This week, I purchased a GoPro Hero HD. I mentioned before that I wanted to get one to shoot some videos when I ride trails on my new bike. I am still thinking of a good way to set that up. There are so many options. In the meantime, I have been tested out the GoPro in various ways. I set up a quick time lapse at work which was interesting. Last night, I decided to do a time lapse of me driving from Saint Paul to Minneapolis and back.
What started out as a simple test, turned out to be a mini project. I started by loading up my image sequence into After Effects. From there, I started to do some color correction. It started to look a little cinematic. That made me want to put some music to it. Not wanting to throw some random song on a video that’s not even half a minute, I decided to record my own music for it. This led me to miking up my amp and putting down a couple tracks. After getting some music down, I did some minor edits to it and added it to my project. A little test that I never intended to even save evolved into a two to three hour project that I wanted to share.
Although it’s not a very polished project and I wish I did a lot of things differently, I am really happy with how it turned out. Check it out. I hope you enjoy it. I will produce more videos with my GoPro soon. Leave comments here or wherever you wish to view the video.
Last month, when Red Giant Software had a sale on their software, I decided to pick up one of their products that I have been eyeing for a while now, Magic Bullet Looks. I have been searching for something to help me do some post processing on the 5D footage that I shoot. Anyway, I have seen a lot of examples of what people have been getting using Looks and today I finally got some time to play with it. I shot some test footage with my 5D and dove into all the options. There are a lot of them. The photo to the right is a before and after still of what I achieved in about half hour of tweaking. As with most software, the more I use it, the more I will know what it is capable of. As of this moment, I can say without a doubt that I am loving the software and I have a ton of ideas for what I can do with videos I have shot in the past and have not edited yet. The content of my test footage from tonight is horrid and embarrassing so I am not going to show it here, but I do intend on posting an example video soon.
Here’s an old magic trick I learned. I’m no magician, so I’m not so smooth at this.I’m finally getting a good video workflow going. I shot this with on my Canon 5D2 with my 50mm 1.4. I had the shutter speed set at 1/60 and the aperture at f4.0. The only lighting I used was a small desk lamp on the floor in front of me, pointed up at me. I did all the post processing in After Effects and added music with Soundbooth.
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Last night I was talking with Liz and she asked me to make a video just for her. I had a few ideas in my head since I got my 5D Mark II last Wednesday. So, after dinner, late at night, I shot this video for her. This is my first self-produced video ever. I have edited quite a bit before and I have worked on a short film in a group for a class project in art school, but this is the first video I have ever created from beginning to end by myself. I shot it with my 50mm 1.4. Shooting video with the 5D is super simple and I love working with it. I posted a low resolution version on Flickr. I am not very happy with how they compressed it. It looks darker than the original. The version here is from my Vimeo account which looks much better.
I just got wind of this. I really don’t know how long it’s been out, but I just found out about Adobe TV today. I think everyone is trying to do the video thing. I’m glad Adobe is. Adobe TV is basically a hub where users of Adobe products can find videos by so-called experts with tips, tutorials and general information about the various Adobe products. I skimmed through the titles. They are some that I would like to check out when I have time.
I just got wind of this. I really don’t know how long it’s been out, but I just found out about