XDCAM EX1 on the road blog

philip bloom said:
Cheers Steve,

Nice to hear from another UK member. Dorset is pretty, great place to shoot pretty pics.
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Yes beautiful down here. Only 25 mins from the Jurrassic coast with Lulworth and Durdle Door, but live here in lovely rolling countryside.

Looks like I will have the same setup as yourself come the new year, with the FX1 and waiting on the Brevis flip module. Doubt I can compete with the quality of your work but it gives me a target to aim for quality wise.

Are you or any other Brits going to Videoforum at the end of January? Nice to all meet up for a drink.
 
ESTEBEVERDE said:
Philip~

What was your set up for sound?

What mic, booms, mixers, etc...?

In fact, if you get a chance and it's not too much trouble, could we please see some stills of your set up?

~Estebe
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Actually it couldn't have been much simpler. 416 as camera mic channel 2. Channel one was a sennheiser evolution radio mic. That's it!
 
Philip,

I decided to "play around" with your footage from Kew Gardens In Winter. So, I downloaded the 720p version and imported it into Final Cut Express HD. I had it reduced to NTSC (720x480) DV, 60i. From that point, I burned it onto a DVD for my SD TV.

If you look at the tree to the left at 1:14 - 1:16, you'll see a squirrel climbing the tree in the HD version. In my SD version, it's really tough to see it; then again, I have about 1/4 the pixels to see it.

To me it appears that in the conversion from 25P to 60i, FCE HD converts the 25p into a 30p sequence by adding a copy of every fifth frame, 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 11... This does create an odd jutter in the image that easy to spot on pans, but harder to spot with other shots.

Best Wishes,

Bob Diaz
 
I noticed the judder too. Thought it was my laptop graphic card struggling to keep up with the data rate.

Otherwise, a sublime video. I played it on my 42-inch Samsung HDTV set (went HDMI out from my laptop). It upscaled beatifully. Looked pretty much like any high-end film work I typically see on DirecTV.
 
BobDiaz said:
If you look at the tree to the left at 1:14 - 1:16, you'll see a squirrel climbing the tree in the HD version.
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Thanks Bob, you are the first person to spot it! I only noticed it on my 3rd or 4th viewing!

ESTEBEVERDE said:
Great work!

Cam settings, color correction,...?
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1080p25 and 720p25 for the 60fps. Cine gamma 4 and slightly crushed blacks. Detail on +4 and graded in Magic Bullet Looks. Thanks E.

scottlacy said:
Looked pretty much like any high-end film work I typically see on DirecTV.
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Thanks Scott
 
Anyone in the UK please watch Channel 5 every night this week at 7pm to see my Religion series of shorts shot on the ex1, some with and some without the Letus extreme
 
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