Can’t wait to use the new Canon 24-70m f2.8 LII lens this Sunday!

Photo source: canonrumors.com 

Going to be doing a sunset couple photo-shoot in Camps Bay.

This is how it starts: I rent out a great piece of gear that I love and then:
- get tortured by its brilliance,
- realise I can’t continue working without it (false thought),
- start making calculations,
- work my butt off for months and get it.

Here we go again?

The only challenge is that there’s a few other things waiting in line. It doesn’t help that this lens costs twice the price of its predecessor!

10 000 views on YouTube

My Youtube channel videos have been seen over 10000 times since April 2010.

Obviously, compared to regular Youtubers, who get over 1 million views per video, my 10000 total views is nothing but from my point of view : if it

wasn’t for YouTube where would I ever have had a chance to share my videos to people across the globe? 

Here’s to having a bigger international  footprint!

Finally integrated an Adobe CS6 workflow

Today I bought CS6 Production Premium which is Adobe’s professional video production suite containing one of the world’s best NLE Adobe Premiere and After Effects (a digital motion graphics and compositing software).

I’m super excited because this year I’ve been doing a lot of professional photography and videography to be able to afford this suite and it’s finally here! And man, After Effects?! What! There goes my already little sleep!

After working with the trial version of Premiere  for a few weeks it’s incomparable to its baby version Premiere Elements (which I had for a year and a half). What’s  also awesome was that in February (after my PC died – graphics card & motherboard) I bought a new and more powerful system in anticipation of CS6 (i7 3.4ghz quad, nVidia 560ti & 16GB RAM) and man CS6 responds very well  to this. Nothing feels wasted on the PC, CS6 really optimises system resources.

My Top Premiere features (discovered so far)

• The ability to import footage from nearly any camera without the need to convert or transcode.
• The ability to apply effects in real time while playing the video clip.
• True 64-bit support makes Premiere super fast. It’s I think of what I wanna do and with a few clicks it’s there almost instantaneously with no PC lag. On Premiere Elements, applying one effect could take up to a minute with the same PC

Integration with other Adobe software After Effects and Photoshop – the abilityto click ‘save’ in Photoshop and the change filters automatically to Premiere makes it feel like you’re editing in one giant piece of intuitive software. Premiere & After Effects share this link a s well. Fast editing – I’ve churned out so many videos in the past 4 weeks than I have in months from the sheer speed of editing with Premiere

Versus Final Cut X?
I don’t know. All I know is that in the last 12 months I’ve seen close to all the pros I follow (Vincent Laforet, Philip Bloom, etc) either move to CS6 or stay even further away from FCP after  their last release. All  I know is that NLEs don’t make movies, people do. Having  better gear doesn’t result in better movies. 

I reckon, in an  over simplified way, people  who love Nike say Nike is the best and those who love Adidas will say Adidas is the better…

Death by editing

Last week saw the end of my beloved nVidia graphics card which died due to excessive HD video editing which honestly was was over its capability. Needless to say, we’ve had to make some major shifts to ensure I can edit anything. Enter the nVidia GTX560…

If You Don’t Like What’s on TV… Change it

Hi!

Thanks for dropping in. I’m an aspiring filmmaker and director. This is where I’m going to post all my films and my other video projects plus behind-the-scenes footage. My Youtube channel: youtube.com/humshkin has all my vids too. I’ll also be posting ‘HowTo’ videos and photos of rigs that I’ve built and that I’ll be building in future since I’ve gone the DIY route in terms of acquiring film gear.

“If you don’t like what’s on TV then change the content.” - That’s one of my motivations behind making films and video productions.

 

More than anything, this is my hobby and one of my passions. It’s my idea of having fun!