A Bunch Of Stabilizers!

Jonathan | July 25, 2011 - 10:56 pm

Test­ing con­di­tions for Video Sta­bil­i­sa­tion software!

My last post, a gen­eral medi­a­tion on the Apple Mac­book Air, Final Cut Pro X, and edit­ing video while you are wait­ing attracted a rea­son­able num­ber of com­ments. Sta­bil­i­sa­tion seems to be a hot topic at the moment, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing that it is one of the planks that Adobe’s new After Effects CS 5.5 is stand­ing on. The piece of video I used to illus­trate my recent post was a chal­leng­ing piece for any sta­bil­i­sa­tion tech­nol­ogy, con­sid­er­ing that I was hand hold­ing an iPhone 4, on a windy day, walk­ing back­wards on a beach!

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On Video Editing on a Macbook Air, Hacks, FCPX, and Waiting…

Jonathan | July 7, 2011 - 12:44 am

The Beach

My day job is IT; a nec­es­sary part of that role is waiting. Wait for a process to fin­ish, wait for some­body to com­plete a task, wait for equip­ment to boot up.

I dread to think how much of the last 15 years have been spent waiting.

So while imple­ment­ing a major pro­duc­tion change this week (and encoun­ter­ing some frus­tra­tions) I put my “wait­ing” time to good use by test­ing out Adobe After Effects CS5.5 and Pre­miere Pro CS5.5 on my Mac­book Air to put together this lit­tle video. Shot on an iPhone 4, Warp Sta­bi­lizer in After Effects (more on that in another post), and fin­ished up in Pre­miere Pro. I don’t think it turned out too bad, and the “Air” behaved very well, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing it is the low­est, 2Gb RAM, 64Gb HD model.
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Adobe Premiere Pro Isn’t The Only Game In Town

Jonathan | December 2, 2010 - 4:22 pm

I may have posted about Adobe Pre­miere Pro and edit­ing video from a Canon 7D pre­vi­ously, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only game in town!

You don’t always need the most pro­fes­sional tools to pro­duce pro­fes­sional results.

This lit­tle video of my mate Yani on the drums shows that an iPhone 4, and iMovie 11 are all you need to get cre­ative. Might have to use it some more ;-)

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Editing Canon EOS 7D Video with Premiere Pro

Jonathan | May 21, 2010 - 10:58 am

The emer­gence of Canon DSLR video has been a tri­umph and a strug­gle for wannabe Steven Spielberg’s, me included. The tri­umph is the undoubted qual­ity of the image, and the cre­ative avenues opened up by the wide vari­ety of lenses available.

The strug­gle includes the intro­duc­tion of so much new ter­mi­nol­ogy, so many new ways to be cre­ative and to fail mis­er­ably, and the inevitable havoc caused to well estab­lished work­flows with the intro­duc­tion of video. This post out­lines my efforts to arrive at some­thing resem­bling a usable work­flow for video, using  MPEG Stream­clip, Adobe Pre­miere Pro, and YouTube.

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DSLR Video — Welcome to the Future

Jonathan | April 12, 2010 - 11:53 am

“The Last 3 Min­utes” From Shane Hurl­but, ASC from Shane Hurl­but, ASC on Vimeo.

After watch­ing this video, all I can say is:

Wow!

My Canon 7D can also shoot High Def­i­n­i­tion 24P video, though com­ing from a pho­tog­ra­phy back­ground, I am strug­gling to catch up. New for­mats, new tools, new chal­lenges (i.e. have you tried to edit Canon 7D footage in Pre­miere Pro? That is a major chal­lenge for another post…) and new cre­ative decisions.

Then you see a video like this, and real­ize that even with all the right tools, you still have a moun­tain to climb ;-) The video capa­bil­i­ties on the cur­rent Canon 5D MkII and 7D are so strong that even the sea­son finale of House MD was filmed com­pletely on one.

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