My First XHA1 Footage

disjecta

disjecta

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I got the camera on Monday but between a hectic life and crappy weather, I haven't really had a chance to try it out. I'll be writing a review at a later date.

For those who don't know, I just sold my XLH1 in favor of the lighter A1, much more suitable for my kind of shooting because of form factor and weight.

This morning, there was about a half hour of sun so I dropped by my favorite park (Marymoor in Redmond, WA) on the way to work.

What you see here is just raw footage right out of the camera. There is no color correction at all. The only thing I did with the footage was apply a 2.35:1 matte.

Rendered at 10mbps, it's about 93mb. There is definitely a drop in the sharpness due to this high compression and a little noise is there that's not at all obvious in the original footage.

All of these shots are at the wide end of the lens because I really wanted to shoot to show off the pixels.

I'm using my PANALOOK preset which is still my favorite. Thanks to Chris Hurd for the conversion from XLH1 to XHA1, he did a nice job.

Anyway, enjoy:

http://www.pinelakefilms.com/XHA1/marymoorHD.wmv

Right click and "save as"
 
You always seem to be at the right place at the right time. Beautiful and inspirational footage as always. Congrats on the XHA1!
 
Very nice. I especially like this one...
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Thanks for sharing.
-Kevin
 
[SIZE=+0]Wow, that's beautiful footage! Is that Marymoor park?[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+0]I was reminded while watching your footage of how I love the way that dogs will constantly check to make sure you're still with them, even as they are trotting along right beside you (and then abandon you completely for some intriguing new smell).[/SIZE]
 
Nice,,,,but why when I watch HD footage on my computer it is always like stop action. Start and stop? Do you know what I'm talking about?
 
Beautiful. Steven, is it just me or have you backed off on the sharpening a bit with your latest preset? It's definitely sharp enough, but not as edgey as before. :)
 
Thanks everyone.

Barlow, I have backed off a little on the sharpening (was on 1 or 2 now on 0) but the compression is also softening it a little.
 
Sacksnack said:
Very nice. I especially like this one...
1173469669.jpg

Thanks for sharing.
-Kevin
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pffft, tha grab is impressive. Looks really well color corrected but it'n only raw, lol, wow.

The footage looks great. Yeah, it's a bit noisey but damn it looks so good.
 
I am sending my A1 back it seems it shipped with out the disjecta option. Its amazing how you get the best from your camera's.

It does provide incentive when you see what the camera can do with your experience.

Thanks for sharing.

S Cannon
 
Hey Disjecta... Where is your collection of world famous presets, i think it is about time to load up my A1 with them!
 
LOL, you guys crack me up. :beer:

You can find the presets over at dvinfo.net, in the XHA1 section

Thanks for the comments...
 
Zim said:
Nice,,,,but why when I watch HD footage on my computer it is always like stop action. Start and stop? Do you know what I'm talking about?
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could be your computer cannot handle the high hd bitrate.
 
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