Holiday Cards

[Timothy Auld]

There are not too many things more fun than watching dogs play in the snow. Happy holidays!

Tim

[Mark Dobson]

Thanks for that Jim.

Just a couple of very non technical questions. The first is, what part of the USA is the farm located in? And are they really all your dogs?

Wonderful – must be a very peaceful place, apart from the dogs!

Happy New Year.

[Craig Slattery]

Brilliant, fantastic location! You are very lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world. Would like to see more films like this from other Creative Cows. Have a great 2013. Thanks Jim

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Jim,
How beautiful pictures and what a beautiful place. Living in such place and enjoying those scenes..you are a lucky man. I live in the tropics and those pictures make me miss the snow (although I’m not sure if my dogs would survive there).
I have seen already the clips in PV, but I had no idea they were yours.
About the camera, I’m sold.
I have’t put my hands on the camera (got a GH2 with PV software), but i would like to know which kind of compression/file format had you sot with.
Happy New Year to everybody.

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jim Giberti]

Hey Mark, the farm and studios are in the Green MTNs in Vermont. They are all ours. In fact the eighth pack member was laid up at home. It’s incredibly peaceful. We’re on about 200 acres near the top of Mt Olympus or ‘Lympus as it’s known here…hence we get a lot of snow this time of year.

[Jim Giberti]

Thanks Craig. We used to have the company in an historic building we renovated in the Valley, but a few years ago I bought the old farm that adjoined ours and turned the original settlers house into our new offices and studios. We built several miles of hiking, riding trails through the 200 acres and that’s where I have my business meetings.

[Jim Giberti]

Hey Rafael,
I’m impressed enough that i’m going to set up a pair of them for action work and trekking (which we do a lot of for our projects)
I’m still out experimenting with settings but it’s feeling pretty solid at 50MB Natural -4, -4, -1, -5

[Mark Dobson]

[Jim Giberti] “We built several miles of hiking, riding trails through the 200 acres and that’s where I have my business meetings.”

So that’s a sort of walk ‘n talk meeting . . . . I looked up Mt Olympus on google and I’m sure that one thing you are not short of is firewood.

And as to Vermont. Us Brits are still smarting from the outcome of the Battle of Bennington in 1777.

[Jim Giberti]

A lot of firewood. About 30 acres are pasture, hay fields and facilities and the rest is old forest with lots of streams and waterfalls.

About ten years ago I had a friend who builds ski trails for the industry come in and spend the summer building a trail network. Every time he found a spring in his work he’d stop and build a little trailside pond for the horses and dogs. There are several of them along the trails through the mountainside.

Sometimes I feel guilty that we’re the only people that enjoy it, so we’re actually in the process of turning “The Imagination House” across the road into a private retreat for groups of six. Personal chef, wine cellar, total seclusion…and for entertaining clients.

[Tony West]

Jim that footage looks great.

Can you see that camera having you sit a 5d on the shelf?

It’s amazing the cameras that keep hitting the market and the prices of them.

I work with the 370 from time to time but the images of this little camera look cleaner to me, and the 370 cost almost 10 times the money

What are your thoughts on the VF? Is there a peaking option?