Sunday 27 February 2011

Video illusion

Today filming some street my friends got this crazy idea to jump over other guy who is riding really fast :D



But yeah it is only a illusion

February must see BMX videos

So those will be bmx videos wich i and Raimonds P. think are what you must see from February!
We are chosing videos who are full with good riding and made in good quality.

Federal BMX-San Diego

Love this video old school feeling, and still old sony camcorders with Cenentury fisheye is looking good!




Red Bull Bargespin


Raimonds said to not put this one in but i think it is not epic but smth new for bmx and you MUST see this!



PART ONE

Dakota Roche at Black Box Distribution

good filming and bunny over you to manual!?



Sean Sexton Kink Commercial

It is Sean dont need to say anything else :D



Jeff Wescott

Last 360tothover SICK!




VANS . alex VALENTINO

Some nice video effects and filming with fly cam and ofcourse RIDING !!



Russian game of bike and some extra riding

alweys fun to watch good game of bikes this time it is from Russia




Etnies Team In Malaga,Spain




Andreu Lacondeguy (not bmx but still)




Liked this? Come back last days in March and see MUST SEE MARCH videos!!!

Tuesday 22 February 2011

Ruben Alcantara First Hand

A Look into the life of Pro BMX rider Ruben Alcantara.
Ruben is legendary bmx rider from Spain and his riding is all about style.
Couldn't find in better quality, and i think the MTV style intro is not going well together with video feeling.

If you like bike riding you must see this!







Thanks to Raimonds P. for sharing this with me and about new idea, every month, last days will be few videos who you must see from that month

Sunday 20 February 2011

BMX pegs

Found this one interesting way to attract customers to buy this one.
Subrosa Miles Rogoish’s signature peg (Sweets- Rogarillos), the peg includes wax!
Those are not in the market now but soon soon will be.

Pegs what i have rode
first one with name was GT 50/50 pegs, Aluminium with Chromoly sleeve around, grinds good whatever sruface, but was not really light.
Next one was eastern bikes ramp pegs, structure the same as GT, but two times lighter, one off Eastern parts who i think is good for using, works more than month :D

now i am riding Macneil Fashionably Light pegs, but i suggest those only for park, no street is wealthy for them, looks cool and slim but arent wery strong, grinds good on almost ewery surface.

In future i am looking for, Fly cro-mo pegs, because those are from Chromoly and are light enough 170g or Some of animal light one like Animal MK3 lite Pegs 161g and made from chromoly.

Thursday 17 February 2011

RED ONE 4K vimeo chanel

If you have nothing to do you can spend here all the night.Soo good stuff and the collors of RED ar so amazing.

RED ONE vimeo channel

Documentary about profession


short film Jack and Jen

BEST VIDEO CAMERAS

RED

Nowadays RED is one off most popular cameras in cinema makeing. This year 16 oscar nominated movies (for example Social Network) where captured with RED cameras.

Cheapest body RED ONE mysterium-x costs 25K, it can film in resolution up to 4,5K (Full HD 1920x1080 is 1K), 59.97 fps, and with color sampling ratio 4:4:4 (AVCHD in DSLR cameras and most handycams got 4:2:0), so picture with RED one is closest to reality and have the biggest oppertunities to collor it in editing process.


the site - RED

Some skate vids shot on RED one





PHANTOM



This one is made for super slow motion videos, it can film up to 1,560 fps in 2K resolution, in Full HD it can film 2,800 and in HD 6,100 FPS, with color sampling ratio up to 4:4:4, SICK, to show what i mean see the video, o and yess this baby's body costs 50K till 150K

this is what its all about




Talking about bike and skate videos

i found aout that many riders and skaters still like to shoot with cameras like sony vx1000, wich shoots in DV quality, in mini DV format. BUT for all who where using this or similar cameras where used one tipe of lenses century mark 1 fisheye, everyone said that is what you need for skate bike videos. but some are started to use new tehnologies like canon 5D mrk2 or canon 550d so it is depending of yourself what to choose clasiic mini DV camecorder or new DSLR photo cameras with Full HD quality.

Smth shot with sony vx1000 and cenury mark1 fisheye



for pc screen itis even ok in DV quality only what i dont like is the 4:3 aspect ratio

CHEERS

Wednesday 16 February 2011

ROCKY the first (interesting facts)

Just watched rocky the first and thought i can write smth about it.

Rocky the first movie was big day for Garrett Brown the steadicam inventor. This was the first movie in wich was used steadicam, you can see that detailed in the video.



PART ONE

And little about editing.
Scene where Rocky preperes to his big fight is good example to one of the three ideologies about Montage (Editing tehnique), "Clip reel" - condensed narrative information. Advances the narrative through a collapse of time and space.
 "Lisa Ray"

Tuesday 15 February 2011

New BMX videos

RED BULL dirt pipe
red bull got one off the greatest action sport videos!
thos one is about red bull bmx dirt pipe so check it



One from Simpelsession
if it would be for teams than i think none would be better.
sick sick sick riding and nice report video




and last
this one is good made, I suggest to watch all Justen Soule videos, they all are in good quality and they all not made from one stencil.

Monday 14 February 2011

Short video editing software compare

Sony vegas
Worked with this some 2 years, till i found Adobe Premiere.
Easy to work with, isn't wery complicated, only didn't like exporting, i think it is easier in Adobe premiere.
Does not need high system requirements, if you have single core pc and want to work with HD files i suggest this one.

Sample video from my friend Dzintars who is into Vegas




Adobe Premiere

More popular than Sony Vegas and a little bit advanced. I am using this software now, it is logicaly made and easy to work with for me. Easy to switch between After Effects and Premiere, for advanced video editing. Easy to use with Photoshop, import Photoshop files and invidual layers. Uses more system power than Sony Vegas. For me it is easyer to export media in Premiere.

my video for school edited in Premiere and AE



Apple Final cut

yeah if you are mac user better dont even look at other software i suggest this one, and AE for some advanced editing. In final cut is the Apple prores422 codec (About it ), with whom you can play real time 4K videos from your RED camera If you have one :D. For normal people it is better to transcode AVCHD files in Apple prores 422 for editing.
Final cut workflow is really similar to Premiere.
Easier than PRemiere and Vegas is when you put in some fotage the software detects it and sugest you best timeline settings, that is useful if you not into video formats, codecs, framerates etc.

Cant find any from my friends sorry

Avid media composer

I had it only one time opened, found it really complex and couldnt import any video it was asking for some sound codecs whom i couldnt get work. But Avid DNxHD codec is useful, you can download it for vegas and for Adobe and work with it.

Conclusion
Chose whatever software you like, still you will need to sit to it for some while.

TIP
Main thing is to set sequence, project, timeline setiings the same as video you will use, those you can find on your camecorder or right click on your video and see the details, for exporting use the same framerate, format i suggest .mp4 or .mov, if the file is realy large try to reduce bitrate. See the youtube or vimeo recommendations for video exporting (vimeo).

Sunday 13 February 2011

BEST MUSIC VIDEOS

Of course this is my opinion and out there ar many many more good music videos but those are what i have seen and what i rememberd.If there are any what you can suggest please copy link to comments.

1. James Blake - Limit To Your Love
Like that eweryday look combination with good camera work and hard 3ds max work.
Let this vibrate you.


2.Jay Z - "Hello Brooklyn"
I am into HIP HOP music, so this one i think is one of the best rap music video.
So much work done in photography and in after effects.


Makeing of


3.Ill Bill - My Uncle Shoots Heroin
Like the animation and scipt, the story how it is showed. I dont know why not gorillaz they to have realy good animations, but yeah this is rap.


THE UNCLE hearing song for first time


4.MIA - born free
this is hard emotional stuff, this video for long time was prohibited to show and to put in youtube, still you need to log in youtube to see it so i searched for it in vimeo.


5.Brainstorm - Welcome to my country
Best Latvian stuff wich is in English, like how brainstorm(one off the best latvian bands) describe and reprezent Latvia,latvian culture, patriotic song.
But you can see this is latvian its only in 360p couldnt find better, if it would be in Full HD it would be so cool!!

Friday 11 February 2011

Using Sony nex 5 for filming

I am now without HD video camera but using my friends Reinis (thanks to him) Sony hdr-sr10.

so i am searching for cheapest and best camera with full HD resolution, and i found this one as a good opportunity.

It have Full HD, AVCHD, 1920x1080 interlaced, 60/50fps, 17mbps or MP4, 1440x1080 interlaced, 30/25 fps, 12 Mbps video recording.
It is really imressive for so compac camera with replaceable lens and with so big 23.4x15.6mm Exmor APS HD CMOOS Sensor wich is bigger than Canon 550d (22.3 x 14.9 mm CMOS sensor).
In Latvia 16mm kit is 200$ cheaper than Canon 550d body.
BIG PLUS is that LCD display is moveable compering with 550d and you can get wide angled or fisheye lens for it each smth about 150$

Cons
- no 3.5mm jack for mic (only can use sony mic for sony nex camera wich costs 100$)

All in all it is OK but if you dont need to film interviews (well you can use external mic and sync it in editing)


PREVIEW







Wide angle lens and fisheye lens

Thursday 10 February 2011

PARBMX/MENTAL LV/RUS (video)

Ha ha are you kidding me :D





If you dont know Latvian or Russian than you missed all your life

RUSLAN i KUMA (video)

lately the best video from Latvian bike riders
kaunet.ru




This one is mine first documentary film about Janis Cunculis "TO BE REGULAR?"

Final cut (mac) vs Premiere (win)

If you are buying new computer for video editing and can not chose between apple and win likai had year ago, i suggest you to buy apple.
Well i bought a dell studio xps 1646 with intel i7core, because the same price but two more times powerfull than same price apple mac pro.
But why now i suggest mac?

Really briefly
because in final cut you can AVCHD files and other GOPframe based videos trancode in Apple ProRes 422 codec and your mac will need less power to work with them in after effects or finalcut or whatever and keep the video quality the same, only they will be much more heavier. Though AVCHD file color sample ratio is 420 you can transcode tham into apple prores 422, that doesnt mean you will have better quality video but it will give you more space to work with colors etc.

On win you can use Avid codec DNxHD with is smth simmilar to apple prores422, from my experience there are non bugs (erors) working in AE and switching to Premiere, but it take the same pc power, to reduce pc performance you will need hard drive wich is faster than 7200 rpm

i think i will update this later but so on i hope you will be more clerier in this one or you can correct me if there smth wrong.

Cassete hubs

So about cassete hubs, not used many but those what i used was pretty good.

Firstly WeThePeople supreme cassete hub

If you dont know what cassete hub to take i suggest you this one. It has reverse sistem in driver from regular cassete hubs, it have 6 pawls and each pawl have 2 points wich touch the driver, so you have like 12 pawls, each pawl have his own spring, and this cassete could be realy realy loud. 

I was riding it for almoust 3 years and than the shel had a crack and with it i even drove with it like month

Remember 3 YEARS!! 
If you ride pegs it is easily to put on hubguard, fits WTP rear hubguard, Shadow conspiracy rear hubguard and maby some others.
All in all this is the hub what you need to get!

Next one is Shadow rant v2

I could say it is the same as WTP supreme, just the shell is a little bit different.Fits the same hubgueards. 

Had this hub because it the same as WTP and i was riding with it 6 months till i got freecouster.
No problems those 6 months.

And WTP hubguard still work for me. It has his 3. hub :D:D




camera stabilization

found this video in vimeo.com and liked realy this idea it is simply, cheap and briliant



great possibility if you dont have or cant take with you tripod and if you dont need to film in movement!

look even girl can film without shakeing :D no offence girls!

TIP. you even dont need a camera screw you can attach snore to whereever to your camera.

SELF MADE (documentary)

my favorit documentary.
its very well filmed and edited, you can live along the story.
I think this is the one way how the documentary should be.

The Burn Units - ALIVE

Snowboarding video shot with RED, Canon 5d and canon 7d so it can't be bed

Wednesday 9 February 2011

Endeavorbmx - The Nocturnal

realy good quality video and riding.
simple style video (using some lights), editing and it is makeing video look great, even it is filmed in indoor skatepark with no good looking background.



TIP. Filming in indoor skateparks try to use external lights as much as possible and try to find new, interesting angles off filming or atleast use tripod for smooth picture, to make video good looking.

i was at simpel session (offtopic)

simply craziness


Sorry estonians but this only can happen in Estonia

KHE reverse freecouster


So i'm running this one for like month, no problems jet.
Best freecouster out there for peg riders, it comes with one piece axle this is Bruce Crisman ingenious invention.

I suggest use hubguard because after few grinds the shell was injured. This hub fits wethepeople supreme, shadow rant cassete hubguards and maby others.

if you are from Europe can get this hub RHD on 48h at good price in here http://www.rite.se/product/2193/KHE_Reverse_Black/

first post

So in this blog you will be able to see new latvian bmx (and other exstreme sports) videos, tips and possibilities in video editing and filming.
hope you will find here useful information.
sorry if you find some grammer mistakes.
If you have any suggestions and questions you are welcome to share.