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https://vimeo.com/61317682
Film about a dive in St. Lucia on the Wreck of the Lesleen M.
Shot and Produced by Ula Copeland.
copelandvisuals.com
Shot and Directed by Graham Copeland.
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Edited and Finished at Glossy.
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Shot on a GoPro Hero3.
Cut on CS6.
Graded in Resolve.
Music by Tycho.
Enjoy!
Please let me know what you think!!
Very nice work, your scene selection was nice, you got some good shots of your fellow divers! I would say try editing out some of the shaky scenes and slow the rate down to about 22fps and you'll get ride of that jerky look to some of the scenes..... Over all a good grade on this one!
Thanks, I love to tweak color and underwater footage is definitely unique in its color needs. I will try out that 22fps suggestion. I was shooting with just the GoPro housing, I'm thinking some kind of try with handles would go a long way towards stabilizing the camera. Thoughts?
Lots of trays/handles now available for the GoPro. Slowing footage way down helps with the shakes, as does image stabilization used mildly, otherwise you'll get a loss of resolution.
Twixtor has a good slo-mo plugin. Nice work, and good color correction on the deep stuff.
Ditto, at DEMA this year there were a lot of after market platforms for the GoPro and the sad part is it's size is one of the problems in getting steady shots... Big heavy cameras are the most stable having mass in the water!
I am supporting this kick-starter project as a starting point to build some kind of rig that stabilizes the go pro: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...e-gopro-hero-3
I shot a thing in a pool recently that has a fair bit of image stabilization, but the footage with ripple and bubbles starts to reveal the slomotion plugin in an acid trippy way that I don't really like. What I did realize is that slow-mo, 60 FPS footage that is slowed down to 24 can minimize the shakes a bit. Have you guys had success with over cranking underwater?
Here's that video, some is 5D @ 24 frames, some is Gopro @ 60 FPS:
https://vimeo.com/48520391
This was done really well! A new videocam I am getting next month will do 240 fps at 1920x1080p but will be for land primarily. The GoPro's sure are easier to use though. A lot of cinematic underwater guys slow their footage down for things like whales, as it helps smooth out the shakes.
The 22fps was for a normal rate of 29fps not at 60. The compression maybe playing havoc? Try just slowing by 20% and see what happens?
Still pretty good, but that is slowed by 55% plus, maybe 25% might get you what your looking for. Still like it better than full speed! ;)