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26. WEEK.in.RAB
2 years ago
15. BESPLA / Canon 5D mark II Free Hugs movie
3 years ago
Cast
IVONA KUNDERT
ALJOSA CEPL
Appearance
ELVIR TABAKOVIC
REBEKA JOZIC
DRAZEN STOJCIC
TANJA GRGANOVIC
SETACH crew
DOGO ARGENTINO
Grip
BORIS OCIC
RENATO STUPAR
Editing
MARKO BUTRAKOVIC
Directors
MARKO BUTRAKOVIC
ELVIR TABAKOVIC

We've shot this one with 2x Canon 5dmk2s, some L glass : 14mm f2.8L, 50mm f1.2L, 100mm macro f2.8, 135mm f2.0L, 200mm f2.8L.
Support stuff : SACHTLER SB18, IANIRO tungsten 3200K lights, on-camera PAG light 50W+ softbox fitted on a Manfrotto monopod.

Facebook Group - facebook.com/group.php?gid=41645104106
The Making Of Bespla - vimeo.com/2859439

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  • Trent Davis 3 years ago
    Hats off.
    That was one of the best things i've seen come out of a 5d user so far.
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  • Mark Williams plus 3 years ago
    Very well done. This is by far my favorite video shot on the 5d. Also, great editing.

    natureflixs.com
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  • Stephen James plus 3 years ago
    absolutely fantastic! totally inspirational!
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  • Juan Peces plus 3 years ago
    Beautiful. Great idea! I love Croatia! : )
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  • Elvir Tabakovic 3 years ago
    Thanks everyone, have a happy New Year!! :D
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  • B.Paolo 3 years ago
    very very good job
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  • Dinko Darlinn® 3 years ago
    Super dude...samo tako i dalje u 09...fri hag 2uOl :)
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  • Daniel Roos 3 years ago
    I love this :D thx you for bringing it
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  • Mike Kobal plus 3 years ago
    awesome!
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  • Edu Flint 3 years ago
    I agree: the best history taken with the 5dmkII by now!. This is to prove what kind of unique tool can be this cam for people with inspiration and skills and a lack of budget. The limit is the troposphere!!.Thanks for sharing guys and keep on showing us your work!!.
  • Paul Fisher 3 years ago
    Limited budget? Did you see all the lenses he used? I wouldn't say he was potless :)
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  • Tomislav Filipčić 3 years ago
    Odlično
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  • marc 3 years ago
    Waoooooo!... Fantastic...
    May be a silly question but what was written on the 2 sheets of Paper?...
    Sincere compliments for filming, actors and editing
    Marco
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  • Elvir Tabakovic 3 years ago
    The paper said FREE HUGS ;) Feel free to share this movie with your friends
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  • Steven S. Miric 3 years ago
    Nice and classy. Finally something with out cheezy helicopter rides and fake couples on the docks at night...
    Bravo Prijatelju!
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  • Tony Eckersley 3 years ago
    wow... Great job
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  • Marina 3 years ago
    Kao što vec rekoh odlican rad! Odusevljena sam! Pitam se ako je ovo tek prvi pokusaj dslr kamermana što ce tek biti u buducnosti! Zaista ce film postati dostupan svima kao što je to danas fotografija. Jedva čekam! :) Sretna Nova!!!!
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  • Josh Bourgeois plus 3 years ago
    Amazing!
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  • Dillon C. Novak plus 3 years ago
    you have to be the first person to get THAT many views in one day, i mean the day isn't even half over!
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  • Dr Dimento 3 years ago
    nice work with the camera and editing. way'ta'go !!
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  • Elvir Tabakovic 3 years ago
    @ Montauk - lol :)

    Thx guys!
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  • Peter Tattersall 3 years ago
    Bravo! First smile of the day.
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  • Simo Murovski 3 years ago
    ljudi moji... divno
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  • archie plus 3 years ago
    looks like in right hand the possibilities of this camera are endless . Well done guys
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  • Debbi 3 years ago
    What size and kind of memory card did you use in the 5D II? It has no skips at all! Also would you share the video program you used to edit it?
    Thx
    Debbi
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  • Michael Shivers 3 years ago
    excellent job on composition and editing. thanks for sharing and sending my greetings from the States.
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  • Dumitru Tira 3 years ago
    Great video! HD video on a DSLR, the possibilities are endless!!! :D
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  • Greg McKay 3 years ago
    Wow! - The Best so far...
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  • Marko Butrakovic plus 3 years ago
    Thank you all for your comments. Only trouble we had were in postproduction. We needed to convert original QTV to MPGs at 40 mbps so that the files could be edited in adobe premiere cs3/cs4. Problem with Premiere was that it was crashing at least once/hour and it took 15 minutes to bring the project back up, so the edit that could be done in a day took 2,5 days. I must say that I'm thinking of switching to MAC but I live in a county that has two (?) apple stores in the capital city and that's it ! Those two stores are SO SLOW that you need to pay them for your MAC and wait for 45 days for delivery. And we're talking about 21. century? So PC is the only option in here, and I do have a nasty custom I personally put together. I do some SD edits on it (weddings mostly ...) without any problem whatsoever until now. This QTV - MPG story is horrible. I mean ... in whose interest is this incompatibility, who has interest to bring you to the edge of your nerves to compile a simple 4 minute video ? Again, are we livin in 21. century ?
  • Adam Palmer 3 years ago
    Its too bad you had such problems editing this video :(

    Incredible work by the way I was impressed beyond belief!

    Its true that premiere does have some compatibility issues, I use the program myself but only because It's what I started with and after using the same program for 10+ years its hard to switch.

    It also sucks that you can't seem to get Mac's any faster than 45 days (though im a pc guy myself) in your country/city, would you not be able to order them online faster than that?

    Have you ever considering rendering into a lossless codec like Lagarith? Its what I use to edit all my 1080p footage in premiere and I've never had a problem with crashes or anything like that. Hope everything works out for you and please keep creating! Much Respect.

    - Adam
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  • Marko Butrakovic plus 3 years ago
    Hmmm I will try this workarround of yours ... Lagarith you say ... will try for sure. As I said, I didn't have any problems with my PC until now. (i7 is somthing I look forward to)
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  • Andrew 3 years ago
    Hugs to you !!

    Great work - the video and music track is exceptional !!
    Andrew, Montreal, Quebec Canada.
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  • Daeer 3 years ago
    I created an account just to say... wow.

    Incredible job. Not just use of the equipment, but well done short in its own right.

    Story was easy to follow and appropriately tight for a 4 min film. Good build up of drama. I enjoyed the composition, colors and music.

    Well done.
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  • movingstill plus 3 years ago
    best piece I've seen shot with the 5d yet.
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  • YUU YASU 3 years ago
    excellent!!
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  • Gideon Plus 3 years ago
    Great work
    you can try the editing problems by using SONY VEGAS 8
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  • Tameside 3 years ago
    Hi, is there any need to deliver these videos at 1080p, who benefits? You need to edit these clips to 720p first, use cyberlink pd7, bring them down to 720p avc, m2ts, then do the edit?
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  • Fantastic stuff. The DSLR wars are well and truly underway. The quality is brilliant. Do you have a tutorial on it ?

    Check out my DSLR music video.
    vhprecords.com/vhprecords
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  • John Triebe 3 years ago
    Superb work guys. This really inspires me to get more into HD video.
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  • Fuchs 3 years ago
    Wow! Touching story!
    Great work!

    In which picture style was it shot?
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  • Really wonderful!
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  • Jarrard Cole 3 years ago
    Excellent film- fantastic. Did you just use Premiere for the slomo?
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  • Olaf Henze plus 3 years ago
    gorgeous!!!
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  • Beautiful work guys. Great to see what the 5D with talent can do :)
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  • planetMitch plus 3 years ago
    Wonderful work! We've added this to the 5D wiki at planet5d.com We've got more 5D reviews/still/video samples than anywhere else on the planet.
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  • RogerB1 plus 3 years ago
    Very fine work. I hope to buy a 5D somtime this year. I also edit with Premiere Pro CS4 and Vegas Pro 8c. I am sorry to hear you had some problems working with Premiere and the 5D. Maybe Adobe will fix that. I hope so as I really like editing with Premiere. Again, excellet piece. I saved it. :o)
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  • Ken Jones 3 years ago
    This post will solve your CS4 editing problems:
    vimeo.com/2641870

    Anyway your movie is absolutely amazing and inspiring.
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  • Marko Butrakovic plus 3 years ago
    Postproduction: first I used CS4 edia encoder to batchprocess QTVs to MPGs at 40mbps keeping it on 1920x1080p @29,97 , I acctually used a sony xdcam ex HQ preset in Adobe premiere as a workspace (you can get preview via firewire on SD referent monitor !!!!) . Trouble starts when you imort a laaarge number of MPGs to Premiere bin, they need to be indexed, interpreted etc ... this takes huge amount of time . (and you allready spent time on recodeing from QTV to MPG). So now you can acctually edit but just until premiere come up with fatal errors mostly during creating small icon pics of the clips on the timeline. You can solve this by setting clip presentation on the timeline only with clip name instead name+pic. Exportind final MPG is another sad story ... it takes eternety for media encoder to gather all data from the project (?) to even start calculating, funny thing is that we didn't have this in any prior version of Adobe PR. Their wisdom is endless pile of shit. I am thinking os going for MAC thoe I am aware that there are troubles with new OS.
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  • doctordurden 3 years ago
    Bravo Marko!!!! 5*****
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  • Ninoslav Dotlić 3 years ago
    bravo ljudi.. super je.
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  • Brad Kugler plus 3 years ago
    Amazing video....like this one better than Vincent's that he did for Canon!
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  • Dragan Đokić plus 3 years ago
    aaaaa moj LEEEGA !!!



    freehugscampaign.org/



    youtube.com/watch?v=cO9JqzWyRbs



    ...ts ts ts ts ts, hehehehe !
  • Elvir Tabakovic 3 years ago
    Pa djiberu na bespla.org ti pise da je inspired by freehugscampaign.org :DDD a ovo drugo je naravno sve druge potaklo da nesto snime.. :) volin te
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  • Dragan Đokić plus 3 years ago
    ljubavi :-)

    sve znan...aaaaaaaal daj maaaalo originalnosti jeeeeben ti siiiiiiise slavonske,,, sta niste napravili FREE RAKIJA hahahahaha "sharing positive energy" hehehe, to bi bila baza...aaal eto, ako nemate ideja ZOVITE MENE hehe, u mene ima kooooliko oces :-)


    LOVE IS ON THE VIMEO (not in the air hehehe)
  • FORISBAN 2 years ago
    ahahahha, pa ne vjerujem dragane, free rakija. hahahahah
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  • Marko Butrakovic plus 3 years ago
    Ajde daj ideju, mi smo otvoreni za dobru pizdariju !
  • Elvir Tabakovic 3 years ago
    daaa.. sad sam se sjetio, vas dvojicu ludjaka moram upoznati :)
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  • Doreen 3 years ago
    Excellent!
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  • Spiros Zaharakis plus 3 years ago
    Beautiful,

    Croatia has some great cinematographers. Congratulations.
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  • Focal Bliss 3 years ago
    Marko, Bravo! You are very talented!
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  • Marko Butrakovic plus 3 years ago
    Thank you all ! Any work overseas ? Greencard ? No? Damn...
  • Elvir Tabakovic 3 years ago
    Rofl :D
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  • Andrew CCM plus 3 years ago
    Nice work. I have seen several videos with this "free hugs" concept.

    freehugscampaign.org/

    Nice to see what can be accomplished with the 5D2. I have one and am about to start shooting a short myself. I personally have the HARDEST time using the 3" LCD for focusing (specifically follow focus). I am going to hook up a field monitor to help alleviate the problem.
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  • Marko Butrakovic plus 3 years ago
    Additional pcs of hardware, LCDs, FFs, rail etc... will turn your miniCAM-stillCAM to a ghastly creation that isn't stealth any more. In it's original state, MK2 is so small that it doesn't attract any looks, everyone think you're shooting pictures and most of ppl don't even notice you. Quite oposite is when you turn with a BC camera (12kg) on your back ...everyone wants to know what's happening...
    This is why MK2 is cool, noone knows it's a HD camera...
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  • Mirko Pernjakovic 3 years ago
    Marko, svaka cast! Kreativno-tehnicki pristup, emocija, kamera (fotoaparat:) su odlicni! Skidam kapu! Pozdrav iz hladnog Beograda i nadam se da cete "izbaciti" jos kreativnih stvari ove 2009 godine!
    Pozdrav!
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  • hrvoje kasic 3 years ago
    fenomenalno. svaka cast
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  • Mile Bozicevic 3 years ago
    Lijepo izgleda, šteta što si imao problema s montažom toliko. Koliko sam skužio, montirao si direkt HD 1080p format, što je suludo ako nemaš prilično snažan komp.
    Kad radim s mini-DV npr., meni je lakše capture u SD, smontirati, i onda pomoću Time Codova zamijenim SD clipove sa HD, odradim postprodukciju i to je to. (offline/online editing)

    Ne znam sad kako ide za DSLR, ali vjerojatno si mogao prebaciti prvo u neki lakši format da u miru napraviš što želiš na Premiere timelinu i kasnije samo zamijeniš klipove pomoću TC-a, odradiš malo color/light balance itd. (ovo je teorijska pretpostavka, ne znači da bi i funkcioniralo, mada ne vidim zašto ne bi :P).

    Video je lijep i sviđa mi se, šteta što slova na kraju trzaju kad se gleda u HD modu.

    Keep up! .))
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  • Marko Butrakovic plus 3 years ago
    Pa da, ljudi savjetuju isti trik, moram priznati da nisam stigao isprobati, kak je dosao aparat tak je odma, sa polupraznim baterijama izleti na teren, par dana do nove godine ...jednostavno nije se stiglo. A radio sam full Hd ...prethodno sam QTVove prekodirao u Mpg na 40 mbs , i sve radi ali se preijera s vremena na vrijeme srusi sama od sebe. A podizanje projekta sa 180GB i 780 clipova traje oko 15 minuta... u tom je problem.
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  • Mario Rodriguez 3 years ago
    The best one.
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  • Christian Fries 3 years ago
    Great idea and perfect execution!!! RESPECT!
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  • Vedran Strelar 3 years ago
    wow, ekipa, ovo je da se najezis! :)
    odlican editing, mjuza, da i ne spominjem kvalitetu slike i kompozicije!
    Bravo!!!
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  • Literati 3 years ago
    Great video really amazing work
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  • YV 3 years ago
    awesome work!
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  • Berislav Petrovic 3 years ago
    Ovo je jednostavno prestrašno!!
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  • Santo W plus 3 years ago
    Very nicely done!
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  • Wayne Avanson plus 3 years ago
    Totally Totally Brilliant. Loved it, the idea, the quality of shots, the music, the whole thing was amazing.

    Thank you!

    Avey
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  • Eric E. Anderson 3 years ago
    Absolutely gorgeous!!
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  • Alain Edouard 3 years ago
    Beautiful.
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  • Jared Foster plus 3 years ago
    very well done. Be careful with the Coldplay music as all my videos on Vimeo were deleted by the lawyers of EMI publishing. They seem to hate us fans from using Coldplay music.
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  • Jon Rawlinson pro 3 years ago
    gorgeous visuals!
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  • Pawel B 3 years ago
    amazing!
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  • Ditto on the Coldplay. There's lots of great royalty free tracks out there you might want to consider. As for the piece itself, WOW! This kind of work is a definite refutation to all the naysayers who claim the 5D's video function is useless. Then again, in unskilled hands, I guess it is. Anyway, good job. Thanks for the inspiration!
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  • Florent 3 years ago
    Thank you for these beautiful and lovely images.
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  • bob lorrimer plus 3 years ago
    All the above and more. Great work.

    Bob UK
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  • Daniel Hayek staff 3 years ago
    I'd like a Croatian hug.
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  • Marko Butrakovic plus 3 years ago
    We are preparing BESPLA II. That's for now.
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  • Albornoz 3 years ago
    Ja ne govorim hrvatski, ali to je samo spektakularno!
    (I don't speak croatian, but it's just spectacular!)
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  • A0000 3 years ago
    WOW WOW WOW !!!! its amazing for 5d !!!
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  • Timothy West 3 years ago
    it almost made me cry it was so beautifully.. well done..
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  • Timothy West 3 years ago
    i just blogged about this at trcwest.com check it out
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  • Deomitrus 3 years ago
    This was really EPIC!
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  • The Duke 3 years ago
    Man, could I use hug right now. That was top notch. Very enjoyable.

    Hug's EVERYONE!
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  • In Awe of Fishnet plus 3 years ago
    oh my god
    masterpiece
    masterpiece
    masterpiece
    beautiful, moves to tears
    I second the label 'EPIC'
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  • Karthik Manoharan 3 years ago
    its like A.R.Rahman's Jiya se Jiya Album Video.
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  • Karthik Manoharan 3 years ago
    But this one of yours is a gr8 work of art. i liked it better than the ARR's Video
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  • Paul Osborne plus 3 years ago
    that was awesome. i feel like my little dinky videos suck compared to everyone elses hahaahha.
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  • EpicMovies 3 years ago
    I wanna hug someone!
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  • A breathtaking Film, with a beautiful camera work as well as perfekt light settings!

    Your entire crew did far more than a brilliant job and deserve my ALL I CAN GIVE HUGS !!!

    Take care

    Philipp
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  • Nowawes plus 2 years ago
    Excellent! Greetings from Germany!
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  • sagaYago 2 years ago
    nice!

    + croatia
    vimeo.com/3239033
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