Juhanis Blog

I’m making a Christmas card every years to all my followers and friends. So Happy Holidays 2011

I was visiting at my friends at Brasov, Romania and decided to make my first video only using my mobile phone. The phone is Nokia N8. The lightness of the phone made it difficult to make stabilized video even I had my manfrotto travel steady cam with me. The time lapses was still successful for my opinion.

Programs I used

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS5(Main Editor)
• Adobe After Effects CS5(for stabilization of some footage)
• Adobe Lightroom 3.3(Data manage and Timelapses)
• Neat Video Plugin(for reduce noise)

Edit: I forgot to tell how to Interpret the footage before adding to timeline. So basically you need to interpret the footage if your framerate is showing like 500 frames per second. So select all video clips and select modify-> interpret footage and write frame rate to 25 frames per second in Europe at least. In US you might need to use 30 frames per second.

I had my GoPro attachments that I used to attach my mobile phone to tripods, suction cup and steady cam. The program I used in the phone for time lapses was FastMotion that I bought from OVI store.

My Mobile phone custom Rig

Tripod attachement

Tripod in use

Suction cup(GoPro)

Suction Cup in Use

I love 3d movies and as soon as I figured out that I could start shooting 3d video I started to study how to do it. As many know, I also shoot underwater stills and videos so my need was of course underwater possibility. So as I had already one GoPro HD Hero camera and I noticed that GoPro had announced a 3d-housing for their camera, it was time to buy a second camera.(Please check NAB 2010) After many failures with different types of rigs I soon figured out that the simplest solution is the best. Until I really have a 3d-housing I need to use something else, this is what I made. I just connected the two cameras with iron barn.

First I used Cineform NeoHD program with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 to edit my 3d videos. I did get some nice videos with this solution but because of some odd software problem(NeoHD crashing), it was really difficult to get any good example file.

I had to gave up from Cineform because I got info from them that it’s known bug. Cineform was able to pinpoint my problem in their software and provided me an update where this problem was fixed. I need to test it separately.

I found easy way to watch my 3d movies. First I open them in QuickTime, edit the file so that it will start from my sync point and then I save as reference file. I can play them directly in Nvidia Vision 3D Player just by opening two videos, though FullHD was too much for my hard drive, now I need to update my computer

I will update the workflow of editing 3d footage into here

Anyway I found much more simpler solution. I edited the video directly in Premiere Pro CS5. I made an sequence that is double the wide of my footage and imported all video in there. Then I just offset right video to the left side and left to right side, YouTube wants it in this format. After this I edited it, added sound and exported it. Here is the final solution.

I had to buy Production suite 5 because it just make things so much easier. I have been testing it for a while and today decided to buy it. Is it worth it? Don’t know, just have to hope it will.

I just got another GoPro Hero HD camera and will be using both of these in filming 3d footage. Made some test and looks promising. Will keep you posted.

I will make trip into outland in August and will be spending there for 4 weeks, 9 days in australia. Hoping to get really good videos and pictures from there. Let me know if you have some ideas where to visit. I will be back bagging there.

This is just a test blog using Windows Live Writer and it’s embedded youtube video sharing.

I recently recerved holiday trip to Hondura so I will be diving and taking pictures so I will add some of them in here as well.