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Gear:
Canon T2i – with Light Illusions Gamma Curves corrector picture profile
Zeiss 50mm
Adobe Premiere Pro
Cineform First Light
Free Music Archive

Tags: cineform, first light, hdslr, premiere, video

This is the first in a three film series on graduates of the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Cairo. Red Futon Films partnered with Overseas Council to produce these as part of an effort to promote and raise awareness for student scholarships online and at events around the world.

This was shot over a two day period in June with the Si-2K Mini tethered to a Cinedeck Extreme and a Canon T2i. The following lenses were used: Canon 17-55mm f/2.8; Zeiss 50mm f/1.4; Canon 70-200mm f/2.8; Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5.

Post was done in three days. Edited in Premiere Pro CS5, visual post in After Effects CS5 using Color Finesse, Optical Flares, and Twitch. The final Cineform master was given a looks pass in First Light before distribution copies were made. Audio post in Nuendo 4. Music from the Free Music Archive.

Tags: after effects, cairo, cinedeck, cineform, color correction, hdslr, nuendo, premiere, SI2K, video

I got back last week from working in Egypt and Asia for the last month and dove straight into post on a teaching resource for the non-profit. It includes 8 30-minute sessions. It was a 3 camera shoot on 2 different cameras down in Texas in April by another production company.

I decided to use CS5’s multicam function on it. I wasn’t impressed with the performance (or lack thereof) on CS4. I’m very pleased to say that CS5 is outperforming my expectations! It’s solid, fast and does an auto-resolution during playback to make sure things stay real-time. And it’s fast, wicked fast. I’m doing a real-time playback grabbing shots then going through once more to tweak each edit with my roller.

Also what I noticed is that the cameras weren’t white balanced on the first day. You can see below the difference in the shots between days 1 and 2. Camera 3 was by far the worst. Although after the day 2 adjustment it appears cameras 1 and 2 differ from day 1 as well. It looks like I’ll be settling on a look on day two (and 3) then moving that into day 1. Going to be challenging but I already have 3 different ways I can fix it.  More on that later when I get to it.

Day 1 Original Take

Day 2 Retake

Tags: color correction, premiere