The Last Days of Autumn - A Canon 7D film
27 days ago
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17. The Last Days of Autumn - A Canon 7D film
27 days ago
My first short using the Canon 7D camera! It arrived too late for me to capture the full colors of fall, so this is the tail end of the season here in Upstate New York. All the particulars are at the end of the video but I'll mention them here too:
Camera: Canon EOS 7D in 1080 30p.
Lens: Tamron SP AF17-50mm F 2.8 XR LD ASPHERICAL (IF)
Highlite Tone Priority - OFF (To access 100 ISO)
Picture Style- Standard
All Shutter/WB/Aperture settings in Manual Mode
Tracking shots using the 36" indiSlider Pro
All color is straight from the camera, no post color correction.
Shot in 1080 30p transcoded to XDCAM EX 35mbs VBR using MPEG STREAMCLIP.
I LOVE this camera! I've been using my XDCAM EX1 and a Letus Extreme 35mm adapter. As I shoot scenics in nature, the small lightweight form factor of the 7D is incredible. While this was all shot in one loction in a couple hours, I can't wait to go on a serious hike with this thing. It'll be soooo light weight to carry compared to my other rig. The small size is also a treat for using on the indiSlider. I was pushing the weight limits of it before with my 20lb EX/Letus combo. I have an older MAC edit system, so I need to transcode all the H.264 files before I can edit, that is a time consuming process and a drag, but the footage is just lovely and worth the effort.
Finally the music is from Digital Juice Stack Tracks buy out library. Volume #50, "The Country".
I'll be shooting more with this camera soon as I'm still learning it. I need a Vari-ND filter for my lenses in order to shoot at F2.8 (when needed) and still keep the shutter at 60. Some of these shots used a higher shutter since I was using 100 ISO and F2.8. Without ND filters I had to increase shutter to obtain proper exposure. I only used 1 lens for this. The Tamron 17-50mm is perfect for most situations and I leave it on the camera all the time! If you can only get one lens, I highly recommend this one to start with.
Enjoy!
Camera: Canon EOS 7D in 1080 30p.
Lens: Tamron SP AF17-50mm F 2.8 XR LD ASPHERICAL (IF)
Highlite Tone Priority - OFF (To access 100 ISO)
Picture Style- Standard
All Shutter/WB/Aperture settings in Manual Mode
Tracking shots using the 36" indiSlider Pro
All color is straight from the camera, no post color correction.
Shot in 1080 30p transcoded to XDCAM EX 35mbs VBR using MPEG STREAMCLIP.
I LOVE this camera! I've been using my XDCAM EX1 and a Letus Extreme 35mm adapter. As I shoot scenics in nature, the small lightweight form factor of the 7D is incredible. While this was all shot in one loction in a couple hours, I can't wait to go on a serious hike with this thing. It'll be soooo light weight to carry compared to my other rig. The small size is also a treat for using on the indiSlider. I was pushing the weight limits of it before with my 20lb EX/Letus combo. I have an older MAC edit system, so I need to transcode all the H.264 files before I can edit, that is a time consuming process and a drag, but the footage is just lovely and worth the effort.
Finally the music is from Digital Juice Stack Tracks buy out library. Volume #50, "The Country".
I'll be shooting more with this camera soon as I'm still learning it. I need a Vari-ND filter for my lenses in order to shoot at F2.8 (when needed) and still keep the shutter at 60. Some of these shots used a higher shutter since I was using 100 ISO and F2.8. Without ND filters I had to increase shutter to obtain proper exposure. I only used 1 lens for this. The Tamron 17-50mm is perfect for most situations and I leave it on the camera all the time! If you can only get one lens, I highly recommend this one to start with.
Enjoy!
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Thanks for making your original source file available for download - its clarity is amazing!
^_^
The music is nice, but a little OTT in places.
The glidetrack shots are glorious, but look difficult to get completely smooth with a light bit of kit like this... What do you think?
There is a cheap version of the Singh-Ray variable ND filter on eBay called the FaderND which is a very reasonable cost.
By the way, thanks for showing what this Tamron can do, I am tempted to get one for general bits and pieces... They do look good IMO.
Yes, indiSlider is very difficult to move smoothly. But to hike with anything much bigger would be impossible.
I think I'm going to get the Fader ND first since it's quite a bit cheaper. Philip Bloom said it's not quite as nice but nearly so, and is significantly cheaper.
Somebody else mentioned this but I REALLY appreciated the sound in the background. One note on the sound, at 1:24 I would fade in the audio because with headphones you can definitely hear a tone/white noise change. The music is quiet at this point so it threw me off (but then again I am quite picky).
While I loved your incredibly smooth dolly moves, I really found that the boom/mic/lens shade/whatever in the TITLE shot left a bitter taste in my mouth for at least half the film after that. You also seem to be moving something which is flaring the light a little and it affects the whole backdrop when in full screen and is very noticeable. Not much you can do about that, but I would have looped the video after the boom fudge since the shot is static and there is literally no movement but the water (should be easy to crossfade into a loop).
The colour was truly superb, as well as the composition. Well done! I would have tweaked the colour in certain shots to add some saturation and maybe a little more contrast, but then again, it's pretty honourable to say that the colour was not post-corrected.
Some advice if you are on an old Mac and hate the time it takes to transcode. Depends on HOW old a Mac you mean, but try re-compressing to Apple ProRes422. It's similar bit-rate to XDCAM EX but takes about a quarter of the time to transcode all your clips in MPEG Streamclip! This is because ProRes422 is I-frame compression (which is what H.264 is) and there is no temporal compression applied (which is what XDCAM EX uses). It therefore takes literally one quarter of the time it to transcode to XDCAM EX in MPEG Streamclip!!! Hope that helps you for next time!
Great work, well done. I loved it. Please take my feedback as constructive support from a fellow filmmaker.
I wanted to adjust the color more but wanted to give people a true representation of what this camera could do on it's own. My next short with it will be a proper film, with color correction and no "thumb"!
Thanks especially for the info on using ProRes in Streamclip! I did not know this! While I like the smaller size of the files as XDCAM, time is important, so going to ProRes would be beneficial.
Check back for a more proper short soon!
So for the next couple of weeks I will be devouring films like this delicious effort and studying the threads to learn as much as I can. Mattt Drake's comment above is exactly the kind of info that we need with details of transcode tricks and the like.
Hopefully in the not too distant future I can add some tips of my own to the knowledge bank.
Cheers,
Paul Treacy
I too need to address my audio needs soon, I just wanted to get the camera and use it some before buying a bunch of accessories I "thought" I needed but really didn't! I knew that a wide lens was a must, so after doing some research got the Tamron. Its perfect for video and is "only" around $500 USD.
Best,
Paul Treacy
paultreacy.com
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For my fellow Amazon.com pre-order-ers... I pre-ordered my 7D back on Sept 17th and it just arrived Monday 10/26 (w/amazon prime 1-day shipping). So if your still waiting, you won't be for much longer. Hooray!
My CF cards arrived today, so I'll be shooting "something" tonight, but I doubt it will be Vimeo worthy.
You see, I'm new to HD and to this D-SLR world of yours, so when I do start posting you'll have to be gentle with me :{
...just jokes, be brutal... I can take it.
It's much appreciated.
And also, thank you SO MUCH for the fantastic details about all your selected camera and lens settings. That's INCREDIBLY helpful, especially to folks like me just trying to learn. I'll be sure to mirror your info-template as soon as I begin posting my videos here on Vimeo.
* I hope some of you other Vimeo posters start doing the same. Most of you Vimeo-Vets probably don't really need to think about this stuff anymore, but it really is INCREDIBLY helpful to those of us still learning.
Cheers.
Thanks!
It's nice to know that you're new to DSLR's too.
It speaks volumes about what you can do if you have the drive to go out and be creative.
Great Work!
Just downloading the file as my ageing G5 can't play the Vimeo stuff in HD grrr…
looking forward to your annual 'Midwinter' film!
Blessing
Avey
Cheers!
Yes, it may be, but first af all it is a great fotographer behind that camera!
To me it is frustrating: I've tried to make a very good autumn video for some time, and now you make a film much better when you are JUST TESTING first time with a new camera!
Well, i'm very inspired and I got a lot of new ideas, so never mind.
Thank you for sharing
Michael
I read manuals and trade mags for "fun" at bedtime too! :) Can never learn enough about your tools of the trade.
Thanks for the kind words.
Thanks in advance
Thanks for source file available for download, I watched on the HDTV with WD mediaplayer.
All the best,
Tony
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