Dog's Journey

[Demistate]

A dog’s journey with his owner on a wet fall day.

Flash video for lazy people: http://alex.nigma.info/2008/dogs-journey/

WMV HD for you pixel crazy guys : http://www.tavproductions.net/dogvideo.wmv

I Shot this yesterday on a Stock HVX with some color correction on New After effects with MXF support. Mostly 60frames with a few 22frame and 48frame shots mixed in.

Rendering was a beast on this one. It was about 1:10 per minute of 720 24P footage on Athalon X2 at 2.4 ghz.

Here's a stock shot

 

[Zeakio]

That was a pretty cool video. What kind of cover did you use for the camera to make sure it didn't get wet?

 

[Demistate]

I made a poor man's raincoat.

1) Take a plastic bag from a grocery store

2) Cut a small hole in it across the seam in the bottom of the bag, smaller than the lens opening

3) with your lens hood removed, put the bag over the lens, and stretch the corners to pull over the lens hood mount. Make sure none of the plastic bag is covering the lens.

4) Put the lens hood back on and voila, you have a raincoat for the day.

You'll find yourself just using the eyepiece to do a lot of viewing. Sometimes its hard to keep the back of the camera from getting wet, but if you use the bag handle to wrap around the eyepiece, only the rubber part of the eyepiece gets wet, and you can keep your camera fully covered.