'Vengeance Rides a Train' - Episode 1 - Nikon D90 short film series

Pirata

Pirata

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The debut of our short film web series 'Vengeance Rides a Train' shot with 50mm 1.4, 1.8, 18-105mm, and Lensbaby. Original score composed with many sound libraries as well as totally original beats using helicopter blades and rods/rails mixed and recorded in Sonar. Visuals were obtained with Magic Bullet Looks, After Effects, Twixtor and Vegas Pro.

Link to youtube HD version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYo1GWcMgec&fmt=22

Updated Vimeo version for DVXusers: http://vimeo.com/3935400

Eagerly anticipating the Panny GH1 as that will make achieving all our desired effects much simpler than using the D90 (which is like the camcorder equivalent of a savant, Mozart trapped in Hellen Keller's body).

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-Akira
 
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Looks really good bro!!!
"Mozart trapped in Helen Kellers body" LOMFAO!

What was your workflow, if you dont mind me asking?
 
really great! Good music and audio.

I really Like the shots where you have used stills and morphed together with twixtor.
 
Vimeo

Vimeo

Thanks guys, I am making a few minor changes still and will need to re-encode it to make the file size smaller for Vimeo. I'll post an update once it's up.
 
Wow, VERY nice. A little shaky for my taste but really nice looking. The story didn't make much sense to me at the moment but I am tired so I may have to watch it again. The slow motion between 5:40-5:54 looks really good for being pulled out of 24p. I assume that's twixtor doing the job?

EDIT: I don't think a hat ever looked so cool.
 
Johnny Cola said:
Looks really good bro!!!
"Mozart trapped in Helen Kellers body" LOMFAO!

What was your workflow, if you dont mind me asking?
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Nothing super special; shoot, assemble in Vegas, render slow motion and effects shots in after effects with twixtor as uncompressed avi, go back and replace effects shots in vegas, score in cakewalk, tighten edits, apply Magic Bullet Looks in vegas to nail the color down, displacement map to remove jaggies, render
 
Did you use any custom curves? What was your sharpness setting? If you didn't use custom curves did you adjust the d90 contrast setting to give a flatter image to tweak in post?
 
Robert Altman said:
Did you use any custom curves? What was your sharpness setting? If you didn't use custom curves did you adjust the d90 contrast setting to give a flatter image to tweak in post?
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These are the settings we've been using in camera:

picture control, select vividset sharpening to A
set saturation to 2 blocks minus


We think it helps cut the red push the camera seems to do automatically.

Other than that some of the manipulation was through curves in Magic Bullet Looks among other MB filters.
 
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soundtrack

Trey T said:
wow, very impressive, especially w/ the sound. how did you compose the sound track?
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I compose in Sonar utilizing traditional multi-track recording and sound design elements created from custom recordings, also patching a wide range of Virtual Instrument Orchestra samplers from Gigastudio to Kontakt and EW sound libraries and orchestrating them through traditional score notation-midi sequencing. (I.E. this is where my classical music theory education paid off)
 
Zim said:
Looks pretty good. What did you use for audio?
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Some of the sound design elements and dialogue came from recordings with a Sennheiser ME66 shotgun mic and Wireless Lav systems, but most were added in post from various sfx libraries I've accumulated over the years.
 
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