Out driving with dvx/Sgpro rev.2

Smettli

Smettli

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Hello again :)
I brought my dvx/sgpro out with me when my friend picked up for some driving and renting movies(without external monitor though, ugh..). Since I'm in my
testing-out-slowmotion-mode nowadays, that's what you get. I know I put
out a lot of meaningless stuff on this forum. But remembering when I was looking for which adapter to choose, that's what I wanted other people to do, so what the heck :)

Shot in 50i, 1/250 shutter, 55mm lens. Adjusted some levels in premiere, but no CC.

Right-click, save as..
http://www.rimeligok.no/anders/driving/driving.mov
 
i rely on your videos to further my urge to save money for a sgpro
that guy has cool hair and the driving part made me think he should be doing drugs in the car or something, like in the movie. i think the music and editing made me think that
 
Smettli said:
Hello again :) I know I put
out a lot of meaningless stuff on this forum. But remembering when I was looking for which adapter to choose, that's what I wanted other people to do, so what the heck :)

Shot in 50i, 1/250 shutter, 55mm lens. Adjusted some levels in premiere, but no CC.
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Your spot-on with that comment, thats exactly what I've been cursing you with the last three weeks... too slow. lol Put out more meaningless stuff... I love studies! keep up with the details [tutorials] like you do too... thats esp nice! When I get my Brighton UK adapter I hope to due some of the same...
 
Footage looks great! Had a nice "music video" feel to it. I'm looking forward to receiving my sgpro rev3 in sept! Your footage has helped alot in that decision. I've been using my tweaked ed35 but it seems I'll get a lot cleaner image from the sgprorev3.

Can you go over the workflow in post? Do you edit first and then import into AE? 50i is = to 60i for usa dvx100b's, correct? Was all the footage slow-mo? How do you decide on certain shutter speeds for slow-mo?
I know, I know, alot of q's...:grin:
 
Thanks guys.
Julian: First i capture the 50i (pal version of 60i) footage which i directly import into AE. Before adding the clip to the composition I click the menu button for the clip and choose "interpret media ->main.." In that menu I choose to "conform" frame rate to 25fps(which will be 24fps for you sakes), and make sure it's set to "lower fields first" in the seperate fields. When it's done and you have clicked OK, you add the clip to the composition. (btw. make sure the composition's duration time is at least twice the length of the clip.) You select the clip and choose "time-stretch" from the "layers"-menu, where you set the time to 200%.
After that I flip the the footage(since its upside down) with the "transform" effect. And then verything is done, and I render out the clip. After that I just import my "slow-motion" clip into a 25p progressive project in premiere and do my regular editing :)

All the footage in the driving clip was in slow-motion. When selecting shutter speeds you should at least use 1/120 to get rid of the "blurriness", though I used 1/250 to make it even sharper and you get that more distinct high shutter speed slo-mo look which they often make in music vids.

Here is the guide which I followed to make 60i into 24p slo-mo(little down on the page): http://rarevision.com/articles/slow_motion.php

-cheers!
 
hd version looks not so good....must be compression....sd looks great though
 
Smettli,

This was really fun. Thanks for posting the clip and your workflow, especially shutter details.

-andrew
 
Thanks! I'm a little slow:huh: so I just wanted to be clear on the capturing:

So I first capture the 60i(50i) footage in FCP, making sure its a separate clip from regular 24p clips. (or do I shoot everything in 60i(50i)?) Before I drag the 60i clip into the fcp timeline, I hit Control+click on clip and send it to ae, then I do the rest of the steps you mentioned. Correct?

I dont know if your using fcp but hopefully I am on the right track. I have not received ae yet to test it myself.

Thanks again!
 
Hey Julian.
Just capture the 60i footage(the one for slow-motion), and import the the caputre directly into AE. In other words, if you captured the 60i footage in FCP dont put the footage in the timeline and export from there, just simply open AE ad import the captured footage. This way the footage is untouched in any way before importing to AE. When your done in AE, that will say you followed the guide I put out link to and have conformed to 24p and flipped in AE, you render and export the clip as a standard dv-avi file. That file is now a 24p dv-avi file which runs in slow-motion. Then you import that file in a 24p project in FCP and use it together with your other footage. You only shoot footage you are planning to use for slow-motion in 60i, the rest of the stuff(normal speed), you just shoot at 24p.
To avoid having to open premiere to capture the 50i footage I use a simple small program called "DVIO" which can be downloaded from here: http://www.carr-engineering.com/dvio.htm

-cheers!
 
Thanks! But it looks like that "DVIO" program only works with PC's if Im not mistaken. Anyway I think I can import the captured footage from FCP into ae before I drag it into the timeline. Thanks again for your explanations for dummies!:smile:
 
Cool. Should be a lot of sgpro footage from people soon :)
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
 
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