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23. Going Down - Alternate Version from the Living Ro…
6 months ago
This is Louisville's and the South East USA's #1 band "Heaven Hill" live at Phoenix Hill in Louisville KY. Doing a Living room Session (unplugged), and as usual they rocked the house joining them was the new drummer Ivan Arnold!

PLEASE NOTE:
Our wide or safe camera was static, unmanned and on sticks. Unfortunately it was not realized until after the footage was captured that the old wodden plank floors in this old club carried every drum beat and bass line right into the camera lens.

I have tried several clean ups on the footage but nothing will take out the shake.

The performance was so good though I've tried to make an acceptable edit using the two roving cameras and a minimal amount of the static wide vibrating camera, so I could at least share this great performance. After a few seconds your mind kind of forgets about it, it's really just those first few frames.

This was shot with Mike Hargis (Fibro Twins) and my wife Debbie using two XH-A1's and an HV30.

Audio is a mix of our ZOOM H4N in 4 Track Mode and some mic'ed camreas brought into Vegas and mixed down. I was pleased with the outcome.

If anyone has some suggestion on other methods where on how I could clean up the shake in this video please pass it on. I have already tried Virtual Dub-Deshake and After Effects with little to no success.

Thanks for watching and check out Heaven Hill at;

http:/www.myspace.com/heavenhill

©2009 MidnightStar Video
With the Permission of Heaven Hill & Krowe Records
  • Halo TV 6 months ago
    It doesn't look too bad with the shakes from the center camera because of the way you edited it. It almost looks like a nice video effect.

    But, as a professional I know it made you sick to your stomach to notice the floor picked up every drum beat. You cleaned up well and that's the important part! I'm glad you decided to upload it. Great footage!
  • MidnightStar Video plus 6 months ago
    Wow thankks for that!!
    Your right it did just make me sick!!!
    Thanks for the encouragement and kind words and for watching! You rock!
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  • Bliss7 6 months ago
    Thanks Curt.. Kudos!! Love the song and your efforts on this one..
  • MidnightStar Video plus 6 months ago
    Thanks for all your kindness and support Margolyn!
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  • Timegates plus 6 months ago
    It looks great as you performed a fine, clever edit!

    Nothing to change here - love how it turned out - I second HaloTV :)
  • MidnightStar Video plus 6 months ago
    Wow thanks oh inspirational one!! Means a lot from you and Mike, you know that!! I worked hard to apply some recent color grading lessons I have been studying!
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  • Don Seven Setzer plus 6 months ago
    Nice work my friend.
  • MidnightStar Video plus 6 months ago
    Thanks Gene I really appreciate that, I really enjoy your work as well. Thanks!
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  • Jordan Fountain plus 6 months ago
    Great Editing! The Camera shaking with drums isn't annoying because of the editing.
  • MidnightStar Video plus 6 months ago
    Thanks Jordan, your nice comments are appreciated.
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  • The Fibro Twins 6 months ago
    rockin edit bro! u saved the show!!!
  • MidnightStar Video plus 6 months ago
    Thanks Sinsea!
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  • I experienced the same problem with shaking camera at live concerts and its really hard to notice while shooting. I definitly know the way u felt when watching the footage at the first time.
    Congrats... it turned out really nice. =] Great editing. Nice colors too.
    Nothing else to do though, cause the frames shaking are a "blurry mess".
  • MidnightStar Video plus 5 months ago
    Thank so much for watching and you comments on the color, I felt I came up a notch in my color grading ability on this one, as all three cameras were vastly different. Still learning with every project!
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  • simone johnson plus 23 days ago
    Dude...are you kidding me??? This is AMAZING. 0:59...that shot right there is fab fab fab! Yeah your edit job was dope.

    How is that Vegas Pro 9? I use FCP. I started with AVID but that has such an "elitist" way of doing things. Is Vegas user friendly like FCP? The color, once again, is great.

    Thanks for sharing your methods and all of that...its nice to see people who are willing to share with newcomers to this field. Because it is such an elitist field at times. Kudos to you.

    And these dudes rock. Seriously. If they ever come to DC...I'm sooooo in the building.
  • MidnightStar Video plus 23 days ago
    Thanks Simone, can't comment on the others all I know is Vegas, but yes it is very easyt to learn and very flexible. Hey I am still learning also, only really be hard at this the last year and so many others have helped me along way, it makes me happy someone feels my stuff is helpful! Thanks again
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