An afternoon at the lake- 720 24p

[Ed Kishel]

http://www.vimeo.com/1980090

Got to spend more quality time with the one fiddy. Not to fond of the transcoding step between the cam and the editing, but PPro CS4 is shipping today so I hope to soon edit AVCHD natively. I wont be upgrading Vegas until v9.

Vimeo is a little blocky. The full 1280x720 HD version is located here:
http://www.edwardkishel.com/PleasantHMC150.wmv
its 5 min long @ 300mb, so you've been warned :)

thanks for looking

[DM_rider]

both links seem to be duds

[Ed Kishel]

ooops,

fixed

[Hidef1080]

Nice stuff there.
The one scene which shows the pan across the lake almost looked like a still image panning. Good stuff.

Did you use a UV or polarizing filter?

[VideoMaker]

Nicely done Ed. I too wonder if you had UV or polarizer. Also, your tilt up on the cactus is nice. Any tricks here, or just a soft hand on a good fluid head. I am especially interested in what you've learned about getting a good rack focus with the HMC150. Were these pure manual focus without assist? Did you mark the focus end points on the ring before racking?

Jerry

[Ed Kishel]

Although I did have a UV filter on for lens protection, I did not use a polarizer (which is of course a good idea for shots near any large body of water).

I wanted to see how the image looked out of the box.*



* I did cheat on one shot though- the panning wide shot of the lake did have a graduated blue filter in the mattebox. :)

[johnnyha]

That's he kinda footage that will convince some of the doubters. Great stuff out of the box. Really well done.