thanks man. I wish i had some really cool lens to tell ya, some hi end Zeiss lens or L series canon... but alas... because i just got the T2i and just got here to LA.. i hadn't had the time to go look/buy any new lenses, so it was, *gasp* the stock lens. An 18-55 Canon lens that comes with the camera. Not too shabby though, eh?

haha thanks man. I'll be posting more stuff soon enough, don't you worry.

actually there was someone else holding the zoom for me, just handheld..and walking around the crowd

I walked around with the Zoom above my head and pointed it at the action. And then when I turned it off it was knocked out of my hand TWICE! What a great story!!

eheh nice work!! i'm going to buy this camera, what do you think Chris?

nope..no post sharpening. i think a lot of the sharpness was a result of the high shutter speed. i found that shooting this at a speed anywhere from 800 to 4000 depending on light conditions yielded a video that i could isolate just about any frame during my edit that was crisp enough for a still image. case in point, the title image...thats just a single frame from when that guy was swinging the pillow..and he was swinging it crazy fast!

So awesome !, great choice using the faster frame rates too. Gives it that Braveheart feeling without all the severed limbs..

Love and Aloha, iamKP-

hahaha that was pretty impossible and i took a vacuum cleaner hose and some compressed air to it once i returned home from the shoot. remarkably the lens didnt get too covered with feathers at any point.

Hehe ;)

Keep up the great work.

nice man i checked out your vid. i really dig it

! and yes i am happy with my camera. I had the 7D, and while technically the better camera and much beefier/solid to hold, i ended up returning it for the T2i and putting the extra money toward lenses and other gear. I'm saving up for a full on DSLR filmmaker kit from RedRock or the like, and that will hopefully make the otherwise small looking T2i look like a Titan! But i'm very pleased with it for sure.

Hah, thanks Chris though you got me beat on creativity and style for sure. This video rocks. Excellent work. And that lens that comes with the T2i... not too bad I'm sold.

Add away. Glad you like the video! Let me know how it does!

thanks matt. To achieve the stutters i simply chopped out two frames worth from any given section of the video that i thought looked interesting, then i copied them over back to back for the length of time the music stutters so as to make it match. Because i was shooting at such a high shutter speed on the camera, just about every single frame of any of the clips i shot, when isolated, looked crisp enough to use as still image in the project. So thats why i had the liberty to just randomly select cool looking points and cause those to stutter.

thanks man. yeah the stuff turned out pretty crisp... and i was manual focusing the whole time so i was sure it as gonna end up looking soft/out of focus.. yeah that camera for the money is waay worth it. And yeah, that Pretty Lights track made it come together quite well...thats my jam.

yep. you got it.

there's always next year! Just bring a gas mask or something equally protective ;)

thanks man. I appreciate that.

haha dude you had the perfect look for the idea i had... bravo. Did you have an equal amount of feathers in your lungs as you did on your clothes like I did?

thanks dude. I'll keep it up.

ah... you have to use some tool or software that will conform your footage to playback at a slower frame rate within the file itself. Note: this is different than shutter speed. For all of the footage in this Pillows video.. my shutter speed was at 1600-4000 depending on the light, but the frame rate was at 60fps for the slow mo footage and at 24fps for the standard rate footage. I then took the 60fps footage and told the computer (using a program on the Mac called Cinema Tools) to make the computer 'think' the 60fps footage was actually 24fps footage so A) it plays back in slow motion because 1 second of footage which used to be 60 frames now takes 2.5 seconds to cover all 60 frames since its playing back at 24 frames/sec and B) it matches the frame rate of all the other footage in my project. This is why the slow mo looks smoother.

Hope that makes sense.

Yeap, it made perfect sense, cuz I forgot that's what I needed to do! Haha :) Thanks!!!

btw. did you know when you wanted the slow motion or were some shots random, because I'm having a dilemma when to shoot 24p or the 60p. If the camera can do 1080i60 it's much easier since I can get the the slow mo in 1080 reso but for dslrs it's either 720 for slow mo or 1080 for 24p...

Haha.... yeah Pretty Lights is amazing. They also have all their albums on their website available for free download. Prettylightsmusic.com i believe. They do amazing stuff with music. Cheers

Thanks man. Hope youre rockin things over on the other side of the globe!

thanks man.

Hey there Christian... I did in fact use Twitch, but only on one tiny part toward the beginning. It was when the camera falls from sky and lands... because I hadn't had the idea for the whole earth dive thing until after I shot everything, I didn't plan on capturing a shot where I started high and essentially slammed the camera on the ground to simulate a landing.. so I just happened upon a section of footage where I was standing (being pretty tall at 6'7") and crouched down to get some ground shots. So I did use Twitch to make this small part jerk and go out of focus so as to look like I really landed.

From there, I manually cut the video to edit with the music. So every time there was a musical stutter I would find a few frames that looked cool when played over and over and splice them in to match then conform the rest of the video around those parts. I originally intended to use actual stills that I took by pressing the shutter button while I filming, BUT to my surprise, since I was filming at such a high shutter speed the whole time there was virtually no motion blur in any frame and I was free to choose any single frame from my video and it looked crisp enough to be a still image. So thats what I did. I never used any actual stills I shot to make up this video, just single frames from the video.

Hey there! 1) No it was all edited at 23.98fps and yes its probably the fast shutter you are noticing. Sometime's I was filming at shutter speed 4000! It also could be vimeo's encoding or the playback on your computer if its playing back in HD on a slightly older machine. 2) it was al handheld.. just used the viewfinder on the back using live view and focused it all manually. The picture Liana posted below this post is of me while filming. I didn't know what to expect so I went to the event with minimal gear. But glad you like it!

I usually keep my shutter speed between 50-125 on the T2i, but this look gorgeous between 1600-4000. What exactly would the downside be of using such a high shutter speed, because I see zero problems with this footage.

haha Liana... you provided a nice way for me to end my video. Gracias! and yep.. thats me in your photo! I'm glad I was the coolest videographer there... why be pushy when everyones trying to have some fun?! Glad you liked my video, particularly the intro. See you at next years pillow fight?

dooowiit! its pretty easy.