rickswa Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) Here's a few clips of my display. Hopefully the first two songs of the intro come across correct with a "tongue-in-cheek" humor as intended. Please post any comments....good or bad. thanks for checking it out. http://www.WinfieldLights.com Edited December 10, 2012 by rickswa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Just a suggestion...take you camera off of auto focus to video your lights... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickswa Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 AHHH. Thanks for the tip! Honestly (and I know how stupid this will sound) it was driving me nuts trying to figure out what settings to use to keep it from bluring. I resigned myself to the fact that the LED's were the main problem and that I just had to deal with it. I'm going to give that a shot tonight and see how it goes. Any certain settings that are best to use? thanks for the tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) AHHH. Thanks for the tip! Honestly (and I know how stupid this will sound) it was driving me nuts trying to figure out what settings to use to keep it from bluring. I resigned myself to the fact that the LED's were the main problem and that I just had to deal with it. I'm going to give that a shot tonight and see how it goes. Any certain settings that are best to use? thanks for the tip.If your camera has a "fireworks" setting, a lot of us use that to get good color...but mainly it is just trial and error. I STILL have not gotten decent video of my display. I was talking to a TV cameraman that came out the other night and he suggested just playing with the White Balance..so was going to try that tonight.The problem with the AutoFocus is that with the lights going on and off it tries to focus on the last bit of light that went on... Edited December 10, 2012 by jimswinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Al Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Rush! Nice job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith5885 Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Sweet intro. Amazing setup. Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickswa Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 thanks for the comments guys!!! As for the camera, I was playing with it and I did notice a white balance setting also and wondered about that. The odd thing is that it has both an AF (auto focus) mode and a CAF (continuous auto focus) mode. I have no clue of the difference but turned them both off. it did better but not great. I'll have to play around with that white balance too and see if I can get these lights from blending with each other so much. Thanks again for the comments and also the camera help. I even thought about getting a different camera but would hate to have it be as simple as taking time and just playing with each setting more and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 (edited) As for the camera, I was playing with it and I did notice a white balance setting also and wondered about that. I'll have to play around with that white balance too and see if I can get these lights from blending with each other so much.if you have it, you can also play with the aperture setting..and not let so much ight into the camera..that would help the "lights from blending"..but of course make everything behind the lights (like your house) very dark... Edited December 11, 2012 by jimswinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbaclaus Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I loved the song mix. Fun change of tempo. Was it tough splitting the song and running the sequences with the beat changes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrymac Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Very Very Nice. Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickswa Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 I loved the song mix. Fun change of tempo. Was it tough splitting the song and running the sequences with the beat changes?it really wasn't that bad. I just did each section one at a time (arches, tree, CCR's, and yard decorations) and once I got the basic beat down just used that as a reference for the rest. It did (as I imagine all songs do) take a lot of listening to the same part at half speed over and over and over and nudging the events left or right a bit, but overall wasn't that bad. I used audacity to split the songs up and just inserted that static part between them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe b. Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 great job, love the rush song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickswa Posted December 18, 2012 Author Share Posted December 18, 2012 Thanks for all the comments and especially the camera tips. I didn't realize this, but like I posted earlier, the camera I'm using has both an auto-focus and continuous auto focus setting. I turned both of them off and what a difference!! So looks like I have a little bit of re-editing to do. LOL. I'm going to try the white balance adjustment and see if I can get it even better, but so far what a huge difference from just turning off those settings. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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