http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: movement - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:16:53 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/fluid-camera-movements-and-ways-to-record-motion-in-action-sequences#post-70058 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:43:29 +0000 Weddingmaster 70058@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>In my wedding first dance scenes I have learned to sway back and forth slowly to add movement to the background without camera shake. This is of course when Im standing still. One thing that will make me turn a movie off real quick is this new..added camera shake!!  WTF..Whoever thought this would add action should be fired. ie: two cops are talking and the camera is going nuts like a newbie with a new toy. I will change the channel...Fast.  Sorry...carry on..:-)</p> <p>Harry</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/fluid-camera-movements-and-ways-to-record-motion-in-action-sequences#post-70057 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:50:53 +0000 Charles Schultz 70057@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Define fluid movement?  A decent tripod can be used for panning will you may need a truck to use it to follow motion a distance. You use a crane for rising / falling shots and elevated panning shots. Etc. Etc. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/fluid-camera-movements-and-ways-to-record-motion-in-action-sequences#post-70044 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:44:24 +0000 Fadly Hussin 70044@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello gentlemen and ladies...</p> <p>I'm currently writing an article on capturing fluid on-screen movements as seen in action sequences and i'm pouring my brain juices out. Is there any feedback for how it can be done effectively using minimum equipment?</p> <p>The article i wrote can be found here: <a href="http://fadlywychowvski.blogspot.com/2011/08/recording-fluid-action-movement-in-6.html" rel="nofollow">http://fadlywychowvski.blogspot.com/2011/08/recording-fluid-action-movement-in-6.html</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Perhaps I can include more tips and tricks into the article to edit it further. I did some research, but some is never enough. Gurus out there! help enlighten me please</p> <p> </p> <p>Cheers</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/panasonic-pv-gs90p-ghost-image-when-filming-action#post-62524 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:44:36 +0000 Don 62524@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>possibly your shutter is too slow, shooting at less than thirty frames per second...</p> <p>I'd check out your camera settings to see if that is the case.</p> <p>if so a wider iris opening (aperture) and faster shutter 1/60 for eg...</p> <p>or if using automatic settings, you need more light....</p> <p>also possible you need to turn off the shake reduction when tripod mounted..</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/panasonic-pv-gs90p-ghost-image-when-filming-action#post-62522 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:08:51 +0000 map 62522@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I have a Panasonic PV-GS90P that is always used on a tripod to film sign language publications.  I always seem to get what we call a ghost image, or a blurry trail that follows the hands of the signer.  Is there any solution for this? Or is it just something we have to live with in this camera?  I would really appreciate any help or suggestions.</p> <p>Thanks</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tips-for-creative-use-of-small-tripods#post-53818 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:09:28 +0000 composite1 53818@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Roble,</p> <p>I can't take the credit for the video, but I will say for all my experience I learned as much as you did! Though I have come up with stupidly cheap and innovative ways to get footage with creative camera supports, these simple techniques Van Der Meer used will now be added to my repertoire. Your suggestion sounds like a good idea and I'm glad you've shared it with the forum.</p> <p>The main thing I try to stress to new and intermediate shooters is these days you are so fortunate because consumer equipment is a) readily available and b) is sooooo much better than the first generation of consumer video cameras! With what's available now, there is no reason not to be able to make professional looking videos despite having only consumer grade gear.</p> <p>Now be advised, your CMOS chip camera (other than the Canon EOS and Nikon N lines of chips) in your 'flip brick' will not look like you shot it with a high-end HD or Film camera. There is no way to make your footage look like you did. However, you can still get a good clean image by using proper shooting techniques, lighting (natural or man-made) and adding camera movements like the ones mentioned in the video. The key to learn is the pro's know when, where and how to put those moves to best use. </p> <p>These techniques and tools will serve you well but can be easily thwarted if you don't shoot to edit. If you don't shoot with the eventuality of editing the footage all the great tools and camera tricks won't mean squat.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tips-for-creative-use-of-small-tripods#post-53789 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:28:11 +0000 roblewis56 53789@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I enjoyed your video on the creative use of a monopod with a ball head. </p> <p>A have found a monopod with a ball head also makes a good shoulder steady. Rotate the ball head so the monopod is nearly parallel with the base of the camcorder and along the optical axis leaving just enough room for your left hand. Grasp the monopod handle with your left hand with the monopod shaft on or pressed against your right shoulder and your left upper arm pressed next to your body. Your left forearm forms a triangle with the monopod and your upper body. This triangle steadies the camcorder yet allows flexible movement for hand held shooting.  This leaves your right hand free to control the camcorder and a clear view of the screen. Keep your feet about a foot or so apart and further steady yourself against a stationary object if available. </p> <p>A table top tripod with the legs extended but not spread can also be used similarly, particularly with a small camcorder.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tips-for-creative-use-of-small-tripods#post-53709 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:34:38 +0000 composite1 53709@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>There are constant cries on the forum from new and intermediate videographers for info on whether they need expensive upgrades of equipment to get 'high quality video'. The answers from the advanced members and moderators always stress, 'master the tools you have first then move up'. Many times that answer meets the satisfaction of the member asking the question but sometimes I can tell it's not 100%.</p> <p>So for you shooters using small consumer grade cameras now feeling 'big camera envy', don't. Cameras are tools and just like a mechanic wouldn't use a screwdriver to fix everything on a car, cameras are similar. In my experience I've used the 'right camera for the time'. Depending on the setting, it was a big 3CCD camera with pro lenses or a small handheld rig with alternate lenses and a lens adapter. </p> <p>Even if all you have is a small prosumer rig, you're still in good shape to get excellent footage if you a) have a solid grip on your camera's basic functions (exposure, focus, white balance, audio), b) understand the basics of composition (rule of thirds, depth of field), c) shot framing (wide shot, medium shot, etc.) screen direction and the 180 degree rule.</p> <p>Where you start adding to your video's production values once you have a grip on the basics is adding camera movements like; pan, tilt, dolly, crane, etc. Again, you don't need to spend your life savings to be able to do those things. In fact you may already have the equipment to do all of the things I just mentioned if you have a small tripod and or monopod. Here's a video by Jan Van Der Meer (no not the famous 17th Century painter) as he shows some ridiculously simple techniques for getting advanced looking camera moves using a small monopod and a small tripod.</p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/7352118">TIPS lightweight tripods with small cams.</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/janvandermeer">Jan van der Meer</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/dolly-advice#post-45138 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:45:41 +0000 EarlC 45138@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Here's what you need, for probably less than $50 or so: a square, or rectangle of 3/4 or thicker plywood, some kind of non-slip rubber/other surface material to glue to the work side, three bungie cords or other fasteners and the appropriate hardware to attach them to three corners of the platform in a traditional tripod/spreader figuration, a wagon tongue or other handle to use for pushing or pulling with proper hardware for attaching (permanent, or removable for portability) four pairs of skateboard-style wheels and brackets needed for fastening them to the underside of the platform, two six-to-10-foot, or longer, as needed sections of 1" or 2" PVC pipe (I used two-inch a long time ago to do one of these and that worked fine.) Assorted tools, nuts, bolts, lock washers, LockTite, other hardware.</p> <p>Get some lesser priced skateboard wheels but try to avoid the extremely hard plastic or composite ones, the more yielding, rubberized type do better as far as giving a smooth ride. They actually provide a bit of drag that might be helpful in acquiring more smoothness in the ride. You can use carpet or something instead of the non-slip material, but carpet tends to be a bit more slippery to tripod feet even if you use the spikes. A spreader will help keep the tripod legs from slipping out or maybe even jumping the harnesses you create if the harnesses were not designed especially right.</p> <p>Cut a square/rectangle of board large enough to accommodate your camera, tripod or whatever, drill some holes to accept the spikes on your tripod or, if no spikes, use a spreader and devise some kind of bungie cord or other fastener to attach to the spreader/legs for safety, security and tight to prevent unnecessary jiggle or bumpiness. A LOT of the success of this is to make sure your "PVC" track is level and straight, or if you're working an incline, that you put caps on the ends to help a bit on the braking at each end, instead of rolling right off the track. This works on grass, sand, carpet, even concrete streets, sidewalks, hard floors, and other hard surfaces as well, but you might need something to help wedge the track in place so it won't roll on you while in use, or scoot out from under the wheels unexpectedly.</p> <p>Find and purchase, some triangle-shaped angle brackets that will allow you to fasten the wheels in such a manner as they tilt at an angle and each wheel of each pair faces each other - this configuration allows the wheels to "hug the PVC pipe track snugly, and roll smoothly along its surface and length. You'll need to work with this and develop a perfect angle, spacing, etc. to accommodate the circumference of PVC pipe used. Leave a couple inches from each corner (front and side) for some platform overlap and clearance. Also, it is a good idea to round or sand down the corners so they are not sharp and prone to possible injury or damage, or pad them some way.</p> <p> You could fashion wooden wedge blocks for attaching your wheels at a "perfect angle" but metal will not split on you at the wrong moment, and probably will last a lifetime if properly attached. Finally, I used a old Western Flyer wagon tongue assembly for mine, but I have also developed a cup retainer for placing a closet clothes poll or even a broom handle to push - wagon tongue assembly for pulling, pole seated in a socket for pushing. You could conceivably make this apparatus large enough to contain a seat for a operator/dolly approach similar to the wheel chair. Believe me, it works, and if mine hadn't rolled right off the back of a truck a friend was driving, one who "forgot" to lift the tailgate in place, and hit the road, breaking into a thousand small pieces, in an area where we couldn't safely stop and retrieve any of it - actually didn't discover it was missing until after we'd arrived back at the pizza place and were enjoying a satisfying meal for a shoot well done.</p> <p>OK, your wheels and blocks are attached and fashioned in angles that allow each pair, all in perfect allignment of course, to snuggly hug the PVC pipe track. Your method of attachment for the triood, or even a center piece with a stryrofoam pellets or other bean-bag type filler under for cushioning, will allow you to roll the camera at an extremely low level for another unique angle of trucking or dollying, and I've set the track up across saw horses or even chair backs, for other unique angles, heights, perspectives. As I mentioned, you can do inclines, such as following dolly shots alongside outdoor/indoor stairs, allowing the bannisters and rails to be part of the sense of action in the footage - possibilities are limitness, and once you develop/engineer this gear to your specific needs, intentions and use, you will leave it in the trunk or truck, or back of your PT for those unique POV opportunities that always come up on a shoot. Just make sure the tailgate is closed.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/dolly-advice#post-45132 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:38:04 +0000 TDedmonSBP 45132@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yeah I agree with JMM, well mostly. It all depends on what kind of dolly you are looking for. If it's a tripod dolly you want, it costs $100 give or take so just go for it because they have a million uses. If you were looking for something like a hand truck that only goes one direction, you can build it yourself with plywood and some casters from Lowe's for sub $20 and it will give you something to carry your gear on when you aren't using it for shooting. </p> <p>But if you have a rolling desk chair or wheel chair...yeah that will suit your needs also.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/dolly-advice#post-45131 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:30:21 +0000 JMM 45131@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>rent a weelchair, seriouly its working preety well if you have a clean floor , if not you can still put some wood to make some rails</p> <p>This maybe sound like a ghetto set-up but thats what they used in the movie reine Helisabet. I have tried it too and its the chapest good way to do it.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/dolly-advice#post-45130 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:23:52 +0000 jonahr 45130@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>what would be the cheapest quality way to effectively move the camera laterally in a straight line, i see relatively inexpensive dollies at B&amp;H but will these move in a straight line if desired?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/chromakey-with-movement#post-40452 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:22:17 +0000 birdcat 40452@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>A little off topic here, but on the Digital Juice forums, there has been an award winning NASCAR videographer/producer for several years.</p> <p>His name is Bill Channell (<a href="http://www.racevideo.com">http://www.racevideo.com</a>) and while he is taking a break from the forums now (he just retired) would, I'm pretty sure, be more than helpful for you in your endeavors in this genre.</p> <p>I've seen his video work and it is outstanding!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/chromakey-with-movement#post-40447 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:17:21 +0000 Johnboy 40447@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>All you are doing in chromakeying is overlaying an image or video on a mask that is set to a color value.  just because you zoom in and the area of the color key changes, the image or video that you overlay does not zoom with the camera changes.  you would have to make adjustments to the input images or video to correspond with the camera changes.</p> <p>john</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/chromakey-with-movement#post-40439 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:52:04 +0000 jomo 40439@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> That's exactally what I want to do. Obviously if you zoom in on talent, the chromakeyed background gets larger too. Is there an economical way to track that so they work simultaneously?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/chromakey-with-movement#post-40324 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:42:40 +0000 jerronsmith 40324@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Jomo,</p> <p>I am not sure I understand your question. Are you asking for a way of having the pan/zoom that you do on your talent match the pan/zoom in your background plate?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/chromakey-with-movement#post-40308 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:29:57 +0000 shippocaio 40308@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Adobe have a program called "Ultra". It is a program just for chroma keying and it has some very cool virtual backgrounds, with pans, zooms, and movements... i think ultra will help you...</p> <p>Hope i have helped,</p> <p>Caio</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/chromakey-with-movement#post-40307 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:00:40 +0000 jomo 40307@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> We produce a weekly tv show about NASCAR Racing. We are currently using a green screen behind our talent, which works well, but we'd like to</p> <p>be able to incorporate camera pans and zooms. Does anyone know of a way to do this without breaking the bank?</p>