Caden B-Ball vid
Caden went to his second basketball game last Saturday. Being his first year playing, he’s still learning the ball skills. He’s not doing too bad with passing and dribbling, but still could use some work on his shooting. Unfortunately, his old man never played the game… like, ever. So, I’m not much help.
The boys are in the basketball program and Bria’s in cheerleading this season (she can play b-ball next year). Our church where they play just adopted the Upward program, and it’s pretty cool. Very structured, organized, and well led by the LifeBridge staff and volunteers. Our kids will likely be playing it for a long time now. And their old man will have to get out on the court one of these days… and throw down the glove to pick up the big orange ball sometime.
Naturally, I’ve been shooting video courtside with my new camera. I’m still a bit jerky with some of the controls, esp. the manual focusing… which is the only way to follow the action when 30 people an hour come walking in front of the camera. I’m rigged up with the Tiffen Steady Stick support system that keeps me from having to lug “the sticks” (my mongo tripod) around. It’s basically a body-mounted tripod and shoulder rest… and makes it a breeze during extended shoots.
Anyways, I edited a little snippet of Caden’s game last Saturday. I took a bunch of footage, but just focused on him for this little piece. Below is the very down-rezzed and compressed Flash version. I also made a high-def version… well, higher-def version. It’s a 1280×720 size WMV, so it’s still down-rezzed quite a bit, and has a healthy bit of compression tokeep the file size manageable. For those that know (and/or care), this was shot at 30f (Canon’s 30fps progressive mode)… so there’s a decent amount of motion blur compared to the “video look” of 60i. For those of you crossing your eyes about now, enjoy watching the video!
Of course, Logan’s anxious to see his “music video” now from Saturday’s game. An editor’s job is never done! Yawn.