Midnight Mayhem (drags) LVMS 11-13-09

Erik Phairas — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:17:38 GMT

More fun with the EX3 at night. This time the street legal drag races at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

You can't shoot with an EX3 without getting attention, ha ha. Missed quite a few races answering questions about the camera. :)

YouTube - Midnight Mayhem LVMS 11-13-09

A view from the roof

Adam Stanislav — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:59:53 GMT

Definitely not Oscar material, but this morning I got a new tripod for my new EX3, so I have shot a Tripod Test. I seem to have overexposed it, especially the first scene. I did not look into the viewfinder because the left handle was in the way. I think I need to reposition it next time.

And the microphone worked great until I opened my mouth. Then it was just terrible. It was on auto, maybe I should have tried manual. But hey, I was just testing my tripod and could not think of everything yet. :)

So much more to learn!

Funeral - 35mm adaptor (clean, don't worry)

Brian Kadar — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:46:58 GMT

first project with my 35mm adaptor. loving the depth!

funeral

On location with Nike and the EX1

Christofer Thelin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:17:06 GMT

Did a shoot with Nike earlier this spring for their 2009/10 collection and they published it on the site today.

Direct link to the video here
http://cdn0.mpora.com/play/video/7y9ODXK1E/mp4/

For the whole story hit over to:
Nike 6.0 - Insider - Nike 6.0 End of Season Shoot ? Sweden, Spring 2009

Cheers!

Haunted Halloween 09 video

Erik Phairas — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:25:44 GMT

More fun for the kiddies. Haven't posted a video in a while... I love the EX3 at night.

Haunted Halloween 2009 on Vimeo

small stage number - strong spotlight

Paul Chiu — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:51:40 GMT

wonderful how the "old" EX1 handles strong spotlights..
even at f2.0, i think, at the long end...
wonder how different the 350 would do this scene...

YouTube - Think of Me - Phantom of the Opera - LIVE (Lyrics in espa�ol - fran�ais - ?? subtitles)

"Hawaii Goes Fishing" with the Sony EX1

Dean Sensui — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:26:09 GMT

Here's the work I've been doing with the Sony EX1.

This particular trip was up in Alaska. We don't normally do many trips outside the state but in this case it was to one of the two fishing lodges that are run by people who were born and raised in Hawaii.

Naoki, Wayne and Jo Ann with Richard at Shelter Lodge

For those who have asked about equipment being used in production, here's a list of what I used to produce this:

Sony EX1 with VCL-EXO877 wide angle adapter. The Cine 4 gamma setting is used throughout. Preset white balance of 5500k. Detail setting is "off". Gain is at zero (I avoid using -3 as I read it reduces dynamic range).

Exposure is set to keep detail in the brightest clouds. The only time IRE goes to 100 is if there's a light source in the picture, such as the sun or reflections off the water. White areas are 80 IRE. Skin tones never go beyond 70.

Audio Technica 4051a on-camera mic with Lightwave mount and wind fur.

Two Audio Technica UVW-1800 Wireless systems with Audio Technica 899C lav mics, fitted with Mary Sensui fleece wind covers (my wife sewed them for me). That gives me four independent audio sources which are recorded onto a . . .

. . . Edirol R44 4-track recorder. This is mounted in a small Pelican case with the AT wireless receivers. It's a compact, weatherproof multitrack recorder system with four wireless diversity antennas mounted on a short mast. It's powered with an A123 Systems battery pack which I built. Runs 4 hours. I might make a dual/parallel battery pack to avoid frequent battery changes.

The recorder is constantly running. The EX1 didn't have a pre-record cache, and getting the sound of the initial strike, and the excited reaction is an important part of this, as you'll see.

This also means there are six channels of audio if you count the built-in mic on the EX1.

The wild sound tracks and camera footage are matched up with SequenceLiner. Both the camera and Edirol recorder have time-of-day timecode, and SequenceLiner does a nice job of matching the takes. I still have to fine-tune the sync but it's not all that hard.

Now that I have some experience with this setup, I'll have a guest give me an occasional "slate" to make the post production sync process a little easier.

Edited with Final Cut Pro. Color correction and grading done with Color. Audio mixdown with Soundtrack Pro. Mixdown with the envelopes in each track can be tedious. But being able to silence unused tracks, while emphasizing the important ones, helps a great deal with the storytelling.

Cindy's standup is shot against green screen with Primatte doing the compositing in After Effects. The lighting isn't a good match. Soft overcast is actually harder to match than hard sunlight.

Enjoy!

My Version of "The Hangover" using ex-1

Neil Dankoff — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:48:08 GMT

The Hangover - Barmitzvah Edition on Vimeo

Music video shot on Sony EX

Christofer Thelin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:34:46 GMT

Did a music video for the band La Fleur Fatale�s first single of their new album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFcyeI1GfWQ