Comments on: HurlBlog Sound Guru: Gene Martin

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:12:56 +0000

Thank you Gene for this write up. What would a great mic be for indoors, still a shotgun microphone, im thinking in terms of room reflections. Or still use a shot gun mic and just get in closer? Is the zoom still what’s recommended?

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By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:15:09 +0000

I’m curious. I’ve heard a lot about the Zoom H4n, but what other recorders are people using with these cameras?

By: Federico

Federico — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:35:08 +0000

if you look at the beginig (0.03-0.05) the shadow on the building move very fast and also at the end the sky move to fast like in a time lapse, the scene with the shadow on the ground are very short and I think the sound it’s very confusing and make it much more faster than it is in reality.

It reminds me the work of BLU i don’t know if you know him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4

P.S He got a strange rigs for is camera(0.07 down on the right there’s a shadow) it can be a steady? so he never loose the exact point of view from the shot before….

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:51:39 +0000

Federico, but look at the shadow on the ground, it is hardly moving so they had to be doing each of those sequences in 1 hour. I really need all of your help on this. Thoughts

By: Bill Strehl

Bill Strehl — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:59:28 +0000

Check out the feet at :17 to see what I mean.

By: Bill Strehl

Bill Strehl — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:57:38 +0000

I looked at the skateboard video and it looks like there are times where the feet are floating above the human skateboard. Is it possible to have painted a custom made skateboard green and pulled a key then inserted the human skateboard?

By: Federico

Federico — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:04:29 +0000

yeah is definitely a stop animation, they made it photo by photo…quite long and hard for the guys on the ground!

By: Sam Phibbs

Sam Phibbs — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:06:03 +0000

Hey Shane,

Thanks for hooking me up with the old newsletters! Much appreciated. I had a look at the link that you sent me and it is stop frame animation and I would say that the guy would have stood on top of the other guy. The bit that really sells it is the sound and how they probably would have recorded sound and probably vision a guy doing similar tricks on a skateboard to sync with the stop motion.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:36:09 +0000

Joseantonio, I will send it off tomorrow. Thank you

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:27:54 +0000

Federico, I cannot wait to see what you guys are going to cook up. Very exciting. I have a link that I would love for you to look at to see if you can tell me how they did it. I would love you insight on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5IqwECL6bo check it out

By: Federico

Federico — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:10:33 +0000

Shane thanks for the compliments! can’t wait to show you something more on the canon vimeo contest!

For the problem I’ve disabled the alo. It’s already better but I think is quiet far away from what I know the 5d can do!!

And also thank you for listening in your blog to your reader, I found this thing so awesome!

By: Joseantonio

Joseantonio — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:51:34 +0000

Just wanted to mention PluralEyes software is great for syncing sound from the onboard camera mic and whatever mic you may be using for your external audio recorder. No slate or clap needed. Amazing time saver. Works wonders for multi-camera editing. Free trial and demo videos @ http://www.singularsoftware.com/pluraleyes.html.

Shane, can I get a copy of the newsletter that goes into ISO detail. Thanks for this wonderful resource that is your blog.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:15:29 +0000

Federico, I took a look at your video the difference between 160 and 200 ISO is not that bad. But I always shoot 160,320,640,1250. These are the cleanest ISO’s. I think there is something going on in your conversion. The Highlight tone priority is worthless. I disable that thing the minute I get my cameras. Also make sure your auto light optimizer is disabled as well. Both of these increase noise. I will have the head of post at Bandito Jacob Rosenberg take a look and give you some feedback. We will get it worked out. Beautiful shot though, I was not looking at the noise, I loved the image.

By: Federico

Federico — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:32:08 +0000

thanks sam! I’ve shoted down the HTP, I didn’t know this fact about different kind of noisy ISO. Now I’ve shooted the same image as before without the htp at 160 ISO the noise is much lesser but I always see it too much…I think I got some problem in the convertion or i don’t know! I’m kind of new in the hd video world!

By: Sam Phibbs

Sam Phibbs — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:57:49 +0000

Hey Frederico dont shoot at ISO 200 instead shoot at 160, 320, 640, 1250, 2500 etc. These are the least noisy ISOs. Also HTP adds alot of noise/vert banding in the darker areas.

By: Federico

Federico — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:45:37 +0000

Great audio news shane! But I would like to ask to you something, I’ve found some grainy noisy in my 5dmkII video and I don’t understand what it is. I could see it in the h264 file but also if I convert the file in prores 422 nothing change. I’ve uploaded a video on vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/8837800 it’s very short, but if you watch it on full screen you could see the grainy noise that I was saiyng, there’s lot of it in the out of focus zone, I was shooting at 1/50 at 200 iso, the native file is very very worst respect at the vimeo convertion. You think it’s a convertion problem, a 5d problem or do I make something wrong?

thanks for the help I really don’t understand what to do!

By: Sam Phibbs

Sam Phibbs — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:39:01 +0000

Hey Shane is there any way to get the old newsletters? I signed up and got the most recent but would love to get my hands on the older ones! Your blog kicks major ass!

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:31:26 +0000

Chris, you are welcome. We will do our best to bring you the very best with my team of experts. Please let us know what else you would like to learn about.