Anniversary DOF adapter video

I’ve been a bit quiet since getting back from overseas, mostly because I’ve been cooking up a new DOF adapter video for my wonderful partner Monique. Last night, after much swearing, I finally manged to finish it. You can see the results by clicking the video below.

It’s shot with and without the twoneil DOF adapter and features images from my D70. It’s not perfect, as I had a deadline to hit (our anniversary was today) and I had some last minute “issues” with Final Cut Pro exporting, namely when I used teh “Export using Quick Time Conversion” in FCP, the resulting video is awfully washed out – losing most of the intense colour grading achieved naturally using the twoneil adapter. I tried a few different encodes on separate settings, but no effect.

I’ve looked up the exporting issue briefly on the net, but strangely it’s never affected any of my other videos when I’ve used the same settings. If anybody has any enlightening ideas, I would love to hear them. Also bizarrely, when I play the .avi using VLC the colour is much much better. So I’m beginning to wonder if it’s a Quicktime player thing or a FCP thing?

Anyhoo, hope you like the new video. I will be back with more posts soon.