Thanks. For a majority of the shots, I used "Cinemode", and adjusted the exposer if it necessary. The shots with the snow falling, I used "TV/Shutter Priority" mode with a 1/2000 shutter speed, exposer was again adjusted if needed.

As for color correction I mainly; desaturated slightly, lowered the blacks and mids, and added "Levels", giving most of the shots the slightest amount of green/yellow.

Wow, great information, as I'm still getting used to the quirks of my HV20. Brilliant work however.

when you say added "levels" what do you mean.... do mean just adding the green/yellow on color correction.

I used Apple Compressor.
As for settings, I used:
H.264
ACC Audio 48.000 kHz
1440 x 1080(to keep the file small)
aspect ratio HDV 1080i (16:9)

do u prefer compressor over just using the qtime conversion in fcp... I never tinkered around with anything in final cut studio except for motion...

Thanks!

Thank you!

Yes, Sigur Ros is a great band, their music is so comforting.

Thanks! For many of the shots, the camera was fairly close to the object. I just zoomed in the slightest bit and dialed the focus.

No 35mm was used, just a stock HV20.

crazy. the chess pieces especially have a great shallow focus look. I'm still blown away by how cool this camera can be. Been playing around with mine all day and realizing how powerful it is.

But yeah -- You should post this on the forums at hv20.com. I think everyone there would dig it. Great job.

This was just the stock HV20??? no lens?... That camera is pretty amazing.

Thanks!

Thanks!!
You should definitely get an HV20. You can buy all sorts of accessories for it. And if you haven't read about it, you can even make/buy a 35mm adapter for it, kind of costly, but from what I've seen, amazing results.

i want a 35mm adapter so bad for my hv20!!!!

Thanks! And yeah, it's just my first test with this camera.
I used Final Cut Express 3.5

In all I probably got like 10 minutes of footage. A lot was cut out/down.
Generally each shot was about 10-15 seconds long, with an exception of a few. I didn't know what song I was going to use at first, but I found this one and the footage fit perfectly. So I decided to shoot some more footage to fill in the gaps.

thx for the reply, mate

If you don't mind, how did you capture the video into the mac ? (I'm assuming it's different from pc but I do it with hvsplit, virtualdub, etc.) How long did it take you to render??? Mine seem to take AGES!! maybe the codec I'm trying to encode in?.... My videos lag and are huge when I do it in any of the lossless format... hmmm

I used Final Cut Express via a Firewire cable.

It took I think maybe 20-30 minutes total. I was surprised HD footage didn't take longer than that.

My video is always huge too when I try to play it in Quicktime, but I just full-screen it or half-size it usually to watch.
And usually I encode as .mov with standard HDV1080i codec.

Final cut... man.. I miss apple days +)....

I still can't get a good image out. It's a tedious process with the PC. Maybe I'm just stupid... lol

Anyways, cheers!!!! thanks alot for the info! Also, for a very inspirational upload

60i

It shouldn't take long at all to get used to the camera.

For Vimeo, I think I kept this video at 1080, but there still was some quality loss with the final upload. By encoding it I just export it from my video editing software, saving it as a more compatible and smaller file size to upload to the web. So sites like Youtube, it won't really matter if you "lessen" the quality to 720 from 1080 beacuse YouTube formats it as a flash file anyways, so it would never look as good as it doesn't on your computer.

vimeo supports up to 720p you optimize it for that or you could let vimeo work its magic.

Well I have some videos up on YouTube. All shot with my older camera, with an exception of this video.

youtube.com/kmattson118

HDV 1080i (16:9)
I also added a letterbox to it with a pre-set setting
of "Panavision 2.35:1".

thank you!
zooming in on the subject and/or getting really close to the subject does the job for me.

Your footage is such an inspiration to me :-) Today I tried with the subject (a rose) very close and got awesome DOF. But if I try to do that with a subject little away, then somehow the DOF is not shallow at all. I zoomed in to an electric post, focussed it, zoomed out (with aperture totally open) but not much effect. Anyway I am trying!!! Thankx Karl.

no problem! just keep trying and experimenting, only good can come out of it

mine has 60i tv mode, since it is NTSC, but i assume you are looking for a PAL version, then yes, it does have 50i tv mode.

oh, and do you know how to lock the white balance(exposure)? When you change zoom/angle it adjusts the brightness.

click the joystick in, and scroll down one to EXP. aim the camera in your scene wherever you want it to be locked, and press up, you can adjust it manually from there, brighter or darker.
it makes the footage look far more professional without changes in brightness when you zoom and angle it differently.

Thanks, I was looking for some special tab that said "lock"

thanks, you looking to get a hv20 or something? from your profile info

yes, im finding one, but now i have no money, i need to work!