Pete Burger
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Asking what the “best camera” is, is a bit like asking what the “best car” is… Don’t think there’s an answer…
It depends largely on what you’re about to be shooting and what your skills are, what your computer setup is like and so on…
The 7D is a great camera just as the RED (which IMHO is not a *prosumer* camera but more like a professional camera) and with either of them you need specific skills to produce great video.
So, if you tell us, what you want to shoot, for what medium (web, DVD, broadcast,…)you’ll be shooting, etc… some of us might be able to give you advise which camera could be right for your specific purposes.
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Glad if I helped!
High ISO is a a problem… I try to avoid going higher than 800, so a fast lens was/is the only solution for me.
Shooting flat helps quite a bit. You could play around with the Marvel cinegamma style: https://marvelsfilm.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/canon-7d-picture-style-with-cine-gamma-s-curve-free-download/There’s a lot of information about shooting flat here on the cow. Other great resources: https://www.prolost.com and https://www.dslrhd.com
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Hello, Charles!
All of the exif-info are stored in the thumbnail of the corresponding clip. So with an exif-viewer you can easily get all of the info on the camera settings used for that clip.
For any kind of contrast or colour change I find curves more useful than levels, but of course you can use levels as well.
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To add:
Benjamin, in case you didn’t know:
Don’t confuse fps (frames per second) with shutter speed.If you are shooting at 30fps with a shutter speed of 30, each frame is exposed 1/30 second, with a shutter speed of 60 1/60 of a second etc.
A rule of thumb in general filming is, to shoot with double the shutter speed, than your framerate.The lower the shutter speed, the higher the motion blur and vice versa.
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Glad if I helped a bit
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What I meant, is to take more care in creating your pictures. How you place the things or persons that you want to show within your frame. I think, this forum might not be the perfect place to discuss in detail how to “build” a picture/shot. But there are a couple of great books about filming and photography out there, training DVDs, or film schools (if you are not alrady in one).
Google the keywords of Ronn’s post above and you’ll find plenty of information, that you can try to work with in your next projects.
When I wrote…
“Color correct more precisely (or actually – sorry for that – at all) before presenting a clip.”
… I made a not very nice remark, that your colour correction was no “correction” at all – and I apologized for that remark in the same sentence.All the best and keep working!
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I assume this commercial is a school or university project and not an actual commercial or a suggestion for a pitching. So I won’t talk about good or bad ideas, things that will or won’t work in the advertising world or humor (which is very subjective).
I will give you three things you may want to work on:
a) Framing of the shots
b) Try to get more rhythm into your editing
c) Color correct more precisely (or actually – sorry for that – at all) before presenting a clip.And please, please, please: Don’t take harsh criticism personal! Try to get the best out of it and work, work, work!
All the best!
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Wow, thanks Robbie for that detailed explanation! Greatly appreciated!
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Does that mean, you could actually record video in Adobe RGB, Norman?
On my Rebel T2i I can’t even switch between colour spaces when in video mode.
I know, that Adobe RGB contains more information than sRGB (especially in the greens). Assuming you could really record in Adobe RGB, that would be a cool thing, wouldn’t it? And since After Effects can (of course) handle Adobe RGB, having more colour information means more possibilities in post. -
For your sky problem: There are a couple of tutorials out there for sky replacement in After Effects. What I found most useful is Andrew Kramers approach. Or just google “sky replacement”.