No, not hand crank cameras but cameras used in filming the movie Crank 2. I have discovered on a couple different websites that a big budget Hollywood film is being done on budget gear. Somewhat of a church budget MAYBE.

The cameras in discussion are Canon XH A1 “consumer” grade HD units. These things sell all over now for around $3000 plus accessories. I just thought it was nice to know that you can get high quality footage (good enough for charging a hefty admission even, haha) at a relatively affordable price. We have two very nice non-HD cameras at church that we paid more than that for in the past three years.

A buddy of mine, Mike, was using one to film some live performance footage of another buddy, David, last night. He digs the camera. Anyone else use one of these? These will have to get bumped to the top of my wish list for production gear… maybe next year.

Well, it has been a while since a worthwhile post came to these parts. I decided I am going to try to get back on the blog-bandwagon along with a couple of other potential web activities that you shall hear about soon enough.

I am posting a video that we will be using in church for the next few weeks as the sermon intro, between worship and the message. The series is “Just Breathe” and it is a 4 week study on the Holy Spirit.

I don’t know if it is good or bad to say that this video is the result of the better part of two days work, spread over a week. The graphic appearing at the end was designed by Chris for the series. I worked backwards from it to animate it and add motion along with all the text. Chris did the initial design in Photoshop I did all the animation in After Effects and created the “flourishes” that grow in the video in Illustrator. The text may change week to week, I am not sure yet.

The music behind it is “The Adventure” by Angels & Airwaves. (I tried posting on YouTube first but couldn’t get audio in there for some reason, so it’s hosted on my site and may take a bit longer to play.)

Enjoy
-Travis

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