We shot this with three cameras. Which is twice more than I normally shoot my dinky videos with. It’s currently in FCP X as I chop between the shots. Jon Class is also working on the audio from the shoot too. It was a fun experience as I had the 5D on my right on a tripod, and the 7D on my left on a tripod. I was then right in the middle shooting handheld on a T2i. I should have took some behind the scenes pictures but I’ll still walk you through how we did this setup.

As I stated we had three cameras, 5D Mk II, 7D, & the T2i. On the 5D was the 35mm f/1.4L, on the 7D was the 24-70mm f/2.8L, and the T2i as puny as it already felt between these beasts had the 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens on it.

You’ll have to ask Jon Class what model mics we used, but he had a condenser on himself and his accordion. Tibbs had a large diaphragm condenser on his vox and guitar. Those both ran into the Zoom H4N’s XLR inputs.

I grabbed a cheap Cowboy Studio lighting kit from Amazon this fall, you can see one in the shots. I didn’t mind and chose to left it where it was. It was more so a hair light, but after resetting our positions I liked having it in the shot. Especially since there is a very cool light (on the light temparature scale) to the left of Jon Class, then a warm one to the right of John Tibbs. There are then two more softboxes with one light in them to the left and right of my camera setup. These both had 5500K bulbs in them, they matched the hair light.

As far as camera settings go, they were all on manual and shot at 1080p 24FPS. Auto white balance, neutral color profile, ISO 800, and shutter speed was 50.

Hope to have this edit up by the 9th, I’ll of course share again. Ask any further questions if you have them, I just thought it’d be nice to share my vantage point on this video. Thanks!

This is my simple journey getting to that point, dubbed breakfast.

We set out on one dreary, overcast, Indiana day to get some shots of the countryside in transition from Summer to Fall. I knew I wanted to use this song so we shot with it in mind, and this is what we got.

Hope it leaves you wanting to sip on some warm coffee or tea and relax.
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Shot on a T2i & 7D with 35mmf/1.4L and a 135mm f/2.0L @ 1080p 24FPS

Edited with FCP X & Motion 5

I set out in the backyard at magic hour and tried my best to get some shots that show off this light the best. I’ve posted my trials in video form above, dubbed as the Magic Hour bundle at the moment.

For the technically inclined, I shot this on my handy 7D at 1080p 24FPS with a 50mm f/1.4. I was inbetween f/2.8 and f/3.5 for these clips. I also loaded the cinestyle picture style from technicolor, and shot at ISO 160. It’s important to note this as they recommend shooting at multiples of 160 (320, 640, etc…). They’ve discovered that this picture style works best in those multiples for whatever reasons.

If you guys like I’ll try and finish off a small set and make it available for download. So leave a comment and let me know!

Thanks guys for being our fun and goofy (Jon) subjects!

Shot on a T2i & 7D with 35mmf/1.4L and a 135mm f/2.0L @ 720p 60FPS

Edited with FCP X & Motion 5

They are an awesome couple, very glad we got to be a part of this. Many congrats guys!

Shot on a T2i & 7D with 35mmf/1.4L and a 135mm f/2.0L @ 1080p 24FPS

Edited with FCP X & Motion 5

Obviously the big screen is my iMac, I use the wireless keyboard and magic trackpad and love both of them. Wireless is the way to go. Hanging out underneath the iMac is my Maverick Audio TubeMagic A1 Hybrid Amplifier. This little guy is a beast on a budget. I’ve just started my journey into hi-fi audio, and at $199 this beautiful/compact tube amp packs the goods. The iMac runs into it out of it’s audio out jack into the line in jack on the amp. It’s also a great headphone amp that I’ll be waiting to put to use once I nab some Grados. The speakers are an even better deal. For about $45 total you can get these sweet bookshelf speakers made by Dayton Audio. From my experience so far I love the amp and speaker combo. Everything just sounds so good, and for about $250 you can’t beat it.

Underneath my obvious IKEA desk is my storage for all my media. I have a 1TB Western Digital external that is my time machine/bootable duplicate of my internal drive in the iMac. I can take this little hard drive on the road and boot from any other Mac if I need to. I did this last week while in MO to get a little work done. Underneath my Time Machine disk is my new toy. It’s called a Drobo and is a very cool RAID system. I have the second generation of the 4 bay setup. It has 4 3.5″ SATA hard drive bays in which I have 1TB drives in each bay. Giving me 3TB of storage after redundancy is taken out. The Drobo appears to my iMac like one giant hard drive instead of 4 separate drives. It’s RAID technology is really cool and I put all my media worth protecting on it. The cool thing about it, and one of the reasons I bought it was because it’s easily expandable. The Drobo will warn me when I’m running out of space and all I need to do is remove one of the drives and replace it with a drive with more storage on it. I don’t have to worry about the drive sizes matching or moving any files. Drobo handles all of this for me. Right now there are 3TB drives available for me to put in my Drobo, so maybe someday I’ll upgrade from 4TB to 12TB.

So that’s it, hope you like the way I work and my setup. Let me know if you have anymore questions about my setup, I’ll be sure to help you out.