Thanks for that! I edit with Final Cut Studio 2.

Thanks Andy, yes all the 500D stuff was 720p. 1080p at 20fps is not much use for anything if you ask me.

There were only a couple of HVX and EX1 shots in there at 1080P.

Thanks Tomas! Much appreciated!

Thanks Edgar! :)

Thanks mate, glad you liked it!

Thanks EJ. Yes the 720P mode records in 30P.

All the really wide shots were 500D, all the sunrise stuff, pretty much anything with really shallow depth of field. Obviously all the slow motion is either HVX or EX1.

I try not to colour correct too much, all the really crazy colours in that clip were achieved in camera with custom settings and filters. I only added some contrast to some of the clips. I did use magic bullet on one clip, a girl walking the plank on a longboard, and only because it was backlit crap.

Wow! Thanks for the tip! In your opinion, a 500D or an HF11? :D

Mate, that's a can of worms right there!

It depends what you want it for. The 500D is not a video camera, it's a still camera that happens to shoot video. The video mode is extremely crippled and it takes some work (and some ridiculous workarounds) to pull decent images out of it.

The 500D is capable of some nice images but is by no means as capable in most things as a dedicated video camera. It works for me in certain applications and I love it in those, but I still have a Panasonic HVX video camera that does all the things the 500D does not.

Hope this helps. . .

Thanks Joe! Glad you liked it!

Cheers Blake, thanks for adding it your channel! It was a nice suprise when I woke up this morning!

You should get down here, it's nice this time of year, not too hot and nice, still days.

Thanks Lowell, it's nice to know you enjoyed it.

Hi Miguel,

Thanks for the comment. I would LOVE a 5D MKII, but at the time budget constraints did not allow :( But the 500D is still doing the job nicely. Sure it could be better, but I love shooting with it and that's all the matters.

Hey Surfdude,

Thanks mate!

Based on slow and fast frame rates only the EX1 is the superior camera with more options.

Either is very nice to shoot with though.

Thanks for the comment Sebek. Cool, Seychelles vid. There are some nice shots in there. :)

Thank you very much!

Hi mate, thanks for the comment. Camera's used are in the comments above, cut in Final Cut Pro.

I didn't really grad anything as such apart from a backlit shot of a female surfer walking up the nose of a longboard. All the colours were acheived in camera using a combination of filters and settings. I do add contrast in post to some shots that require, but that is pretty much all.

Thanks Vencislav, glad you like it!

Thank you Nicolas! Love your profile pic mate, that looks epic!

Well nothing to compare with Australia but we have nice times too :)
You could like my vid (my kitepark2) but no waves as in your vid :)
Again congrats for this film no wonder you work for a professional team :)
++
Nico

Cheers Tom, it's easy when you've got the Sunny Coast to work with. . .

Hahaha! Awesome! I couldn't agree with you more, I hate the song, but that's life, you know? If the client's happy, I'm happy.

Thanks Dean! :)

No trouble at all matching the colour, I was shooting different camera's different days so you wouldn't really have noticed too much I don't think.

Thanks Lahav! Can't believe you watched them all! Cheesy home movies and everything! :) Hahaha! Awesome!

Yeah, the 500d goes alright, huh? I love shooting with it!

Thanks Paul! I love Perth, lived over there a many years back, plenty of places to get great footage.

I was up north shore way, Whitfords, Kallaroo, Mindarie. . .Beautiful part of the world! :)

Hi,
I'm down the coast at the end of the freeway in Baldivis.

Cheers
Paul

Thanks Stephen! Much appreciated! ;)

Thanks Makinov, that's really good feedback. :)

It's up top in the the description. :)

Let it rock by Kevin Rudolph.

Thanks Richie! Yeah the old 500D goes alright for the price.

Yes it's all 30P which is not so awesome, but there are ways around it. It all depends what you are shooting and what you need it to do. It doesn't faze me too much.

Thanks Sam!

Ah yes, the old overheating trick! I used a D90 extensively before buying the 500D, that was one of the things that led me to jump to Canon, that and the terrible rolling shutter and poor compression. I do miss the sharpness of the D90 though, it was alot clearer than the 500D.

To answer your question though, no, the 500D doesn't overheat and turn off the LiveView.

Thanks for the reply Christian..

Good to hear about the 500d..but..

Man it's tough to get away from all the Nikon Glass I have..lol

Thanks again man.

Thanks Steven. I wouldn't say the 500D is as sharp as the HVX or the EX1, but for the price it does a pretty great job.

Thanks Erik. I miss shooting Nikon! So now we're even!

I hope Nikon get their act together and release a camera with a decent video implementation. As soon as they do, I am DONE with Canon! :)

Cheers bro! Hahaha! Awesome! Sounds like fun, got to love big screens and HD!

Thanks Dirk! I like the D90, it's a really nice camera, I only went with the 500D, because it's implementation of video was a little less problematic.

Thanks François.

Ronnie, below, is correct. The 500D is called the T1i and also the Kiss X3 I believe.

Both right, it is 500D in Europe, T1i in America and X3 in Japan.
All for the same camera.

Hey Rhea,

Thanks for the comment! :)

Thanks Brad!

The HVX and EX1 are all the slow motion shots definitely. There are also some D90 surf shots in there, and some 500D surf shots.

Despite it's shortcomings the 500D is basically my goto camera at the moment. I love it and shoot everything I can on it. I don't have to nurse it in complex scenes or anything, if that's what you mean. It laps up action and statics alike. . .

It's a bit of a hodge podge in there mate! :) I could tell you what a shot was taken with if you give me the timecode.

No worries mate! Glad that you liked it!

Thanks mate! Much appreciated. I think it's just lot's of practise though :)

Cheers Ivan!

The 500D has an exposure lock button and a exposure compensation adjustment, which allows you to control the exposure of the shot, albeit without the ability to control the shutter, iris or ISO independently.

It is effectively a full auto camera.

Cheers bro! :) They are quite impressive birds and always hunting around the points.

I do not even bother shooting 1080P at 20fps. It's pointless for me.

I don't try and retime footage from 30P to 25P either, I don't care about maintaining perfect time as I don't use the camera to capture audio, and audio sync is not an issue for me.

I just conform my files to 25P, it decreases the audio pitch and mildly slows the footage.

24P is good and easier to get to 25P. But no frame rate is inherently better. . .It depends what you want to do. I can't tell you that! :)

Even though I much prefer the colours and highlight rendering of the D90, it's terrible compression and horrible rolling shutter ruled it out for me.

Sorry I can't be more help, but ultimately you need to decide what's important to you.

"I just conform my files to 25P, it decreases the audio pitch and mildly slows the footage."

And I just needed that. Thanks a lot.

7D! It's coming! I ordered mine today!

Yah mine is on the waiting list also, great times!

Hey Annie! Thanks mate, glad you liked it!

How do you know Clements and the gang?