Unknown: All right, I wanted to take you behind the scenes as I
shoot some B roll for one of my latest videos, it was for the
easy live stream setup, you can find that video right there. But
I wanted to take you through kind of behind the scenes
because this is the first time I tried shooting B roll for this
equipment this way so let's check this out. Alright, so here
really is the setup for this. So I always have kind of this
backdrop set up here is definitely a little wrinkly,
which I wish I would have taken the time to go through an iron
that but then I have this is kind of a little little
interview station. This is where I do some interviews, when we
used to be able to do in in person stuff but I did Have a
little n table. So this is just an table that I have right took
off the microphones from because I had some podcasting
microphones on there on a boom arm. And then I have a little
plexiglass a black flecks,
plexiglass right
here, you can see just put the product the equipment I'm
talking about right on top, in this case is a Logitech camera.
So really, it's just this corner over here in the office and
again, normally used for interviews but I have the
aperture 120 D with the light dome kind of right there. And I
wanted to get it as close to top down as possible. I don't have a
C stand to kind of booming over. That's one thing I need to add
to my to the to my list of future purchases here. But I
diffused it as much as possible. So it has both diffusions on
there. And I didn't use the grid a lot of times for interviews
here. You can see I don't have the grid on there. I just have
it as diffused light as possible. Just so kind of
nice and soft.
Going on the product
and then you can see the product way down there. It's kind of
some weird angles just because the tables so low, but that was
back where I kind of wanted to shoot things so I didn't want to
move anything else because I knew that this shouldn't take
too long shoot, but I wanted to make sure I got these shots and
then you can see kind of right let's move that there we go
right there it is, is the camera
and it's the LSR
so I have the are kind of set there on a tripod just zoomed in
and to like kind of lined up in a nice shot. It worked really
well for the Logitech or do less well for some of the other
stuff. I'll show you a few other clips here, kind of what the
final product
looks like.
running at a frame rate of 60
so I can slow it down in post. Just kind of make it that nice
smooth angle, because I want to show you this thing right here.
So Alright, let's get down here. All right, so you can kind of
see the products right here. But I have this plexiglass. So this
is black Plexiglas, because I want the reflections to kind of
showcase to show up there. So, so the product looks really
nice. It's gotten a little dirty after shooting here for a little
while. I already have captured all the shots, but I just kind
of want to show you this setup. So I actually have a lazy susan
underneath here so I can continue to rotate this.
So now if I
there and the Lazy Susan i'm used was super cheap here on
Amazon, or you there are more expensive ones that will
actually automatically rotate and rotate at a consistent
speed. So for me because I don't have that one, I just had to
kind of time it and try to be as smooth as possible when going
through that kind of main shot that I want. So I just took a
couple takes going as smoothly as they could A little more
difficult when I had some heavier products on actually,
except think of Logitech is going to be I haven't edited
these yet, but I think the Logitech is going to be my
favorite one. It's the best one. It's the one that looks the best
here in camera anyways. So I think that was really great. And
so all I would do is I would turn the camera on start
recording here, and then just kind of slowly rotate the
product
to kind of
showcase it and I haven't in manual focus, so kind of
maintains that focus so as it's rotating or leaving come into
focus or go out of focus. And I can play with that in post as
well and decide which way I like best. also wanted to show you
that I just have another light kind of set up down below
underneath the product table. Just casting up on the backdrop,
I just wanted to create a little bit of separation there. I think
we'll see what it looks like in post. I should have maybe took
and taken all the shots as well without the light just to kind
of see if I like it
actually now that even that I'm saying that
I'm going to try it with the Logitech here and just kind of
test that out. So I know for the future, but I created a little
bit of separation with that light. And just as a way to kind
of separate the product from the background and hopefully add
another little, some more dimension to that shot. Right so
now I have everything shot so I'm brought it into the computer
and loaded into premiere and now it's really mostly about editing
and coloring. So as you can see here I have the sequence and I
duplicated the layer. Let's turn this layer off. So this
definitely was my favorite one. You can see how, how that just
kind of looks, I just loved the way that one turned out. But
with it, let's show you kind of I want to show you a little bit
of what I did here. So with this first thing I did was found,
this is how it looked when I brought it in. I slowed
everything down to 40% because I'm shooting that 60 frames per
second. So drop it down 40% and then I also always I like to
always include in Speed ramp here, I always include the
optical flow, and I found the section. That was the smoothest.
So I actually found the section that was the smoothest in the
turning up before I slowed it down, but then slowed it down.
And now it's time to add to color crack. And this is
definitely the area one of the areas, not the area, there's
many areas that I still need a lot of improvement on. But this
is probably this is an area that I can improve a lot and is color
correction and just color grading in general. So I shoot
everything in log. So I brought it brought it in and you can see
right here, what that raw footage looks like. So when I
first started out, I would just go and apply a lot and call that
good and kind of be done with it. You know, that was before I
was shooting in law that was for lots of things. But now I've
slowly started to figure out and slowly started to pay more
attention to the actual color grading because I want to get
something I do want to get better. I think when you really
understand color grading you're going to able to get more
options. Have your footage and make it look so much nicer. So a
lot of this has been playing around and just trying to figure
out things not to say that I don't use lots occasionally.
Like even on this footage, I applied a lot, but it wasn't
just applying it and leaving it at that. So as I color grade up
again, I want to just clarify that I'm not necessarily an
expert, even here recently in some of the videos that are
definitely ones that I wish I would have color coded
differently and color corrected differently. But one of the
first things I do is just crank up the contrast. And because it
is so black, I want to take it pretty high here, and that's
something I'll kind of mess around with. But just also
again, this is an interesting, very dark, very black meant to
be very black kind of setting. So I'm going to take the
contrast way up. I also one of the very first things I like to
do is also take the shadows down. I like my shadows to be
fairly You black and fairly dark. Now you can jump over and
look at some of the scopes. I don't really know what I'm doing
yet, when it comes to looking at scopes, I know you don't want to
kind of flatten everything out. And you don't want to just like,
get too far out of line here is like I don't want to take
everything so like I completely destroy the image. And I don't
want everything flat. I know I want to kind of kind of ideally
spread throughout. But exposure I'm gonna leave there because I
think that's pretty solid. Shadows I do I want them. I want
to take the shadows down some so I just kind of go by the way it
looks, at least for now. I'm going to eventually get better
at this and then I'll tell you completely different stuff. But
I want to take the shadows down. I also do like taking the black
down. Because we are we are going for a certain Look here.
And you can kind of see we're getting closer to that I'm going
to even get off of the metric scopes just because again, I
don't really know I'm dealing with those anyways. Oftentimes
when it comes to log, I usually add some saturation and I
anywhere between one between adding going to 110 or 120.
Usually, not honestly for this one, I think I might jump right
up to 120 because I think it helps make some of this pop a
little bit more like just kind of with the reflection here. It
seems like it's popping a little bit more. So that's playing a
lot with it. What are we let's see what the whites do. I don't
think I want to adjust the whites too much. I want to keep
those pretty, pretty neutral
and even the highlights
I'm gonna be curious to see how this compares to what I was
doing
before so already don't
remember that but I'm gonna keep the highlights about same. Now
what I know I did before it was actually going here and add a
lot and what I did was the black eye This is a Peter McKinnon. A
lot. I've been using those for a while I have a few others as
well. But I thought this one did a nice job at bringing out and
again, I have the intensity at 30% right here, if you're going
all the way it comes in at 100. And like that's way too much.
But 30 just seems to add less usually now if I do apply a lot,
that's about a level that I apply that is about 30 to 40% at
most. And so there you have it, that's kind of pretty close to
it's what I just readjusted for that final image. Let's see how
it compares to the original one. The original ones a little bit
darker. actually might like the new one slightly, this one right
here. Okay, let's see what the differences were. So if I click
on this one, let's go to the color correction. My turn this
off. So we're going to look at this one, see what the numbers
are. So we're 70% contrast, negative 65 and the negative 14
and then 120 So I know a bunch of it's the same. Let's turn
this on. And we have less contrast in this top one and
we're at 65. What did I say the shadows were at negative 65.
Versus here, I also left the shadows up a little bit more.
And then the blacks are at negative 34 and negative 14.
Okay, I actually think I like our new, the newer one, just
slightly more, it gives it allows you to see the camera a
little bit more. Whereas our old one, kind of hit the camera a
little bit more as maybe a little bit too black. So that is
exactly how you go through and kind of correct that's what I
did here. That's just your little peek behind the scenes
for the way I shot the B roll for that last video. If you're
interested in learning more about NC more of this behind the
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