Arctic's Furnal Equinox 2016 Con Video - What You Waiting For

The Furry Superheroes and Supervillians take over Toronto, Canada with Furnal Equinox 2016! This year at Canada's largest furry convention, supervillians roam the con space with their evil plans, while the superheros fight back and the villainy.

March 18-20, 2016
Toronto, Canada
www.furnalequinox.com

Camera/Edit: ArcticSkyWolf
www.twitter.com/ArcticSkyWolf
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/arcti...

Song:
Gazzo - What You Waiting For (feat. Sugarwhiskey)
  / gazzo-what-you-waiting-for-feat-sugarwhiskey  
  / gazzomusic  

Technical stuff no one reads:
This con video was shot mostly on some Panasonic "microwave-sized" shoulder mounted HD broadcast camcorder and partly on the Canon 60D with the Sigma 24mm f/1.4 ART lens. Just look for the wide shots at the dance/rave with really shallow depth of field. You won't get that on a camcorder and it just screams DSLR. If you saw some guy with a big news camera at FE, that was probably me.

This was the first time I used an ENG-style broadcast quality camcorder at a furry convention. I usually use it to shoot newscasts, interviews and other stuff. Anyways it was a fun "run and gun" style experience. Coming from someone who has used and shot on DSLRs for many years prior, it's a different experience. It's also a somewhat different workflow. I learned a lot from using it that weekend and I have a better idea of how to use the camcorder now after the con. I already used it a bunch of times in the past and it's a pretty good broadcast camcorder. It was also super useful for the FE Livestream. You can check out some videos on    / furnalequinox  . Used ALL-I 100Mbps because I might as well film at the highest quality on this camcorder, and whatever the default 45Mbps is for the 60D. Obviously shot at 30p.

I now have a good idea on the benefits, limitations and the differences between a broadcast camcorder and a DSLR in terms of ergonomics, features, video quality, work flow, etc.

Edited on Avid Media Composer because I felt like it. I mean how else am I going to deal with the 400GB of footage, most of which was Panasonic P2 HD media and I didn't feel like using Premiere Pro for this. I know Premiere Pro can handle P2 media but at the time I was using Avid a lot and didn't want to get my keyboard shortcuts and such mixed up. I did the usual AMA linking and shooting myself in the foot because Avid really hates Canon DSLR footage, or anything Quicktime that isn't transcoded. The playback, performance and stability with using compressed footage that comes out of a DSLR is much better on Premiere Pro than it is on Avid Media Composer. I have no idea why but Avid just shits itself when I have non-transcoded DSLR footage on the timeline. If I shot most of the stuff on my DSLR, there was no way in hell I would use Avid without transcoding all of my DSLR footage before even putting it on the timeline.

I spent over 20 hours editing it. Most of the time, it was spent sifting through footage and waiting for Avid to unfreeze. When it got to the actual editing, I did do a rough cut, took out a bunch of clips and put in new, better ones. The typical editing workflow. It was fun editing yet another video on Avid Media Composer. I now have a better idea of how to use it, even though I've edited countless other things for news, documentary, etc. on it.

For the song, I pretty much found it via Soundcloud. I don't remember exactly how I found it but it's not on my feed so it wasn't shared from the accounts I follow. It was probably the next song that played after an album or whatever Soundcloud does. Maybe it was randomly injected into my play queue and I ended up really liking the song and used it for this video.