Hi guys,

First post! I'm an engineer by trade but have an increasingly consuming passion in shooting, producing and editing videos. I've been at it less than 2 years, completely self taught, but really enjoy making them like nothing else.

I feel I'm improving too but would love to get some advice and feedback from the people in the know as my friends aren't really into filmmaking so much.

I've posted some of my stuff below - as I say, I'd love to know what you guys think and please do let me know if I'm just wasting my time and should stick to the engineering because I'm sersiouly thinking about moving into filmmaking fulltime. Perhaps I could work as a videographer to fund personal projects... ok I'm deaming now, here come the videos :)

Enjoy!

Ronan,
Ireland.


A Short Long Walk - The very first thing I shot with my new Canon HV30

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Candles - Still testing out my new camera

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Fatal Deviation X - An Irish cult classic movie I ripped from Youtube and completely reedited with extra cheese

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Chankovision - One of my very first (cheesey) videos of a time spent living with some friends

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Borys' Bike Trial - A bike trial guy I met in the street who was being filmed and I asked if I could edit his footage

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Thanks for watching! :yes:

Hey people,

No feedback yet but so be it. I've just been offered the chance to make my own "hard hitting and edgy" documentary - things could be looking up!

Cheers,
Ronan

Nice footage. I really enjoyed the candle video. How did you do it? Did you shoot in complete darkness and just let the camera pick up the flame or was it just near darkness and adjusted in post? Also how did you get such good uploads to Youtube. Whenever I upload anything to there it has terrible resolution. Keep up the good work and I hope the documentary works out.


Mitchel

wow i really loved the short long walk, was that all raw footage at sun set or did you do any post work on that, real nice!:D

Nice footage. I really enjoyed the candle video. How did you do it? Did you shoot in complete darkness and just let the camera pick up the flame or was it just near darkness and adjusted in post? Also how did you get such good uploads to Youtube. Whenever I upload anything to there it has terrible resolution. Keep up the good work and I hope the documentary works out.

Mitchel

Thank you Mitchell! Ya, this was shot just usng the on screen candles and with the camera gain turned off using the photo button trick. I could have used off screen lighting but I figured it would make the test pointless.

As fo uploading, I had major hassle for months but use these settings now (you'll find a program that suits in the link below) and have no problems now whatsoever. Just make sure to use h.264 encoding and you can increase your bitrate to about 5 or 6 Mbps depending on the length of your file. Just make sure it falls below the 1 Gig mark when uploading.

http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/08/exporting-with-adobe-premiere-in-720p/

wow i really loved the short long walk, was that all raw footage at sun set or did you do any post work on that, real nice!:D

Thanks BFA! This is about 90% raw with some levels and the colour correction only slightly accentuates the purple sky, it was really just a beautiful evening to shoot :)

These are beautiful, you have real talent. I love the purplish textures in short long walk, and the poetic simplicity of Candles, the way it focuses your attention. Keep going!

These are beautiful, you have real talent. I love the purplish textures in short long walk, and the poetic simplicity of Candles, the way it focuses your attention. Keep going!

Glad you liked them! :)