Video for you tube_Camera and output settings?

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MotionFx

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I am about to shoot a music video of a white rapper in the recording studio. I will have about 10 setups for various angles and entering the studio. Indoor/outdoor.

The intended outlets will be you tube and other websites.

I am having a DP shoot with the HVX 200, P2 and firestore.

I am cutting in Final Cut Pro.

Main video will be regular speed but there will be some slow mo footage in the cut. I have read about slowing down the 60i in timeline to achieve this.


Objective:

I want to get a nice film like look.
I want to be able to cut easily without too many plugins or special tweaks.
I want to look Pro.. LOL..

Questions:

What frame rates are recomended to achieve this look?

What timeline settings in Final Cut Pro?

What output settings to send to you tube?

Does you tube re-compress or use what we give them?

Thanks in advance, This forum is great!
Brian
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1351913/
 
Hey Brian,

I regulary team up with another freelance shooter (oddly enough, his name is also Brian) and he just did this recently (shot and edited a HVX200 music video of a single singer for one song). Came out "really pro". I'll ask him if I could post it because it was really very nicely done.

Just to give you some tips relayed from him:

He said to tell the camera operator to do a bunch of "lip-sync" takes in different type of sets (make sure they are slated). He had the singer have about 8 or 9 changes of clothes just to give it visual interest when he was in different backgrounds (all shot with different street scenes in NYC for one long afternoon).
This will give you a lot of angles/cuts to edit with. (He had the singer play the song over and over again on a boom box while he lip sync'd). Do them at various ranges...wide, medium, closeup and super closeup. Lighting is up to your DP, but my guy used all afternoon daylight and it looked really sweet.

Have the cameraman do a lot of b-roll takes at 60VFR. I mean a lot. This will give you the option to plug in slo mo (or ramped up footage). Film look settings are well known to any experienced HVX200 operator so hopefully that is covered. But should be 720p 24pn using the film settings. Your FCP settings are the same.

FCS 2 will really help overall, especially if you can get some experience using Color. FCS 2 takes care of timeline settings automatically.

For YouTube...I would deliver H.264 at as close to a bit rate/pixel size that will give you close to 100MB size as possible since that is their limit under the standard account. Also since they are now doing h.264 for AppleTV settops, this might help in that delivery.

Good luck and hope to see something "pro". :-)
 
That was exactly what I wanted. Thanks for the great post!

I will post the links to the video in a couple weeks.

Brian
 
Is You Tube only in 4:3 aspect? In other words, I shot 16:9 but will you tube accept it? What is the optimal pixel sizing? I shot 720 24p.

Do I need to add a matte to make it 4:3?

I have finished shooting the video and it went relatively well. I will post after a good edit is done.
 
Believe YouTube is 4:3 only and will add the black letterbox bars for you (I know Revver does). I generally will make my own letterbox setup so I if I want to I can use the black bars for text.

Hope the shoot went well. I forgot to upload this link for you to see how my friend's music video looked after a round of edits. This was his first round rough, but he said it was okay for you to look at it since it gives a pretty good idea of what the camera can do in good hands.

http://web.mac.com/bobfagan/iWeb/HDFOOTAGE/Herve Music Video.html

-Bob
 
Bob Fagan said:
Have the cameraman do a lot of b-roll takes at 60VFR. I mean a lot. This will give you the option to plug in slo mo (or ramped up footage). Film look settings are well known to any experienced HVX200 operator so hopefully that is covered. But should be 720p 24pn using the film settings. Your FCP settings are the same.
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What do you mean by Film look settings? Where can this be controlled on the HVX? Are there any perticular settings that you used in your video that could give me a specific example? Appreciate the help, thanks.

-Andy D.
 
Both the DVX and HVX have Cine gamma color settings as well as the ability to shoot 24p. Both are used to try and emulate the "look" of film since film is a 24 frame rate medium. There are many variations within the settings to make things look different from the standard "video" look which is the reality look.

Barry Green's HVX book is an excellent reference for all these things and more. It's well worth the price considering the investment in the HVX and it's rather poor manual.
 
Nice edit Brian. After you told me what happened with the car I was expecting to see Flintstone feet churning away. :-) Good luck.

-Bob
 
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