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23. 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

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  • David Hodge 1 year ago
    The specular highlights I take it were stylistic and deliberate; right? I can dig it. I think the tiny white dog looked the best. It really looked soft as if i could reach out and pet the thing. You didn't add any softening effects in post did you? No softening filter? All very cute. Any feedback from Discovery on it that you care to share. I would think they would have really liked it. Especially considering the fraction of time spent. I am wondering one thing about how you shot it. Why reduce to 720p at the lake? Was it whim or was there a technical or aesthetic reason for it? Just curious.
  • Tom Guilmette plus 1 year ago
    no glass filters used. highlights were deliberate and done with the "3 way color corrector filter" in FCP.

    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.
  • David Hodge 1 year ago
    Thank you, Master Tom. Grasshopper understand. I wonder if the Scarlet will allow for 1080p at 60fps. Here's to hoping. I haven't had occassion to use the "3-way" in FCP 6 that you mention, but I will make a special effort now.

    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.
  • Tom Guilmette plus 1 year ago
    my career is heading in that direction...
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  • Pierre 1 year ago
    Love that final frame composition :)
    I presume focussing wasn't that easy.
  • Tom Guilmette plus 1 year ago
    follow focus on these lenses is not easy. dogs really like to move around!
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  • Stephen Lewis plus 1 year ago
    Great stuff Tom! How do you export your work for the web? I just got FCS2 and I don't know how you are achieving such good quality with really low file sizes?
  • astute 1 year ago
    What I always do for that is export to MPEG from FCP and then use Quicktime Pro to export to H264 MP4 or MOV.
    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.
  • Stephen Lewis plus 1 year ago
    So do you make a QT reference file, or self contained? Thanks BTW!
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  • astute 1 year ago
    Lovely work Tom. I really enjoyed this video, it made my Chinese girlfriend squeel as Asian girls do because of: "teh cuteness".
    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.
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  • Focal Bliss plus 1 year ago
    Tom, so you don't use compressor to convert to H264?
    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?
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  • Gert Kracht plus 1 year ago
    Who cares about the technical details! (Ok, me....sometimes) But this short movie brought back beautifull memories! We lost our Jack Russel a few weeks ago. He loved to watch dog movies on TV. His comment on this movie would have been: 'WOOF! WOOF!'

    Thank you!
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  • amankerstudio 6 months ago
    the dog was very cute...:)
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