Awesome. What camera is this shot on? (7D?) There're some beautiful overcranked shots.

Thanks for watching!

Ivar you are correct, shot with a 7D. All the slow motion stuff is shot at 60p and played back (mostly) at 24p. There is a bit of 48p in there too.

Amazing! What kind of lens are you running on the 7D? I'm impressed with the excellent focus in every shot. I've tried shooting video with my 7D but I guess the mostly automatic settings are jamming the f-stop down to the lowest making the focus plane super short (small? tight?). I find maintaining good sharp focus while people are riding quickly at you to be a real challenge.

yes! awesome! Im getting a 7D (once my credit card is paid off)...... damnit!

Really nice footage! I'm over Primus.

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

sean, the good news is the 7D is really cheap for what it does. The bad news is you will find out how big a difference nice expensive glass makes in your image. The good news is you can rent the lenses cheap!

Matt, thanks a bunch. This was shot with a Tokina 11-16 2.8 & a Canon 70-200 2.8 L. I'm basically shooting everything wide open so my depth of field is really shallow. I love the look but you are right, it is really hard to maintain focus.

To help me focus I'm using a Redrock Micro follow focus and a Small HD DP1 monitor. On the shots of the riders coming at me I'm racking focus with them, still pretty hard to do with the monitor and follow focus. I'm getting the hang of it though, it usually takes me a few tries but once I get the flow I can rack with them pretty well.

It is nice that the mud slows them down a bit :)

I'm also shooting everything manual if that info helps. I've also got a polarizer and occasionally some ND in a matte box too. I am shooting at pretty high shutter speeds though, I really kind of dig that strobey, stuttery look.

This was excellent!
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Don't you just love what the new breed of SLR's can do! Good skill working the lenses too! Nicely done!

Awesome vid Burk. Very well done. Posted here as well: talkingtreads.com/2010/10/cyclecross-vid-at-its-best.html

Burk, beautiful footage! What's your work-flow? What are you using for color correction / editing, etc. I'm just digging into to getting my own set up and much of it will have to do with finishing and timing. Thanks brother!!

Thanks folks!

I do like the new DSLR cameras :)

Doug, my workflow:

Editing and everything else is done in Vegas. All the videos with the exception of PIR are pretty much straight out of the camera. No real color grading at all. I'd like to but it just takes up too much time. I did tweak PIR a bit. The black and white obviously but I also tweaked some of the color shots as well - gave em' a bit of a desaturated look.

Speed is my main concern because I'm trying to do these in my limited spare time.

Primus! What? I love how you hook me in the first seconds of the two edits I have seen so far.
However butchering the songs... I don't think so. It only worked with Primus for that David Blane special and "Southbound Pachyderm." You know the song!

Show me more sliding!

best!

Thanks, Burk, for the inspiration and fun. I had to look up most of the gear you mention, but I have a more mundane question--how do you keep your camera and gear dry?

The 7D is weather sealed! This is why it's such a great Cross camera.

I do often make a cover out of a cut up garbage bag and some gaff tape. Kind of depends on how constant the rain is going to be.

Burk - it really is great how you feature the women and amateurs, not just the elites. Way to go!

being a racer in some of these I have to say YOU GUY ROCK!!!!!! these are the best vids of crusade ever!

Thanks a ton!

Very cool. I played around with some overcranked HPX footage at a CX race recently. vimeo.com/16677861

really nice video, Burk! You da man! Love your compositions.

Great video and primus song! Nobody looks good in this vid! This is a real race!!!

Love it. Makes me miss cross. It's easy to miss cross from a warm dry chair.

Just wanted to drop in and compliment you on this fine video. The women's segment could probably qualify as a new genre of bike porn.