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Garden spinners, windsocks, found at the "Candy & Kites" shop in Bodega Bay, CA.

Shot with a stock Canon HV20. Edited with Sony Vegas and color graded with Magic Bullet.
Music and video are licensed separately under the Creative Commons "BY" 3.0 license.

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  • Miha 3 years ago
    It takes ages to finish such video. Did you sleep last week at all ?
  • Eugenia Loli plus 3 years ago
    I started working on it at around 9 PM last night. I finished it at around 1:30 AM, and then I waited for it to encode, upload on Vimeo, and get re-encoded. Time is 4:25 AM as I write this. I am still up. ;-)
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  • Bill plus 3 years ago
    Very nice. Is that the "Border" Video FX?
  • Eugenia Loli plus 3 years ago
    Yes, along with many other color plugins.
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  • Miha 3 years ago
    I see a huge amount of work. You have surprised me with synch. (video/music)
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  • Miltos Pilalitos plus 3 years ago
    trippy! :-D
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  • Peter Baanen plus 3 years ago
    Very nice, especially the colours. Also the compression holds up quite good.
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  • Ivan 3 years ago
    Very nice editing and really good colours. Very abstract, music goes well with the subject. I see some blocks and artifacts in the streamed video. I'll take another look at the downloaded version. I'd take out the (only) scene where you pan the camera.
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  • Brian Boudreau 3 years ago
    Awesome Eugenia!

    Great edits, music and DOF, Nice use of shadows and really nice colors.

    I'm saving a copy to play on new xbox360, my current one lost the battle to RROD :(
  • Eugenia Loli plus 3 years ago
    Thanks! BTW, I revisited this video this afternoon, making at least 8 changes to the video. It is much more faithful to the beat now, and a bit more interesting too. Additionally, I upgraded the bitrate to 6 mbps VBR (original version was 5 mbps VBR), so if you had downloaded the previous version, please re-download the new one — it’s better.
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  • dalas verdugo staff 3 years ago
    Cool diffusion.
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  • Jason R. Johnston 3 years ago
    I don't remember too many kites in The Birds...still: nice video.
  • Nate plus 3 years ago
    Your thinking of the older town. That one is just down the road and not actually on the beach where this shop is.
  • Jason R. Johnston 3 years ago
    There's a NEW Bodega Bay? That's awesome. I've never been to the west coast, myself...I suppose I'll need to go and shoot where Hitch' did so many years ago. Nice little short subject regardless.
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  • RogerB1 plus 3 years ago
    I like your eye, your edit and your music. Excellent :o)
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  • Santo W plus 3 years ago
    Another good one. Nicely synchronized with the music.
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  • Dan Valentine plus 3 years ago
    Nice work there. Very enjoyable to watch.
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  • VendelasCity 3 years ago
    Very cool! Visually engaging.
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  • Alastair Brown 3 years ago
    Like It!
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  • Nate plus 3 years ago
    Salt taffy!! Yeah that store is cool. We used to go there all the time when i was younger. Cool Video.
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  • ZHIC 3 years ago
    Wow cool video
    it's simple but yet very energetic, I like that.
    You say you graded with Magic bullet in Vegas? How long did it take you to render that? I don't know why it takes me 10 mins to render a 30 sec footage with MB...
  • Eugenia Loli plus 3 years ago
    Thanks! It took 1 hour, 45 minutes to render this 4:30" video with Magic Bullet and the (also heavy) "border" and "unsharpen mask" Vegas plugins on my Quad Core 2.4 Ghz PC with the MainConcept h.264 encoder at 720/30p.
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  • scon 3 years ago
    Fantastic piece, tight edit and great sound track.

    I liked it, ALOT!!!

    It won't let me download the MP4 version :(
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  • scon 3 years ago
    I lied - MP4 worked.

    Turn off all lighting in the room, turn the volume up as high as you can and enjoy.

    Amazing!
  • Eugenia Loli plus 3 years ago
    Thanks! BTW, please re-download it if possible.

    15 minutes after you downloaded it, I uploaded a newer, better version (both in footage, and in visual quality).
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  • Ivan 3 years ago
    Really nice. The hv20 is just amazing. (Your editing too, naturally).
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  • Ian-T 3 years ago
    You've really outdone yourself on this one. Excellent.
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  • Jason Boudreau 3 years ago
    Awesome video!
    Yours skills are impressive.
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  • Alex Everingham 3 years ago
    Loved the editing on this, and it went very well to the music. Good schtuff.
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  • Alberto Estrada 3 years ago
    wao good stufft!! nice editing, great concept
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  • Clan McCloud 3 years ago
    awesome! another great vid.
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  • Jefferson Martina 3 years ago
    I'm no pro. But damn girl... you've improved a lot. you are getting there and fast. ;)
    keep it up.
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  • Sam Ernst 3 years ago
    Good job Eugenia.
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  • americanvirus 3 years ago
    That was so cool. Your vids look so crisp and unique. Every shot is wonderful... and I love what you do with color. PLEASE... keep posting.
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  • americanvirus 3 years ago
    I love this!
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  • Colleen Furlotte 3 years ago
    Such great colors and movement. I went to a launch recently for a techno album and there were graphics projected onto a screen during the show. As I was watching this I kept thinking how suited this video is to such a venue. If anyone out there needs cool abstract video to project during a show...
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  • JON ZOMBIE plus 3 years ago
    love the music.
    GOA/PsyTrance! good stuff.
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  • Willie Winkee 3 years ago
    Another great video. Which app did you use in Magic Bullet to color grade this video? Hints as to the process?

    I am a Mac person, but have not yet obtained any of the Magic Bullets apps that allow color grading.
    Willie.
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  • Alessio Balza 3 years ago
    this one is my favourite.....10/10
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  • bob lorrimer plus 3 years ago
    Hi,Eugenia. Good work! Iwas hoping for a 'reveal' but perhaps that would have weakened the film.

    I would like to express my thanks to you for your advice and settings re Elements 4 and uploading to Vimeo.

    My films look great...but the stutter is an issue on pans and tracks....

    best wishes, Bob UK
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  • john markert 3 years ago
    The HV20 kicks ASS! I love the colors, movements, framing, shadows, textures, and your eye for interesting shapes and colors.

    If only the HV20 had a decent zoom controller and better low-light performance! I just can't walk into a corporate or event job with it -it's such a wee lil thang. It blows away my pro DV500 in most aspects of image quality. Color reproduction and fidelity are extraordinary. Who needs 3 chips when 1 chip filtering is this good?

    Just a few more details pleeeze... Did you shoot 24pf? Did you do pulldown as an intermediate step? Did you consider the HV30's 30p as a better recording setting, with less judder?
  • Eugenia Loli plus 3 years ago
    Hi, thanks for the kind comment.

    >If only the HV20 had a decent zoom controller and better low-light performance!

    It's actually better in low light than most cameras about this. The HV30 has a different zoom button than the HV20 btw.

    >it's such a wee lil thang.

    That's another thing. You will have to educate your clients that bigger isn't always better. ;-)

    >Did you shoot 24pf? Did you do pulldown as an intermediate step?

    No, I shot in 60i at highest shutter speed.

    >Did you consider the HV30's 30p as a better recording setting, with less judder?

    Yes, but my HV20 doesn't do 30p. Only the HV30 and HV40 have this ability.
  • Adam Hirschfeld 2 years ago
    The XHA1 fairs better in low light and it has full customization and manual control but the HV20 is very similar in image to the XHA1
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  • cj12000 3 years ago
    Wow...
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  • mr.v 3 years ago
    很好。。。so good~~
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  • Adam Hirschfeld 2 years ago
    It's pretty amazing this is from the HV20, I want the HV30 as a back up for my XHA1, something that is an easy carry while biking and running.
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  • Jeremy McDermott pro 2 years ago
    Very Cool. Keep up the good work.
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  • kmlo 2 years ago
    WOooow good good good so pro!!!
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  • very special. i like it.
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  • Robert Carrillo 2 years ago
    Just as curiosity how long was all your stock footage??? Seems like you were there for a good hour plus!!! Love the colors and the way it is edited to the music. I have my notepad out when I watch your videos.

    Quick question though, when you import is it very space consuming? If I shoot with my HV30 and import say a... 60 minute tape of HD footage it is 40gigs plus???

    This is in Final Cut using the easy set up 1080 60i option...
  • Eugenia Loli plus 2 years ago
    I was there for about 30-40 minutes.

    If you edit on a PC, with Sony Vegas, 1 tape is 12 GBs. But Apple's editors re-encode, and that makes it between 35 or 60 GBs per hour. There is an option on FCP to tell it to not re-encode in ProRES but use the native footage. That will keep the real .m2t files, and won't be over 12 GBs.
  • Robert Carrillo 2 years ago
    Thanks so much!!!! This is definitely what I was looking for in!!!!
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  • morgan barnard plus 2 years ago
    Really nice editing and shooting. A very enjoyable watch.

    I'm curious if you were using the BPM editing timebase in Vegas. Your edits and the timed effects feel like they're snapped to beats really well. It's the kind of feature that every video editing software should have.

    The video is really fun and looks like you had a great time making it.
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  • Luke Flegg D.o.P 2 years ago
    I can't imagine a much better music video about kites. I can't believe how long I've just been watching what is essentially spinning kites..

    My only criticism would be that it SEEEMS you have fallen for the age old temptation of making the film fit the length of the song at all costs. Perhaps the music could have a minute or more cut out, and you could lose the weakest shots..? x
  • Eugenia Loli plus 2 years ago
    Thanks. Actually, I have trimmed the song, so I haven't fall into that pitfall. ;-)
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  • Jeff Dailey 2 years ago
    Brilliant, the editing, the shots, the concept. Great work.
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  • Jedd Goble plus 2 years ago
    This is great! The creativity you bring out from simplicity amazes me ... it's inspiring me to shoot more.
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  • Pumpui plus 2 years ago
    really nice beat synch and lovely colours!!
    cheers!
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