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11. 75 pt. 3

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10. HAIRCUT

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9. Gameface.

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8. December Air

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7. Roadtrip Across Western America

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6. The Amazing D.I.Y. Homemade Dolly for Less than $100

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5. Sunshine

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4. 75 pt. 2

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3. 75

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2. BIKE

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2 years ago

1. FANCY FOOTWORK TYPOGRAPHY

by BUTTER FILMS

2 years ago

Sharing the crisp December air with some friends.

This is the first test footage from my Nikon D90. And there would have also been much more, but i kept wanting to skate.

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Phoric 1 year ago

excellent and reflective
micron sixtythree 11 months ago

sure is, this guy should be paid from nikon for the amount of d90's that are gonna be sold off the back of this clips alone. that cam is a revolution in the right hands!
CeeDee 1 year ago

simple beauty of reality...keep up
Brian Freeborn 1 year ago

nice...we need to go out again when we have a plan and some daylight
Cliff Cheney 1 year ago

This makes me want to get out and skate. Do they allow 30somethings to do that anymore?
BUTTER FILMS 1 year ago

for sure... we'll be out there at 30... and actually, it's gnarlier because it hurts more...
First & Last Name 1 year ago

50mm? :)

brilliant video!
BUTTER FILMS 1 year ago

yeah. 50mm f1.8
Fence Post Films 1 year ago

killer shots man!
Rylan Wright 1 year ago

Wow that looks like a fun session.The camera is recording an nobody is being pressured.
Just having a good time skating.

Excellent first footage.
Mihai Dela 1 year ago

Dang, I gotta get me one of those !
Mike Johnston 1 year ago

dude... you turned a hang out with friends... into an epic deep and artistic experiance for any one who sees this... thats an amazing camera... and you did one hell of a job editing this... keep em comin man
Massimiliano 11 months ago

Yeah I agree with Mike!

Excellent work! ^^
GROCERYBAG.TV 8 months ago

For real. Agreed.
Jason Burkhimer 1 year ago

agreed, looks awesome. get that exposure locked up and itll look epic!(unless that was a design choice) any color correction in post?
BUTTER FILMS 1 year ago

Thanks guys... and yeah... i did a lot in post to get it to look like that: color correction, vingetting, light flashes, etc... and locking the exposure would have been a good thing to do. I didn't know that the camera could do it at the time, but i recently read it on the internet. good to know...
godonholiday 1 year ago

So this was done with a stills camera that has some JPEG video? wow!
DerrickChow 1 year ago

Very nice stuff!
Paul Wong 1 year ago

Wow very nice film... +nice camera!
I already have a Digital SLR, so I guess for $1000 I need a good video camera. But I suppose with the D90 you could throw a Tilt/Shift on there and shoot some wild stuff too. I'll be looking for your next one!
Flavour Cinematics 1 year ago

this is really awesome!
would you be able to let me know what music this is? i could really use somehting like that
BUTTER FILMS 1 year ago

This song is actually from the movie American Beauty. But if you are looking for something sort of similar, i would REALLY recommend anything from The Album Leaf. They are one of my favorite bands and I use their stuff quite frequently...
Flavour Cinematics 1 year ago

great thanks for the info!
Matthew Hart 1 month ago

also sigur ros has great music for this kind of feel. great video, hits home with the skating with no real great skate spots!!
Perry Morris Jr. 1 year ago

Wow, it is much better video than I thought! You did a great job, I like the look.
Kristoffer Jansson 1 year ago

Dude this looks awsome! what kind of lens do you use? 28, 55 ?, is it manual focusring och af?
BUTTER FILMS 1 year ago

nikon 50mm f1.8. cheap lense for about $100.
Tj Nelson 1 year ago

i like.
dodisman 1 year ago

very well done. when the manual focus just works perfectly.
Patrick Eggert 1 year ago

absolutely beautiful I have been thinking about the D90 and this really sold me on it!
-Patrick
Nick Keating 1 year ago

fantastic video man, incredible depth of field, i love it!
Fadi Jawish 1 year ago

Very nice work!!
Matt Shelly 1 year ago

I love this camera I really really want one, anyone want to give me a christmas present......

oh and good work, love the depth of field.
Ryan Cyr 1 year ago

there is a very strange effect about this.. this is a video camera?
BUTTER FILMS 1 year ago

nope. just a still camera with an HD Video mode. the Nikon D90.
Robert Marks 1 year ago

Man, I love epic test footage.
Miles Britton 1 year ago

This is amazing.
Greg F. 1 year ago

Wow that footage is great

I love the way u messed with the focus and depth of field

very very cool.
Markg143 1 year ago

excellent dof, crafty filming and great editing.
Jake Read 1 year ago

great, really enjoyed it
Jay Grant 1 year ago

Wow! This was great. I may be getting a D90 soon and I am excited about what it can do. You've done a great job of showcasing some of that here. Great choice of music as well. Thanks for this!
Justin Gardner 1 year ago

I can't wait to shoot our new short in D90. Such an incredible look!
Justin Tajchman 1 year ago

How did you hold the camera? Just bare hands or did you use a steadicam of some type? Great footage, especially liked the vibrancy at dusk.
BUTTER FILMS 1 year ago

Thank You. Just held it in my hands. Which is kind of noticable because the camera has no sort of stabilization whatsoever. Some of the footey is skating though.
Breezy 1 year ago

Wow that was incredible. It's just amazing, that was great!
Zach Graves 1 year ago

Epic.
Peter Naylor 1 year ago

man this camera seems great to play with i think i may have to get one!
David Gray 1 year ago

One of the best videos I've ever seen.
Good job!
Kenrick Fagan 1 year ago

Fantastic footage, Wow and thats a D90, its amazing what these cameras can do now a days. I used a Fuji still camera video mode to do some filming but not the quality like this, Good job keep up the good work.
Mäx 1 year ago

awesome!
Keith Zadig 1 year ago

awesome!!
Jet Kaiser Films 1 year ago

Wow, I discovered my next purchase!
staskle_RE 1 year ago

kinda has the feeling of skate footage from Paranoid Park.
good vork... and very nice!
Stephen Niebauer 1 year ago

fantastic
Pierre 1 year ago

The hazy, drifting focus is perfect.
Great capture.
Erik Melander 1 year ago

Absolutely fantastic... what editing suite do you use?
BUTTER FILMS 1 year ago

Fcp...
Sonofdasea 11 months ago

this is the best video i've ever seen. love the style, the color, the music. the feeling is fantastic. what programs do u use?
BUTTER FILMS 11 months ago

This short was edited strictly in Final Cut Pro in about an hour.
Francisco Arjona 11 months ago

Amazing looks like a movie. How much is that camera????
BUTTER FILMS 11 months ago

I got mine body only for $887 of adorama.com
Michael P. Steeves 11 months ago

Wow, great light, focus, music vrs. subject matter.
Very moving.
Thanks
Figures Libres 11 months ago

OOOOOHHHHH...the way you shoot and edit video is not the point. The thing is the IDEA and the feeling you give me watching your work...GREAT,NICE and Unique as we say in French. BRAVO
Alex Barker 11 months ago

Awesome. I would really like to see you do something with the ocean or some massive landscape of some sort
Matt Vella 11 months ago

Great video, inspired my Saturday: vimeo.com/2451763
docrjay 11 months ago

The way you made me feel after the video...priceless...

Really nice work man. Keep it up.
Todd Taggart 11 months ago

Hey man, what kind of software did you use for the editing?
Thanks
BUTTER FILMS 11 months ago

Fcp.
Tom G 11 months ago

This was great! I love the photography (cinematography?) and the angles, and the use of manual focus (although it was a bit erratic towards the end). Also you chose the best time of day to do it and so the light was soft and just beautiful! I think you have done an amazing work editing this, the only thing that bothered me was the music: I remember this piece from "American Beauty", at the beginning of your movie it was very subtle and created the atmosphere, but ultimately I felt that it was just too sad...
Either way, nice work! Keep posting
Tom G
BUTTER FILMS 11 months ago

Thank you very much for your comment! I chose the song because I wanted to give it a bit more of a somber tone, almost like I'm looking back on the good times, sort of a bittersweet home video feel. And thanks again.
hype22 11 months ago

Like your video.. and all HDR works but I have to agree with Tom.. : the exposure became a bit disturbing in the second half of the video.. I'm sure you figured out by now how to lock it up.. Good saturation,also.
Great work, congrats !
Sharif Mirshak 11 months ago

I absolutely love your video : real, moving, simple & beautiful. I hope you keep making movies man. You have a fan in Montréal :)
korg korg 11 months ago

Kruto molodci)))))))))))
Nico Gonik 11 months ago

it was simply beauty, the colors, the way it was filmed, the music, everything was perfect on this video! congratulations!
Jacob Ammentorp Lund 11 months ago

Great video!!

What lens did you use?

EDIT: Nevermind.. I found it.. 50 mm 1.8 :)
Brett Moulton 11 months ago

sweet mate!!!!! you may want to check out this plugin which fixes the stepping on the D90 and resize issues mattias.nu/plugins/ cheers mate
BUTTER FILMS 11 months ago

Awesome. Thanks dude.
Mr. K. 11 months ago

art
Branson Wiles 11 months ago

This is fantastic. Great job with this, it really says a lot about you and your friends.

Nvm, I found it from reading the comments. The song you chose is beautiful.
Paul Treacy 11 months ago

A delicious film about friendship. A fine achievement.
I found while researching this D90 thing. I'm getting one. Sometime soon.
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Jameson 11 months ago

NIIIICE, i'm enjoying my D90 as well and your video just influenced me to get out enjoy the weather today!
iseesaw 11 months ago

Really nice video - did you grade/colour correct this or is it natural light?
BUTTER FILMS 11 months ago

I did a fair share of color correcting in FCP.
Sarah Frank 11 months ago

Love it!
But I'm curious, what's the memory situation on the D90? Still using compact flash cards? How much memory does the video function take up? I mean, the HD quality is stunning! Is it just eating memory like crazy?
BUTTER FILMS 11 months ago

Not really. I have an 8GB and a 4GB SD card and between the two, my rough math estimates that i can get about 2 hours of footey between the two.
Chris Munro 11 months ago

Stunning video, I "liked" it.

Just out of curiosity which video editing software and if any, which plug-ins did you use? More specifically how did that vignetting effect so perfect and subtle?
BUTTER FILMS 11 months ago

Thanks man. I edited it in Final Cut Pro. And as far as the vignette, it is just something i kind of made up. I took a circle out of the "shapes" folder in the "video generators" and dramatically increased the size and amount of edge feather. Then you ctrl click the circle and under composite mode (i believe) you click either multiply or overlay. Just play around the with this idea and settings until you get something good. I change it up every time.
Marcelo Túlio 11 months ago

Simply amazing! Greetings from BRAZIL!
Christoph Wick 11 months ago

wow... i really love this!
Jackson Eagan 11 months ago

very, very nice. beautiful short
Chris Taylor 11 months ago

To think that this came from a D-SLR is mind blowing. Awesome work on the post work!!! How's the D90 working out?
BUTTER FILMS 11 months ago

Very good. Thanks for the comment. I'm actually going to be filming a commercial with it tomorrow. And the client actually owns a Native HD Sony camera, which is beyond amazing, but we are going to be using the D90 for it's extreme Depth of field capabilities, giving it a much more personal, detail oriented feeling. I'll probably post it on vimeo when it's finished.
Justin Gardner 11 months ago

That's really cool you're shooting on the D90. Can't wait to see it.
Paul Treacy 11 months ago

Your shooting that commercial with the D90 affords it some serious kudos, I think.

Man, I need some money to get me one.

Looking forward to seeing it when you post here.

Paul Treacy
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Slickmo 11 months ago

Simply amazing! It's got that "Dogtown" feel that's great! I have my eye on the new Canon 5D MKII.
NebZ 11 months ago

This.

This is beautiful.
Kyle McAdams 11 months ago

Wow, that was very good. I love the quality. I've been looking at this camera and now I really want it. Great job btw. Really had a nice flow and feel. I actually smiled during it.
Sandeepan Chanda 11 months ago

It is AMAZING!!! Just love the whole mood that was captured. But didn't you get that skewing problem that occurs in the D90?
BUTTER FILMS 11 months ago

yeah. i just edited out most of the bad spots. if you look close, you can still see some of it.
Justin Gardner 11 months ago

Sometimes the bad parts for you are the good parts for others.
Mac 11 months ago

Sick....Love ur style! This is THE example how imperfection and simplicity can lead to perfection. Keep up the good work! Looking out for some new work!