Filming editing help.

BMG7754

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Dec 22, 2013 19:01

Hello all,

I am new to filming and editing. I am using a Canon HF G10. I have power director and color director. Does anyone have any tips on how to get a very cinematic look? I am interested in wildlife videography and would love to someday get videos to look like these.
http://vimeo.com/68732151

Any tips on how to achieve that look?

Thanks
Brent

CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Dec 23, 2013 00:45

Hi Brent

Most of the 'cinema effects' in the excellent clip are performed by the camera operator using several different cameras and lenses with various types of operating equipment. Tripods, sliders, and jibs.

I also saw the use of gaussian blurring in some of the scenes.

Getting back to your question, PD has a very limited ability to accurately blurred motion masks. The NewBlue FX plug-in does have a Rack Focus mask and the Effects Room in PD and the ColorDirector area has lots of templates for changing the colour and tone of your video.

The Text effects on the clip can be achieved with PD.

The bottom line is good camera work, the use of sliders and jibs as post production is limited in fixing sloppy camera work.

PD12 has a free download - try it out.

The video clip looks like FCPX or AE software.

Happy editing

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Dec 23. 2013 01:42

Happing editing

Best Regards

Neil
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Carl312

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Dec 23, 2013 10:56

BMG7754,

If you have the Canon HF G10 PDF instruction Manual
Go to Page 101 and read up on the Cinema Mode

If you do not have that manual on your computer, you can read it here:
http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/7/0300004847/02/hfg10-im2-n-c-en.pdf

That camera has the ability to create a Cinema look.
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