nice
 

Great stuff Love the camera work the most its what I pay attention to the most,,acting if good too and love the DOF

pete

Season's greeting holiday video card
 

My wish for a happy holiday season and lots of jobs for everyone! Shot on HVX200 P2 at 720P 24 with a Brevis35 mounted with Canon 35mm wide open @ 2.8. Compressed through FCP to H.264. It loses a lot of quality going to youtube...sorry. Happy Holidays!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16brcl-0jm4

Not bad kid =)

Couple of things I noticed. Some of the shots were not in focus, or very soft. Also I think you can edit it a bit tighter. Seems to me some of the lines are coming in late. Obviously you can't do anything about the performances, but next time I would get more convincing actors, not that they were terrible, just that you can find better and more compelling performances. Last, some of the framing and composition was a bit off to me.

Otherwise good work.

Short Film (Unfinished)
 

This is a short film i did a few months ago. Its unfinished and i still have to put in some special effects and clean up the video and audio some more but i decided to post this anyhow and get some feedback on the Movie. This is my first short and i plan on doing more of them. Hope you all like and please feel free for any type of critism. It is very well needed to make it better. Thanks!!!

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

Hya..from what I can see is you are wanting to capture a real moment but the shakiness of the camera in some scenes is not nessesary,,for the opening you need to get yourself a tripod and keep you finger of all video camera zoom buttoms..use the ring and lessen the start and stop of the zoom if you have to use it..

You need a mic or you need to ADR everything because you cant hear much at all..

I think your on the right path and I know its hard to find help in this biz, im by no means Mr proffessional so Im just posting my thoughst hope it helps

Pete

Thanks Pete! Will look to that in future projects.

I also don't like the shaking on the camera on the Last sequence at the house but i stayed with it cause the camera i was using wasnt mines and i couldnt re-shoot because i had to give the camera back

Those videos are very creative and i like how you used the animation with the Lego people. Good job.

Fuzzy Shuttle Launch Video from Winter Park
 

I had just got to my spot as it was taking off. I was trying to get into manual mode on my GL2 but fumbled for a bit which resulted in fuzzy video but eh, I'm still learning so please don't yell at me too much ;).

http://www.phenious.com/videos/phenious/nightlaunch

I have been lurking for a long time now and figured I should finally post something. Great forum :)

Ah man. If that takeoff would of been in focus, that footage would of rocked!

Yeah, that seriously would have helped. : sigh :

Did you get it to play? It's a flv file. If you use Firefox, Netscape or Mozilla, there is a video downloader plugin that will allow you to grab a copy of it from Google. Then you can get the tiny flv player and keep local copies.

Sean

My Stop Motion Animation
 

here is the video and the info:
http://www.boinx.com/chronicles/2005...-smarty-pants/

Camera used was a Sony PD100 3 chip DVCAM and the software is called iStopmotion.
More animation projects are in the works.

"Motorcycle" Racing
 

I shot this and edited it. The guy that suits up to go race is also me.
I host a program called Overdrive about the car/motocycle scene.
Shot with a Panansonic HVX200 in SD on MiniDV.
Edited in FCP and enhanced with film effects. Also created the music with Apple's GarageBand.

http://lunarvue.com/od_pocketbike.mov

I liked it. Nice job. The music was great.

Joe

Thanks, I appreciate it.

I liked it, and I'm intrigued by this iStopmotion software. It looks like it's Mac OS only, so as a PC user I'm out of luck.

I'm looking to branch into clay animation as well, since my biggest upcoming project is going to be extremely diffifult to pull off with traditional stop action animation.

I thought about trying it from Clermont, an additional 20 miles away, but I realized I would be happier just enjoying it. It is amazing how much is missed when your eyes are on a little LCD screen instead of an important event.

Maybe next time I will give it a try.

Yeah, I kept going between just looking and filming. Truth be told I should have just watched as I dont know if they will do any more night launches.

Thanks Pete for your comment.

Brian, thanks for the constructive feedback. This is well appreciated and helpful.
Some shots were soft I think either because sometimes the actor was moving so fast we had troubles to adjust. Having them keep their marks was not easy at times.
We used an M2 on a DVX. I think also in the beginning there was not enough light, triggering some noise and a very shallow depth of field.

Beinga proud owner of the P&S Technik Mini35 I can give you soem advice on the lighting. ALWAYS make sure you compensate lighting when you shoot with a adapter, especially with mine, since I lose 2 stops. I rather overlight a scene than underlighting. You can easily lower bright scenes in post, but it is much harder to do the same with too bright of scenes.

Use more powerful lights if you must next time aorund.

Wow! Cool! That's a very nice rig. Have only seen pictures of it and clips shot with it. The results were outstanding.

Ok, so for this particular kind of shots, which is a pretty simple set up, how exactly would you light this? What kind of light and what power?
We had an Arri Fresnel kit at a time we thought we'd shoot with just the DVX.
The kit was: one 650W, one 300W and two 150W
The M2 came after and it felt like we needed bigger lights
The kit also come with a soft box in which you can put any of the 4 fresnels
Putting a Fresnel inside a soft box feels like loosing tons of light, would you use it?
Thanks for your comments and precious advice

Mmm. Tightly edited, short, to the point, with good-looking footage. I would have loved to know more about the organization, but that perhaps would have been a deeper story than you were looking to tell.

Nice.

What was the music, by the way? It sounds quite familiar.

Michael

Our film Preparations for a Murder
 

I would like to get some comments on the film my brother and I are doing. Its called Preparations for a Murder. Thanks!

http://www.myspace.com/robinson_bros

Nice shooting Ben.

How did you like the HVX?

I am not a DP, but I know we use a lot more light than we would have used without the Mini35. You basically light like you would with film. Another advice would be to keep at least a 23" monitor on the shoot. This way you can see what you are actually getting and make any adjustments. I cannot tell you how much value it brings. I wouldn't shoot without it.

Loved the lighting. Pretty good acting too. The knock i found was the music, just not my taste.

Seems like it'll be real interesting. Is this a feature or a short?

Homeless Portraits on HVX200/ Brevis 35
 

http://www.cinevate.com/images/homel...raitssmall.mov

Shot in 720p then downconverted to sd for editing with other footage shot in doco. All shot with available light

i like it .. want to see more ...
very good use of available light, good framing/shots etc ..
like that we get to look into subjects eyes ...

A Birthday Video Greeting
 

Hey everyone:

I just made a surprise video greeting for a friend of mine from Russia who will be celebrating her birthday tomorrow (Friday, December 15th). Please check it out and let me know what you think of it.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/silver...y_Greeting.m4v

LENGTH: 1min53sec
SIZE: 19.9mb
FORMAT: iPod (.m4v)

Thanks and enjoy!
Adam

Very nice.

Maybe adding something birthday-ish (i.e.; birthday cake w/a candle on it, etc...).

Good job. What did you use to shoot, edit, etc... with?

Thanks, Andrew. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've been working on this for the past couple of days. All images and videoclips in this are from 2002-2006. The still images were taken in both The Netherlands and also in Russia (on various different digital cameras...most of them on my Sony DSC-V1, some of them from her Sony DSC-T1, one from a cheap disposable film camera, and a few from her friends in Moscow). The videoclips were all filmed on the camcorder that I had at the time, a Sony DCR-TRV17 MiniDV HandyCam. The first two videoclips that you see (the ones that are side-by-side) were filmed in Manchester, Vermont in September 2002 (the one on the left) and in Moscow, Russia in late October 2003 (the one on the right, and also the one at the very end of the clip).

This video was edited on Final Cut Express HD 3.5, using LiveType for titles and Soundtrack for royalty-free music. This is also the first time I've ever tried experimenting with motion effects (resizing and moving the images all over the place).

Adam

JVC HD-110 HDV test
 

CLICK HERE to see an HD clip from my upcoming educational video series

This is an 18 meg, 1280x720 Windows Media Video 9 download shot with the JVC HD-110 HDV camera, edited in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 with the 15 day free trial of Cineform's ASpectHD codec. There is a great deal of compression to get this as a web download, but it still looks pretty sharp and maintains a lot of picture information.

Dig it.
PJR
www.sonnyboo.com

Is the footage color corrected?

I did not run Magic Bullet or anything, no. I thought it was balanced as is. There's a similar tint to everything.

FerrariChat.com Podcasts
 

http://www.ferrarichat.com/podcast

shot with am HVX200 both in studio and on location. More podcasts to come.

Alan:

Not sure what's cooler, the car or the camera. Great pod cast...

Recording the bible to CD
 

This isn't exactly "showing" my work, since it is audio, not video, but I figured it was the most likely place to put this.

My wife's younger sister requested an interesting Christmas present this year. She asked me to record all 16 chapters of Romans from the New International Version of the New Testament.

I had a feeling it would take a while to do, and I was right. But now that it is done, I have posted a zip file with MP3 versions of all 16 chapters.

http://download.yousendit.com/016E40495C1E18EC

I figured I might as well share. The download will be available for a couple of weeks. I used the following site as a source: http://www.biblegateway.com/

In the unlikely event that I exceed 200 downloads, I will repost with a new URL.

Yes, iStopmotion is Mac only. Works great, ven has onion skit overlays and voice activated recording for hands free capture. Also does amazing timelapse. Its really a bargain for $70 bucks!!!
Also, there is an HD version out that lets you do high-def capture using a digital still camera! Thats how the Corpse Bride was shot. Amazing stuff.

Not sure whats out there for PC. I've been out of the PC world for 5 years and I never looked back. Good luck with your project, If I can answer anystop motion questions I'd be happy to.
-Ben

My Web Sitcom - 5 Episodes On Line
 

Hey all,

Check out my web sitcom, Buddy Jackson:

http://www.buddyjackson.com

We are doing weekly five minute episodes. We have five on-line, but have shot 13. The process has been an absolute blast.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Barry