Everything you were afraid to ask about Tilt-Shift.

Plungercammed: Tiny Fishermans Wharf from Bhautik Joshi on Vimeo.

Here's a cool guide to Tilt-Shift Photography, from Soup to Nuts. I can't wait to see a REALLY COOL short film that uses this. :)

From the website:

Have you ever wondered how tilt-shift miniature photography works and why it looks so strangely convincing? Have you ever wanted to have a tilt-shift lens but couldn't afford the hundreds of dollars needed to buy one? Have you ever wanted to take real tilt-shift photos? Then this short introduction to tilt-shift photography and DIY tilt-shift lens building is probably for you.

and

Selective-focus with tilt-shift lenses has been around for many years, but I think its creative potential for both photo and video (beyond miniaturisation!) lies largely untapped. By publishing this tutorial I'm hoping that it gets picked up by those of you with real creative talent, and from there you can take it somewhere completely new.

Alright, all you EOS HDSLR Guys, get to it!!!


Don't know what I'm talking about? Consult the Wiki.

"You mean I can't just Cut my 7D Footage in FCP?"(From PvC)

Staying Native or Going Intermediate? Transcoding and Premiere Pro CS5 from Jason Levine on Vimeo.

Here's an interesting video talking about the What, Why, and When of transcoding footage.

It's got kinda a Premiere slant (trust me, don't buy Premiere, but the idea is the same. Enjoy.


ALSO, don't use this as a justification for NOT transcoding. . what he DOESN'T tell you is he has a BEEFY, HOT-RODDED Mac Pro. If you're trying to cut on your 5+ year old Macbook, you'll want to transcode. TRUST ME.


Here's a link to the PvC Article

FREE CF Card Data Recovery in OS X!!

PHOTOREC is AWESOME.

Here's a How-To post from the Faceman Photography blog (your mileage may vary):

Here are the simple steps to running this under Mac OS X (FWIW, photos on the card were shot in Canon RAW and camera's CF card was mounted via a card reader under Mac OS X 10.4.9):

(1) Download PhotoRec v6.6 here. Don't worry that it's also a download for an app called TestDisk, which I haven't played with (yet).

(2) Uncompress the file testdisk-6.6.darwin.tar.bz2

(3) Inside the folder that results, you will find a folder called "darwin" that contains the UNIX executable called (unsurprisingly) "photorec".

(4) Double-click photorec to launch it into the terminal and here's what you'll see:

(5) Select the volume that represents your memory card and hit return to Proceed. In this case, /dev/disk1, is what we want.

(6) At the next screen, which looks like this:


select the partition table, which should be fine at the default setting of "Apple partition map" and hit return to get to this screen:



(7) "Search" will be highlighted. Hit return to start file recovery and you'll see this:



(8) "Other" should be highlighted and should work just fine (or at least it does for me with my setup). This will take you to the last step where you select what directory to recover to, in which case the default folder should be fine. Just select "Y" at this screen:



It will then start processing your memory card and saving what it finds to a folder called "recup_dir.1"

(9) Sit back or go make a sandwich and come back to a folder full of recovered files (hopefully)...

So, there it is. . . Your mileage may vary, but this is DEFINITELY handy to have for anyone who shoots with HDSLR's, or RED CF Cards. . .

NEW Canon EOS FCP Plugin Released + NEW Canon 5DmkII 24p Firmware Update!!

I've been getting ALOT of questions about vDSLR's lately. . . here's a stack of posts from ProVideoCoalition.com, one of the MANY websites I follow in my RSS feeds. . .



Here's some tasty links!
FCP EOS PLUGIN
Official Canon Announcement
Canon DL's Page (including New 5DmkII Firmware & EOS FCP Plugin)
Canon finally releases their DSLR plug-in for Final Cut Pro’s Log and Transfer tool



A few more notes on the EOS Movie Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro


5DmkII Firmware Upgrade
Canon 5DMKII 24p firmware is released with audio bug (UPDATE: Fixed)


And, of course. . here's the Link to my ORIGINAL WORKFLOW post about Canon vDslr's

ORIGINAL POST

Canon Video DSLR Workflow

UPDATE: There's a New Canon FCP Plugin in the works. . . here's a link to the news item LINK

Will update my instructions/workflow once it's out.





With so many projects shooting vDSLR, there's been some confusion with how to treat the footage. I usually use THIS workflow when coming back from Canon products. Here's an excerpt from it:

Shoot on 7D (This is the same for ALL Canon vDSLR cameras. -Ed.)1080, shutter 1/50th on 25 fps

Read movies from camera and store on backup HD

Use MPEG StreamClip (freeware) and it’s batch functionality to add all 7D clips to it’s batchlist and convert all these babies to Quicktime Movie : Apple ProRes codec -> convert all and save to project folder or “converted” folder on backup HD. Do NOT enable any scaling or deinterlacing options in this program, just set the Quality slider to 100% if it’s not already at that.

Use FCP to edit as usual, set project/renderer to ProRes or ProRes-HQ (bit over the top maybe…)

The thing to remember is ALL the Canon vDSLRs shoot Quicktime movies in the H.264 Codec. . . Make sure you budget enough time and storage space for your considerably larger Pro-Res files. To save on time, COPY all the files from your CF cards, but only transcode your CIRCLE TAKES from your camera reports. . .


HERE'S THE DOWNLOAD LINK FOR MPEG STREAMCLIP
-Mike

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