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Simon Thompson wrote:
Tim Dobson wrote:
Tim Dobson wrote:
I'll get some video up soon,
Here is some of the video I took, feel free to take a look:
http://files.tdobson.net/sailing240509/SANY0004.MP4 (700mb)
Is that from a Xacti?
Sanyo Xacti VPC-WH1
Sanyo:
http://sanyo.com/xacti/english/products/vpc_wh1/index.html
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001SAMSQA/ref=ox_ya_oh_product
Has it had any filters applied or post-processing, e.g. been graded?
No. No filters were applied digitally, optically or in post production.
They're excellent cameras for the price.
Ian (Forrester) has been trying to get me to get a Sanyo for a while.
For a waterproof HD video camera, Xacti's are pretty much the only ones
in their price range as far as I know.
I captured in the lowest possible quality - 30fps, 640x480 - the file I
uploaded is exactly what the camera produced. I haven't done any
transcoding or post production on that file.
The reason for shooting in the lowest quality was because my large
memory cards hadn't arrived yet, and also because none of my computers
appear to be able to play 720p video or VGA at 60fps at the moment. :(
Have you manually white-balanced the camera?
No. I captured the everything on the defaults or auto settings.
I think there may have been a point where the camera got switched from
auto focus to manual focus without me notices, but I think it happened
after this specific file was shot.
There's a shot where the
sky's chrominance changes suddenly as you tack onto port and I'm
wondering if there's some sort of automatic thing going awry.
That sounds plausible.
Depth-of-field is huge, although you're losing some of the background
(maybe camera optics).
I had the camera zoomed a little constantly for much of the shot - I was
trying to avoid the mast getting in the way too much, this may have had
a negative effect looking back on it from this perspective as I think
it's auto-focus system still took lots of input from the near field objects.
Really good effort - you're going to have fun trying to get that perfect
shot with sailor, boat, water and surroundings in, but it's worth the
effort.
Thanks. I *really* appreciate the feedback! :D
I'm not sure I'm really after a perfect shot - I guess my idea of the
perfect shot probably isn't realistically achievable on ones own.
At the end of the day, I'm not quite sure what I'm trying to do at the
moment, but having fun getting some cool video sounds like good plan.
Will be nice to see a finalised clip from the rushes you're making
-what sort of system are you using for editing?
Hahah. So as I mentioned in a previous email, editing isn't really my
priority at the moment.
This is for several reasons:
* I'm not really sure what I'm aiming to do with the video. I guess I'm
trying to build upon something I did when I was younger with an Olympus
Digital Camera and Windows Movie Maker:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7098519757224387962
I'm not sure where that leads me...
* At the moment none of my computers will play 720p video. This makes
editing it difficult as well! :) I think an upgrade is on the cards soon :)
* I'm using Ubuntu, so my video editing options are fairly primitive.
Ian (Forrester) swears by Pihlaja - http://pihlaja.wordpress.com/
Otherwise I'll be look through Cinelerra, LiVES, Lumiera, AVIDemux,
Kdenlive, Kino as well as PiTiVi and the Open Movie Editor.
I'll definitely publicise anything I do with it to the list - I've been
pleasantly surprised by the amount of enthusiasm I've received. :)
Many thanks,
Tim
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