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15. Autumn Memories
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Shot with my Sony HVR-Z5U at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Nov. 14, 2009. Color graded with Magic Bullet Looks 1.2 and Sony Vegas Pro. Music is from the soundtrack of "Il Postino," a Miramax film from 1995.
Busiest day for family and wedding photography I have seen in a while. I wanted to capture the fall colors before the leaves are all gone. I used only the stock "G" lens on the Z5U and its built-in ND filters, shot for a flat image and graded in post.
The Z5U has a 20x zoom lens and 3 ND filters, allowing really wide iris settings for great shallow depth of field. It also has a macro function which you can see in this piece: the sunlight through the veins of the leaves, which were just centimeters away from the lens.
I used a light touch with Magic Bullet, after equalizing the lighting in Sony Vegas, mainly using it to warm up the shots for consistency and bring more of a cinema-gamma curve to the look. I used a vignette on two shots and a shift-tilt effect on another, but otherwise no special effects other than light diffusion. The raw images are just a little more washed-out and cooler than what you see. I was really amazed at what the Z5 could do, with inspiration from Philip Bloom and all those using DSLRs to make movies!
The first part of this short features a Ginko tree next to the Rose Garden; the second part is all shot in the Japanese Garden. The BBG has a huge variety of Japanese Maple trees. If you look closely, you can see little surprises in the shots. Can you find the giant goldfish?
Shot with my Sony HVR-Z5U at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Nov. 14, 2009. Color graded with Magic Bullet Looks 1.2 and Sony Vegas Pro. Music is from the soundtrack of "Il Postino," a Miramax film from 1995.
Busiest day for family and wedding photography I have seen in a while. I wanted to capture the fall colors before the leaves are all gone. I used only the stock "G" lens on the Z5U and its built-in ND filters, shot for a flat image and graded in post.
The Z5U has a 20x zoom lens and 3 ND filters, allowing really wide iris settings for great shallow depth of field. It also has a macro function which you can see in this piece: the sunlight through the veins of the leaves, which were just centimeters away from the lens.
I used a light touch with Magic Bullet, after equalizing the lighting in Sony Vegas, mainly using it to warm up the shots for consistency and bring more of a cinema-gamma curve to the look. I used a vignette on two shots and a shift-tilt effect on another, but otherwise no special effects other than light diffusion. The raw images are just a little more washed-out and cooler than what you see. I was really amazed at what the Z5 could do, with inspiration from Philip Bloom and all those using DSLRs to make movies!
The first part of this short features a Ginko tree next to the Rose Garden; the second part is all shot in the Japanese Garden. The BBG has a huge variety of Japanese Maple trees. If you look closely, you can see little surprises in the shots. Can you find the giant goldfish?
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Gorgeous photography, some excellent contre-jour work and huge close-ups to give the film the cinematic 'look'.
Looked great on my full screen with virtually no artifacting to take away from it.
I'm still enjoying "Rock Bottom" every time I watch it, and waiting anxiously for your sequel!
Muchas gracias! Recomiendo el software muy bueno 'Magic Bullet Looks' para obtener los colores muy brillantes. Lo siento no hablo español, pero espero que este traductor equipo hace este comentario legible.//
¡Gracias mucho! Recomiendo el software muy bueno ' Bala mágica Looks' para conseguir los colores realmente brillantes. Apesadumbrado no hablo español, sino que espero que este traductor de la computadora haga este comentario legible.
I'm fairly new to video shooting/editing, and I can't figure out the best settings to pull footage off the camera into FCP. The camera says it shoots in 1920, but I'm assuming it's resizing to 1440 since it's being saved onto mini DV tapes?
I'd like to pull the footage in at 1920, because I'm finding it impossible to use Color (it doesn't support 1440). What setup do you use to capture HD footage from your cam to get the best quality? Is it possible to change the footage to 1920?
When you are importing the footage into FCP, keep in mind that HDV format is by nature 1440x1080. It's not full raster 1920x1080. I don't actually have FCP yet; I edit with Sony Vegas Pro. By coincidence, I'm about to get it this week along with a new Macbook Pro, but I'm not quite there yet. You might check on the Creative Cow forums or a Final Cut users group. My first thought would be to import the footage exactly the way it was shot, i.e., choose the HDV 1440x1080 setting, and then change your project setting to 1920x1080 if you need it to be full HD format. My other thought would be to capture it to an intermediate codec like Apple ProRes 422. I do know that the Z5U encodes HDV as .m2t files, a Sony proprietary format, and that you have to turn those into .mov files to edit. My best results in working with FCP users has been to have them get a great little program called ClipWrap, whose only job is to re-wrap the .m2t files as .mov files WITHOUT transcoding. It's pretty fast, and it gives you files that work better with FCP. I have also read that FCP can natively capture the .m2t files. I know that if you go to the Sony website for the Z5U, there used to be a utility for log and transfer if you use the optional flash recorder or hard drive recorder rather than actually capturing the footage through firewire, and it's located at this address:
pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-hdvsite/resource.downloads
But that's just for moving files off a Compact Flash card or hard drive recorder; you won't need it if you're connecting to your Mac with firewire from the camera, just log and capture as usual.
I also found this document from the University of Texas outlining the FCP workflow for the Z5, I assume for their production classes:
rtf.utexas.edu/sp/groups/public/@commkbase/documents/procedures/prod75_031648.pdf
Sorry it took so long to reply to your post!
BTW...
I've found the goldfish peacefully swimming at 02:59...
Thank you for sharing.
ps: I saw the fish!