Hey everybody.
Posted by BimmerBrad
Welcome back. Glad you found our new permanent home 
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i knew you'd come back.
how's the car, and the PS3?  Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/09/2009 02:53PM by daniel. |
Thanks. I've known about the place for awhile. Daniel gave me a heads up. Thanks Ferd. Car's still pluggin' along. Oh you KNEW I'd come back eh? haha Car's the same, just a few more miles. Oh yeah, it's finally paid off too. So I rightfully own the turdbox now. haha PS3? It's.....uh......well.......still a PS3. I use it more for playing media than gaming at the time being. Downloading videos from Vimeo and loading them on the PS3 to watch. Sometimes I have to re-render them to AVC files. Which brings me to why I've been inactive here. First, I was getting burnt out on some of the serious discussions around here. It didn't really go anywhere and it was causing some acquaintances to get sour and I didn't like that. I had to take a step back. This place is suppose to be about friendships and cars. That's how it will be for me. I'm not getting involved in any deep political or religious type threads anymore. We all have differences.....done. I'm cool with all you guys. 
The second and really the most important reason I've been gone is because I've been preoccupied with a new passion/hobby/turned paying job. It's way too long of a story to type, but in short I met up with an old friend who is a phenomenal photographer who made a name for himself as a wedding photographer. He saw that I was really into videography on the side for fun. He wanted to offer up wedding videos for clients and asked me to come along on a wedding shoot and film some video with another friend of his who was also filming for him but was actually getting paid by the clients. (I was filming for free basically). Well, after the LOONG day of shooting I was exhausted but felt good that I actually did something with my hobby. Two days later I had a short trailer done..... Wedding Trailer A couple months later because of change after change, my first wedding video was done.... (WARNING: it's 15min. long) Final Wedding Video I know watching someone else's wedding isn't exactly fun, but it gives you an idea at what I'm doing and what our style is. It's only going to get better from there. I've been submersed in the audio/video/cinema world for the last 6 months or so, trying to be a sponge and learn. There's so much to it. More than I ever thought of. So somewhere after I made the wedding video, I came up with a name and it's Modern Memory Films. It just kinda stuck. My friend and I sat down and came up with the logo. Shortly after that, I made another video, only this time it was for a wedding invitation DVD that we're trying to put together. Here's the video for that (it's short too)..... Wedding Invitation And so here we are. I've already got another bride that booked me and 3 more showing interest. I just need to get them to sign on the dotted line. I'm in between camcorders right now, as I just sold all my current stuff to upgrade to something even better. If money will allow, it will be a 3-CCD or 3-CMOS chipped cam with solid state recording. HDV is still a robust way of capturing/editing/archiving but it's also on its way out. Still not sure yet. I've been using AVCHD, but it can be pretty taxing on the computer and frustrating. Highly compressed files at 17Mbps. I even upgraded RAM and CPU to 4gig and 3.0ghz quadcore extreme respectively and it still takes a while to render files. Anyway, enough for now. Sorry for the rant. Later guys, -Brad Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/10/2009 03:16AM by BimmerBrad. |
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NO RANTING ALLOWED
that wasn't a rant... i have recently started experimenting with photography and have thought about going into it professionally, but i feel like there is so much to learn and it is such a populated field that it might not be worth the trouble. i'll still keep it as a hobby though.
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i can see this convo happening. man: oh you are photographer? i might need you to do a shoot for me. bro: oh great, just go to my website andreastrauttmansdorff.com when you are ready, all my contact info is there. man: andreas what? bro: t, r, a, u, t oh forget it, here's my card.
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I've always been told from friends and family that I have an "eye" for setting up a good shot, probably because I have always paid attention to details (not just with photos). When I visited Venezuela (Eventually, when I am putting off some big project or something, I will make a thread about my trip, with lots of photos) I was unofficially the official photographer, and everyone kept complementing me on the photos I took. Granted, they aren't photography experts, but neither are the people for whom you are usually taking photos! Brad, I really like the wedding video. I especially like the part where you are filming the photoshoot. I could care less about watching people paint there nails, but for some reason I think it's great seeing people having their picture taken, and then a still shot every once in a while to show how one turned out. Keep it up.
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That's clever, and funny. By the way, the link to Brett's website should be: Jarnagin Photography. I'm only recording in-car video so I can study it later to learn from all the mistakes I've made. It was never intended to be art. Nobody else at home is the least bit interested in watching any of this stuff, so the videos are mostly only ever going to be posted in low quality on YouTube. I was using a Sony miniDV handycam, until the handycam eventually objected to all the abuse we were putting it through rattling around in the car. So now I'm using a more robust system from ChaseCam with a solid-state recorder using CompactFlash cards and a couple of small bullet-cams like this: 
It's a perfect setup for what we're doing with it, but it's nowhere close to your league. For editing, mostly just adding titles and stuff to the in-car footage, I'm using an old version of Pinnacle Studio. Otherwise, I hardly do any editing at all. Here are a couple of examples that did turn out okay though. John Buffum is one of my very few genuine heroes. He holds pretty much every record possible in North American rallying and nobody will likely ever come close to beating those records. He retired from full-time racing many years ago, but is still deeply involved in running his race shop out of Vermont and is still very active behind the scenes. In 2005, one of the clients of his race-shop, Antoine l'Estage, was still mathematically in the running to win the Championship. But he had to win the final event of the Championship, the 2005 Tall Pines Rally, with his closest competitor finishing 3rd or lower. To help l'Estage win, Buffum came out of retirement to also run this event, hoping to finish 2nd in order to take points away from the other competitor. Instead, l'Estage was out early in the rally, and Buffum went on to win instead. I was a spectator at this rally, with my Sony handycam, and later put together this little video of Buffum's win. The other video is a compilation of clips from my various Chevette Ice-Racing adventures using in-car footage recorded by me and by my friend Jim. You can tell us apart because in Jim's footage you can't see his eyes. In my stuff you can usually see the round lenses of my sunglasses in the rearview mirror. The red car, with no rearview mirror at all, and the rollover at the end, was also me. The image quality isn't good for most of the older stuff because it was captured off old VHS videotapes. The more recent footage, shot with the miniDV camera, is a lot better quality. I had a lot of fun editing this one, but I didn't have enough disk space to save the various steps involved. If I wanted to fix the many little mistakes I see in it now, I'd have to start all over from scratch again. Chevette Ice Racing. |
Thanks for catching me on that mispelling!! I used to do that all the time and eventually got over it. Till now. I fixed it. I think I was in a hurry trying to post that before I went to work. Ferd, that Chevette Ice Racing video is flippin' sweet!! (no pun intended, haha) That was very well put together. Man that looks like fun. |
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