DV Info Net - Canon HV series -- various sample clips

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At rehearsal with the rock band Drist

Everything recorded with the HV20 and its internal mic, uploaded 2 days ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcsDSLI-kNY

My second (older) video with the band (an interview for their 3rd album) can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DristTV

Some frame grabs, bug, sky, humans!

Very nice Wes. That bug looks brilliant!

Thanks Daymon. Here's a shot of the Beetle. I shot it at 60i, converted to 60p and slowed down to 24p for slow motion. It doesn't look like slow motion but the real-time footage he is moving quite fast. It's interesting to see how the bug moves the sand back with his legs.

http://www.mediafire.com/?dg19zitgo10

Teenage Zombie Flick Sho with hv20/m2

Well this is my blog i've had for shooting this, so i'm copying and pasting

This is the story of me making of the Zombie Film, We had acuired a location, the Airport about half a mile from where i live, a DC-3 Aircraft was there on loan and we were able to use it as a location. I had been in contact with my actor for months, first to act in my Pirate Movie, but that fell through, so i had contacted him again about this Zombie script i had wrote, it all seemed to flow together, until the last week when we couldn't find an actress!!.... So i searched the entire week and finally friday came and we knew we couldn't find anyone... but we still decided to shoot something, so everything was arranged and heres the <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(160, 255, 255);">day</b>:

Oh, what a wonderful shooting today was. My Dp and I met at my house at 7AM to have him learn how to use the REDrock Micro 35,, Adapter System
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Then at 9 AM we headed to the location, and like my house, it was pouring rain, so we set up tents and cars quickly to prepare for the actors and crew
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The Actor arrived and then we set down to creating a script, since all our actresses fell through we started brainstorming ( I DON'T want people to follow my lead, we only did this because it was last minute drop outs and we were screwed, since we had a 35mm Adapter for a weekend and an actor, so we needed to shoot something. So we Did, the entire morning it poured, and we dealt with it. We came up with an idea and in a matter of a half an hour, we had a second actor (my cousin) and my entire extended family seemed to arrive and visit and help where it was needed, so shooting was good and we really came up with angles and dialog on the fly

(Kinda a girly pic of me, whatever)

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But it started to clear up in the afternoon, after we lost one tent to the wind, we put everything down and dealt with the flying debris. So now we sat most of our gear in the cars, awaiting a massive rain storm, that never came. So we continued Shooting. My faithful DP Josh, and 3 grips Matt, Dave and my little bro Will

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So we shot all <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(160, 255, 255);">day</b> with one actor, i took some times as the DP as we let Josh take breaks
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We got almost all of the shots done today, just a few reshoots for my cousin and some ADR for the both of them, since throughout alot of the shoot two wires we hitting each other creating a loud buzzing noise over the soundtrack.

But all in all it was a fun shoot, here are some pics:

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And here's a pic of the film, NOT COLOR CORRECTED
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Teenage Zombie Flick Sho with hv20/m2

Nice stills Wes! You got some nice dof in the last two frame!
I took a look at the bug footage, nice and crisp!
Thx for sharing!

Check out my new HV20 Short!

You can find it HERE.

Thanks,

Mike

Stylized HV20 footage - Alps / Vaud

Hi,

Just posting a stylized footage from a little walk I did in Leysin. The first shot and the shot with the gold retriever are done with a wideangle adapter, the WD-43 (not the HD version), so you can see the chromatic issues on when zoomed in, of full wide it dosnt look so bad. The style was take from Magic Bullet through the 32bit processing in Vegas 8, film noise was added after with XSI's compositor. No sound. Not very smooth in some places, the guilty party is shown in the end, you try keeping you monopod steady when you have a wild beagle attached to your hand :)

http://www.malyavin.com/video/HV20.mov

Interesting.

Is the camera movement in the first scenes done with an effect of some sort?

It looks very similar to the style used in tv shows and movies and is in my experience very hard to replicate with a small camera.

Sci-fi short revisited

Howdy,

A couple months back I posted my 48 Hour movie for this year.
(here's a link to the original thread: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...t=sci-fi+short )

I have since done some color-correction, a tiny bit of sound tweaking, and I trimmed about 15 seconds off the edit. I didn't want to do too much, since part of the fun is that it was done in 48 hours.

I'm curious what people think now:
http://actcasual.com/faitpost.mov

here's the original if you'd like to compare:
http://actcasual.com/fait/faitletterbox.mov

Starter promo vid for dj

I know this video isn't the best but it can show a little example of some really dark lighting conditions. I was bumped several times while filming these during a dj gig but I figured I would try to put together something basic. It's rendered in wmv at 640x480 wide SD (and still was a big file) but you get the basic gist of it still :-)

http://www.wavemakersmedia.net/media.htm

Did you have an adapter or wide angle on this, i seem to see some lense outline on the bottom edges of the clip. I love the dog chasing the cam, that's one of those awwee type shots. Good shot!

That video is crisp!! At a quick glance the exposure and white balance looked right on. Thanks for posting, this little camcorder looks so tempting to buy with prices falling everyday. The HV10 is now $650.. awww!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Klas Persson (Post 708713)

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....

Klas, have you taken down your files from those sites? When I click on your links all I get is the home pages of those services. I'm interested in videos of forests, being a forester.

Joe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Klas Persson (Post 708713)

Where can I download? I can not.

Hummmm 25fps?

How did you shoot it, it looks incredible but I am just confused about the frame rate, shot 24 progressive or interlaced and then deinterlaced?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Post 731595)

A video I shot of the Golden Gate bridge in moving clouds clouds, sped up 16x. Music licensed by the Creative Commons "by" license, while the video is similarly licensed. If you need the original footage for your own projects, I will gladly send it your way.

Full 1080p version: http://hv20.info/yopu/Golden-Gate-1080p.mp4 (20 MB)
WMV 720p version: http://hv20.info/yopu/Golden-Gate.wmv (8 MB)
iPhone/PSP version: http://hv20.info/yopu/Golden-Gate-iPhone-PSP.mp4 (1.5 MB)
Revver: http://one.revver.com/watch/368891
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5mVe9p3jQ

Nice! Reminds me of some clouds I saw in the '60s.

Joe

A new video with the band, shot last weekend with the HV20. In this installment I am interviewing one of the two Drist guitarists, Shauncho Yen. As a bonus, we get a sneak preview of two songs from the band's upcoming album!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCcsnR6K6Y

Fall colours in Massachusetts...

Last Sunday - shot some footage with the HV-20; used a monopod a lot, along with a polarizing filter, and then edited in Final Cut Pro..
http://web.mac.com/rossdjones/Video/Bowers_Springs.html
Rgds, Ross.
Harvard, MA
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Thanks for the pretty colors Ross--you did this displaced New Englander a nice service (sure wish I had a lungful of Western Mass. air right now; our skies are thick as soup from the wildfires).

Charles,
Glad you liked it.. Folks were suggesting that this year the colours wouldn't be too good... well I wanted to get out and grab what I could in order to disprove the theory..! A few days after I shot this, it rained / blew hard, and now we have very few leaves/colours left.. ah well..
Rgds, Ross.
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A much shorter re-edit of my original Squaw Valley video, re-made specifically for Vimeo’s HD channel. You can view the video in 720p HD using your browser here: http://vimeo.com/365335

I redid my Foster City video from the ground up, removed lots of of bad footage, and I also added new footage that was recorded last evening. HD version and downloadable 720p HD file (after you sign in to Vimeo), here: http://vimeo.com/372595

http://www.vimeo.com/373255

Micro bug, fly, dandelions, a few eyes and a ball point pen.

Thanks for the memeories. Me and my wife lied there a couple of years ago and miss it. Great place to live. I also edit on vegas7. I have 8 but not loaded yet.

Hah! Thanks Eugenia! I am in the process today, of packing and moving to Foster City, from San Mateo. (All of three miles) I was telling some friends in Texas, that I'd shoot some footage next month, and send it to them, and here you have already done my legwork, great job!

And yeah, we're renting a place on the water.

See ya' around!

Coolio! Maybe we can meet up at some point and do some shooting, who knows.

This is a little clip I made in June with the first footage I got out of the HV20. It's almost out of the box shooting aside from very gentle tinting of highlights (yellow) and shadows (blue).

http://hv20.info/yopu/home%20sweet%20home.mov

HV10 better than sony dcr-hc96 in indoor lighting at night

Hi i was tossing up b/w the two cameras mentioned in the title
I can get them for the same price so just wondering which one i should get
the hv10 beats the sony in every way in my opinion except i'm unsure of indoor conditions which is pretty important with me due to my baby

i found sample clips of the sony in low light here comparing it to the gs300 and was very impressed by the sony low light

sony dcr-hc96: http://www.archive.org/download/theh...v_0/test96.wmv

pana gs300
http://www.archive.org/download/theh..._0/test300.wmv
how is the hv10 in comparison?
btw i don't have hdtv but i will be definately getting on in a year or two

any input is much appreciated

oops put it in wrong section

sorry put it in the sample clips section meant for the main hv10/hv20 section

This is a NEW video of the Squaw Village, shot just last week (I spent Thanksgiving there, so I shot the place once more).
http://www.vimeo.com/403396

"Omaha" (v1.0) - First D.D.D in HD

Hello everyone! I'm kinda excited to finally being able to post an HD video. This one's the first one I've been able to edit (although I've shot some more material already).

I made it for my "Editing II" class (also known as "Montaje II" in Spanish... I don't agree with the term "Editing", but we can go further into that later... I'm in the 3rd year at the ISCAA, founded by Fernando Birri), and it's the first version, because there were a couple of things I wanted to do but wasn't able to due to time. I don't know yet whether it passed or not, but I like it nevertheless. Hope you do too.

http://stage6.com/user/dddproduccion...Noviembre-2007)

Any comments will be appreciated, and also feel free to ask me anything regarding production or anything you may want to ask. Thanks for watching!

Can you share what settings you used on this?

Did you used the cinemode in camera? or Shutter TV?

Hi, Tomas!
For this short I used Shutter priority mode, and used the trick of automatically exposing something a bit dark, then fixing the exposure and going back 12 levels to get to maximum aperture with 0dB gain (although on some shots, where there was more light, I used more closed f/stops).

Also, I set down contrast and detail.

I don't like the Cinemode. I can't bear the idea of not being able to control the shutter speed, and the gamma curve applied to the image can be noticed as software generated to me (which doesn't really improve the image...). The dynamic range offered by the camera is just right, if yoy ask me. And if you don't feel comfortable with it, instead of tricking with this limited cinegamma, just put on some lights! This is filmmaking, after all! :P

LOL, agree.

Thanks, pretty nice.

Copying 24fps movies

I purchased a Canon HV20 and attempted to use it to copy some old 24fps 16mm films I had made. Even though the video was shot at 24fps there was noticeable strobing. I'm thinking that maybe the projector speed wasn't a steady 24fps. Any ideas?
Also, you can only shoot the video 16:9 HD at 24fps and the movies are 4:3 which does not translate well.

Try adjusting the shutter speed until you minimize the strobing.

The HV20 plays 24 frames per second in a 60i stream. You will have problems.

The 60i stream doesn't mean any problems. It's just the medium in which REAL 24 frames per second are stored. You still have 24 frames, that's not a lie. It's just placed in a 60i stream because of format requirements. Just kill the pulldown and you're back in pure 24p.

Answering Bill, you just might have to shoot till you get lucky and the 24fps of the 16mm film to synchronize the HV20's 24fps. But anyways, lowering your shutter speed to 1/24 should get you much closer to recording your films just right (higher shutter speeds mean strobing; lower shutter speeds mean losing frames).

Regarding the aspect, just frame the projection in the middle. That's as good as it can get. But you're shooting HD after all, so the resolution should be pretty good. Besides, if you need to do an SD DVD you can always crop the 4:3 area to fill the screen and get the highest resolution possible, and if you're gonna watch this on an HD TV, then you have to leave the video as it was recorded, because those black bars on the sides are exactly how those TVs show the 4:3 material anyways if you don't want any deformation on the image (like stretching or croping of upper and lower areas of the original 4:3 film). Formats change, and this is a compromise you have to make.

So, bottom line is: shoot 16:9 HD framing the projection in the middle at 1/24 shutter speed, fixing the exposure at its best, after studying the film a bit. Then tell me how it went. ^_^

Regards!