I came to DVXUSER for the HMC150 forum and I stayed for the Premiere forum. I've been in broadcast audio for over 20 years but when I got downsized out of that I found myself in a situation where I was asked to shoot and edit an hour long documentary which involved 12 days on the road shooting over 30 hours of footage. I went to school for film production, but that was like 35 years ago, and we were actually cutting 16mm film and mag tape back then. So here I am with a brand new 150 and a week to figure out which end to look into before we started our road trip. Then I got home and bought CS5 and had to figure out how to use that. In the last 6 weeks ive put together a few vignettes that will end up in the final hour, but I was asked to do a short promo video for an event that our subject is doing in January.
So for your consideration I am posting this three and a half minute piece to get some feedback from anyone who cares to comment. I'd like to keep any snarky comments about the actual content to a minimum for the sake of this thread. All I can say about that is that this was done for a paying client who is actually THRILLED with what I have crafted here, but technically I know it could be a lot better. I have a lot to learn about the subtleties of camera operation and post-production, especially when it comes to color correction. I think the actual cutting is pretty solid, but I don't know where to start in learning how to do better.
I guess I would mostly like some advice on which areas stick out as most egregious, and some suggestions on what resources to study to make improvements. Thanks in advance for any help I can get. Without being TOO flamey, go ahead and tear this apart.
http://vimeo.com/18039056
So for your consideration I am posting this three and a half minute piece to get some feedback from anyone who cares to comment. I'd like to keep any snarky comments about the actual content to a minimum for the sake of this thread. All I can say about that is that this was done for a paying client who is actually THRILLED with what I have crafted here, but technically I know it could be a lot better. I have a lot to learn about the subtleties of camera operation and post-production, especially when it comes to color correction. I think the actual cutting is pretty solid, but I don't know where to start in learning how to do better.
I guess I would mostly like some advice on which areas stick out as most egregious, and some suggestions on what resources to study to make improvements. Thanks in advance for any help I can get. Without being TOO flamey, go ahead and tear this apart.
http://vimeo.com/18039056
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