Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadaver exquis) or rotating corpse, is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.

WIKI

I always liked better the allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed version, so here's what I propose:

Anyone registered in PV can participate, just has to post a reply - so everything's transparent - and send me a private message, for email and download details. Order of participation will be same as registration.

Each participant will have 3 days to make a new shot, we're not recycling footage… is a question of experimentation process and flow ;)

I'll take the dealer part, receiving the files and sending to next participant just the last (previous) one.

IF failing deadline or any of the below rules, I'll go on with next in list… nothing personal but pragmatism.

Resulting mess will be under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 
CC BY-NC-ND creative commons license

All participants will receive a digital copy

RULES

1. 1 Shot
2. B&W only
3. 1920x1080p24
4. Between 1 and 5 sec
5. In camera in&out and edit; no post edition, including sound and grading
6. Any camera capable of above specs (remember B&W, 24p, etc.) allowed

Remember this is just a game so ENJOY!!!
I'll be second participant, only for practical reasons, as from then on I would have seen more than just the last piece.

So, whose the brave soul willing to start?!!!

Untitled. Cadavre Exquis by Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise
1928
Chicago, The Art Institute. Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection.

First of a three part diary

a "pro-active" way of giving continuation to workflow experimentation

SOUNDTRACK
The Invisible Ladder - Keziah Jones

MERCI
Ana, Boris, Ester, Fourmis, Grenouilles, Libellules, Sarah, Tiberio e VP

Camera, Edition, G-Loop and Grading - Max Rosenheim * NCN

Worth translating Tiberio’s searching for a glass to pour his beer:

Tib – hey washed glasses, what’s this?!!!
Vit – c’mon, c’mon, c’mon
Tib – where’s she?! where’s she?! […] where do you hide the chick?!! there’s a chick around!!! there’s a chick around!!! […] what are you not telling your friends?!! […] clean dishes in this house…!!! […] either she was here or she’s yet to come?!!

photo gallery

As always all feedback, comments, thoughts and other forms of interaction are most welcome

gashô

http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastiao_salgado_the_silent_drama_of_photography.html

Is there any free stuff also, like free sound libraries?

My other question is, if you find video footage from TV or from the net, how are the rules, is it free to use for example in a documentary up to certain amount of seconds?

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57387626-78/qualcomm-shows-horsepower-of-next-gen-h.265-video/

for more details and photó

I'm still developing/experimenting a workflow I feel good about: one within the tools I have and know, that delivers quality enough and time wise optimized.

As always all feedback, comments, thoughts and secrets are most welcome.

gashô

It's a mixture of video and time-lapse of the Forth road and rail bridges around Edinburgh in Scotland. Initially I was just using it as a learning exercise about the GH3, but the bridge folks liked it themselves and started using it.

There are some dust bunnies in there, but I have learned not to go beyond F16 these days

I managed to get 510 feet up to the top of the Forth road bridge, but the barriers were moving so much my timelapse photo's were all blurred, so it's only shaky video footage from the top (I will take a proper tripod up next time)

Incredible Camera - Professional Quality - Unbelievable Price

Whether you're a pro, or just starting out, this is a great bargain for a great piece of gear that will give you hours of joy or make you money.

This is my personal camera, which I only used on 2 jobs as camera #2 where I was the camera operator.

This camera has never been in any harsh weather and is always stored on the desk of my home editing room, in the camera case.

This Camera Comes with Hundreds of Dollars Worth of Extras!

I own a production company, but I am a director, so I don't use a camera very much myself, and my company has a lot of high-end gear... so this camera is not used in my business.

Here is a list of everything included, but to get the whole story, watch the video below.

• Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GH2 Black Camera Body with Body Cap
• Panasonic LUMIX 14mm - 42mm Zoom Lens with Lumix Front Lens Cap and an Olympus Rear Lens Cap and Original Lens Shade
• One (1) 4Gb Memory Card
• Four(4) Original Panasonic Batteries with Battery Cases
• One (1) Original Panasonic Battery Charger
• Two (2) Aftermarket Batteries (non-coded - will not show battery level)
• One (1) Aftermarket Battery Charger
• One (1) Original Panasonic DC Coupler (does Not have the Power Adapter, which is sold separately)
• One (1) Aftermarket DC Coupler (does Not have the Power Adapter, which is sold separately)
• The Original USB Cable
• The Original Composite Video/Audio Cable
• The Stylus
• All of the User Manuals (English and other languages)
• All of the Original Paperwork (Warranty card is included but I don't remember if I registered it on-line or not)
• The Original CD ROM
• The Original Box
• A Camera Case

Everything that you need to start shooting as soon as your camera arrives is included.

I take extremely good care of my equipment and I describe it very accurately.

Please, serious inquiries only.

I only sell in the US. I will accept PayPal, Cashiers Check, or Money Order.

I will ship once the money is safely in my account.

Sale Price: $1,550.00

Free Shipping to Personal View Members that purchase it here.

Here is the video:

Thanks In Advance for Your Interest!

Useful links:

• http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=120

I just did one day run with Wondlan stabiliser doing wedding video. Stabiliser is great and it's extendible rod is actually extremely useful. The problem is framing. So I was wondering about installing cheep FPV camera on GH2 screen and connect it wireless with single eye video goggles (like this: http://shop.reconinstruments.com/Product/MODLive/900-00007) Has anyone seen any other single eye video goggles that could be used for this?

Credit to Hunter Richards' Tri-X B&W trick - http://tinyurl.com/hunterrichardsTRIX

maybe it's not necessary to reiterate, but vimeo just obliterated (macroblocks the size of satellites) the fine grain on this video test. It's ok... I can live with that. all feedback, comments and thoughts are welcome.

if technical details turn U on - http://hopelessatfixingtherain.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/ch_s_m/

gashô

This link explains how to boost the video quality from iPhone. Totally disabling noise reduction is interesting.

http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/87/vastly-enhancing-video-camera-iphone-4s-%E2%80%93-part-i

I won't make some big marketing push for why mine would be better than anybody else's - in the last decade and a half of working with software FX I've learned there are a lots of ways to make things sound great. I also won't make any money off of this so there would be no point. :) But I do want to make it as easy as possible for people that aren't used to dealing with EQ to get a good sound.

Now here's the part where you come in. The tricky part of making presets is that they have to be widely usable. I'll be making these on a Windows machine (I spend more time in Windows than OS X) so whatever plug-in I make them for will need to work in that environment. I am thinking I would like to use the free ReaPlugs suite from Cockos, but my question is whether people would prefer that I use those or the ones native to Reaper itself?

If I use the ones internal to Reaper, then I seem to remember they may also work on OS X. But if I use the ReaPlugs suite, they will work in any host but Windows only.

Here are the links to each: http://www.reaper.fm/ http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/index.php

So, which version would you guys prefer? Feel free to suggest other free plug-ins or other microphones you would like covered. I'm open to doing the same thing for the GH3 if there's sufficient interest.

I got a Panasonic GF2 and have some trouble with the analog video output. I want to use the output to preview video during recording. I already found that you can enable the live output by pressing Q.MENU for some seconds. This works fine for capturing stilts, but if you start recording a video, the output shows only black as long as you record the video. After stopping recording, you have normal output again.

I think this is just a firmware restriction that can be removed! Any suggestions?

And I really need the analog output all the time, because I want to operate the camera remotecontrolled and get the preview via an analog video transmitter.

Other discussion about this issue: http://www.aplanding.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5179

Regards

Igor

Author site - http://dive.rothschilddesign.com/video/index.html

I'll load up more later but for now here's a penguin.

Thanks to Vitaliy and everyone on this site for making it possible for us all to go out and shoot quality stuff that will hopefully reflect well the efforts and sense of community that you can find only here.

on mac you should install it in :/System/Library/Components

AE and Premiere now are able to export in this high quality codec at half the size of quicktime's Uncompressed 10bit.

VLC can't read UT because it doesn't use system components, but here you can find an update for vlc to register UT and some other video codecs. I don't know how to apply this register to VLC, so if anyone knows, your help is welcomed.

UT is helpful also if your thinking of using the new windmotion conversion tool across PC and mac platforms.

This is the FAQ to read if you're trying to read the forums, and finding a lot of technical stuff and acronyms that are going right over your head. It won't make you design hacks as good as Driftwood's or Sanity or Cake, and it won't tell you which hack is the best one to use. But if you read it, you will understand what I-frames and P-frames are, what GOP is, what intraframing and interframing are, and a few other details that'll help you follow some of the discussions here.

http://www.personal-view.com/faqs/gh2-hack/hack-terms-faq

I've heard, that GH3 can record in 4K 20 frames per second and memory card capable to store 95 Mb/s. Therefore if we narrow size to 16mm (10.6mm x 6mm) is it possible to record RAW video?

In video mode replace exposure numbers with rotary disc shutter angle: 1/32 = 270° (?) | 1/48 = 180° (add) | 1/50 = 172.8° | 1/60 = 144°; | 1/96 = 90° (add) | 1/120 = 72° (add)

Add Frame Line - The aspect ratio frame  1.85:1 (35mm theatrical), 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)

This is a link to the facebook page - I can't find out where the original source video is so you'll have to visit the page to see this. Well worth it, though, for anyone considering doing video of performance, just for some ideas.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=232639466870299

While you can do an imaginative video using all sorts of locations and parallel stories, I think it's a challenge to do an interesting video of performers which just concentrates on them throughout. I really like what they've done here and would be interested in seeing any other examples of video which is confined to the one location.

I just got my new GH2 and planing to use it to shoot stock video for my site. I'm looking for a hack that will give me the best image quality at 30p 1080. Mos of the clips I shoot are not longer then then 30 seconds and I I will be using the SanDisk Extreme 45MB C10.

If you reply to my post can you please post the direct link to the settings! If you can you can just upload the hack when your reply.

Thank you very much!

Has anyone used both of these? Or developed some kind of comparison video?

The short story: 31-OCT, the day the Portuguese Budget for 2013 was approved. People gathered in front of the Parliament to say we're being governed by thieves. Not very original I know, but it's a great place to shoot video and take pictures (well at last until it degenerates into mayhem which is rare around this parts but not unheard of until very recently). This is how I worked it.

1) The extremely simple setup:

GH2, screen folded back as a monitor, Transcend 32GB class 10, Samyang 7.5mm fisheye (my favorite video lens), set and forget to hyperfocal, ISO 400 I believe, SS=1/25s. Flowmotion 2 was used as I never know before hand how much video I'm going to capture or how many photos I'll be shooting, so I need something that is very good quality but doesn't make me have to change cards when something very important is happening. If the card is pre-formatted (the extended, not the quick format) it has never failed me to span.

2) The capture:

This is all about getting there up front and trying not to shake the camera. The police until very recently (and only after a 1h stone shower) has been instructed not to charge, so it's an easy job, you just dodge the TV reporters and other amateurs like me. So, here's my first mistake: the aperture is fine, this lens is sharp as an axe, but should have upped the ISO and set a faster SS because in these situations you are always bound to get bumped and it shows in wobbles after software stabilization.

3) Defishing the Samyang:

Load the MTS into AE. Export as image sequence. Use a batch (http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/69869#Comment_69869) to defish the images and import the output again to AE now as image sequence. The defishing was done using the Panini projection. It's loads more natural on people than Rectilinear, it preserves a lot more corner resolution and still manages to keep a few lines straight. This was the first export and not reasonably quick because the synthesis part takes it's toll: ~2-3fps.

4) Stabilizing:

Throw AE's Warp Stabilizer on the footage. Set the "Smoothness" to 15-25% (it will require much less cropping later) set borders to "Stabilize, Synthesize Edges" (again a lot less cropping) but drop the "Synthesis Input Range" to 0,2s otherwise you'll bog AE. In this kind of footage there is usually little point in using a higher value. Skim the footage looking for black borders and try to resize and reframe it so that they don't become evident. Note: defishing after stabilizing should make more sense as you would have more image to work with (defishing crops it) but from a few rough tries, the AE stabilization isn't clearly as effective when working on fisheye footage. This was the second export and a very long one: below 1fps.

5) CC & Denoising:

Used some of ColorGHear's gears, notably GHrain killer to kill a bit of noise and blockiness, but the footage was already very clean from the start and little color correction was used, just a little bit of levels adjusment. This was the third export and I believe it was even longer than the third due to the noise reduction filters: below 0.5fps.

6) The "so long" part: video effects, tracking and subtitling:

Translations were pretty quick, the hard and long part (at least until I found out how to smooth it) was tracking. It was fastidious to track people's features, takes a long time and needs constant review and adjustment. In the end I found out a few tricks (like increasing the tracking area) and smoothing the tracking points. This eased the job a lot and gave much better results. In the end I had to do it sometimes up to 3x until I was satisfied with it. In the process I had to learn a lot about tracking, smoothing, 3D objects, texting, transitions and light sources. This was the forth, the quickest and last export, probably around 10fps.

7) Audio mixing.

This was the part I was more ignorant about, but turned out to be pretty simple. Even though it's pretty rough, the footage is little demanding with so much crowd noise. It was as simple as importing the last video export from AE into Premiere, importing the original sound, importing also "Le Tigre - Dike March 2001" cutting and pasting a few pieces of this track and adjusting the volume here and there to serve the original events while leaving the words of the protesters audible when needed and off I was to the final export.

The resulting video can be found here:

Here are a few pictures of the event.

Anything more you may want to know about any part of the process I'll be glad to detail it.

Martin Bernhard is a well-established dutch Djembe drum maker, teacher and owner of foladjembe.nl

ADVICE: For best experience, turn on your HiFi speakers or put on a headphone.

Camera : Richard van Der Laan, Michiel Boogerman Sound : Maarten Boogerman Edit / Post : Richard van der Laan Artists : Martin Bernhard, Annebeth Elfrink, Marlijn Dompeling, Patrick Pol Location : Brink 21, Deventer (Netherlands) Photos : Patrick Pol Production : veasonic.nl

Camera : 2x Panasonic GH2 AVC-Intra Driftwood VY Canis Majoris Day Lens : Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f2.8 G ED, Tokina 11-16mm F2.8 AT-X PRO DX Gear : Sachtler FSB-4 75 CF, Kessler Hercules 2.0 Head, Kessler K-Pod Tripod System, Gini Follow Focus Rig, Lilliput monitors Recorder : Fostex FR-2LE Microphone : Superlux S502