5D Video of Gators and Manatees

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Posted by Aaron Szabo on March 19, 2009 at 8:32 PM

I finally got around to editing some more 5D footage. With these videos I'm going for musical and visual because some of the natural audio had me talking and shutter clicks.

Birds and Gators
http://www.vimeo.com/3752496

Underwater fish and Manatees
http://www.vimeo.com/3758438

These do have some color correction and the manatee video has some compression issues on Vimeo. The music is by musicians I used to play music with.

Thanks for watching and your critiques are welcome.

*I just found out that these videos made it to a popular "underground" 5D Mark II website/blog here: http://blog.planet5d.com/?p=371*

Posted by Daniel Loomis on March 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM

I like the gators, heron and ibises. Nice color and image.

What color correction software are you using?

Posted by Aaron Szabo on March 19, 2009 at 9:46 PM

I use the standard 3 way Color Corrector in FCP 2 to adjust white balance, contrast and saturation. I occasionally use some Nattress film effects, but most of the color is in camera setups. I was shooting everything really flat, but I now adjust the 5D presets to get plenty of saturation, sharpness and lower contrast to start editing with.

Posted by Gale Rainwater on March 20, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Aaron the gators video is really cool. Man there were alot of the to shoot it looks like. The quality is really impressive, great job.

Posted by Tom Kennon on March 20, 2009 at 10:34 PM

Aaron, impressive, you are good at this.