My first customized video is released

Finally, It's released !!! I'm so excited now.
This is my first customized video I worked with amazing artists and "The Indulgence Lounge".
The video is for the event hosted by The Indulgence Lounge on Nov. 5th.

For the video I used my new canon 60D and 50mm 1.8f lens.
Check out the video and enjoy it. BTW~Plz watch in HD!



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More space and Faster speed

As HD DSLR filming is getting popular, we need more disk space for these space eaters. Of course, the speed of your external hard drive is also a crucial  point of restoring or transferring those Big size footages you shot.

Alright, for Apple users they have fireware 800, up to 70mb/s. It not that bad for them to concern about loading footages so far. However, for PC users, things are getting critical.

But no worry now~USB 3.0 is coming out; theoretically, it's 10 time faster than USB2.0. LaCie just release 3TB drives with USB3.0 now!!! Yeah.....Wait! What if I don't have USB3.0 port in my laptop???
OMG~upgrading would never stop....I can picture the smile on Bestbuy staffs..lol

A small video form my project clips

As I mentioned before, I was struggling between Canon 60D and nikon D7000. Finally, I had Canon 60D for my new toy and shot my first project by myself with it. Equipped with Canon 50mm 1.8 lens, the picture quality was really sharp and warm. Also, flip screen is such a big plus!


Canon 60D has more verities of video formats, which is more useful for me. But the only concern for me is that Canon 60D still have AGC( Auto Gain Control ) problem, even though there is a manual audio control....Sad...I just bought Rode videomic for audio recording, but with AGC in Canon 60D...Rode is kinda no function now, unless canon release new updated firmware to allow AGC be turned off...Of course I don't want to spend $299~399 for Juicedlink or Zoom H4n.  I'm not a deep-pocket student....


Anyway,
I shot the footages in low light condition by setting
ISO: 500
Shutter speed: 1/50
Aperture: 1.8


Canon 60D_Test_1 from happlmax on Vimeo.

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Time for No more different size batteries

-a printer like cross media station                                                                 from engadget


When I were surfing engadget last night, I found an interesting and exciting thing is that: Canon just released the new prototype of Cross Media Station. This one can allow you (I mean owners of Canon products, which happened to be ME!!)to charge cameras and transfer pics, videos wireless. So no worry about how to organize batteries, different cables and chargers as you have more and more devices coming. That's fabulous! No more chaos in the house. 


But the prototype is still too big for me...You are not going to bring a printer while traveling, right! So...If it can cooperate with apple to develop a new version of ipad which can have similar function...That will be heaven there!!


Check out the video,then you will get a little idea about this interesting product.( I think the video was shoot from Canon expo...)

A assignment for online class

I shot this small video while waiting in line for Dim Sum for my online class to practice how to deal with HD video in different compression format. The original video is 1280 x 720, then I reduced it by 320 x 180 with H264 codec.

I used MEPG Streamclip to convert my video to 320 x 180. I recommend this program a lot because it's helpful for resizing your videos. You can keep the same dimension but with smaller size by choosing the quality. Also there are lots of different compression format you can choose. I always edit with FCP then   resize my files by using MEPG Streamclip before upload videos to youtube.