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rideinspired

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I know that there are posts about this but I don't know where to look.

I recently bought the dvx100b in order to put together some simple snowboarding, skateboarding etc. promotional videos. Excited to get started, I've been out shooting as much as I can. I downloaded recent footage to imac, using imovie and the quality is very poor. It is fuzzy and out of focus. The only footage that looks good is the slow moving targets like; people walking or standing still.

What settings should I make to the camera to shoot fast moving sports? I don't have enough time in my schedule lately to experiment but I'm sure that someone on this forum has the tricks that I need to know.

Will someone please help me?

Thanks.
 
If you don't have a lot of time in order to learn what is necessary, well... Thats a whole-nother discussion...
GET THE DVX BOOK By Barry Green... It will speed the learning process up for ya.

The blurry images are caused by not having the proper shutter speed selected. I know that a lot of the skater videos are shot at 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000...
If you shoot at 1/48 or 1/30 your going to get motion blur....
 
I shoot my skating in 30p, and I experimented with skating in 24p, and it looked terrible. Make sure you're shooting in 30p or interlaced. Also, like NC17z said, make sure your shutter speed is up at 1/150 or higher. To change it, you press the shutter button on the inside of the flip out screen. Especially if you are going to go into slow motion on certain tricks. The book sounds good, but I have had my DVX100B since Friday and I just learned from messing around.
 
thome said:
This Must be helpfull http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=101123
Its one of the best starting pionts.
Click to expand...

Not sure this is going to help in terms of "shutter speed" and the inquiry of movement . Although, pretty cool looks in terms of color.
Fevercity's link is part of a bunch of scene files that he shared that gave a vast range of "looks", (I think I saved a lump of them and printed them off, in fact utilized them a bit). So yeah great suggestion T but, this is more manipulating looks with white balance.

So I would still argue that the DVXBook is the BEST starting point!

Cheers

Z
 
I plan on getting the book. Poor excuse of me not having much time to experiment but it's the only excuse I've got. I have a lot on my plate right now.

I figured that shutter speed must be part of my problem. I need a book for dummies, I'm really film dumb, I don't understand 24p, 30, 60 etc. but I guess the book probably will explain that part right? I hope.

I'm new to this forum so I'll be checking in often. Looks like a lot of great information.

Thanks for your responses.

RideInspired
 
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