Videoclip Ambacht

July 26th, 2009

Last weekend we shot footage for the videoclip of Ambacht, the band I mentioned in one of my earlier posts. For the shoot we hired a Sony EX-1 HD camera and shot the clip on 720p and overcranked allot of the footage to get a nice dramatic effect. Fun thing here was that the performers had to sing at a higher speed, 200% was a bit too much so we pitched the song to 150% and speeded up the lipsync footage to 66% to get it sync.

ambacht_clip_1
Some weeks earlier we also made a DIY dolly with rails to get some nice pans. Thought it is not completely a perfect smooth motion we did get a perfect image after applying Final Cut Pro’s smoothcam filter.

See here an example:

Here a picture of the dolly:

dolly

Though we had allot of rain during the shoot we still managed to get all the footage and I also got burned by the moments of sun between the showers.
ambacht_shoot_2

The clip is currently in edit, I’ll post the result here when its done.

Set pictures by Camilla van der Weegen

Tutorial: Scripted Scene Selection - DVD Studio Pro 4

January 21st, 2008

DVD Authoring
In this tutorial I describe how you can make a scene selection in DVD Studio Pro (DVDSP) without having to make all the connections by hand. The big advantage of doing this is that you can modify the behavior of all the buttons in one script and you won’t accidently set a wrong link.

Dowload Tutorial [<1.0 mb](current version is Dutch, english coming up)
Download DVDSP Project [1.0 mb].