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.