Desert Racing HVX Montage

Nice, I've been watching some of the COOR series on Speed channel, and they've been intercuting some diferent angles of the races that look like 16mm, but after seeing this I thinks it's an HVX. Great job.
 
mflo,

That footage looks great. I used to do work for MTEG - lots of the Gran National Sport Trucks and Ivan Stewarts unlimited trucks with Toyota. We did all that in SR2. I wish we'd had the HVX back then.

Awesome to see the trucks again.

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Unfortunately there really isn't a good way to protect the HVX from dust exposure, I shoot full manual everything so I need access to the focus and zoom rings and all the other buttons. I usually stay upwind from the dust, and when that's not possible I keep a towel handy to cover it up.

Overland, that's really awesome. This truck is a SCORE trophy truck, I make desert racing films. I have also filmed a couple CORR events, it's very exciting stuff. I'm 23, so MTEG was a little before my day but I have seen some of the old tv coverage of it that friends had recorded to VHS.

Check out www.bajaflo.com and watch the trailer... you might get a kick out of it. I shot my last film (Bajaflo 2) almost entirely on the DVX. As an aside, it's up for an extremey award... the award is completely decided by an online vote, so if you'd take a moment to vote I'd really appreciate it. http://www.xtremey.net/07nominees.html
 
that was nice.

a couple suggestions:

1. Music! you can't have overcranked cool stuff without music. it's... like... a rule or something.

2. It was a little over-edited with all the graphics stuff.

looks like fun to shoot.
 
this looked cool! did u use magic bullet or some other filter to get it to have that type of look?

ya, definately put some music to this!

:beer:
 
mflo said:
This is a 60 second loop I put together for a friend of mine to play on some tv's at a club for a party of his. There's no sound, and I liberally used the artbeats film clutter. Interested in what you guys think of this stuff.


http://www.mflofilms.com/video/bj_60_loop.mov
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the film clutter looks great... waht do you mean you used it liberally? if you mean over-used... I disagree and think it looks great.
 
janusz said:
what do you mean you used it liberally? if you mean over-used... I disagree and think it looks great.
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By liberally I meant borderline over-usage.

TimurCivan- It's just 60p, nothing done in post to slow it down further. Some of the clips have some 'smearing' going on. It's because I screwed up and didn't set the shutter fast enough (it was actually my very first time out with the HVX), not because it was slowed down again in post.

They had this running looped on the tv's in the nightclub (Jet at the Mirage here in LV) and I knew they wouldn't play any sound. If they did it would have been drowned out by all the boom boom music in the club. Normally I rely a lot on the music and sound to make cuts, and make them seem like they're in the right place at the right time... I knew that I wouldn't have that luxury this time around. It also needed to be visually appealing to the ADD club types and grab their attention for a bit... I decided to go for the extra grungy aesthetic, and the placement of the film clutter and cutting was motivated by my own sense of cutting pace.
 
Ha ha... some of you guys don't get out enough!!! It's freakin awesome!!


Up on a big screen in a club, with loads of boom and bass, it's going to be amazing, edit is just right for a club, artefacts are just right, don't tuch it, don't meddle with it mflo, you've nailed it!


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DJDecay said:
Ha! I watched the clip and did not read the full intro to it, where you answered this.
Silly me writing messages at 5am (no sleep) :-).
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You must be an editor :beer:
 
looked good to me. let me ask, when you shoot, do you underexpose to protect the highlights, or do you push the edge and go commando?

I have trouble finding that smooth roll off to white in out door footage. it always looks to contrasty for my taste.
 
This probably isn't the best place to admit this, but I've always set the aperture to what I think looks best by eye, using the viewfinder. I find the zebra's distracting while filming, so I never use them. I almost always use the ND filters, and if anything I err on the side of slight underexposure to protect the colors... as long as there is plenty of light.

Did that answer your question at all?
 
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