Thanks to everyone who was helpful when I was stuck with problems.
And for the advises and solutions I could find on this forum.
I have finished my first whole TV program, that will be sendt on the prime channel NRK1 (Ut i naturen) in Norway tuesday 15. september 2009. With the help from you and others, I have written, filmed, edited and colourcorrected the program ready to send.
Some of the clips will be sendt on Animal Planet too.
I have been under water, over water, in freezing water. Made my own macro equipment and remote underwater camera to get what I needed to make this video.
Thanks to you all!

A short view
YouTube - The brown trout and the mayfly..... two miracles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOZfNeUrQxk)

Some very very nice footage, well executed.

Excellent programme !!! Can you share some of your skills/methods for us newbies ?

Dave

Excellent footage. Skillfully done!

Abolutely beautiful pictures. Great macro work - with a lot of patience - and the remote underwater camera seems to do its job. I have been thinking for this in years but not found a solution. Hope someone will build a underwater house for the new Panasonic AG-HCK10.

Fantastic job Arnt! So well done!!!
I am amazed you managed to do all this yourself - congratulations and I wish you many more wonderful projects like this one - you inspire many of us!
Regards,
Ofer Levy Photography (http://www.oferlevyphotography.com)

I must echo all the other comments, congratulations a job very well done


Kind regards

Mick

Hi Arnt!
Wow, that look fantastic, the macro footage was awesome to watch! I will definitive watch the program at Tuesday.

Hallo Arnt

You have make here a really really!!! nice film.I will say this is a film that is
on the level to Gunnar Nilsen in Trondheim . Look forword to see this
one.



VJV.

Thanks to you all, but in fact you have all contributed to this film. This forum is a world of knowledge.

I managed to find an area where few have done some filming. Talked to scientists on several levels, made a plan, and with a lot of stubborness and patience I managed to finish this project.
As a newcomer I needed something new to get seen. I did not want to do something others have done well before me.
I had to travel long distances to find the best possible locations for the scenes. And had to wait a lot for things to happen.
The spawn of the wild brown troat alone, took 6 weeks over two years. The problem was to find a couple that could start spawning while there still was light. They usually spawn at the darkest part of the night. It was not possible to use lights on the camera. It drifted away in the current.

Bo:
I build my own underwater housing for this project from carbon and epoxy. Then I could drill holes for screws an cables as I wanted.

I will paste the link to the netTV on NRK as soon as program is sent.

Thanks

Hi Arnt, looks very very interesting and you have unique shots. Hopefully the document will be shown in Finland as well.

Looks awesome, what camera did you shoot it on? Love the macro shots, were you using achromatic diopters?

Well done, you should be very proud!

Abolutely beautiful pictures. Great macro work - with a lot of patience - and the remote underwater camera seems to do its job. I have been thinking for this in years but not found a solution. Hope someone will build a underwater house for the new Panasonic AG-HCK10.

Hi Bo, I have been thinking the same thing. Seatool is coming out with a housing for both the controller/recorder and camera of the new Sony POV camera. Maybe they will do the same for the Panasonic. If not, you might check this company out. They will machine a custom underwater housing for you, and it should not take much to protect just the camera:

Custom underwater housings for photographic, radio telemetry and other equipment The Sexton Company (http://www.thesextonco.com/index.html)

They have some sample work orders and quotes to give you a feel for what it might cost.

Pat

Really nice work Arnt, and congratulations on the NRK1 début, as well as with Animal Planet.

The really nice thing is that you did it all on your own (often the best way!).

I liked the atmosphere of the clip shown on Youtube. The only thing missing I think is some background narrative. Will the Norwegian TV program contain much narrative?

I've just got back from filming in south France but had to stop work when I accidentally flooded a camera body plus XL 6X HD lens while swimming back to shore (because I'd not closed the housing correctly. It was a very expensive mistake!).

Buying equipment in a remote location in France is expensive and so it was cheaper for me to actually drive all the way back to UK and buy replacements. Hopefully I can get back to complete the project in October.

It looks like you were using the Sony Z1?

Regarding your "Two Miracles" movie - is it being broadcast in SD or HD? And also marketed later in SD-DVD or HD-Blue Ray or both?

Just got a chance to see the teaser/promo now that I am back in the land of high speed internet. Beautiful shots! How many weeks or months did it take to get the footage?

Pat

Congratulations Arnt!
I'll see your program on tv tonight for sure.

The program is shot with Sony Z1 and A1 over 3 years. But I dont think its anything left from the first year. All underwater recordings are shot with A1. The macro is shot with both. I was playing around with some Nikon glass from a eye lazer operating mashine I did find on a junk yard, and stumbled upon a combination I could use as a macro addon lens. I have no knowledge of optics, so this was pure luck. Good magnification and almost no CA.

All the recordings are HDV 1080i, converted to Cineform and edited that way in Vegas. Some of the clips has some serious colorcorrection. This could not be done without "unwrapping" the HDV clips.
Orginally the program was 58 minutes, and I was hoping for two 24 minutes programs. I was allowed only one. That was a really hard job. To throw away half of the story and clips. And still try to maintain a story and avoid a choppy feel. I found it hard to put aside clips I belive never had been filmed before, and to be objective with my own video.
To me this program is still half a story. I hope you dont feel that way.
I'm planning to make a DVD with narration in english, but need to film one more summer first.

Arnt, after your original video was compressed via Cineform and edited in Vegas, was it then actually broadcast via a HD TV network channel or downconverted to SD for broadcast?

Hi Tony
Thanks for reminding, I forgot about that. The project was rendered out to 1080i. Then laid on a new 720 x 576 IMX Widescreen timeline with a 0db 1000hz testtune, the graphics for NRK, and rendered out to IMX format. Im not sure if the file had to be split in 3 due to the filsize, or if the program was dellivered in one pice. We did the last step on the local NRK office. Thanks to Per Foss at NRK for support and beeing my mentor on this project.

Thank you for the information, Arnt. So the film was actually shown in SD and not HD.

Here is the link:
NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling (http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/549222)
The narration is in norwegian, so sorry for you that cant understand the language. I hope to make a DVD later with english narration.

I can speak Danish, so understood most of the Norwegian narrative. :)

A nice program; well done Arnt - keep up the good work.