Surfers and Sunsets in Piha, New Zealand

[philwilliamsnz]

The west coast of New Zealand faces the setting sun, and the waves.
This autumn evening, a storm was rolling in... sea, cloud, light, magic.

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[hychewright]

Great video Phil, thanks for sharing.

 

[MavicPro83]

Very nice, do you mind sharing your settings?

 

[philwilliamsnz]

Hey MP83, yeah sure thing.

Shooting:
- 4K 30fps MOV
- DCinelike
- picture style -1 0 0
- 100 ISO, between 60 and 120 fps
- PolarPro NDPL-8 filter

There's no colour grading per se on the edit, just auto balance in FCPX. Any serious editor would say that's too harsh, but I liked the pop for this footage, it worked.

I would prefer to do all edits and grades in Davinci Resolve 12, but unfortunately my MacBook Pro is an older model that can't really handle DR12. So I use an FCPX trial which benefits nicely from the Apple hardware / software acceleration... I can juuuuust get it to real-time preview fades and cross dissolves to music

 

[MavicPro83]

Thanks for sharing, looks great, I use fcpx too it's pretty solid and although not cheap I think it's worth it