Announcing “The Midnight Sun” visual poetry project.
I spent part of this weekend shooting footage for a “visual poetry” project based off “The Midnight Sun,” by Kevin Dublin and Ana Ribeiro. Basically, “visual poetry” is a fancy term for “extremely short film.” This will be time I’ve worked with high definition footage. The project was shot in 1080p24, which is supposedly difficult to capture and edit. So far, I haven’t had much trouble with it outside of my Mac refusing to recognize my Canon HV20.
I’ve captured the footage from the HV20 to my hard drive using Final Cut Studio 6 and successfully performed an advanced pulldown of the 24p video. Apple has posted a very handy guide in their knowledge base for Canon HV20 users needing help establishing a 24p workflow. Check the guide out here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2410.
Unfortunately, editing may take a little longer than expected because I have to render each video clip in Final Cut before I can preview my edits… which can take up to 2 hours. Therefore, until I get a stronger mac (I’m eyeballing a Dual G5 system on Craigslist), I’ll have to employ some careful editing techniques and try to limit my renders to once a day.
The footage looks good. I’ve noted some things I could’ve done better to improve aesthetic quality, but given that the entire shoot consisted of 4 singular takes, I think we did a good job. Once it’s finished, I will go into detail about the entire process, including exact details on the equipment I used.