TRhoads wrote in post #18255289
nice work Carlo! Yeah, your kids had a blast...you must have been shooting a ton of footage...I plan to do some video, but not that much! Mostly just to capture some of my daughters reactions, and then be able to share that with family.
Thanks Travis!
Yeah I shot a crap-load of footage. I have enough leftover footage to make a second video.....which I might do. My wife is making one too.
It wasn't too bad though. Basically every time I photographed something that wasn't scenic, I shot some video. Of course I shot some scenic footage too for context.
TRhoads wrote in post #18255305OK, glad I looked at the reveal video I shot the other night when we told my daughter about going to Disney...I have only done video with the Sony once, and it was stationary and on a tripod, MF...I tried to do this one with AF...and it is making me sick...the focus keeps hunting, I clearly had it on Av, the aperture keeps changing and it gets darker and then lighter...need to be full manual everything I am assuming!
So most people use MF...but while I'm pretty good with MF for stills, I'm not good enough to do video with my kids in MF....so I used AF, but turned pre-focus on (native glass only). This does a pretty good job of keeping things in focus and you don't need to be as critically in focus as you do with stills. The downside to leaning on pre-focusing is that if something jumps into the foreground, the camera will focus on that. You can actually see it happening in my video and I need to go back and clean those clips up.
In terms of settings....I actually used TV mode because I didn't really have time to mess with settings in the park, and yeah you can see the exposure adjusting in my video too. I used TV mode because you want to keep the shutter speed at 1/2X the focal length (i.e. with a 50mm lens, your SS should be 1/100s). This will make sure your video is smooth and less jittery/nauseating.
I used a pistol grip gimbal for about 65% of the video and it went a long way. All of the video before the castle is hand-held and so is the footage of shows, the lion, jedi training....basically anything were I needed to use my a7rII and 70-200. You can see that the video isn't really stable, but its not so bad if you make sure you're really careful to stabilize yourself while shooting. You can stabilize in post too, but it creates weird jello effects. I'm sure there are better methods of stabilizing in post than iMovie though lol. I've heard there's a way to shoot in 4k, and create cropped stabilized footage in 1080p, but have never looked into it.
