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My entirely first movie, using my first movie-camera, a JVC Everio GZ-HD3, which I bought 2 weeks ago. Edited with iMovie '08. Rainy season here in Japan, so I chose the biggest fish-market ( Tsukiji ) in Japan for my first movie-experiment. I wanted to try out so many features of my new camera, but I was surprised ... no place and chance to stop even for a moment for using a tripod or manual focus. Maybe the busiest place on earth beside the Wall Street ;-))
Anyway, I caught some impressions on my visit and I hope, you like them somehow.
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  • Billy Delp 2 months ago
    I saw those breasts at like :51. ha
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  • rastAsia 2 months ago
    Beautiful Capt. Kirk!
    That's quite an insight to Japan's fish market!
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  • Philip Cotsford 2 months ago
    Not bad for a first vid~
    Keep going with it!
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  • James T. Kirk 2 months ago
    Thanks for all the kind comments ... and indeed, I should have chosen shorter shutter-times ! I was quit surprised, how important this fact is, even for movements, which actually didn't look so fast in the moment, I was shooting.
    A lot of things to learn, I guess ;-)))
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  • Philip Cotsford 2 months ago
    By shutter times, do you mean fps?
    I shoot in 60fps, but it seems like vimeo uses 30fps (29.7?), so that's hard to get around.

    Hope you don't mind - I've added this to the Tokyo group. :)
  • James T. Kirk 2 months ago
    Thanks Philip ... for the honor being added to your group ... and the interesting comment about the shutter-speed.
    I agree with you ( it sounds logical for me !!! ) but I got confused by another thread, posted here:
    vimeo.com/groups/JVC/forumthread:182
    Maybe there is some missunderstanding but your post gave me more confidence to believe in what actually should be the truth ;-)))
    On the other hand ... it makes me sad, because I couldn't find any possibility to choose the fps in my camera yet. There is something like a "sports mode", obviously for faster moving objects but even in the manual, there is only something written about a shorter shutter-time in this mode ... mmmmh ... still confusing, I think.
  • rastAsia 2 months ago
    Hi James. It would indeed be nice if we have frame speed control on the HD7. This would be similar to film speed if you're old school (fps). Sorry to break the bubble, but its not available on it. I wish there was some kind of hack for this. ;) since it is software based. But even if its hacked, it would not be higher than 30fps since the chip is already working at its peak, but I would like to be able to slow it down since that would be less than the limit the 3 CCD would be able to capture. There will be even more room for creativity if given this option. See what Moua did with this ability to slow frame speed to lower than 24fps. NOT shutter speed. Its important to note the difference in technicality deriving to this effect.
    vimeo.com/1154969

    24fps would be the minimal needed to place good enough sounding audio bits in each frame (film history) and achieve visual deception to the human eye we now call film or motion capture.
  • James T. Kirk 2 months ago
    Thanks for your interesting comment again. As far as I don't have any experience with movies yet, I am so grateful for every idea ... and Moua's movie is indeed wonderful.
    But ... there is one thing, I still don't understand. I agree with you, that shutter speed and fps can be seen and chosen completely independently but only within certain limits. Lowering the shutter speed automatically lowers the fps ... just thought by logic. For example, if you choose 1/2 sec, the fps can not be more than 2.
    So actually, you don't need to hack your camera ... lowering the shutter speed must lower the fps too.
    I guess, that was all, Moua did ... and I guess, she was shooting with an extrem zoom. Within a smaller frame, objects are moving much faster. The distances between the flies are only cm and they are moving fast ... so lowering the shutter speed just down to maybe about 1/20 sec could have caused the trails ( and necessarily also a fps of 20 ). The bigger zoom combined with a focus not exactly pointed at the flies, could also have avoided the over-exposing and could have made the trails bigger. Please correct me, if I am wrong but this is the only logical explanation, I can imagine.

    BTW, you seems to know a lot about JVC-cameras. I still do have another big problem ... dealing with the TOD-files on my MAC. iMovie 08 and Final Cut Express can not import TOD-files ( only the older iMovie HD and the expensive Final Cut Pro-edition can do it ). I have Final Cut Pro, but I don't know it so well yet and as long as I don't need to use it, I still prefer working with iMovie 08 as it is much easier for me to use.
    So usually, I am coverting my camera-TOD-files into MOV-files by using Quicktime-Pro first ( setting on highest quality ) ... but in fact, a lot of quality is getting lost by that ... especially under "limit conditions" ( less light, etc. ). Do you have any idea or experience about that ? If so, it would be great !!! Thanks a lot.

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  • Lisa Kassner 2 months ago
    Keep shooting! I want more!

    Regards,

    Lisa
    Los Angeles CA
  • James T. Kirk 2 months ago
    Thanks Lisa ! Greetings to LA !
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  • Ray 2 months ago
    I really like this. My only real suggestion would be to(if possible) use interpolation for your deinterlation method.
    Keep it up!
  • James T. Kirk 2 months ago
    Thanks Ray ! What do you mean by "interpolation for deinterlation" ? Sorry for my stupid question. I just edited it in iMovie 08 and exported it the way, it was suggested by the vimeo-hd-tutorial ( Quicktime ). What can I do better ? ... and how ?
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  • DoAn Forest 2 months ago
    Excellent footage. There's some great shots of the different people working in the market. Nice music selection, too.
    I was just there a few months ago. i kind of over-filmed the area with the big tunas, and under-filmed the rest of it. I'll try to remember to add a comment here when I eventually edit my own video.
  • James T. Kirk 2 months ago
    Thanks for adding my video to the Japan-channel and also thanks for your comment ! Indeed the tunas might have been over-filmed, but maybe I went there a little bit to late, so the other fish was already packed ... or ... maybe the fact, that I like "maguro" ( raw tuna ) so much, dazzled my view ... hahaha ...
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  • Ren Yen 1 month ago
    You have a handsome face mr Kirk. Fantastic video. The essence of Japan. Nice humble people.
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  • svadba-film.com 1 month ago
    Cool movie))) And JVC cameras COOL))))
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