For the production of our music video, we have a wide range of equipment at our disposal to help produce the best possible final outcome. In this post I will break down each piece of kit used and explain it's uses.
*In the event of the images uploaded below becoming unavailable for whatever reason, the majority of them are available on my personal Instagram.
NIKON D5100 - Main camera as it is my own. I have access to it 24/7. I know it inside-out and feel confident pushing it to it's limits to get the best possible end result. I will be mainly using the 18-55 kit lens in the production. The Sigma 70-200 Telephoto lens and a YN-560-II Speedlight are pictured in the image.
Canon 600D - Secondary camera, used for 60fps recording capability. Useful for multi-cam shots to save time during recording. I am new to this camera but it is essentially the Canon clone to the D5100. I feel confident that I will have no issues using it. One potential worry is syncing the 60FPS data with the 24FPS data of my camera in POST.
Manfrotto Tripod - High end, professional tripod for most cameras. This tripod is one of the most useful tools we have available. It allows us to set up in essentially any location in any orientation thanks to it's free floating legs and vari-angle head design. I use it in conjunction with the 804-RC2 tripod head which has a good level of resistance, allowing for beautifully smooth tilts and pans.
Hama Tripod - We have a cheaper, lighter and more portable tripod that will aid us with getting steady shots during our multicam scenes. This tripod is also useful for holding lights or microphones.
Rotolight™ - This extremely useful tool provides us with a strong, portable lighting solution. It is extremely strong and bright for it's size and grants us enough light to film at ISO 400 anywhere, anytime. Absolutely essential.
iPhone 4S - We use our iPhones to record video blog footage to help us document things on location. It greatly aids with communication and is equipped with a very high resolution camera capable of recording 1080p video. We will be using these to give brief tours on location or to show equipment set-ups.
ATH-M50 - Studio monitor headphones, ideal for audio level monitoring. My DSLR is not sophisticated enough to feature an integrated visual audio level indicator while recording, but it does allow monitoring. This is useful for recording spot effects, allowing us to cut down on audio spikes but monitoring levels closely. It is also important for accurate audio mastering in POST.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 - Premiere Pro will be our main workhorse for the production of our video. I personally prefer it to using any other editing software as it is what I have been taught to use, and because it works seamlessly alongside After Effects, Lightroom, SpeedGrade, and Photoshop. This is something that 90% of other video editing programs cannot do without the user jumping through a bunch of hoops, slowing their workflow considerably.
Adobe Photoshop CS6 - Photoshop is an essential piece of software when it comes to dealing with destructive editing of images. Creating our digipak, poster and other artwork will require Photoshop It grants the user access to all sorts of image manipulation techniques and processes, making it possible to produce still image adverts and promotional items.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 - Lightroom is in a way, a watered down Photoshop. Lightroom is a non-destructive editor, meaning that the changes you make are not directly applied to the image itself, they are stored in a catalogue index ready to be applied to the image upon export. Kind of like a mask that is applied when you export, it isn't permanent unless you make it so.
Twixtor 5 - Twixtor is a slow motion plugin for Adobe After Effects. I believe that it works by 'stretching' frames in order to increase the duration of each one. Longer durations of each frame means the footage will playback at half speed, effectively doubling the playback time of the section stretched. I don't know the literal process that Twixtor carries out, but it's something along those lines. I will learn it soon and create a test video. The embedded video from an unrelated YouTube user demonstrates exactly how powerful Twixtor is, even without 60FPS footage! (Disclaimer: This video is NOT my content.)
*In the event of the images uploaded below becoming unavailable for whatever reason, the majority of them are available on my personal Instagram.
NIKON D5100 - Main camera as it is my own. I have access to it 24/7. I know it inside-out and feel confident pushing it to it's limits to get the best possible end result. I will be mainly using the 18-55 kit lens in the production. The Sigma 70-200 Telephoto lens and a YN-560-II Speedlight are pictured in the image.
Canon 600D - Secondary camera, used for 60fps recording capability. Useful for multi-cam shots to save time during recording. I am new to this camera but it is essentially the Canon clone to the D5100. I feel confident that I will have no issues using it. One potential worry is syncing the 60FPS data with the 24FPS data of my camera in POST.
Manfrotto Tripod - High end, professional tripod for most cameras. This tripod is one of the most useful tools we have available. It allows us to set up in essentially any location in any orientation thanks to it's free floating legs and vari-angle head design. I use it in conjunction with the 804-RC2 tripod head which has a good level of resistance, allowing for beautifully smooth tilts and pans.
Hama Tripod - We have a cheaper, lighter and more portable tripod that will aid us with getting steady shots during our multicam scenes. This tripod is also useful for holding lights or microphones.
Rotolight™ - This extremely useful tool provides us with a strong, portable lighting solution. It is extremely strong and bright for it's size and grants us enough light to film at ISO 400 anywhere, anytime. Absolutely essential.
iPhone 4S - We use our iPhones to record video blog footage to help us document things on location. It greatly aids with communication and is equipped with a very high resolution camera capable of recording 1080p video. We will be using these to give brief tours on location or to show equipment set-ups.
ATH-M50 - Studio monitor headphones, ideal for audio level monitoring. My DSLR is not sophisticated enough to feature an integrated visual audio level indicator while recording, but it does allow monitoring. This is useful for recording spot effects, allowing us to cut down on audio spikes but monitoring levels closely. It is also important for accurate audio mastering in POST.
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 - Premiere Pro will be our main workhorse for the production of our video. I personally prefer it to using any other editing software as it is what I have been taught to use, and because it works seamlessly alongside After Effects, Lightroom, SpeedGrade, and Photoshop. This is something that 90% of other video editing programs cannot do without the user jumping through a bunch of hoops, slowing their workflow considerably.
Adobe Photoshop CS6 - Photoshop is an essential piece of software when it comes to dealing with destructive editing of images. Creating our digipak, poster and other artwork will require Photoshop It grants the user access to all sorts of image manipulation techniques and processes, making it possible to produce still image adverts and promotional items.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 - Lightroom is in a way, a watered down Photoshop. Lightroom is a non-destructive editor, meaning that the changes you make are not directly applied to the image itself, they are stored in a catalogue index ready to be applied to the image upon export. Kind of like a mask that is applied when you export, it isn't permanent unless you make it so.
Twixtor 5 - Twixtor is a slow motion plugin for Adobe After Effects. I believe that it works by 'stretching' frames in order to increase the duration of each one. Longer durations of each frame means the footage will playback at half speed, effectively doubling the playback time of the section stretched. I don't know the literal process that Twixtor carries out, but it's something along those lines. I will learn it soon and create a test video. The embedded video from an unrelated YouTube user demonstrates exactly how powerful Twixtor is, even without 60FPS footage! (Disclaimer: This video is NOT my content.)
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