Here is a short documentary of the process of shooting Lizard Point. Music by Kurumaken.
New Tsunami Video
It’s pretty shocking.
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/shocking-new-japan-tsunami-video-found-released
As far as I know this video seem real and taken by low-end camcorder. It’s first time to see the 3/11 tsunami in Japan from such close-hand human perspective. It’s like war.
What surprised me most however was the mood and colour of the sky. It seems so real. I remember how that day felt. I was here in Yokohama in safe distance from tsunami, but the tremors were felt strong here too, and all cellphone networks were down. It took twelve hours to get in reach with my wife.
Anyhow, people should see this since it’s reality.
Sony Nex :)
Friend borrowed me Sony Nex-7 with wide angle converter lens for shooting movies. I will be trying out the camera tomorrow. 🙂
Exile
Recently I have been very moved about Jinmo’s music, and it helped me to reach into those feelings deep inside myself. So I thought to record my face while listening his album “Eden”, and then those feelings just came. It’s so beautiful that it hurts. So then I thought maybe my face can convey that feeling.
Check out Exile in Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/69947887
I was adopted when I was two years old, and I had to say goodbye to my grandma and all of my biological relatives. Adoption means actually to adapt. You just have to accept it. That’s extremely hard for two years old boy.
But these days I actually feel I’m kind of embraced by the world. So my feeling has changed, but that’s only just recently.
Then, it was great to visit Whole Creation today after a long time and I had chance to record beautiful voice of Kagaya. I love you guys, you’re so cool! 🙂
Here is link to Jinmo’s album Eden.
Learn more about JINMO.
My little Final Cut Pro X Review
Recently I have been editing the material I caught in Jeju in my new favorite tool, FCPX.
I really love the workflow in Apple’s new version of Final Cut Pro. The simple workflow makes a lot of sense to me. It’s so easy to learn and use that there’s almost no need for a manual.
I have no intention of going back to Premiere.
And FCPX really flies. By default settings, FCP does effects rendering in background, which is really cool; take a cup of coffee and when you return, you see the video is ready for smooth playback. Exporting is GPU accelerated which is wonderful, wonderful thing.
As a nice touch you can now just quickly drop in cross-dissolves in both audio and video; the same thing works for audio as a crossfade. There are many nice little touches like that all over in the application which gives the impression that the people who created it have actually thought about the needs of the video editors.
And VST & AU audio effects work fully with this application which is excellent thing; with most used video scopes and audio metering this really is fully featured video editing application.
It’s really easy to make a watchable DVD straight from FCPX although the process doesn’t give you much options regarding letter-boxing or fine tuning of menus. It would be nice to see some kind of mini-DVD Studio Pro bundled with this application. So It’s still necessary to have Toast installed if you intend to do any serious DVD authoring.
And it’s real cheap. Costing less than 300 dollars it’s a bargain, and with App Store you can now legally install it in multiple machines. Makes a lot of sense for small editing studios with multiple workstations.
There are however couple of things that I’d like to see fixed. One is that often the UI doesn’t refresh always properly when working in timeline. And sharing to Vimeo or Youtube works unreliably despite my fast optical (internet) connection. And if you unlink audio it seems impossible to relink it (I might be wrong, if I am please teach me).
And broadcast monitoring doesn’t work unless you have Lion installed.
Overall, I find FCPX joy to use. I can recommend this to anyone who has upgrade plans in mind.