Recently I traded in my old 5D for a new 5D Mark II. Armed with my new girlfriend (the camera), I hit Tokyo to shoot some test shots. Here are the uploaded high-definition videos.
Overall, I’m impressed with how amazing the quality is. Just a few years back, I would have to shoot on 16mm film just to be able to achieve a similar look, with a that depth of field.
However, one has to take note of possible compression artifacts that might appear for complicated scenes that has too much information for the H.264 compressor to handle.
I’ve also uploaded these footages to MotionElements for sale. It’s a marketplace for fellow 5D video/photographers to make some money with their stock footage.
Finally, here is the video (note: heavily compressed by YouTube):
If you only have Adobe CS3, the raw converter (version 4.6) for in Bridge and Photoshop CS3 still does not support 5D MarkII’s raw files. You will have to download FREE Adobe DNG Converter 5.5 and use it to convert all your raw files in DNG format first.
MotionElements is proud to be the official sponsor of VJ Loops for Pioneer Digital DJ Battle 2009.
Witness the battle of the biggest and fiercest DJs in Singapore and check out the showcase of MotionElements VJ Loops at Butter Factory on 10 December 2009.
Step 1
Login at motionelements.com.
Click on “Tag Elements” on the left column, and you will be shown the works for tagging.
Check the works you will like to tag, and click on “Edit Elements”.
Step 2
The sections that need to be filled in for each work are as below:
1. Title
2. Media Type
3. Keywords
1) Title
- Please provide a short title that describes the key element of the work (maximum 66 characters).
- Do NOT create the same title for different works.
2) Media Type
- Select (1) Footage or (2) Animation
3) Keywords
- Please provide a minimum of 20 keywords per work.
- To decide on the keywords to be used, look at the work and consider the following:
1. Actions/ Activities (eg. Walking, jogging)
2. Physical Characteristics (eg. Male, female, tall, short)
3. Colors (eg. Red, blue)
4. Composition (eg. Wide Shot, Full Shot, Long Shot, Mid Shot, Medium Close Up, Close Up)
5. Concepts ( eg. leadership, teambuilding)
6. Effects (eg. Explosion, lightning)
7. Events (eg. School Holidays, Christmas, Business meeting)
8. Location (eg. Beijing, Tokyo)
9. Material
10. Mood / Emotions (eg. Happy, cheerful, sad, depressing)
11. Quantity
12. Light/ Time/ Season/ Weather (eg. Day, night/ 1900s/winter/ rainy)
Do NOT input both the singular and plural of a keyword. Choose the plural over singular if the singular word can be found within the plural eg. tree or trees > use “trees”. Choose the singular if the singular and plural are spelt differently eg. Woman/ women > use “woman”.
Include keywords that move from specific to general eg. Image of a pig can be keyworded as “pig”, “livestock”, “animal”.
Featuring twenty top selling time lapse plants by MotionElements artist Zygistudio, this DVD collection of high definition footage saves buyers almost 50% off the original pricing. Beautifully shot as chroma key footage, these royalty free videos range from growing wheat seeds to time-lapse of opening and closing of violets, dandelion; Amaryllis blooming, hibiscus flower opening, white rose opening alpha matted, all customized for buyer’s ease of use.
Producing time lapse footage requires great patience, and the man behind these painstakingly shot works is artist Zygistudio. A sixty-eight year old Lithuanian who currently lives in Finland, Zygis took his first photo with a 6×9 Leica camera when he was about 10 years old. From then he always carry with him a camera or a video camcorder. Before his retirement, he was a data manager for large international projects in epidemiology. Today, he is a professional growing- plants-time-lapse video producer.
Plants (Chroma Keyed) may be viewed at http://www.motionelements.com/stock-footages/164/plants-chroma-keyed-dvd-box-set.html . This collection is available for both shipped delivery and immediate online download.
About MotionElements Pte Ltd
MotionElements (http://www.motionelements.com) is an online marketplace for digital artists to buy and sell royalty-free stock footage, stock animation and 3d models.
MotionElements packages high definition ocean footage and wintry mountain landscape in cost saving DVD collection.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Singapore – Friday, 12 June 2009
MotionElements Pte Ltd (http://www.motionelements.com) launches a new DVD collection of Oceans & Mountains in stock animation.
This DVD box set contains 10 high definition (HD 1080) completely animated hyper-realistic renderings of the world’s oceans and mountains, created by MotionElements artist LumeNation.
LumeNation has been in the digital media business for 15 years. Currently living in Denver, Colarado, he does corporate and promotional video production, contract marketing, motion graphics and animation. His strengths are in motion graphics, concept development, scripting, directing and editing. He enjoys selling stock animation, video and images and would be happy to do it full time. Two of his favourite themes for media creations are travel and outdoor.
Oceans & Mountains may be viewed at http://www.motionelements.com/stock-footages/173/oceans-mountains-dvd-box-set.html. Buyers of this DVD set save almost 40% off the original pricing. The collection is available for both shipped delivery and immediate online download.
About MotionElements Pte Ltd
MotionElements (http://www.motionelements.com) is an online marketplace for digital artists to buy and sell royalty-free stock footage, stock animation and 3d models.
MotionElements packages top selling VJ loops by LoveMushroom in DVD collection, saving buyers almost 40% off original pricing.
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Singapore – Friday, 12 June 2009
MotionElements Pte Ltd (http://www.motionelements.com) launches a new DVD collection by artist Love Mushroom – VJ Loops 01.
Chosen from Love Mushroom’s top selling works, these 20 royalty free VJ loops stock animations are great to mix and match for video jockeys, video editors, presenters, television stations, clubs, AV companies, light jockeys, video post production, film, schools, churches, artists and others. Also perfect for use as theatre background animations or in mobile phones.
Originally from Tokyo, VJ Love Mushroom first established his studio in Los Angeles in 1999. He has since created visuals for over 300 live performances, from underground events to 30000 crowd stadium.
From the beginning, Love Mushroom has explored the synchronicity found between audio and visual elements in nature. Much of his present content is derived from images of nature he finds along the west coast.
In 2004, Love Mushroom was chosen as the sole visual creator for Paul Oakenfold’s DVD, ‘A Voyage Into Trance’. For this high profile project, Love Mushroom devised intricate 3D visuals and included special 3D glasses. The DVD climbed to #14 on Tower Records’ list of new music videos during February ‘04.
In 2006, Love Mushroom designed visual projections for iconic 60’s musical revival “Hair The Tribal Love Rock Musical” by Canadian Stage Company(CanStage), the largest non-profit contemporary theater company in Canada.
Love Mushroom was voted for World Top 20 VJs Award 2005 & 2006 by DJ Magazine, U.K.
Love Mushroom now focuses on creating and distributing royalty free VJ loops & stock footage.
MotionElements (http://www.motionelements.com) is an online marketplace for digital artists to buy and sell royalty-free stock footage, stock animation and 3d models.
MotionElements launches cost saving DVD collections, saving buyers up to 80% off original pricing.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Singapore – Friday, 12 June 2009
MotionElements Pte Ltd (http://www.motionelements.com) launches a range of cost saving DVD collections, helping buyers save up to 80% off original pricing.
China stock footage
This DVD box set contains 20 PAL format stock footages of People’s Republic of China, in particular cityscapes of urban Shanghai and capital Beijing.
Find stock videos showcasing the hustle and bustle of urban life. Feel the pulse and heartbeat of the Chinese cities with the bright city lights, congested traffic and pedestrian shots, modern skyscrapers, time lapse shots of the Oriental Pearl tower at the Bund, busy working people, crowd shots, busy Shanghai shopping streets, to revisiting the past with the architectural Beijing hutongs, Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Mao Zedong portrait.
Sakura Stock footage
This DVD box set contains 10 high definition stock footages of cherry blossom (sakura) in bloom.
Choose from a variety of camera angles; from stationary lock-shots to panning shots for your travel programme, documentary or television series. Let your audience partake in the breathtaking natural landscapes and season change. These vibrant and colourful nature stock footages flaunt the beauty of our natural world.
The sakura were shot at the most famous spots in Morioka, Kakunodate and Hirosaki Castle, while they are in full bloom.
Singapore stock footage
This DVD box set contains 20 high definition stock footages of Republic of Singapore, the island city state also known as the Lion City.
Find stock videos showcasing the hustle and bustle of urban life. Feel the pulse and heartbeat of the urban city with the bright city lights, congested traffic and pedestrian shots, modern skyscrapers, wide shots and panning shots of the Merlion at One Fullerton, shots of Singapore River, Boat Quay, wide shots of the Esplanade, Marina Bay skyline, busy crowd shots at Orchard Road shopping streets, to the multicultural scenes at Kampong Glam and Little India.
Smoke, Water & Particles stock animation
This DVD box set contains 10 high definition stock footages and stock animations of smoke, water and particles.
Combine and layer sand explosion stock footage, water stock animation, water stock footage, dust particles stock footage, smoke stock footage and other particle stock animation for all your visual effects needs.
All four collections may be viewed at http://www.motionelements.com/box-sets . These collections are available for both shipped delivery and immediate online download.
About MotionElements Pte Ltd
MotionElements (http://www.motionelements.com) is an online marketplace for digital artists to buy and sell royalty-free stock footage, stock animation and 3d models.
MotionElements translates its online stock footage marketplace in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages, providing more Asian artists opportunities to sell their works to international buyers and introducing more Asian works to the world.
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Singapore – Monday, 1 June 2009
MotionElements Pte Ltd (http://www.motionelements.com) proudly announces the translation of its website in the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.
Though globalization has enabled English to become one of the most commonly used international language, many parts of Asia retain their intrinsic cultural and linguistic characteristics. MotionElements, by translating its online marketplace into various Asian languages, opens a doorway for more outstanding artists from China, Japan and Korea to showcase and sell their works on an international platform, providing international stock footage buyers with greater access to more Asian-oriented stock footage, stock animation and 3d models.
With these newly translated Chinese, Japanese and Korean sites, MotionElements welcomes new artists to join its community of motion creators where artists market, collaborate and interact.
About MotionElements Pte Ltd
MotionElements (http://www.motionelements.com) is an online marketplace for digital artists to buy and sell royalty-free stock footage, stock animation and 3d models.
中文
Stock footage has always been used in productions, be it in film, television or commercials. In the past, they were bought under the rights-managed license, complying the usage within extensive considerations. Or if there is a preference not to spend money, own prior works were ransacked for suitable footage to be recycled. Director Edward Bernds’ 1958 film Queen of Outer Space utilize space flight footage from World Without End, a film he made two years earlier.
World Without End – refer time code 00:31
Queen of Outer Space – refer time code 01:02
Today, the advent of technology has eliminated the barriers of rights-managed licensing and paved the way for royalty-free footage. Not only are they much cheaper, royalty-free footage can be instantly downloaded for perpetual usage.
In current economic times where even ABC studios are cutting costs by removing Nicollette Sheridan’s character Edie Britt from Desperate Housewives, the flood of microstock footage sites is good news for production companies. Not only are they able to lower production costs through using stock footage, they also gain an alternative source of revenue through selling their own stock videos.
However, there has been increasing concerns that royalty free stock footage is cheapening the videography profession and marginalizing profit for stock footage. The easy availability and massive amount of stock footage also makes it possible for an indie filmmaker to put together, with some creativity, a story without shooting anything, erasing the cinematography process from the production experience.
A closer understanding of the royalty-free stock footage market will reveal these concerns are misfounded.
While there are large amounts of stock footage available, the low pricing of royalty free footage keeps the content generic, as it is not economically viable to shoot unique content. Productions still require customized content to succeed commercially. The presence of royalty free stock footage only helps to cut down production cost and time, so that more resources can be channeled into other production purposes. As for the indie filmmaker, while it is possible to create experimental works in the genre of found footage films, many independent filmmakers will probably still see stock footage as an alternative option for additional cheap footage rather than core content.
