I am looking to light, frame, and create more cinematic footage. What do you guys see that could be changed or modified for next time?

PLAY IT LOUD!!!

Still not the final sound... chiiiiiiiii. Merci a @Trackzillas ;-)

HERE more info and gallery

gashô

Details:

We shot this using two GH2s and varied between the Voigt 25mm, a Nikkor 50mm f1.4, and the stock panny 14-42mm kit lens (wide interiors). The patches we used were older versions of the Nebula pactch (GOP6 I believe Cluster X series 1) and the series one version of Moon (maybe even T5), not quite sure.

Anyway, thought I'd share and just like to say thank you to this wonderful community, even if I've only been lurking lately (corporate life has a way of doing that, but that should be changing soon).

This muddy "old" video is a mix of:

• A very personal/biographic collection of stills taken in Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal between 2006 and 2007

• Plus a tweaked version of Gertrude Stein's Family Living can go on existing a text extracted from her The Making of Americans book together with a shakuhachi flute (unfortunately can't remember neither song or performer's name) as SOUNDTRACK

• And still my own poem Algalia all mixed up directly in Quicktime

gashô

www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?311263-400w-Metal-Halide-6500k-anyone-tried-it

He talks about this $ 35 bulb http://www.hidhut.com/400w-metal-halide-lamp-6500-kelvin-p-418.html and $ 100 ballast. The bulb is 400 watt 6500 k and 90 cri (to be verified). If this is the case for $ 150 dollars you would get a reflector bulb/ballast socket system that would yield about the power of a 1500/2000 watt tungsten light in little overcast cloudy kelvin (6500k) that can be gelled easily with little power loss to 5600. Hard light that can be shaped much more than any soft light.

Hey guys, allow me to take you away from latest tech news and developments for a "game" proposal. Do you know about the surrealist's cadavre exquis… well, case you don't

Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadaver exquis) or rotating corpse, is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.

WIKI

I always liked better the allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed version, so here's what I propose:

Anyone registered in PV can participate, just has to post a reply - so everything's transparent - and send me a private message, for email and download details. Order of participation will be same as registration.

Each participant will have 3 days to make a new shot, we're not recycling footage… is a question of experimentation process and flow ;)
there will be a max of 1 hour over the deadline. After that I'll unmercifully jump to next in list.

I'll take the dealer part, receiving the files and sending to next participant just the last (previous) one.

IF failing deadline or any of the below rules, I'll go on with next in list… nothing personal but pragmatism.

Resulting mess will be under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 
CC BY-NC-ND creative commons license

All participants will receive a digital copy

RULES

1. 1 Shot
2. B&W only
3. 1920x1080p24
4. Between 1 and 5 sec
5. In camera in&out and edit; no post edition, including sound and grading
6. Any camera capable of above specs (remember B&W, 24p, etc.) allowed

Remember this is just a game so ENJOY!!!
I'll be second participant, only for practical reasons, as from then on I would have seen more than just the last piece.

So, whose the brave soul willing to start?!!!

Untitled. Cadavre Exquis by Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise
1928
Chicago, The Art Institute. Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection.

ALIGNMENT

1. MirrorMan ----------------- deadline ------ May the 29th, 20h (GMT) ----- DONNE
2. maxr (that's me mum) -------- deadline ------ 1st of June, 20h (GMT) ----- DONNE
3. jpbturbo ------------------- deadline ------ 4th of June, 20h (GMT) ----- DONNE
4. jazzroy -------------------- deadline ------ 7th of June, 20h (GMT) ----- DONNE
5. inqb8tr -------------------- deadline ------ 10th of June, 20h (GMT) ---- ERROR
6. Django -------------------- deadline ------ 13th of June, 20h (GMT) ---- DONNE
7. michal -------------------- deadline ------ 16th of June, 20h (GMT) ---- DONNE
8. eatstoomuchjam ------------ deadline ------ 19th of June, 20h (GMT) ---- DONNE
9. svart --------------------- deadline ------ 22nd of June, 20h (GMT) ---- DONNE
10. spacewig ------------------ deadline ------ 25th of June, 20h (GMT) ---- DONNE
11. Alienhead ----------------- deadline ------ 28th of June, 20h (GMT) ---- DONNE
12. kevin_kirchman ------------ deadline ------- 1st of July, 20h (GMT) ---- DONNE
13. haavard ------------------- deadline ------ 4th of July, 20h (GMT) ---- DONNE
14. weimar -------------------- deadline ------- 7th of July, 20h (GMT) ---- DONNE
15. your name here ------------ deadline ------- 10th of July, 20h (GMT)
16. your name here ------------ deadline ------- 13th of July, 20h (GMT)

and so on

I use my GF1 + firmware hack since more than 6 months, it's great, congratulations :)

I have the following problem :

• Set "Mode A" for video

• Shut down the camera

• Power on the camera

• The "Mode A" setting for video is forgotten! The only way for having "Mode A" for video again is : go in the menu, set ANOTHER mode , e.g. "Mode P" for video, and THEN go in the menu again and set "Mode A" for video again.

I know somebody else having the same problem, with the same camera.

Who should I contact about this little bug?

Thanks in advance.

First of a three part diary a "pro-active" way of giving continuation to workflow experimentation

SOUNDTRACK
The Invisible Ladder - Keziah Jones

MERCI
Ana, Boris, Ester, Fourmis, Grenouilles, Libellules, Sarah, Tiberio e VP

Camera, Edition, G-Loop and Grading - Max Rosenheim * NCN

Worth translating Tiberio’s searching for a glass to pour his beer:

Tib – hey washed glasses, what’s this?!!!
Vit – c’mon, c’mon, c’mon
Tib – where’s she?! where’s she?! […] where do you hide the chick?!! there’s a chick around!!! there’s a chick around!!! […] what are you not telling your friends?!! […] clean dishes in this house…!!! […] either she was here or she’s yet to come?!!

photo gallery

As always all feedback, comments, thoughts and other forms of interaction are most welcome

gashô

http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastiao_salgado_the_silent_drama_of_photography.html

Is there any free stuff also, like free sound libraries?

My other question is, if you find video footage from TV or from the net, how are the rules, is it free to use for example in a documentary up to certain amount of seconds?

I'm still developing/experimenting a workflow I feel good about: one within the tools I have and know, that delivers quality enough and time wise optimized.

As always all feedback, comments, thoughts and secrets are most welcome.

gashô

It's a mixture of video and time-lapse of the Forth road and rail bridges around Edinburgh in Scotland. Initially I was just using it as a learning exercise about the GH3, but the bridge folks liked it themselves and started using it.

There are some dust bunnies in there, but I have learned not to go beyond F16 these days

I managed to get 510 feet up to the top of the Forth road bridge, but the barriers were moving so much my timelapse photo's were all blurred, so it's only shaky video footage from the top (I will take a proper tripod up next time)

Incredible Camera - Professional Quality - Unbelievable Price

Whether you're a pro, or just starting out, this is a great bargain for a great piece of gear that will give you hours of joy or make you money.

This is my personal camera, which I only used on 2 jobs as camera #2 where I was the camera operator.

This camera has never been in any harsh weather and is always stored on the desk of my home editing room, in the camera case.

This Camera Comes with Hundreds of Dollars Worth of Extras!

I own a production company, but I am a director, so I don't use a camera very much myself, and my company has a lot of high-end gear... so this camera is not used in my business.

Here is a list of everything included, but to get the whole story, watch the video below.

• Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GH2 Black Camera Body with Body Cap
• Panasonic LUMIX 14mm - 42mm Zoom Lens with Lumix Front Lens Cap and an Olympus Rear Lens Cap and Original Lens Shade
• One (1) 4Gb Memory Card
• Four(4) Original Panasonic Batteries with Battery Cases
• One (1) Original Panasonic Battery Charger
• Two (2) Aftermarket Batteries (non-coded - will not show battery level)
• One (1) Aftermarket Battery Charger
• One (1) Original Panasonic DC Coupler (does Not have the Power Adapter, which is sold separately)
• One (1) Aftermarket DC Coupler (does Not have the Power Adapter, which is sold separately)
• The Original USB Cable
• The Original Composite Video/Audio Cable
• The Stylus
• All of the User Manuals (English and other languages)
• All of the Original Paperwork (Warranty card is included but I don't remember if I registered it on-line or not)
• The Original CD ROM
• The Original Box
• A Camera Case

Everything that you need to start shooting as soon as your camera arrives is included.

I take extremely good care of my equipment and I describe it very accurately.

Please, serious inquiries only.

I only sell in the US. I will accept PayPal, Cashiers Check, or Money Order.

I will ship once the money is safely in my account.

Sale Price: $1,550.00

Free Shipping to Personal View Members that purchase it here.

Here is the video:

Thanks In Advance for Your Interest!

Credit to Hunter Richards' Tri-X B&W trick - http://tinyurl.com/hunterrichardsTRIX

maybe it's not necessary to reiterate, but vimeo just obliterated (macroblocks the size of satellites) the fine grain on this video test. It's ok... I can live with that. all feedback, comments and thoughts are welcome.

gashô

This link explains how to boost the video quality from iPhone. Totally disabling noise reduction is interesting.

http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/87/vastly-enhancing-video-camera-iphone-4s-%E2%80%93-part-i

I won't make some big marketing push for why mine would be better than anybody else's - in the last decade and a half of working with software FX I've learned there are a lots of ways to make things sound great. I also won't make any money off of this so there would be no point. :) But I do want to make it as easy as possible for people that aren't used to dealing with EQ to get a good sound.

Now here's the part where you come in. The tricky part of making presets is that they have to be widely usable. I'll be making these on a Windows machine (I spend more time in Windows than OS X) so whatever plug-in I make them for will need to work in that environment. I am thinking I would like to use the free ReaPlugs suite from Cockos, but my question is whether people would prefer that I use those or the ones native to Reaper itself?

If I use the ones internal to Reaper, then I seem to remember they may also work on OS X. But if I use the ReaPlugs suite, they will work in any host but Windows only.

Here are the links to each: http://www.reaper.fm/ http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php

So, which version would you guys prefer? Feel free to suggest other free plug-ins or other microphones you would like covered. I'm open to doing the same thing for the GH3 if there's sufficient interest.

I got a Panasonic GF2 and have some trouble with the analog video output. I want to use the output to preview video during recording. I already found that you can enable the live output by pressing Q.MENU for some seconds. This works fine for capturing stilts, but if you start recording a video, the output shows only black as long as you record the video. After stopping recording, you have normal output again.

I think this is just a firmware restriction that can be removed! Any suggestions?

And I really need the analog output all the time, because I want to operate the camera remotecontrolled and get the preview via an analog video transmitter.

Other discussion about this issue: http://www.aplanding.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5179

Regards

Igor

Author site - http://dive.rothschilddesign.com/video/index.html

I'll load up more later but for now here's a penguin.

Thanks to Vitaliy and everyone on this site for making it possible for us all to go out and shoot quality stuff that will hopefully reflect well the efforts and sense of community that you can find only here.

on mac you should install it in :/System/Library/Components

AE and Premiere now are able to export in this high quality codec at half the size of quicktime's Uncompressed 10bit.

VLC can't read UT because it doesn't use system components, but here you can find an update for vlc to register UT and some other video codecs. I don't know how to apply this register to VLC, so if anyone knows, your help is welcomed.

UT is helpful also if your thinking of using the new windmotion conversion tool across PC and mac platforms.

This is the FAQ to read if you're trying to read the forums, and finding a lot of technical stuff and acronyms that are going right over your head. It won't make you design hacks as good as Driftwood's or Sanity or Cake, and it won't tell you which hack is the best one to use. But if you read it, you will understand what I-frames and P-frames are, what GOP is, what intraframing and interframing are, and a few other details that'll help you follow some of the discussions here.

http://www.personal-view.com/faqs/gh2-hack/hack-terms-faq