This thread is dedicated to members showing their thing. It might be showreels, edits, cool animation... whatever. SHow what you've ...  Please do keep in mind that things like copyright protected footage and offensive materials/footage do not belong here ok?

Let's make this the coolest thread here

(ps first posts are posts allrady made on the previous thread that went corrupt)

Sticky topic for 3 days from now...

By Scott Carnegie

This past weekend was my first time working with HDV, here's how it went.

I used the Sony HRV-Z1 to shoot a benifit concert at a cabaret. It was for a "freebie" mainly cause I wanted to try out the camera on something other than a paying gig. We shot handheld and used a shotgun mic into the XLR input. 

This is a sweet camera! The LCD looks amazing! I shot in both 1080i and 1080i with the 30p Cineframe mode. Initial testing showed the 24p cineframe mode to be much to choppy to use. Shooting was easy, I didn't gain up at all and the iris was open most of the way.

When it came to post, I started a new HDV 1080i project. Avid saw the camera no problem and I had control. When I captured the first tape it would stop everytime the camera had been turned off during the shoot, same as using a deck where the same thing would happen. When I captured the second tape I was getting audio underruns every 5 minutes. I re-started the program and the problem went away.

Injesting the 30p cineframe material kept the look it had in camera, it came in the way it should. 

I just did some straight cuts to make a few quick sequences. I wanted to put them on my website so I exported an HDV file (I choose "better" quality") since QT Reference doesn't work with HDV. It took about 5Xrealtime to export the movies on a 2.8Ghz processor. I changed the extension from m2t to mpg and took it into Sorenson to make a WMV file. I choose the WMV medium preset and chaned the size to 480x240. You can take a look at the resulting clips here.   

http://www.mediacircus.tv/events_rockyou.html

I haven't tried making a HD DVD yet, which I will do soon using WMV9. If there's any other experiments people would like me to try let me know.

I exported a full-rez HDV 30 second clip that you can download if you want to play with it. It's over 100MB. It has been renamed with the mpg extension, it was originally m2t.

http://www.remoonyourradio.com/jet_set_2.mpg

By Adman

Thanks Scott...great post. I'm hoping to do a HDV shoot next week via renting the same cam. I appreciate the heads up. ">

By Conleec

Hey Everybody,

Just wanted to mention that a feature I cut last year hit video stores today. It's called, "Boo," and it's a great Halloween flick. Would love to hear your thoughts about it; plus, I was honored to be invited to participate in the commentary track. That's never happened to me before. Hope I don't sound like too big a jack*ss ">

For more info, check out:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385560/combined

You should be able to find it just about anywhere, stateside. Not sure about foreign, yet. Although, rumor has it, the film will be released theatrically in France. We'll see.

Thanks for taking a look.

Chris

By Conleec

Just saw that the film is available on various online rental sites, including Blockbuster.com

By marthaskol

Congratulations!  We all need to toot our own horns every now and then. 

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Martha Skolnik

By conleec

Thanks Martha,

I'm tootin' ">

What's the latest with your project?

Chris

By Osika

As I've done once before, I'm posting a link to my demo reel in this forum.  I don't know if this is the appropriate location for such a request, but I can't think of a better place from which to get critiques.  This is my second cut of my editors reel.  Based on comments given here and elsewhere, I have shortened it, reordered it, and added some new graphics.  You will see samples of my editing and motion graphics experience.  The reel contains news magazine style works.  Please feel free to be brutally honest.  Thanks very much in advance for your time.

Ryan

http://www.rosika.com/editors_reel.htm

By Adman

Congrats to Chris!!!">

By Carnegie

What codec is it encoded with? I can't see it.

By Marthaskoll

thanks for asking, we got distribution and will be coming out mid January in about 60 theaters across the country.  I'll be tootin' closer to the release date.

http://www.onthouts.com

By Osika

Yes, it does require quicktime 7 to view.  Again, the web address is:

http://www.rosika.com/editors_reel.htm

Thanks very much!

By rfmeredith

I rented the same camera a few weeks ago. I shot a test roll of HDV but shot my project in DVCam. I liked a lot of things about the camera - as compared to my PD-150 it is easier to focus, the viewfinder is awesome, the image on the LCD screen is ipressively visible in bright sunlight, and the slow zoom speed actually is slow... you can creep in, unlike the 150. The aperture is also incremented in smaller divisons so you can make more minute adjustments. There were a few more things I like but I can't think of them now.

The biggest drawback (pretty big) is the performance in low light. I was amazed that I had to go to high gain (+3 or +6) in some LIT interview situations. Not available light - I was using a Chimera with 650 watts inside it. On all other counts I was ready to buy this camera but that was enough to make me pause.

Baklap wrote:

By Osika Yes, it does require quicktime 7 to view.  Again, the web address is: http://www.rosika.com/editors_reel.htm Thanks very much!

Considering that Avid won't run properly with QT7 I don't think there's many people that will be able to watch it that frequent these forum

Scott Carnegie wrote:

Baklap wrote: By Osika Yes, it does require quicktime 7 to view.  Again, the web address is: http://www.rosika.com/editors_reel.htm Thanks very much! Considering that Avid won't run properly with QT7 I don't think there's many people that will be able to watch it that frequent these forum

Although I'd imagine most of us don't browse with our edit suites... Maybe I'm wrong... But generally I try to reduce the risk to my vital work systems. The web can be a risk, even with Firefox and Thunderbird...