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Archive for January, 2009

Doggie POV

// January 24th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Video

Don’t ask me why… I just did.

For the first shot I actually hung my camera upside down from my Manfrotto, then flipped the image in Premiere.

2nd shot, I just held it on Harry’s back as he walked through the hall. What a good sport.

Maybe I should try to shoot a short video featuring my dog. Wouldn’t that be cute?

Toto is Awesome

// January 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Other

And here’s why:

“Dave’s Gone Skiing”

Watch High Quality Embedded YouTube Vids

// January 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Welp, just figured this one out. If you click on the little triangle in the lower right hand corner, you can
watch youtube embedded clips in high quality… so you can check that out on the post below.

Video Prep – Sync Tests

// January 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Video

So Rob is out of town this week (more so than usual) so Lumer and I conducted a couple video tests in preparation for our music video. I wanted to see how drumming would look at 24 frames / sec in a couple of different ways.

The first test, we sped up the music to 125% of its original speed and had Lumer play drums to it. My camera films at 30 frames per second. So in the computer, I loaded it in telling the computer to think it was 24 frames per second, and then it played back at the correct speed. You’ll see the differences in the video. I’m frankly amazed that it doesn’t look like he’s going in slow motion at all… if anything, the end of the video looks sped up. It gives a nice fluid motion I guess.

The second test was all shot using the motion strobe technique, but this time with better lighting. I think it looks pretty cool, but the picture quality is noticeably worse. Maybe not on this site with the low-quality youtube embed, but definitely in the HD view if you click through to the youtube page…

So, the question is, which to do for our video… which will look best in the long run. I also learned that I need a lot of work in framing shots. Blarg.

Video 1: