
Dog Days - Letus Extreme Film - HDTV
1 year ago
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I shot this video as a demo for a production company who is shooting a series for a television network on dogs.
They were interested in the look of the EX1, the Letus Extreme and my assortment of lenses.
The dogs in the video include my golden retriever, Zac, and my parents dogs, Maya and Sofia.
Zac actually gets along well with the tiny Maltese dogs!
I shot this video in 1080p 30p (except for the lake at the end, that was shot in 1080p 24p with shutter) and I color graded it in magic bullet looks.
I did not spend much time on this, just one hour of shooting and about forty five minutes for the cut.
TRT: 2min 30sec
I shot this video as a demo for a production company who is shooting a series for a television network on dogs.
They were interested in the look of the EX1, the Letus Extreme and my assortment of lenses.
The dogs in the video include my golden retriever, Zac, and my parents dogs, Maya and Sofia.
Zac actually gets along well with the tiny Maltese dogs!
I shot this video in 1080p 30p (except for the lake at the end, that was shot in 1080p 24p with shutter) and I color graded it in magic bullet looks.
I did not spend much time on this, just one hour of shooting and about forty five minutes for the cut.
TRT: 2min 30sec
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mostly shot with a nikon 200mm f3.5 tele lens. i like to crush the blacks and over saturate the videos in post. looks more like film. the ex1 camera did have the hisat maxed out at 99 in the picture profile controls. i color graded a few shots very quickly in MBL.
i shot the last shot in 1080p 24p. i did not shoot in 720p, that was a typo. i have fixed the error above. the only time i go down the 720p is when i am shooting in 60 frames per second for smooth slow motion. the ex1 does not allow you to record 60 FPS in 1080p mode. i did not shoot in 60 FPS for this.
Do you feel you are closer to your dream job you mentioned of working nature programs for Discovery Channel now? Close? You certainly have the talent and I suspect you've earned it several times over. Although I may not be employed by Discovery I would certainly vote "yes."
Nice work with the dogs. Does your retriever play frisbee? Always wanted a dog that would do that.
I presume focussing wasn't that easy.
I export to MPEG first because exporting from FCP to MP4 will make a lot of the shots a lot darker. Especially low light shots can end up very dark.
By converting using quicktime pro you can compensate for the darkness of H264 by changing the saturation.
I love how you handle the tripod and frame the movements. It really shows that you are experienced in this, you have to be for all those years of covering ballgames and following those rapid moving small objects.
Trying soooo many options not to loose the blacks or have a muted look - am unsuccessful with compressor. Hmm, never tried using Quicktime Pro to export to H264. Also, how are you exporting from FCP to MP4?
Thank you!