helicopter shoot with hd110 at DVinfo.net

Thomas Weilguny · September 18th, 2007, 06:18 AM

I did my first helicopter shoot this weekend with a hd110 - all in all went pretty well although some dedicated stabilisation would have been great (I used a foam pillow since I couldn´t get my hands on a gyro). The physical size of the camera was also a bit problematic, I´m not sure how much more jittery a smaller camera would have been but sometimes the size of the camera limited the movement range pretty uncomfortably.

some photos here:

http://pelliculus.uttx.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=333

some lessons learned here:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showpost....7&postcount=11

will post some footage as soon as it´s sorted and stabilised.

Thomas Weilguny · September 19th, 2007, 01:56 AM

test video is up - stabilised in shake, cropped by about 15%.

http://www.unkreativ.at/julia/stabitest.mov

Jeremy Clark · September 19th, 2007, 08:16 PM

Hi Thomas,

Excellent job! How is the light sensivitivity on your shots? I can't seem to avoid drastic light & color fluctuations on my aeriels (not to mention split screen). I'm using an HD100. Also, what compression are you outputting to from Shake?

Thanks -
Jeremy

Thomas Weilguny · September 20th, 2007, 07:07 AM

Thanks! I didn´t have much problems with brightness levels. Since we were only going to film ground objects at a fairly steep angle I set wb and filters before we took off. Whenever sky was visible there were blowouts of course, but since that wasn´t the goal it didn´t matter.
The sky was overcast, which i think helped in providing uniform brighness.

I´ve seen a lot of info about split screen here, but apart from one shoot with very dark environments I´ve never been plagued by it.

Shake in and output was apple intermediate codec - I usually capture .m2t and then transcode to AIC for editing.

September 18th, 2007, 06:18 AM	#1
Thomas Weilguny Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 51	helicopter shoot with hd110 I did my first helicopter shoot this weekend with a hd110 - all in all went pretty well although some dedicated stabilisation would have been great (I used a foam pillow since I couldn´t get my hands on a gyro). The physical size of the camera was also a bit problematic, I´m not sure how much more jittery a smaller camera would have been but sometimes the size of the camera limited the movement range pretty uncomfortably. some photos here: http://pelliculus.uttx.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=333 some lessons learned here: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showpost....7&postcount=11 will post some footage as soon as it´s sorted and stabilised.

September 19th, 2007, 01:56 AM	#2
Thomas Weilguny Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 51	test video is up - stabilised in shake, cropped by about 15%. http://www.unkreativ.at/julia/stabitest.mov

September 19th, 2007, 08:16 PM	#3
Jeremy Clark Regular Crew Join Date: May 2006 Location: Redmond, WA Posts: 34	Hi Thomas, Excellent job! How is the light sensivitivity on your shots? I can't seem to avoid drastic light & color fluctuations on my aeriels (not to mention split screen). I'm using an HD100. Also, what compression are you outputting to from Shake? Thanks - Jeremy

September 20th, 2007, 07:07 AM	#4
Thomas Weilguny Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 51	Thanks! I didn´t have much problems with brightness levels. Since we were only going to film ground objects at a fairly steep angle I set wb and filters before we took off. Whenever sky was visible there were blowouts of course, but since that wasn´t the goal it didn´t matter. The sky was overcast, which i think helped in providing uniform brighness. I´ve seen a lot of info about split screen here, but apart from one shoot with very dark environments I´ve never been plagued by it. Shake in and output was apple intermediate codec - I usually capture .m2t and then transcode to AIC for editing.