i am really starting to love this camera, it is so easy to use and the video quality are outstanding.

I was driving around Blue Mountain looking for a spot to shoot when I came across this field with a beautiful sunset as a a backdrop

Shot at 23.976 and speed up 4 times.

I purchased a Canon Rebel T3i yesterday. Here is the first video test I have done. I am very excited now that I can shoot video with the dslr as it will lead to exciting new opportunities for me.

I shot this video completely on auto settings, I would have liked to have had less depth of field but at the time I did not know how to switch to manual video settings.

I was using a 70mm 2.8f Sigma macro lens for this video.

Music is used under creative commons license http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/633201/zero-project-02-autumn-prelude

My demo reel is finally up. It was an extremely quick edit so I'm afraid it isn't very good. Hopefully I will get a chance to re-edit it in the near future.

This weekend I went down to Kingston to visit my sister, we toured this sites of Kingston and went over to Wolfe Island where I got to do 2 timelapse videos of the wind farm on the island.

Later that night we had a fire in her backyard and I did another timelapse of the sunset which turned out awesome!

It was a great weekend but I still have a lot to learn.

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The highlights for my first HD project. This was shot on a Sony XDCAM Ex3 which is file based HD.

The workflow is pretty simple but kind of a pain when it comes time for output.

Ingesting the media is simple. In Avid MC 4 all you have to do is copy the footage to your HDD then in Avid go to File -> Import AMA volume and select your folder. Its a pretty quick and easy process.

In Avid MC 3 you have to export your clips from Sony Clip Browser as MXF files and then import them into Avid. This takes forever if you have a lot of media.

For outputting you have 2 options.

1. If you are outputting back to tape (such as DvCam) You have to make a video mixdown to SD res and then output from that. This can also be done for outputting to Dvd or Blu-ray (HD mixdown) as it is quicker than option 2

2. Export Quicktime movie - I haven't experimented to much with this but a 2 min video exported at full HD res came in at 15gbs.

Option 1 gave me a lot of problems, I kept getting decompression errors but was able to get rid of most of them by switching back and forth from timelines and freeing up some HDD space seemed to help as well. But in the end I had 1 frame that kept getting the error no matter what I did, so I ended up having cover it up with another shot.

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