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11. "Divers Cove" in Laguna Beach, CA
2 years ago
Today was a hot day inland! Lori and I took a trip down PCH to get some beach/coast heat relief. We landed in Laguna Beach, CA. I decided to re-visit one of my favorite places as a child the "Divers Cove" area.
This is also the place where I purposed to Lori on 04/04/04 at 4pm! Here we are now 4+ years later we are married and expecting our first child!
I wanted to get out in the sun and shoot some footage with the HF10 and the Laguna Beach area is still a pretty nice looking place. Unfortunately the tide was low and the normally very active rocks of the cove were all dry so there weren't many sea creatures to observe within the rocks. I did manage to capture (on video) a mini crab!
For these scenes I used FXP 30P.
I edited the raw (m2ts) files in Vegas Pro 8 and rendered out to 720p H.264 Average 6mbps peak 9mbps. Audio is AAC 112kbps.
I'm obviously very much an amateur videographer! I still need to get a monopod and or a tripod. Some type of steadycam / body harness, I'm currently looking at the Manfroto Modosteady. I'm going to make and try one of those bolt, string and washer type of steadycams. I need a Wide Angle Lens, which wouldn't do much good today but for those interior shots... and possibly a polarizer or other decent outdoor filter.
UPDATE: I thought the video was looking a little dull so I checked the settings in Vegas and I noticed the project's pixel format was set to 8bit instead of 32bit so I changed this and re-rendered it out. The video should look less dull now.
This is also the place where I purposed to Lori on 04/04/04 at 4pm! Here we are now 4+ years later we are married and expecting our first child!
I wanted to get out in the sun and shoot some footage with the HF10 and the Laguna Beach area is still a pretty nice looking place. Unfortunately the tide was low and the normally very active rocks of the cove were all dry so there weren't many sea creatures to observe within the rocks. I did manage to capture (on video) a mini crab!
For these scenes I used FXP 30P.
I edited the raw (m2ts) files in Vegas Pro 8 and rendered out to 720p H.264 Average 6mbps peak 9mbps. Audio is AAC 112kbps.
I'm obviously very much an amateur videographer! I still need to get a monopod and or a tripod. Some type of steadycam / body harness, I'm currently looking at the Manfroto Modosteady. I'm going to make and try one of those bolt, string and washer type of steadycams. I need a Wide Angle Lens, which wouldn't do much good today but for those interior shots... and possibly a polarizer or other decent outdoor filter.
UPDATE: I thought the video was looking a little dull so I checked the settings in Vegas and I noticed the project's pixel format was set to 8bit instead of 32bit so I changed this and re-rendered it out. The video should look less dull now.
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Depending on what you view the video on, you can set the color to studio rgb or computer rgb. As far as I know, by default the video is studio rgb (which is better for TV). That might be why your video looked "dull" on the computer. On your video track, pick the sony color corrector plugin and select computer rgb for outputting stuff for computer viewing. Should have the same effect as whatever gamma changes 32bit has.
I'd do a couple versions of a single video (32bit, studio rgb, computer rgb) and compare them both on the computer and on the TV (ps3 or htpc). Should give you an idea what looks good where.
I didn't notice it was that much slower, was it during editing or rendering you noticed this slowdown. The difference was awesome the colors really popped on the resulting video.
I do need to play with the color correction plugin. This looks like a busy week but hopefully I can sit down sometime this weekend and do a few more test renders, I also want to do 60i, and 24p tests outdoors as well.
I really need to get my workflow and render settings down so when baby comes I'm ready to edit and render and not spend time on figuring crap out. Not like I'll have time then!
When you say the colors pop, was that on the computer? I notice things tend to have less contrast on the computer, but watching on the TV it looks good. If you set the contrast to a level that looks nice on the computer, and then watch it on the TV, it tends to be overly contrasty.
Anyways, I'm rendering everything for prime viewing on the TV. I figure that's where they'll be viewed most of the time.
I believe I said I was "very much an amateur videographer!"
I also stated I wanted some outdoor sun footage to play with.
I'm still at the stage of figuring out my workflow / render settings.
This was shot all hand held (As I stated I don't have any tripod, monopods or steadycam stuff yet) and I gave little thought to how I was panning and what I was focusing on. Which is why I zoomed into random areas with differing colors and details... Again, Test Footage!
The workaround is to use either 32bit with gamma 2.222 or use secondary color corrector with preset desktop to computer RGB.
Otherwise you'll notice deep blacks become gray.
I like the close up tide pool shots. -Can't wait to see your little guy splashing around in future presentations.
After fixing the colors issues I saw your blog and the one you referenced and it all made sense to me why 32bit was fixing the video!
Regarding WB, that is the next step in the long process of learning to use this camera, but I will take note and appreciate the advice.