I recently shot a music video for a bach­e­lorette party. I can’t upload the video because (1) it con­tains copy­righted music (the Extra Fes­tive ver­sion of Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christ­mas Is You’) and I don’t really need any law­suits right now, and (2) I heard that song like 70 times the last two weeks, some­thing I wish upon no one. So we’ll have to make do with stills.

Shot with pretty much avail­able light and the Sony EX1 and Nikon D7000, edited in Pre­miere (you can’t see that right now but take my word), mostly graded in After Effects with Magic Bul­let Col­orista II and there’s a cou­ple of Video Copilot’s Opti­cal Flares here and there as well.

Some high­lights:

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So, I shot a sim­ple scene this evening: a sparkler, my Sony PMW-EX1 (over­cranked to 60fps), and the Shuttle.

The dif­fer­ences are pretty pro­nounced, there’s slightly more detail, less noise and less com­pres­sion arti­facts in the uncom­pressed footage. It’s also pretty huge, see pre­vi­ous post.

I think the footage looks nice and the Shut­tle is nice to have, but for many shots it’s prob­a­bly pure overkill., e.g. inter­views or sim­ple reg­is­tra­tions. It might be nice for (reflec­tive) water, shots with lots of motion and scenes with lit­tle avail­able light.

Shot with the EX1 (com­pressed), click for full size (1280*720)

Shot with the Shut­tle (uncom­pressed), click for full size (1280*720)

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Like, for instance, a Black­magic Design Hyper­Deck Shut­tle. After wait­ing for it to become avail­able and then wait­ing a lit­tle bit more for the (cus­tom made) cables to arrive, I’m finally ready to go out & see what’s what.

Ini­tial find­ings: firstly, uncom­pressed HD video is, unsur­pris­ingly, insanely large (34:16 sec­onds @ 1920*1080*25fps = 4.868.530.254 bytes) and sec­ondly, 4.868.530.254 bytes via USB 2 = no fun. Pre­miere Pro CS5.5 how­ever seems to have lit­tle trou­ble han­dling (a few of) these files.

This post will be updated with more info, images (still and/or mov­ing) in the very near future.