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My Best Shots of 2010/2011

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family_vacation
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So I guess that would make this a season reel. This was my first year getting seriously into filming and editing, and I thought I would share what I just put together. Anyone care to share an opinion?



Thanks,
Abe
Jul 1 2011 10:59PM
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family_vacation
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and sorry for the autoplay, I don't know why vimeo thought that was necessary.
Jul 1 2011 11:00PM
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Butt=Tight
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I like it alot, dont know too much about this stuff, but i would say next time you make an edit, use a bit of a faster song, but this still flowed very well with the song, maybe some more different shots.

Jul 1 2011 11:06PM
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cum
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holy shit for some reason i really like this alot
Jul 1 2011 11:27PM
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S.C
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that was sick! the one thing that i would say is the first thing i thought of when it started playing was downtofilm already used this song on an edit recently. i have no idea if you saw that edit, and im not hating or anything, I'd just try to watch out for that in the future.

But i really enjoyed that, props!
Jul 1 2011 11:47PM
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Sklar
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some good stuff in there

i really liked the movement in a lot of the shots, but a lot of them were pretty shaky, a glidecam would make those shots even better.
Also, your colors were not very consistent from shot to shot. make sure to white balance your shots to one another, so it stays consistent throughout the edit.
It looks like you could have pulled a little bit more detail out of the snow as well, through color correction/grading

overall though, it looked nice and had some potential to be really sweet
Jul 2 2011 12:01AM
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family_vacation
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You're right about the colors. I just have trouble correcting from some of the amazingly bad lighting at my hill because I know almost nothing about the CC process.

as for the stability, my camera was on a glidecam or tripod 100% of the time it was on the hill. A lot of the earlier season shots were shaky though. I started out with a camera setup that was a tad light for a glidecam and little knowledge about how to use it. The camera is heavier now and I am further along the glidecam learning curve, so later shots are getting smoother I think.

Thanks for the critiques, I'll work on that stuff when I go to hood next week!
Jul 2 2011 12:09AM
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Chunter
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Ughhh I was hoping you were using this song!



I still liked it and imo thought it was a nice, decent edit. You'll only keep improving man.
Jul 2 2011 1:58AM
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kootenayklaus
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Muchos sick Abe, due to the shitty internet I'm on I waited 20 minutes to watch it, and was very pleased from the outcome. You've progressed a lot this year. The song is used, but I love it regardless so it doesn't take away from your edit at all. Keep it up.
Jul 2 2011 2:31AM
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I.B
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Dude that was INSANLY SiCK!

The song was perfect, don't know what everyone is saying. Any song can be used in a ski edit, not just rap. I liked it, a lot. The style of the skiers, and the filming was really awesome for your first year!

Looking forward to more!
Jul 2 2011 3:11AM
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.Max.
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Wow, that completely and utterly butchered that song. Aweful.


As far as the edit. Really well done! I really enjoyed what you did with your colors (some white balance issues but whatever). I really have no critiques, every cut was spot on, filming was done beautifully, colors were interesting, song choice was perfect. Fantastic job!
Jul 2 2011 10:28AM
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Brock.
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The cuts were good, the filming was good and the skiing was good. yay! The back 6 at the end was really sick, caught me off guard for sure.
Jul 2 2011 11:39AM
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SkiThe603
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that was nutz man soo nasty, but editing and skiing

Jul 2 2011 11:40AM
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thisandthatfilms
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SONG PLEASEEE!!!

that was ill dude, loved every second of it


what you filming with? looks beautiful
Jul 2 2011 2:26PM
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1337
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song was also used in come find us, but i dont really care. Only thing i have to critique were the colors. What editing program are you using?
Jul 2 2011 3:20PM
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BROSEIDON
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1:43 do want hellbents
Jul 2 2011 3:53PM
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family_vacation
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Dammit, I really thought that was an unused song when I selected it.

I switched to adobe premiere after the instability of vegas got too annoying for me. This was edited with CS5.

and yeah, the colors were off. To be honest I don't know what I'm doing with them. I tend to get incredibly murky colors at my hill. They are super yellow and almost brownish. I'm using the fast color corrector in adobe premiere, but I can't seem to get all of the color out. If I push any harder, I tend to turn my whites some other ugly color of blue or magenta. I guess my goal for the summer is to figure out how to get my colors straight.
Jul 2 2011 9:30PM
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.Max.
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Don't fight what you have to work with, embrace it. For instance your colors at 0:55 with that lip nose tap thing looked really nice, same with the flat 3 (maybe 5, he disappeared) and the rodeo 9. They were somewhat yellow-brown, but it worked. You don't need to make everything look like it "should", make it look how you want it to. In the world of film making you are god, you create your own world and no one can tell you what you're doing is wrong, it's art, it's yours. So make your world the way you like it.
Jul 2 2011 10:20PM
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blatt
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Real sick man! I liked watching the progession as the edit went on.

As for color correction/grading in after effects, check out this video. Should help you a lot http://vimeo.com/14396098 (I would embed but I am afraid I might forget to turn autoplay off -.-)
Jul 5 2011 12:50AM
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loganimlach
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when you're just making edits who cares if the song has been used, as long as it hasn't been OVER used.

i thought a lot of your movement was really sick, and the filming in general was good.

my only beef is that i thought it was a little under-edited. if you are going to use an epic song like that, you really need some dramatic shots/cuts.

all in all it was enjoyable though.
Jul 5 2011 5:24PM
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PJS.
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real good, love to see a sick edit from my home hill, means i can spot myself in time lapses like that one lol. keep it up, stoked to see what you get up to next year.
Jul 5 2011 5:32PM
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cwillygood
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i thought u could have made the song go with the edit a little better

but overall very good
Jul 5 2011 8:26PM
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SkiThe603
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what song is that because it is nasty
Jul 5 2011 9:17PM
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Tanner-D
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Super sick edit reminded me of this bike edit both of which are super entertaining

Jul 6 2011 1:15AM
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will_powder
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The 630 at 1:56 was so banger
Jul 6 2011 2:32AM
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