Edit Critique

[bcole]

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/889804/Twilight-Zone---Mount-Bohemia-

Just posted my first edit from this season. Backcountry skiing up at Mount Bohemia in the Upper Peninsula. Had a killer weekend up there, with some really good snow despite it being fairly early in their season still.

I want to get some feedback on the edit. What could I be doing while filming and editing to make the final video better. I had some issues with coloring and quality of a few shots that were recorded with my old go pro and not with my DSLR and you can definitely see the difference between the shots. I tried to fix them a bit with some color correction in premiere but resolution is still noticeably worse. Any tips?

 

[Jarvis]

Maybe it's just me, but some of the clips look a little bit over sharpened. Gopro cameras tend to do this. In terms of color, maybe up the saturation just a bit. Some of the clips made the trees look black and white, but you could see little traces of color, showing that they weren't black and white.

When you're filming your next edit, have your athletes wear brighter colors. This will help them stand out from the background. Also, if you can, it helps to get a little closer to the athletes. It creates a sense of depth, and is a pretty common Hollywood technique.

All in all, great edit. Those pillow lines looked sick. The skiers were great. The editing was awesome, and told your story well. The clips were put together in a way that made the edit flow smoothly. It isn't perfect, but it's easily better than 90% of ski videos that I've watched.

 

[IanAvery-Leaf]

edit started out great with solid b-roll of the ice and country store, but when it cut to the first skier shot of the fast pan in the woods I got a headache and couldn't finish the rest of the edit, for fast pans like that you should try slowing your shutter speed wayyy more down to seperate the skier from the background and make it way easier on the eyes. People debate how close you should stick to the 180degree shutter rule, personally I'm in the camp of never straying from it

 

[bcole]

edit started out great with solid b-roll of the ice and country store, but when it cut to the first skier shot of the fast pan in the woods I got a headache and couldn't finish the rest of the edit, for fast pans like that you should try slowing your shutter speed wayyy more down to seperate the skier from the background and make it way easier on the eyes. People debate how close you should stick to the 180degree shutter rule, personally I'm in the camp of never straying from it

Thats something I haven't paid to much attention too in the past so I definitely will look out for it while filming from now on, thank you!

I'm pretty sure that first shot your talking about what actually shot on an iPhone not DSLR so that probably has something to do with it as well. For shots like that is there any way to adjust shutter speed on the iPhone or other ways to avoid this problem while filming with a phone or any ways to clean it up in post?

 

[IanAvery-Leaf]

Thats something I haven't paid to much attention too in the past so I definitely will look out for it while filming from now on, thank you!

I'm pretty sure that first shot your talking about what actually shot on an iPhone not DSLR so that probably has something to do with it as well. For shots like that is there any way to adjust shutter speed on the iPhone or other ways to avoid this problem while filming with a phone or any ways to clean it up in post?

unfortunately since an iphone (and gopro and other similar cameras) have a fixed open aperture and mainly use shutter speed to control exposure, theres nothing you can do except get ND filters to put in front of the iphone lens. As far as cleaning up footage in post, nothing is going to look as good as if it was originally shot with a slow shutter speed, but there is an effect in After Effects called pixel motion blur that analyzes the shot and does its best guess on where to blur and where not to, heres a video about it

[video]https://vimeo.com/63247183[/video]

also heres a good example of a ski edit that strictly follows the 180degree rule

[video]https://vimeo.com/22502327[/video]

 

[IanAvery-Leaf]

unfortunately since an iphone (and gopro and other similar cameras) have a fixed open aperture and mainly use shutter speed to control exposure, theres nothing you can do except get ND filters to put in front of the iphone lens. As far as cleaning up footage in post, nothing is going to look as good as if it was originally shot with a slow shutter speed, but there is an effect in After Effects called pixel motion blur that analyzes the shot and does its best guess on where to blur and where not to, heres a video about it

[video]https://vimeo.com/63247183[/video]

also heres a good example of a ski edit that strictly follows the 180degree rule

[video]https://vimeo.com/22502327[/video]

^to expand on that, I was curious so I just tested out the Pixel Motion Blur feature in After Effects on some of my own footage and I'm honestly pretty impressed. Depending on what type of shot you have when it knows what motion to isolate the results look fantastic. When I shoot 120p and even 60p and export in 24fps its impossible to have a 180degree shutter unless you slow down the clips to 20% and 40%, so for speed ramping shots the fast motion looks jittery, but this effect has to potential to really help alleviate that