A bunch of skateboarding on the T2i

First off, really good skating from your guys, Yokohi has got steez!

I liked the framing of the shots, particularly the factory stuff. I thought the outside skatepark stuff was a bit over exposed, a few shots were almost completely blown out on the floor/sky.

The editing was really nice, especially the speed ramps. I think you should ramp the bigger stuff a lot more, instead of keeping it a static % speed all the way through. It keeps it more interesting with the flow of motion changing speed more, and speeds up the entry and exit into the tricks. I thought it was an interesting idea to ramp up to 100% during the slides on the hubba and rail, though my personal preference is to go as slow as you dare with manuals and grinds just to make them look that bit more epic :P

Also, for the slower stuff, you should bring the volume down a little. Perhaps it's just a personal thing but I don't like the sound of slowed footage, particularly skating. The horrible mushy sound of wheels over bumpy ground at 50% speed... Eugh!

I don't want this to seem overly critical, it's a damn sight better than most skating stuff you see at the moment on videos... You did a really good job!

What lens were you predominantly shooting with? It wasn't the usual ultra wide/fish-eye you normally see, so it was quite refreshing to see skating from a more artistic angle.
 
This was a pleasure to watch, particularly the opening sequence. I was reminded, of course, of "Paranoid Park." The half-speed sound was OK by me; it gave it an interesting pathos.
 
Looks really good! I would turn down the sharpness on the camera just a little bit. It looks fine slowed down, but 60p at normal speed is SO sharp it can be bothersome. But I'm just being picky ;)
 
Calomile, yea i had started adjusting the audio near the start because in the warehouse it was echoing. I appreciate the editing tips, coming from shooting a lot of boardsports, i didnt want to have every shot in slomo, i feel like when its a trick heavy part having so much slomo is a cop out because you only need to do have to tricks to make a full part now. as for the blown out stuff, totally agree, most of that was shot at 100ISO with an average fstop of 3.5-5.6 at around 1/2000-1/4000 shutterspeed, but the sun didnt care, it just said im gonna eff your shi†, i ordered some ND filters last week.

Hawk Teflon, its kind of a lengthy process but the only way i know how in FCP, split the clip where you want to start your ramp, change the speed of the clip to the right of the split to say 90% then move 1 frame forward and cut again, change speed again to 80% (if you want to go in 10% incriments) and then keep going til you get to your desired speed.

Ethan Lane, Completely agree, doesn't look that great, but honestly I think it looks too choppy in 24p wth a higher shutter speed, another reason i bought the ND filters.

LENSES! shi†-kit lens 18-55mm and canon 50mm 1.8
 
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So all of this was shot at 1/2000 - 1/4000 shutter speed? There were only two or three shots were it looked stuttery (mainly the starting shot where his name comes up). With interlaced footage on my FX7 I would often shoot surfing at 1/1000-1/1250 and it would look great but for Progressive footage on my GH1 I'm too scared to shoot anything faster than 1/100 because I'm scared it will look too stroby. This clip proves that you can break the 180 degree shutter rule and still get great footage with smooth motion.

It's been a while since I used FCP but can't you go into the motion tab and use keyframes to adjust the velocity? Seem like that would be easier than splitting the clip up, especially if later on you need to need change the CC or something like that.
 
deltoidjohn, exactly, when i shoot 24p i try to avoid going over 1/100, its just way too strobey, that intro shot with his name was actually just a gabage shot cuz i was testing out shutter speeds in that warehouse. most of the stuff that looks smooth is shot 1/2000-1/4000 at 60p, i think it looks much better like that in 60p, having the motion blur when you're shooting to achieve slow motion is just stupid.

and the FCP thing, you CAN time warp in the motion tab in viewer, but it doesnt sync the audio to the slowed clip, now you can do it in after effects and it works, but you have to then choose which clips ahead of time and where they would go in your cut, it takes a lot more time and planning to do it that way but that is a more proper way of ramping your speed
 
SlightlyHuman said:
its kind of a lengthy process but the only way i know how in FCP, split the clip where you want to start your ramp, change the speed of the clip to the right of the split to say 90% then move 1 frame forward and cut again, change speed again to 80% (if you want to go in 10% incriments) and then keep going til you get to your desired speed.
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So you didn't use cinema tools? Did you just throw the clip in the timeline and change the speed? When I did that, it looked terrible.
 
no no, i conform the 60p footage to 24p in CT, then convert it in compressor, so it comes out slomo in 24p and to get regular speed i have to change the speed to 240% in fcp

so for example in that first clip, i had the speed at 240% then did my stupid ramping down to 100%
 
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