Eugenia -- your video is now up on the TRAVEL HD channel:
vimeo.com/travelhd

Nice

What settings did you capture/render it in with vegas? I use vegas and the HV20, as well.

Amazing quality.

I have a Sony Xacti that shoots in a very nominal 1280 by 720 at 30i (I guess it is interlaced)

You are shooting in interlaced but at twice the speed, so I guess that Sony can progressive-ize the video by interpolating full frames mae from the interlaced frames or somethign like that.

But then I don't know where the vegas "progressive mode" is.

Or how to get rid of letter boxing.

That last tutorial seems to have disappeared.

I have posted about your expertise here too....
vimeo.com/forums/topic:1834#comment_187443

great footage! and it's not just a slideshow... slideshows don't move :) happy this user got bumped. one reason why i don't like youtube.

do you think that one of the tigers is Tatiana, the deceased?

That was such a sad story, for the people and for the cats...I think I will do a music/video mourning for the end of 2007.

Wow, I thought it looked pretty darn good until I saw the peacock. My jaw dropped, great video!

I enjoyed watching your video and am inspired to try and learn how to get such good image quality - I see you have some tutorials posted and will have to study those. Great images and the music fit well too.

nice action shot of the penguin at 1:00! lol

Eugenia. Great video!! You never cease to amaze me. I just saw this for the first time, and your composition and quality are just amazing. I am curious as to how you get such amazing shallow depth of field on some of those shots. Are you shooting in AV mode. I assume that if you are, the only way to get that is with outdoor light (or lots of artificial indoor light?) Thanks for sharing. I live in Omaha,NE where we have the Henry Doorly Zoo which is suppose to be one of the best in the country. I will have to take the kids to the zoo this summer and see what I can do!!

How do you manage to keep the zoomed in shots looking so smooth when the camera is moving? Whenever I zoom right in the slightest movement looks like an earthquake.

THANK YOU FOR THIS GOOD MOMMENT
I LOVE YOUR VIDEO
AND GOOD CHOISE FOR THE SONG

always great color grading as usual ...

i took some footage on my new hv20 .. gotta wait to get fcp to edit it ... raw footage looks amazing on my 1080p 40" tv ..

mine looks just like yours (except no tigers) i guess zoos all look the same.

i cant wait to use hv20 properly to make a music video

ohh. i thought you color graded all your vids ?

i just bought fcp 6 .. i just wondered if you can give me some tips about what to select on the first set up screen..

i am in uk , hv20 .. usually shoot in 25p (though does this matter if i dont use 25p, will this effect the selection)

am i right in selecting hdv 1080i50 and all rates.

im about to watch 11 hours of video tutorial on it , but it doesnt mention the settings for my camera hv20.

also what settings do i need to compress it at the end stage ?

i want to shoot a music video, and be able to upload it here in the best quality , and be able to burn it to dvd to play in hd on ps3 in the very best quality.

video will be 4 mins long :-)

sorry for all the stupid questions , but will make my life easier knowing this in advance :-)

loving your work :-)

i like tigers [^_^]

I like susliks...:) Interesting that they have the same kind of open-air cage as in Tierpark Berlin that is on my video. By the way, "inhuman" zoos do much more for fauna in comparison with certain moralists...

Editing is rather poor, those long zooms and dissolves when no required...

hi,

Did you not use extra color correction in this video on sony vegas?