Mathias in France 2 – “The Winter Situation”
The new Rock-n-Rohwurst production is the sequel of the already very successful first video about windsurfing in Southern France published some months ago. You can watch it here.
The major challenge was trying to make the best out of difficult conditions and later the best out of bad-light-footage. It’s not summer, it’s winter! We want to show what windsurfing in Southern France is really like – far from stereotypical images of palm beaches and turquoise waters. In this clip the windsurfing takes place near the Rhône rivermouth where the oil-industry provides a dark background that clashes with pictures of the infamous flamingos and natural salt water lakes. You can nearly feel the cold and smell the oil even though the deceiving blue of a sky that has been deprived of clouds by the strong mistral winds suggests some warmer temperatures. This video is the result of our passion for the sport of windsurfing. Its goal is to provide its spectators with some quality images despite it being a no-budget production. Just like the first Rock-n-Rohwurst production the video is a result of a collaboration between Mathias Genkel as the windsurfer, his girlfriend Julia behind the camera and Johannes Neumann as the editor who edited this whole piece within one weekend!
Again, all filmed with a very simple pocket-camera Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1
Gorgeous!
Just, very very good.
Best vid, just amazing!!
nice vid & cool moves
what programmes do you use to edit like this?
does it take long to learn?
hey phil, I’m exclusiveley using AfterEffects for my video-stuff, no classic cutting-software like FinalCut or Premiere. Which isn’t really workflow-orientated, but i’m used to it and way faster in it. For me it didn’t take too much time to learn it, maybe a couple of months, but that’s because I’m used to all these softwares like Photoshop, Flash, 3D-Softwares etc… otherwise it could be a little bit tricky…
thanks guys for your props, that’s what motivates us!
LEGEND – wait for it – DARY !!!
really good!!!!
especially like the colours and the mood!
AWESOME GRADING AND EDITING. Nice sailing anyway Mathias
Great job!
I wish I could make such a good video using only a “very simple pocket-camera Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1″
nice movie!
man sieht sich
Einfach nur uuuuunglaublich geil! Genauso muss ein Surfvideo sein. Da ist irgendwie Herz mit bei und Feeling. Nice!
awesome , just with Lumix ft1
nuuuur geil! kann man sich hundertmal angucken ! DANKE dafür Jungs! weiter so!
Sweet editing and spots!!!!eventually nice moves….
good work
And the windsurf-shortclip Oscar 2010 goes tooooo….
R O C K ´n´ R O H W U R S T !!!
Magic Video… magic fluent moves, magic effects and ambience, unreal looking places with surprisingly undercrowded spots and last but not least a reasonable soundtrack.
I pull my hat off my head for you guys.
keep up the good style!
best regards,
toppa
yeah dude! great one
perfekt! Geile Farben und eine schöne Stimmung wird transportiert! Daumen HOCH!!!!
Nicely put together video – well done!, how did you do the sequence 50sec. in/ and what program?
-> Yalls: no magic, just cut out every single frame and shift it in time… I did it in aftereffects, but I’m sure you can set Masks in many other softwares.
nice video & cool moves
I have bought the Lumix in february after I have seen your previous video!!!
I would like to ask you the processing step, from the memory card to After Affect. I mean. Do you import the videos directly of you preprocess the MTS files? Do you balance the video using After Effect filters or other sw?
I am using iMovie at the moment but I would like to improve a little bit !!!
Aloha and thaks , you have an amazing style!!!
Samuele
Hello Samuele!
Great that you like the video!
You should be able to import MTS files directly into After Effects.
I sometimes cut the clips into shorter pieces in imovie and then export them in HD.
If you are having trouble with MTS files, get yourself a converter.
nope, because AfterEffects is not a dedicated cutting- or a film-editing-software, it’s not able to import such files directly. Not that I know of. get a converter or don’t cut in AE…
Thanks Mathias.
I was wondering to use iMovie 09 as well! Thanks. Last question, which HD format do you use to export?
Surfers Rules
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