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.

How to Record Great Video with Your HD DSLR Camera (From Gizmodo)

There's a GREAT First-Timer How-To for HDSLR users over at Gizmodo.

Why are you still here? Head OVER THERE NOW!!!!


LINK!!

From Gizmodo. Obviously.

50Mbit 1080p MJPEG on the Panasonic GH1 Firmware Hack looks AMAZING.

A buddy of mine just asked me about this. . . so I had to google it.

Longshan's People Part II - 50Mbit GH1 MJPEG from Andrew Reid on Vimeo.

Here's what I found.

Now you can adjust the AVCHD bitrate on your GH1….up to 32Mbit !!!

From Engadget

The Panasonic GH1 can do some great video for its size, thanks to that fancy micro four-thirds optical setup, but it's been held back the low bitrates it uses when recording. Now some enterprising hacker named "Tester 13" has reversed engineered the GH1's firmware and unlocked the true power of the camera (much like Magic Lantern has done for the 5D Mark II). In fact, the main trouble now is that Tester 13's firmware uncovers too many options: users are trying out different configurations to maximize quality without bumping into the camera's buffer limitations. The current flavors of choice include 50Mbps MJPEG at 1080p (the stock camera caps out at 720p in MJPEG), to be augmented by 32Mbps AVCHD when the crazy high-end MJPEG causes the camera to buffer overflow. It's all very technical and video-nerds-only in theory, but results speak for themselves: check out a sample video after the break. And try out the new firmware if you dare.

Buffer Size Issues? OBVIOUSLY.

For a more technical explanation, click HERE(The EOSHD Community Site)

Summary, what is means for the none-techno-geek (From The EOSHD Community Site)

>Hugely better image quality. 50MBit MJPEG shows zero compression artefacts, zero mud and much more photo-like gradients, tones and textures

>It's better looking than the 5D Mark II's H.264 and less compressed

>MPEG 50Mbit shows low noise and the noise is of a finer grain, more film-like

>The workflow improvements are immeasurable. The 50Mbit MJPEG, this can be edited directly, no transcoding required. As for AVCHD, thanks to Tester13 the native 24p can go straight into Log & Transfer without pulldown or deinterlacing work.
Before I was waiting around 6 or 7 hours per project for Voltaic to transcode and deinterlace the GH1's AVCHD to ProRes. Now the same amount of footage can be done in one step in Final Cut Pro Log & Transfer and takes 30 minutes.

>Non-native 24p 32Mbit AVCHD (60i) can be played back in-camera. Focus assist works in both AVCHD and MJPEG mode. It's expected playback of native 24p AVCHD can be fixed in the near future once a patch is released by Abed.

>A JPEG is saved containing shot EXIF info, shutter speed, ISO, etc.
The image is smoother looking and better scaled from the 12MP CMOS compared to the 5D Mark II which has 22MP to deal with. Pixel binning is in action, not line skipping.

50Mbit 1080p MJPEG on the Panasonic GH1

AND, Finally, THE HOW-TO(s):
Beginners GH1 Custom Firmware Guide

Original DVX User Post



Let me know what you guys think!!

Canon Rebel T2i: Pretty Cool, From What I hear.

Dalton Brown, a good buddy of mine, just bought a T2i, and raves about it. Other people, i've heard, not so much. . . but it seems kinda neat. . . Can't wait to get my hands on one!!

Here's some stuff to read, in case you're on the fence, like me. . . seems like it's kinda fun!

"Canon Rebel T2i Review: This Should Be Your First DSLR" (From Gizmodo)


"How would you change Canon's EOS Rebel T2i?" from ENGADGET

"ADDING 550D SUPPORT TO THE NEW CANON EOS FINAL CUT PLUGIN" From FCPUser





^Here's a Video Basically outlining the FCPUser Post, just not as good.

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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