First field trip video with the T3i

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wilcal

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And a suitable subject it is. This is snippets from Balboa Park
in San Diego on 1 Apr 2011. Around 4PM in the afternoon.
Air temp about 85 degrees. I used all standard kit parts.
The EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-56 zoom lens and the EF 50mm f/1.8 II
prime lens. Back and forth between the two then from about
5min on all 50mm f/1.8. Very little editing just, 14 takes
amounting to just over 8min. Tools used are Mandriva Linux
2010.2 OS, Gnome desktop, Kino 1.3.4 and OpenShot 1.1.3.
I left the ambient sound track in there.

Up on YouTube you can see it at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1oGKL0bjuc

I kept the highest resolution on YouTube to 480p for now.

Toying with codecs I put it up on my home server at:

http://68.7.66.79:8080/~wilcal/video_tests/

It's the top video with two selections. Flash at 30fps
and 12fps. All in all the exercise went quite well.
There does not appear to be any bad problems in here.
The 50mm prime came out, imo, slightly better in the
final cut. By the time you crunch this down into a tiny
128kbs, 12fps, 214x120 flash file differences between
lenses are pretty hard to tell. A flash file of this size
may be playable on a 56kb telephone modem connection.
 
I gave up at 1:24 (and making it that far was tough). It's hard to watch the same shot(s) over and over again, with each shot running about :45 and jump cuts in between. Not sure what you were trying to demonstrate here.

One thing of note: your shots are overexposed. I've noticed with these cameras that the meter is always about a stop over, so take whatever the camera says is spot-on and pull it back a little.
 
C2V said:
One thing of note: your shots are overexposed. I've noticed with these cameras that the meter is always about a stop over, so take whatever the camera says is spot-on and pull it back a little.
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Thanks for that point. This was a very clear bright sunny day.
I had a UV filter on both lenses. Next time around I'll stop
it down a little.
 
C2V said:
I gave up at 1:24 (and making it that far was tough). It's hard to watch the same shot(s) over and over again, with each shot running about :45 and jump cuts in between. Not sure what you were trying to demonstrate here.

One thing of note: your shots are overexposed. I've noticed with these cameras that the meter is always about a stop over, so take whatever the camera says is spot-on and pull it back a little.
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+1 and you got a lot further than me. I honestly have no idea what I was looking at. After about 20+ seconds of the same static shot I couldn't take it anymore. A note to the op, it was good of you to go out and film which is a great thing, but in the future you should think about doing more angles, faster edits and overall just a better job. Leaving the camera running and putting together very long clips it's very boring imo, especially when nothing is going on. At the most you should have clips like 10-15 seconds and even that is pushing it.
 
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