New Vegas edited work now up on the web

[Steve Rhoden]

Not getting thru on the link Al !

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956
https://filmex-creative-media.blogspot.com/

[Al Bergstein]

I don’t know why the COW is not allowing it. Try typing it in your browser. the link is working on my system.

https://www.markpearsonmusic.com/

Alf

[Jeff Schroeder]

I got through… Looks good Alf!

Windows 7 64-bit, ASUS P6X58D, i7 960 3.20GHz, 24.0GB DDR3, 12TB connected storage
http://www.narrowroadmedia.com

[Stephen Mann]

Looks good – I would like to know more technical details. What did yo shoot with?

BTW, if you put a link in the forum post, you have to highlight it and hit the “L” box above.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1421565/Cow%20links.jpg

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Al Bergstein]

Thanks. Actually putting the L in the first time seems to have kept it from being seen. I took the L out the second time. Go figure.

We shot the “A” camera (straight on) with a Canon XF305. The B cams were a GH2 and Canon 7D

It didn’t match totally, but by white balancing going in, we got pretty close, and used Vegas to get us the rest of the way.

It’s not perfect but good enough for the budget we had and the results we needed. The client is very pleased with the outcome.

Also on Youtube in higher res. The podcast web site was rendered in Ipod since Amazon, the hosting site, seemed to have problems with our high res versions. Not sure why.

Alf

[Stephen Mann]

Not prefect? What would you have done differently? The lighting looks great, the colors didn’t shift between cameras, the audio levels were great. What would have made it perfect?

On YouTube – The final resolutions that YouTube “processes” is a black art. No one really knows how the “processing” software decides. I have uploaded an AVCHD 1080i file and when YouTube finished processing it, 1080i was in the list. I made some changes to the project and encoded another AVCHD 1080i file and uploaded it to YouTube and this time the YouTube “processor” resulted in only a 720p resolution. A few hours later, I uploaded the SAME file and this time I got 1080i.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Al Bergstein]

Thanks for the kind words. I do agree that I got pretty close on the color balance across all the cameras. There are minor issues I would like to have changed, but overall I agree that for all practical purposes it was fine. I was trying hard to prove that with a bit of advance planning, and a couple of good shooters, it is possible to balance out three different camera formats. I think the trick is controlling your light source carefully.

I still like the xf305 the best, as it gives an incredible subtle range of tones, whereas the 7D and GH2 tend to be contrastier, and the 7D can shift a bit to the reds. It’s pretty hard to tone down the contrasty nature of the GH2 to match the xf305.

Anyway, Mark has been a great client, we started from some pretty simple ideas he had a year or so ago, and I’ve gently made suggestions to improve things. Moving to hiring a stage to shoot in was a huge leap of quality, and we found some good inexpensive stages. Next was to bring in a real sound engineer to help with managing the sound, and finally hiring on a few extra hands for B cameras. I’ve shot some multicam work alone, but it’s very stressful. I do often shoot for some clients by mounting a small camera in the back of the venue, then a left or right B camera and start the A camera running and move to the hand helds on the side for variety. It requires thinking your end product in advance. Understanding where you will cut and just letting the cameras run.

By the way, we recorded this on very expensive mics, onto a mixer that fed a Tascam HD-P2. I got the best complement from our sound engineer, who told me that he didn’t think he could record cleaner or better sound on his studio gear, so he wanted to just go with it. He’s enormously picky, so I was happy he felt that way. I do like that gear, though it is seeming a bit dated given the choices in the market today.

Alf