As I wrote in my previous blog posts (post 1, post 2) I am currently testing several methods to see if video material from the 5D Mark II can be converted to 25p. I also uploaded a couple of shots to youtube, links are below.

I will shoot some more tests with the 5D tomorrow with DoP Philip Leutert and post more results soon. (Update: blog posting about these tests is here)

Two weeks ago, a few friends from my film school took the Canon 5D Mark II to the Ostsee coast to test whether it would be suitable for the short film they want to shoot in August. They gave me the material they shot so I could try various retiming methods to see if it was possible to get a decent looking 25p copy of the material. (Update: I have since shot some more tests, read about them here. Update Nr 2: I have written two extensive blog posts on how retiming works and how to do it in After Effects. Find them here.)

I just started to give twitter (my twitter feed) and flickr (my photostream) a try. Some of their networking tools are indeed nice.

Also, expect a report about my after effects frame rate conversion tests for the Canon 5D Mark II here soon (30p -> 25p).

I currently do some compositing work for the short film Bordercrossing. I took over from another compositor who did a couple of shots that the director and editor now want me to make some changes to. Some of those shots are very long compositions and I was asked to make changes to only some fragments of them and render those out. Since I found myself repeatedly creating new compositions that contained the big master comp as it's only layer but only the working area time fragment of it, I decided to write a small script to do this. You can find it attached or on aenhancers.com