Steve Crow
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Hey that’s cool, I hope you two do indeed get together, forums like this are great for making professional connections!
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IS is great to have but a tripod will work just as well, don’t sweat it
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You rented the 24-70mm, correct?
Can you give us a review? I’d be interested to know how hard or easy it was to focus and if you were able to easily get the shallow depth of field with it….I anticipate the answers to both questions will be very positive but I’d love to hear about your experiences, maybe you can post a HD clip on Vimeo or somewhere for us to take a look at.
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I believe you have the Canon 7D so I am going to suggest for you the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM which will give you everything from a wide shot to a nice portrait style shot with shallow depth of field.
Zooms are technically not as sharp as prime lenses but for video I don’t think that matters nearly as much since we aren’t looking for sharpness (in fact it is often recommended to turn the sharpness setting all the way down in the camera settings menu)
It will be more expensive to rent no doubt but a very versatile lens that will give you lots of framing options.
Otherwise just get something like a 35mm (which will act more like a 50mm on your 7D) or maybe the Canon 50mm 1.4 lens. Since you can’t zoom, you will have to use your body to get the exact framing you want but that’s okay.
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Good job! Just a couple more suggestion:
At 1:10 the color balance abruptly changes, Final Cut has a match color feature that you could use to get the wall color looking the same in both clips.
Also, check the scene where he is putting his clothes on the hangers in the dresser. There’s a cut there that’s not matching – somewhere around 1:34/1:35 resulting in a jump cut.
Oh and does the room number matter? If not, I’d cut the tilt up.
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Normally you set your shutter speed to 2x the frame rate, so you would use a shutter speed of “50” when filming 24p video.
From what I understand as you go lower/slower from 50 (in the case of 24p video!) your video would tend to be softer while raising it above 50 and eventually you end up with a very staccato/jumpy look
This was addressed briefly in an earlier thread
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That’s the “jelly camera” effect and is caused by you moving the camera too fast, a “whip pan” – keep your pans slow and steady and you won’t have this issue.
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Hi Ali,
When you say “when I pan to the greener areas” I am not sure what you mean since the whole video has very much of a green tint to it
Maybe if you gave us the timecode on the Vimeo player for the section you are talking about.
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I’ve downloaded a few but for now am just making adjustments to the camera settings and then grading in post.
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Yes, I totally agree.