Fall Colors filmed with a Canon Vixia HF20/200

This day started out cold and rainy then cleared off in the evening which made for a perfect opportunity to try and capture some fall colors.

I shot all the footage at 60i with various manual setting. I then brought the raw footage into Vegas Pro 9 and converted it to 60p. Once that was done I set the frame rate to 29.97p to give it a nice fluid feeling.

The last shot of the stars was done with a Canon 20D digital camera set up for time lapse photography. After converting the images to a .mov at 29.97p with Quicktime Pro, I brought it in to Vegas , cropped it and adjusted the frame rate to slow down the motion.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Fall Colors
• fall foliage
• Fall
• Canon Vixia HF20/200
• Vegas Pro 9
• Time Lapse Photography

[typedink]

Can I ask you how did you get the focus to change at :27 seconds. From like the picture in the water, and then out to the leaves on the ground? I tried manual focus but it either makes it all focused, or all blurry. Any help would be appreciated. I just got this camera.

[NeCubFlyer]

@typedink : Your going to laugh buddy... I used a polarizer filter on the front lens and rotated until the reflection disappeared... kind of tricky yeah!

[wonderbread1]

How did you get such a good shot of the night sky? when I try to shoot the stars all I get is Black and grain.

[NeCubFlyer]

@wonderbread1: Used a Canon 20D DSLR camera and about 600 time lapsed images in which I made into a clip...

More info in my description!

[Blaze0820]

@HelloTherePepper I got this camera last black Friday. I can tell you I don't regret buying this camera. I have hade trouble here and there with low light. But other then that it's a well-rounded camera. I can't wait to take it to the beach in August!

[Pookieftw]

Wonderful fall colors!



[casper2598]

BEAUTIFUL!

[mrwashur1991]

why would you ever convert 60i to 60p? 60i is still 30 full fps...the fps you see after 60i stands for fields per second...meaning there is the even pixels then the odd in the length of one frame therefore doubling it to 60 fields per second....there is just no need to bring it to 60p then to 29.97 when you could just get the pulldown from de-interlacing...but that time lapse at the end was pretty dank though

[MichaelJacksonSpin]

you use alot of color correction for sure

[billmills]

Gracious sakes! I just watched three drops of dew 'pop' out of the beautiful reddish leaf! The danged camera actually recorded them popping into existence... I never knew they did that and of course, couldn't have imagined ever seeing it happen. This is soooo cool. I just bought this camera and am anxiously awaiting it's delivery. Your lovely video made me even more anxious now! TY for posting it.

[FILMSABOUTWOLVES]

what kind of editing software did you use for this

[indiesk8r1]

still shots are great, motion is a little blurry. Did you use the optimal settings for motion in this video? I just ordered this camera and I'd like to film fight scenes that look somewhat decent.