thanks,

if anyone was getting the "internal server error" page when clicking on the link i've since fixed that. (be very careful playing with .htaccess files on your servers...)

if anyone was getting the "internal server error" page when clicking on the link i've since fixed that. (be very careful playing with .htaccess files on your servers...)

Family Cliff diving
 

Short vid of some family cliff diving, didn't get a lot because I wanted to do it also but enough for some fun shots. Also inside the clips is one from a digital camera taking movies but the quality was good enough to throw it in.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W2AG7XBX

Republic of Texas Bike Rally
 

some little snippits from the ROT rally bike parade.

youtube version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkzFYnPSZk0

full HD version (127mb):
http://file.meyersproduction.com/hv2...rally%206k.mov

Interesting... I wouldn't mind trying the vegan oat cakes they had the sign on the window for.

Livermore Rodeo 2007
 

Here's 2 minutes of edited video from footage I captured at the recent Livermore rodeo.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ML12DXMG

File Size: 277MB.

It was compressed for uploading. Not the best quality but good enough to watch.

It's captured as 24P Cinemode, and rendered as 60i. If you use VLC Player to watch it, go to 'Video/Deinterlace' and select 'Blend' to avoid the combing effect.

WARNING: Rapid action involved. I'm not responsible for any motion sickness it might cause :-)

San Francisco zoo
 

This 16 minute edited video is from our San Francisco zoo visit yesterday, shot with our Canon HV20 camcorder. You can view the video online here: http://one.revver.com/watch/320828/flv/affiliate/98923 Or, you can download with “save as” a 320x180 MP4 version here: http://www.gnomefiles.org/files/zoo-qvga.mp4 (there won’t be a YouTube version available because they force a limit of 10 minutes per video). This 45 MB version of the video should work fine on most MP4-capable QVGA cellphones, iPod Videos and iPhones too (not on the Sony PSP though). DVD quality version available on request. The pictures here http://eugenia.blogsome.com/2007/07/02/the-zoo/ are stills from the video itself.

We shot it by utilizing exposure locking, f2.8 to f6.0 depending on the situation and by using an arrangement of filters (but mostly a polarizer). Only one of our clips got over-exposed as we had to shoot with the sun in front of us, there was no way around it. We used the default shutter speed and frame-rate (1080/60i). Music used is from the album “B.O Imaginaire” by Snapo (licensed under the Creative Commons by-nc-nd 2.0/fr license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/fr/ ).

Swedish forest
 

Some HV20 test shooting in a small forest near my apartment. Ungraded but downconverted to 720p.
Hv20testGöteborgskog.Mov.Zip by Bigupload.Com

I just love how this little evildoer performs.

Music:
Bathroom floor
The Louis Cyphre band
(My band)

Ducks and Geese
 

Just a short clip. Using 24p
.mpeg is an Mpeg2
.mov is an H264

So there you go.

homepage.mac.com/cmoore/FileSharing47.html

Band Practice (good low light example)
 

24p Tv 1/48th CP off available light consisted of a fluorescent fixture on the ceiling, and a few incandescences on the walls, sound was run out of a mixer to a hosa xlr to mini cable

SD version (24mb):
http://file.meyersproduction.com/msm...mming%20SD.mov

HD version (185mb)
http://file.meyersproduction.com/msm...mming%206k.mov

First Take
 

Here is a small clip I took the other day. This is just right out of the box, no changes to camera. I was pretty happy with the results, I just have to learn how to make it look cleaner.


http://www.mediafire.com/?8jmeyjykftr

Looks nice and clean, but moody as well! I like the music, too (good vocals!)- kind of Beatles-esque, but then again it sounds different, a bit strange but in a good way. Your band name rang a bell immediately - taken from Bobby De Niro's character in the movie "Angel Heart" (Louis Cyphre = Lucifer), right? ;)

Just an update, I managed to finally upload a DVD quality of the video at 852x480: http://hv20.info/yopu/Zoo1.mp4

I had to remove those movies for a time ... my data download is limited on this .mac account. I will however be putting up another site shortly and will hope to have more clips linked there.

Better online version at Revver: http://one.revver.com/watch/322021/flv/affiliate/98923
(sorry, the forum didn't let me modify my original post)

HV10: In Hollywood
 

So, I had a shoot recently and I only had access to a few HV10s along with our audio setup, which was being captured separately. So, we put these tiny cameras to the test and we were quite surprised.

See the result:
http://asvideoproductions.com/client...ys_PREVIEW.mov

Now, I realize that the interviewer is out of focus, but that's what happens when you work with in-experienced camera-ops.

- Aanarav

I am always still amazed at the quality of video these things are putting out.

What Mic system was used for the interview? I did see Alicia Keys holding a Rode.
Looking good in hollywood though.

Yes, thats the Rode boom mic. We did have an audio mixer running 2 mics and then outputting to a flash based recorder. I don't have the audio specifics, but I think one of the reason she had the microphone was because our secondary wireless system failed at the last moment, but the Rode did a good job.

- Aanarav

Flooding in Austin
 

The flood gates at the Tom Miller dam between lake austin and town lake.

24p Tv mode cloudy WB CP contrast +1 Bright -1 1/48th shutter

youtube version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgjpZR7RDZY

HD version (122mb):
http://file.meyersproduction.com/hv2...20dam%206k.mov

I'm glad you liked it... And you're right about Lucifer there.... Anyhow, I've heard some people with windows complaining that they can't download the file. So I uploaded it on megaupload too.... Link
Then I noticed that I'd left an "ö" in the file name, which could be the issue.. But it seems to work on megaupload so....

My first attempt at colour correction
 

I tried to get a cool (as in cold climate ;-) look to a 35 seconds clip using just the basic video effects settings in Adobe Premiere Elements. I don't know how far I achieved it, but here it is any way. I'm posting both the original and colour corrected versions:

Original: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=48XNHGEN

Corrected: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RX8S12RN

Each clip is 90MB in size. No audio.

ill check it out

just gotta wait for these megaupload downloads, so slow and i can only get one at a time.

u should have done a side by side video type thing

HV20 Timelapse short
 

I never cease to be amazed at the quality of footage that I'm getting out of this little guy. I recently took a family vacation to Montana, and one evening I went out to shoot some clouds (thinking I'd speed it up in FCP later). I had no idea that it would turn out so well (otherwise I would have shot a lot more footage!!).
This clip also includes some non-timelapsed footage as well, but it seemed to fit with the rest of the shots.
This was all shot at 24p, 1/48 shutter, with manual exposure (usually turned down). Then, it was sped up in FCP, as much as 2000% for a couple scenes.
Enjoy.

http://jsendicott.com/dvinfo/

Right-click on "timelapse-photo JPG 75" and save to your desktop for best results.

WARNING- big file: 269MB. There is some artifacting going on from the compression; I couldn't get rid of it.

Very nice, Joel !!

Great footage. Rich colours and very pleasant music too.

I have a question. In scene 3, it looks like you sped it up. I am wondering how you achieved the camera movement in that scene! I can see the trees in the foreground going out of the frame. If you sped it up by 2000%, how did you manage to tilt the camera that slowly?

Could you share the settings you used on camera, sharpening, color, contrast, etc.

Thanks for the comments. Regarding settings, I really don't do anything to the camera other than set 1/48 shutter speed and do manual exposure adjustments. In FCP I'll do some minor color and level adjustment (I did boost the color a bit for the cloud shots). I usually don't use cinema mode.

As to that third scene with the slow pan upward, that was simply dumb luck. The tripod head was apparently loose, and it slowly tilted back during the filming. People probably pay big bucks for a rig to do that! It was moving so slowly that I didn't notice it as I stood there. That scene ran about 5 minutes in real time.

Speaking of those kind of slow panning shots, have you all seen David Fortney's timelapse work? He has a DVD called "Timeless" that is simply breathtaking. It's mostly footage of National Parks. He does a lot of slow moving pans over long periods of time. I've always wondered what kind of rig he has to do that, but his website gives away none of his secrets.
You can check out some of his work here: www.davidfortney.com

This is brilliant. I love those shots looking up at the clouds as they fly over.

Sketch Comedy "Freaky Fright Night - Daivre School of the Arts"
 

http://www.sightsoundcode.com/bucket...RE-480comp.avi [68MB XVID encoded avi]

Hi there.

Here is the first completed project shot with my nice new HV20.

Thanks to this forum and a few others I was able to have everything figured out and set to my liking almost immediately, hardly any learning curve at all!

This was shot an hour after the camera was dropped off by UPS.

My workflow was very convoluted because I had my friend (the "talent" in this video) do the editing on a mac only equipped with iMovie at the university where I work, and then needed to take it home without a portable hard drive to add some things on my PC with After Effects.

Have a look!

Camera settings:
24p, CINE Mode
Color Depth: +1
Contrast: +1
White Balance: Sunny
Exposure: Locked at 1/48 shutter and a medium-ish F-Stop then set to -1.

Workflow:
Import into iMovie HD 6 as 1080i.
edit, edit, edit.
Use iMovie "Share to Camera" to export the footage back to the HV20 as HDV.
Import using HDVSplit.
Run through the "Farnsworth" process by means of Steve Szudzik's incredibly handy HV20 Pulldown Application and encoded with Lagarith.
Brought into After Effects CS3 and set as 16:9, title cards and animations added.
Exported from AE as full sized Lagarith.
Resized in VirtualDub using the Smart Resize plugin (New Width: 480 x 267, Filter Mode: Precise Biliner, Letterbox Image, Frame size: 480 x 360) Video compressed with XVID, audio compressed with LAME.


This file is intended for upload to Youtube, which is why it is a 4:3 file with letterboxing.

I would like to encode Quicktime or something more compatable for the forum here, but I don't really know how, can someone point me to the best way to encode a quicktime file?

Thanks, hope you enjoy! All comments are appreciated.

http://www.sightsoundcode.com/bucket...RE-480comp.avi [68MB XVID encoded avi]

PS. Some of the editing is intentionally off and awkward, we wanted it to have the appearance of a very poorly put together commercial for a local college. We know better than to cut in the middle of words ;)

That's pretty cool, good job.

MPEGSTREAMCLIP http://www.squared5.com/

Must have missed this when it was first posted. Great looking clip, and sounds good too. Love the close up shots of the guitar. Nice shallow dof too. Did you use your home built steady device?

yeah i used a shoulder mounted stabilizer, i'll post up some pics of the rig in a bit. also here is some more stuff that i shot with less light and in cine mode, 24p, 1/24 shutter, no CP

SD version (24mb):
http://file.meyersproduction.com/msm...web%20wide.mov

HD version (185mb)
http://file.meyersproduction.com/msm...%20HD%206k.mov

Cool, that's a nice clip also.

The download is taking forever. I'll update when it's done.

Edit: I can't say i really enjoyed it as a short film... Sorry. It just wasn't funny. Other than that i think you did a good job. I thought it was shot and edited pretty well. There were a few times when it got quite shaky, and there was a good amount of background noise.

Black and White in Post -- Montage
 

http://sightsoundcode.com/bucket/sig...ge-cc-xvid.avi [137MB XVID avi]

This summer I may be working on a feature length mockumentary to be shot all or mostly in black and white.

Here's a short montage of footage that I made black and white in post, my first time experimenting with going color > BW.

These being shot at different times, the exposure varies a great deal from shot to shot, but all in all I am happy with the blown out high contrast slightly tinted black and white.

AE plugin chain:
Exposure
Hue / Saturation
CC Toner
Curves
MisFire Vignette

Enjoy!
And again, any recommendation on a more widely used codec I could go with? I'm not familiar with anything other than XVID but would like these videos to be as viewable as possible for you kind folks! For some unknown reason my H.264 output is missing from AE CS3.

http://sightsoundcode.com/bucket/sight/bw/01.jpg

Nice video!

Stanford University
 

A view of the Stanford campgrounds at Palo Alto, CA, USA. Video shot with a Canon HV20 HD camcorder, a fluid tripod head, an ND-6 filter, a polarizer and Tiffen's "soft" HDTV/FX-3 filter at 1/60 shutter speed but with variable exposure & apperture settings. 720p HD version of the video available at: http://hv20.info/yopu/stanford.wmv or via Flash video at http://one.revver.com/watch/338792

The video portion is licensed under the Creative Commons 'Attribution' 3.0 License. The audio portion was used after receiving permission by its artist, Rob Costlow. To license Rob's beautiful music please check RobCostlow.com.

I saw the WMV version and it looked really nice. The sharpness you get at full zoom gets me excited about HD (esp. the mural). I think you did a great job picking filters for a professional look and composing beautiful shots.

On the editing side though side I think some of the still shots went on too long (palm trees especially) and would have liked the visual pace picked up a little more when you're not showing the really cool stuff. If you don't have more cool stuff to show then the piece should probably be shorter even if you have to fade the music early.

I'm not as sure about this but, maybe use more wide to medium to tight shot sequences with cuts or dissolves rather than long duration shots with camera moves or zooms.

--Shayne

http://weykervideo.com

Thank you for the suggestions Shayne, appreciated. BTW, the video is not as sharp as it could be, because I used a digital diffusion/contrast filter which softens the image. I am reviewing the filter for an online magazine, so that trip to Stanford was all about using that filter... Without it, it would have been more "sharp", but at the same time more "video-like". I guess, it depends on the look you are after. :D

Yeah I guess I didn't mean sharp edged as much as so much detail when zoomed way in vs. an equivalent amount of detail when zoomed out. On the mural shot you picked a subject with that that had really nice composition and stuff to see at all the way *and* all the way out.

You could do that with SD or HD I suppose, but having that new instant-AF feature and the extra upper limit on detail of HD helps I guess.

--Shayne

http://weykervideo.com