I need your votes guys. I have a video in the Final Round at AirshowBuzz.
 

First of all, I hope you don't mind Chris. I felt you guys would understand since we all share the same passion about creating videos here.

So here's the scoop...

All the footage was shot by me on my lowly, but little powerhouse Canon HV10 this summer.

I won the Semi-Final Round for the video category.

My video now has a 1 in 3 chance to win the Grand Prize and I need you all to help make that happen. Unfortunately, it comes down to popular vote so that means it’s still anyone’s to win. Kind of like American Idol, not necessarily the best will win, but rather the one with the most votes.

So anyway, here’s the link to the contest page. http://www.airshowbuzz.com/contest/view.php?entry=286 <<< all you have to do is click Vote Now.

My entry is the video titled “The Dream of Flight…”. You do not have to register or give any info at all. Just click the vote button (and of course watch the video if you haven’t already).
It’s very important to not only vote but forward this to as many people as possible. The one with the most votes wins. Voting ends soon so please vote and forward this today!

Thanks to all of you for helping me get this far.
Brad

My hopes would be to win the contest so I can afford to get some new gear and a new HD Camera. Possibly the Canon A1 or Sony EX1.

PS. If you have a myspace/facebook account…run a bulletin too. I can use all the help I can get!

O yeah, I forgot. Since I won the semi-final round, I won a brand new HV20 already!!!

Moved to HV10 / HV20 Sample Clips.

My problem with contests like this is the clause "the one with the most votes wins." Because then it's not about talent but popularity (sort of like American Idol). It's more about how many votes you can get than it is about the actual video. It's no longer a question of how good the video is; instead it's just a matter of how many votes you can bring in... it's all about leveraging sympathetic resources such as family, friends, fellow online community members, etc. to come in and vote for you. The problem with this process is that popularity does not always equivocate with what's really best. Or to put it a different way, what wins these kinds of contests is not how good your video is, but rather how good you are at bringing in people to vote for you. Winning doesn't reward you for your video so much as it rewards you for the number of people you've brought to that site.

That said, best of luck to you Brad, but this will most likely be one of the very last of these kinds of threads ever to be posted to DV Info Net.

copying 24fps movie to video
 

My projector only has 2 speeds, 16fps(silent) and 24fps (sound). The strobing is not overpowering, but is noticeable.
I was able to eliminate the side bars going from 16:9 to 4:3 by stretching the image in Premiere to fill the 16:9 screen. I downloaded it to the web using 4:3. The results can be seen at
http://www.revver.com/video/498232/t...kal-guatemala/
Not perfect, but a cheap solution.

Beautiful. A work of art.

Very nice. Better than the feature that I just spent two years of my life on.

Was it shot with Progressive scan, or interlaced?

Thanks,

Tom Chaney

www.tomchaney.com

Little hv20+Letus Extreme clip
 

Hi, I made this clip for Parallels Video Contest (Parallels lets you have Windows and Mac on the same computer, and videos/spots had to be based on the slogan 'Why Choose?').
It was shot with HV20 cinemode + Letus Extreme + Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 (17mm on almost every shot) and a bit color graded on Premiere Pro.
Nothing spectacular but... ;)

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=ROz7vS3KlpM

Regards

Home Depot Contest - The George Family
 

Shot with 3 light bulbs, an hv20, and an Audio Technica at897 mic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bgshf4r5Ns

That was an awesome video or should I say film. Really nice film look. Got any behind the scene shots of your setup/equipment?

Also, did you win the contest?

That was great.. really enjoyed it.

More info about this clip from the OP is here:

http://hv20.com/showthread.php?t=556&highlight=moth

Well, thanks! I've been receiving very good comments on this last short. I'm really glad people are liking it so much. But anyways, thanks for taking your time for watching it! ^_^

HV10 - Jiu Jitsu Tournament DVD trailer
 

Hey Guys,

I don't post here often but I thought I'd share. We shot this tournament a week ago on Sony FX1s. I had my new HV 10 in pocket and roamed the arena to pick up B-roll. We decided to cut the Teaser/Trailer with it. I think it came out pretty good. It's all HV10 edited on FCP. Some of the shots were done with a crappy wide angle lens adaptor.

http://www.stage6.com/user/BudoVideo...pionships-2007

Please let me know what you think!

Casinos of Reno
 

A view of flashy casinos in Reno, NV, by night.
http://www.vimeo.com/451992
Music is licensed under the Art Libre license and the video under the CC-BY license. Shot with the HV20, edited with Sony Vegas Pro and Magic Bullet.

Fantasy Drama test scenes with Greenscreen
 

http://www.lulu.com/content/1715034
Lulu multimedia download - FREE of charge.
wmv format 1280x720p25 seems to deliver a 5 minute HD drama reasonably close to the original quality at a reasonable download size of 190MB. We get away with hosting at this size by presenting the file as an advert for another product sold on Lulu which is the newly published book "Askar" by Bronwyn Calder. Our number one film project is to shoot this as a low-budget fantasy epic in Jan 2009. These test scenes give the HV20 a greenscreen workout and results are looking promising. What you see here is a draft result with no special compositing processing at all - only a click on the default "bluescreen" preset in NLE "Ulead MediaStudio 8 Pro". Still todo applying the advanced "Nick's Filters" technique for this NLE. Some green fringing on character edges if you look hard enough. In our test audiences, viewers in the know about greenscreen can spot the effect but in talking to non-experts afterwards they had no idea.
I suggest that this shows that no-budget greenscreen drama is very do-able with the HV20 combined with professional greenscreen backdrops. Our backdrop cost the equivalent of only US$100 from a photographic supplier thanks to his contact with a chinese factory. These results are a big big improvement over our earlier productions using a Canon Optura with green and blue bedsheets.
My opinion now about getting the "film look" for indie movies. It works well for us to do greenscreen then blur the background on compositing. I suggest this is better than the "35 mm adapter" approach. I admit I have never seen one of these adapters "in the flesh" but from on-line info about them they strike me as messy comical mechanical contraptions that must degrade the image with all that extra stuff added to the lens system. I challenge those into such things to do some EIA1956 line resolution tests with and without their adapter.
Another opinion. With the real thing professional greenscreen backdrop buyable for only US$100 there is now no good reason for diy constructions.

Now also on Youtube
 

"Test scenes for Askar" now also posted on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fnJ_msEyb8
IMHO a good result for a Youtube display. I converted to DivX for the upload.

Looks great. If anything, the audio and acting could have been a bit better. But the overall look and framing, very nice :)

HV20 Snow Globe Clip #2
 

http://www.vimeo.com/605776

Apple TV & Source M2T files zipped...
http://www.mediafire.com/?algmyt39mda

My first HV20 Footage!
 

http://www.vimeo.com/606846

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks

Very nice.

Awesome!! how did you do the 2.35:1 ratio and did you use 24p or 60i cinema mode??

My First HV20 Footage
 

I used the settings right out of the box 24PF, I did the 2:35:1 in FCP. I look forward to getting a DOF adapter for this camera.

Thanks

Joseph

What's the pixel count for hdv 2.35:1

1440 x (what)

I can't seem to get it right in Sony Vegas.

that looks really good wes! im assuming this was just using the regular lens at 1.8?

Ironman Trailer
 

This is a trailer to a short video I shot for my daughters first Ironman competition. It's the first thing I've shot with the HV20. I usually use it as a deck for my A1. The cam was mostly manual at 60i. Some grain in the early morning hours and the night shot is visible but what a great little camera to take anywhere and get great shots. Here is the link http://www.vimeo.com/638708

Oh, that kind of Iron Man.. I was looking for the guy in the metallic red and yellow suit :)

Looks good. Some really nice shots in there!

Macro Abstract
 

Macro footage shot with the HV20 and a Canon 50mm 1:1.8 macro lens, turned into an abstract project.

Subject 1: hair from a stuffed animal
2: towel
3: mandarin fruit
4: my toothbrush
5: cinnamon cookie
6: paper pieces
7: my pajamas

http://www.vimeo.com/673674

MacroPaint
 

Flower macro shots using close-up lenses (Tiffen CU4+) on the HV20, slow motion and extreme color grading. Download the 720p MP4 file or view the HD version online here: http://www.vimeo.com/678941

Golden Gate Bridge and... vegetation
 

Two videos I shot yesterday. The first one is details from the Golden Gate Bridge: http://www.vimeo.com/699120

The second one is flowers and abstract vegetations with lots of background blur, around the 'Palace of Fine Arts' in San Francisco: http://www.vimeo.com/699156 My husband poses in the opening shot of the video.

I am not particularly proud for any of the two videos, but I thought I use that HV20 footage anyway.

New Music Video
 

Music video I just completed for 2.L.O.C.O In Crime. Shot on the HV20 with an SG Pro(r1) 35mm adapter, and a 4x close up filter between the two to enable me to zoom in far enough. A polarizing filter was used also. All locations were around the west of Sydney (Blacktown etc). Edited in Vegas 7 using the standard colour corrector.

http://www.vimeo.com/709072

A bunch of frame grabs from the clip can be found on my flickr page here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/avene/s...7603945057130/

There were a few issues with the SG Pro, such as dust, forgetting too turn it on for one shot, etc.

Great work. Love seeing great results from the HV20. Assuming Cinemode was used? Recorded to tape?

The shots under the shade when he is sitting front of a shed werent as punchy as the rest of the clip wondering if that was just the cam or you chose to leave it a bit flater?

How much did you managed to get the sgpro for. I am looking at getting one but not sure about how much extra I'll end up paying with taxes etc..?

Hi Peter, thanks for having a look. Actually, I think the colour correction on that shot was slightly different. I hadn't really noticed too much difference. And yes, all cinemode and recorded to tape.

I bought the SG Pro in 2006. It worked out around $1200 all up. Can't remember what the UK price was then and not sure what it would be with the current price. I'd be tempted to go for the Letus Mini if I was in the market for a 35mm adapter now though. With only half a stop of light loss, flip as standard, and no need for a close up filter. Although the look you get from the current SG Pro Rev3 still appears more film like from different tests I've seen.

Experimenting with time effects
 

http://www.vimeo.com/724179

Something I threw together, all shot with HV20, no adapters. Been messing with low frame rate, low exposure.

In one case I forgot to put tape in the camera. My hands were freezing so it turned into stop motion. Hope it doesn't give anyone violent motion sickness.

dead city
 

my first movie shot with canon hv20.

hope you like :)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tOWG1piwA9E

10 second underwater clip from HV10
 

this is a very short clip that is not helped by my compressing and further compressing from youtube, not to mention it was at the end of the dive and i had to quickly turn the camera back on and get in place with only 2 out of 4 lights on in heavy surge.........okay okay, enough excuses.

video looks a bit better by viewing at original size (left button on the bottom right of the video screen)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_svRx_FpwG8

try not to criticize it too much! ill get some better underwater footage up when i have a chance to sift through it all.

FYI: the type of fish in the video is called a tang (hence the text at the end)

i really liked that. has a great music video feel too it. i especially liked the in car shots. great work!

btw: what song is that?

Canon HV20 Display
 

I swear I read this in the threads before, but I can't find it now. I'm experimenting with the Blackmagic Intensity Pro card and am live capturing from the HV20. How the heck do I remove ALL icons from the display? Obvioulsy this is a problem b/c the Intensity captures a live stream from the HDMI out and it records any and everything on the screen. Obvioulsy I've pressed the "display" button, but I can't get rid of the flashing tape missing warning, or if a tape is in, the record of pause warning.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Menu, Display Setup, TV Screen set to off, will give a clear out put.

Thank you. Darn, I just noticed I posted this in the wrong section. Chris, feel free to move as this contains no footage.

hi Mike.. Really nice, this one. A big improvement over the previous one. You've really nailed the contrast and colours nicely here too. Definitely worth the download!

Great looking movie. Loved your framing and the overall feel. Although I did see a few moving cars. You could possibly rotoscope those out I guess?

And any chance of posting a higher quality version? YouTube doesn't do it justice.