Bryan Keith Nixon

Love to see what you came up with!

Hi Bobby... thanks! I've been quite busy though with the 5D2, but with less fun corporate talking head vids and the like. I am itching to put together another personal project soon, though! Regarding the good slomo... I think I was just responding to the fact that my slowed down frames still looked sharp due to maintaining the high shutter speeds. Before the last firmware upgrade, that required workarounds to achieve. Of course it's easy to do now. However, I didn't really interpolate any slow motion with software effects or anything like that. I simply conformed the 30P footage to 24P using Cinema Tools in FCP. It's a pretty standard trick. It slows things down just enough to give everything a more daydreamy feel without looking too slow. Admittedly, one motivation for doing that is that vids look better at 24P on vimeo!

hi. sorry it took 2 months to reply. it's a really simple setup... too simple really. Query "Bicycle Dolly" on cinema5d.com. A few pages into that post you can see a diagram and photo I posted. Thanks!

Hi... it was surprisingly easy, as I just set the focus at the desired distance, and then followed my subject through a range of distances beginning with too far behind, then moving closer to what I believed to be the correct distance, and then pulling ahead - - but only selecting the frames that were reasonably in focus for the final piece.