Comments

Jay Gladwell wrote on 3/20/2008, 7:11 AM

Looks good, Ray. And the music is exceptional!

If I had anything to pick about it would be some areas look blown out to me. I know that seems to be all the rage today, but back in the day it was hammered into my head that burned out areas were unacceptable.

The fact is the eye is automatically drawn to the brightest area in the image. The problem with that is that the over blown area may not be where you want the audience to focus in that shot.

Anyway, it almost made me want a cup of coffee, and I don't drink coffee.


RogerB1 wrote on 3/20/2008, 7:43 AM
It did make me want my morning coffee. And, I LOVED the background music. Very well edited. :o)
MUTTLEY wrote on 3/20/2008, 1:07 PM
Thanks Jay and Roger. And I myself am having a cup right now. =)

I hear ya on the "blown out", on this one though as a just for fun artsy screwing around kinda thing, I kinda liked it.

Also glad peeps liked the song, went through my whole collection trying to find one that in my mind worked. =)

- Ray
Some of my stuff on Vimeo
www.undergroundplanet.com
UlfLaursen wrote on 3/20/2008, 1:38 PM
Nice work, Ray - indeed very nice.

How did you make the golden / yellow glow on the clips; was it the lightning or did you do it inside vegas?

/Ulf
MUTTLEY wrote on 3/20/2008, 1:50 PM

Bit of both. I had some cheap lights right up close, sometimes leaning on the actual machine (which didn't make making the coffee any easier). And then used Magic Bullet Editors and tweaked the settings of one of the presets to my liking.

- Ray
Some of my stuff on Vimeo
www.undergroundplanet.com
gjesion wrote on 3/20/2008, 2:18 PM
Yeah - 'Train. Cool! Great vid, loved the logo screen. Loved the music.


Regards,
Jerry
Yoyodyne wrote on 3/20/2008, 2:31 PM
Boy, that looks great! Is that the stock lens your using, love that shallow depth of field.
apit34356 wrote on 3/20/2008, 2:47 PM
Nice flow and the music was perfect!
MUTTLEY wrote on 3/20/2008, 3:18 PM

Danka Danka all! Love compliments especially on stuff I didn't get paid to do!!!

That's the stock lens, has great DOF all around but on this used the Macro. Many of the shots the camera was only an inch or so away from the machine.

- Ray
Some of my stuff on Vimeo
www.undergroundplanet.com
Ros wrote on 3/20/2008, 3:34 PM
Very nice Ray!

Great job on the Corporate Coffee logo animation as well!

I really like the blown out parts, the lighting and the coloring are fantastic, shallow depth of field, there is a lot of mood to it!

The only thing that bothered me a little is the way you brought up your tiling at the opening and end, I probably would of used a more stylized font + fx and blend it in more with the rest of your video, but otherwise, I am impressed!

BTW, what compression did you use for the vimeo site?

Rob
MUTTLEY wrote on 3/20/2008, 3:42 PM

Thanks Rob. Actually I had just seen that text rotating in thingy on some commercial the same day as I was doing this and thought "Hey, that was kinda easy and kinda spiffy" and wanted ta try it. =)

As for the settings, I used these here:

Vegas Render Settings for Vimeo a la Eugenia


- Ray
Some of my stuff on Vimeo
www.undergroundplanet.com