You want slow motion for your movies? Try Twixtor.

One of the reason why I bought the Canon T2i was its ability to capture frame by frame images while in video mode. When shooting in 60fps it is possible to give that cinematic slow motion movement that major motion picture do when you brought the footage to the in the editing process . Its a cool efx and makes movie moments more dramatic. Back when I was in film school, in my Full Sail days, it was a young filmmakers wet dream to do a scene in slow motion and make it look cool. Back when I was shooting with min DV tapes, this effect was hard in post and would look choppy. Tapes just didn't work for slow motion. It seemed the only way get slow motion was to shoot on film but thanks to DSLR Revolution that no longer the case...Or so I thought.
I have recently shot a wedding in which I decided to shoot moments in slow motion. I hadn't tried it before but had read about the how to shoot it and how edit it in post. Seemed simple I thought. Just shoot the footage in 60fps and bring it into 1080p sequence then change the the speed of the footage. Simple.
When I brought the wedding footing into Final Cut Pro 7 and brought the speed down, I notice the footage was still choppy.
"Damn it" I thought. "What the hell did I do wrong?" Turns out that nothing was wrong, I just needed Twixtor. I guess Final Cut just dosent cut it when it come to slow motion.
Twixtor was made by Revisionfx and is one of many plug-ins that they offer for Final Cut, Adobe,After Effects and Avid.
Twixtor is much more accurate for slow motion to see everything in detail and not choppy or rough blend of images.
I tried the demo that Revisionfx offered and it worked great. The real plug-in is quite pricey tho, for the "regular" vision its $329.95 and for the "Pro" for $595.00. I havent had the chance to fool around with the "Pro" demo vision but the "regular" is great. Still it will cost you an arm and a leg but its worth it.

Re-Vamp my Webstie: iWeb/ Adobe Photoshop

Great news, finally got my new look for my website. I made the site with IWeb and Adobe Photoshop and thanks to godaddy.com,I've got a domain name. Vid Production Group's website has only been around for about a year since I officially made it, the company, into an LLC. I think the look is better then my pervious "Dark purple" site but it still has a long way to go before its how Id really would like it to be. Cooler, slicker and with animation. Unfortunately I dont have Adobe Flash to create these buttons to be more interactive or some graphic effects that could capture more attention. But whatever..the point is that Im looking a lot more professional and Im slowly growing better in creating these site for my business. Check out the page here.

Photos made it to NBC news

Hey great news!!! My pictures got publish with an article of Flying Colors Apparel on NBC.com. So happy the clothing line is get so much popularity. If you want to see the article just click on this link.There has been talk about doing a commercial in the near future where I will be the cinematographer and my friend, Alex Alvarez, will be the director. Ideas are still being thrown around so I'll let you know when thats happen.