Dot Com Pho – The Sort of Cinematic Edition
Posted by Stephen on
October 11, 2009
Dot Com Pho has always been a low budget, low production value weekly mish mash of the dumb things that we do while eating Vietnamese Noodles. While we’ve always talked about doing a proper higher production value podcast or show, the actual effort to make something like that happen just doesn’t seem to register in our somewhat easy going Dot Com Lifestyles. This week at Dot Com Pho, I decided to introduce a new piece of gear that could possibly bring up the quality of the show while still maintaining the genuinely idiotic things we do and say at this weekly gathering.
Products featured this week include the Poken Social Media Token, every man’s favourite Yoga Teacher App for the iPhone and of course the JAG35Pro adapter which films this week’s episode, giving it a very high production value look…
While the JAG35Pro provided some pretty stunning results similar to what you would see in a big blockbuster movie, the device is somewhat cumbersome in tight spaces. The 50mm lens was far to long and the fact that I was filming and manually focusing a flipped around picture (due to the JAG35 having no prism) was a challenge to say the least.
Some grading was done using Red Giant Software’s Magic Bullet Looks, but I have yet to find a good piece of conversion software that will allow me to convert the AVCHD files into an easy to edit format while simultaneously flipping the picture. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 really didn’t like having to turn the picture 180 degrees, and then having to render adjustments on top of that.
Look for a review of the the JAG35Pro at Futurelooks sometimes in the next while!
PS: We’re also giving away a 128GB Patriot USB Flash Memory Drive worth $359 US over at Futurelooks. Check out the contest details here.
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what a prize.. i will try my luck there.. thanks for telling me this
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I have to agree, good prize especially for modding into your netbook. By the way, why is there two subscribing to comments via email?
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flowerwizard.com It was edited upside down and then flipped in post. Such a pain, but the results look pretty decent…
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These all are really very impressive.
I was just wondering, i film with a hard drive camcorder but does the camera make the quality? its not bad quality its just not cinematic looking.
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Even after meticulously lighting and shooting everything, films go through a color correction process to give them polish. Both Final Cut and Premiere have basic cc tools built in, but try to get a dedicated color correction software, Apple’s Color (bundled in Final Cut Studio) is really good for the price point.
Watch the online tutorials and practice, but color correction is really an art form in itself, and there are professionals called colorists who do nothing but cc the film- it takes quite a bit of finess.