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My Very Nearly Finished Studio

Dredgy
By Dredgy
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So I've finally had a few days to tear down my old "studio" and start again.

 

The idea of this room was to be able to film tech reviews (because I need to justify this camera) on separate sets - one for A roll and one for B roll.

I also wanted to do a 3rd set on a green screen for corporate presentations if I don't feel like recording them at work.

 

I needed to be able to move my very bulky camera between all three sets with ease, so decided to use a track dolly system to get from point A to point B to point C seamlessly.

 

The room is about 5x3m.

 

View from behind the main set desk.

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View from the green screen, looking towards the main set. The table on the right is the B Roll set, and I can get epic sliding shots by just pushing the camera past it.

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View of the B roll set:

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View of the main set:

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Camera control from the main set:

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Camera:

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Close Up Lens:

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Sample Green Screen Footage:

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Sample Main Set Footage (there are no lights at all pointing at the set here, is all from the CFLs pointing at the greenscreen, so I actually have spare lights I don't need):

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Sample Maco B-Roll (CPU pins. Just lifted out of the preview window of Premiere, not full res. Can pull focus on just couple of pins, and then crop down from 4K to 1080P and get some really interesting shots. Have not shown the really gross one of my skin)

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So that's what I've got so far. Am having a lot of fun testing everything out.

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Nice

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Pretty pleased so far. Had a few issues with chroma keying in keylight that aren't present on a DSLR, and had to do a lot of post color work on the shot above. Ultra key on Premiere works fine, but doesn't clip the blacks as well. Should probably have ironed the screen before I taped it to the wall.

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Noice :D

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And some sample timelapse footage from my balcony

 

 

Nice resolution, but you need to do some color grading.

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Yea is just straight out of the camera. Still figuring out workflow. Adobe Suite isn't running very well at the moment.

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owns an ursa... takes photos of studios on a nokia from 2003

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owns an ursa... takes photos of studios on a nokia from 2003

 

If you look very carefully on the left of the bookshelf in the 3rd picture down, you will see I also have a fully functioning Canon DSLR, which is being used as a prop.

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If you look very carefully on the left of the bookshelf in the 3rd picture down, you will see I also have a fully functioning Canon DSLR, which is being used as a prop.

 

lazy :P

 

(I would do the same ...so yeah)

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I have been itching to take out my camera to do something besides testing it's capabilities... I may go out and do a Quick Motion today.  1 frame per second.

 

And you know what a good time-lapse you can do, a time-lapse of your studio setup.

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I will be a few days testing I think. Want to know every limit before I do anything important. I had 2 consecutive days off for the first time this year so got to get caught up.

 

Weird thing with the URSA is when you are in timelapse, it doesn't slow the sensor. So I just tried a night shot and it let it very little light (though looked fine, but no flexibility in post).

So you have to lower the frame rate to 5fps, even when you have the camera set to record one frame per minute.

 

Also have to point out, I am very interested in videography and the cool tech behind it, but I have zero natural talent for it.

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I will be a few days testing I think. Want to know every limit before I do anything important. I had 2 consecutive days off for the first time this year so got to get caught up.

 

Weird thing with the URSA is when you are in timelapse, it doesn't slow the sensor. So I just tried a night shot and it let it very little light (though looked fine, but no flexibility in post).

So you have to lower the frame rate to 5fps, even when you have the camera set to record one frame per minute.

 

Also have to point out, I am very interested in videography and the cool tech behind it, but I have zero natural talent for it.

 

Practice, observation and the following

 

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I'm a self-taught photo and video person.

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Looking good, can't wait for myself to be able to set up something like this(more photography orientated though)

May the light have your back and your ISO low.

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