Film whatever the heck you want to. You don't have to film flowers and kittens. Just keep doing what you have always done! The only difference is that now we will be able to see that little piece of lettuce stuck in your teeth!

Remember to play around. Don't make stuff because you think it will please your friends, Vimeo contacts, or some other agent of judgement. I know it can be tough to go from the informality of playing around with something like a powershot to a powerful camera but the key lies in not putting the technology up on a pedestal where you feel the footage must be worthy of it's power. Harken back to what is fun for you and go from there.

What if you did a re-make of one of your older videos? Obviously it's not creating anything new, but it might get you back onto the right track?

Well, I wouldn't mind watching flowers and kittens.

If your having trouble coming up with new ideas, it might be interesting to try to reenact one of your way earlier videos as closely as possible. Try to get timing, lighting, costuming, phrasing, etc etc just right, but in HD.

I request this one: vimeo.com/192652

Word. Just do it. Fuck what your "suppOsed" (emphasis added) to do, and screw even thinking about what is "worthy" of your camera. shoot what ever you want.

If it ends up that you can't get over the new found technical abilities of your camera then dive right into them head first and flip the assumptions around. Super high quality recordings should only record pretty things? flip record something horribly odd and unpleasant - a toilet flushing, dog poo, a bug (no butterflies either) two people yelling at each other, &c. This camera can shoot cinema quality? Flip it, turn the quality all the way up, zoom in as far as you can, max out every technical aspect, prep it for the big screen, and then record two dolls or action figures fighting to a timely and unpoetic death - or something else that really only "belongs" on the internet.

Maximize your cameras most intimidating and demanding aspects and force them upon something incredibly non-demanding. out zen your technology before it out zens you.

I wouldn't complain if you filmed kittens.
I fucking love kittens.

Go with what you Know...
Your fan base is made up by all the people who like, enjoyed & loved what you do... give it time, You will
master it!

the doorway to personal success is marked "insecurity". the only way to engage the creative process is to dive in... and if you lose track of where you're going, then you know you've arrived. put your thinking brain in the backseat and let your heart light the path. on your mark - get set- gooooo!

someone might have said this already, but it seems as though when people get an HD camera, they automatically start filming close ups of everything.

i dunno. i like the idea of getting the most out of the shittiest equipment, or letting the creativity win over the bits and bytes of it all.

just be the amazingly creative person you are.

:-)

sleep well my friend.

I've got to agree with what everyone else has said.

I don't think that the point of recording HD video is so much to wow everyone with tight closeups and things in nature that are perceived as classically "beautiful"...

Yes, for some people, that works; that's what they want to show us in HD, and they're very good at it. But I've seen all of your videos, and that obviously isn't the sort of thing you enjoyed filming before you had your new camera.

Just because you can record in HD, you shouldn't feel an obligation to do stuff like that now. HD _does_ have the power of making videos more captivating and realistic looking, but the subject matter and the way it's presented is what ultimately makes videos enjoyable.

_I_ enjoy your videos for the "real life" aspect they have to them. I love that you can take tiny segments of being, crystallize them into video, and let us viewers see clips of someone else's life through this little rectangular window on our computers.

So yeah -- just record what you have naturally always felt drawn to, but do it in HD now... and let us see through a bigger, sharper rectangle.

My first HD clip will not have any kittens in it.

Well, maybe "WAR KITTENS".

i don't think it is really appropriate for me to comment, since i don't have any videos up yet, but i just wanted to say that you have a great support system here and everyone has offered some great feedback that i agree with.

my gut response is that maybe the act of making and watching so many good videos has shifted your focus from the PROCESS to the RESULT. i don't think it is always good to focus so much on what the potential RESULT will be that you don't let yourself go and let natural creativity do its uninhibited thing in the PROCESS. does this make sense?

i guess my point is: take a "it's not the destination, it's the journey" attitude and i bet you'll wow us all like you always do.

HAHHA

flowers and eyelashes.


I think that maybe, don't worry that it's HD, just film all the things you like.

We will love your videos if they are HD or not.

I think that now that you have an HD camera it just boosts up all the stuff you've done before, but content should remain the same, the quality is just sharper and clearer.

There are a bunch of comments above this and I'm sure people have said what I've said, if not better.

All the stuff you like to make isn't shitty at all, we love it and now we can enjoy it in crispy HD.. :-)

(I don't have an HD camera...but I can kind of see what you are talking about. I've been trying to save up for a camera and I figure I should go HD with my next purchase, whatever it is (whenever that is that I can afford such a lavish expenditure) but I wonder if there will be more personal pressure on myself to come up with structured stories, narratives, or travel to film the biggest redwood trees and bluest skies)

Everything I've made seems so organic because I use such crappy equipment....it pushes me harder to make something wonderful out of nothing. But if i start off with something amazing, i feel there's so much pressure for myself to make the most out of that.

eeek.

here film this:


Make a fun dancy video. Use your HD camera.
forget that it's HD....

you'll know that it is when you're sitting watching it render/export.


haha

:-)

Hey i know i have been mising for a long time but..... everytihgn you have ever shoot has been great to watch. just be yourself. all of here on vimeo allready like you and that is half the batle.(please no gi jooe jokes)

and if you have quicktime pro just render your movies to an ipod movie it should come out fine that's what i do anyway.....

Did you say Macbook? You're editing HD video with a Macbook? I didn't know the Macbook could handle HD video.

If the macbook has dual processors, it should be able to edit the AVCHD format of t he Canon HF100.