ON THE ROAD
Vancouver to Banff | OCTOBER 2018
iPhone X + Moment Anamorphic
We heard during Spring 2018 of a shoot in Banff National Park happening the next Fall. We were invited to fly over, but with a new car coming in the summer, I decided to take a few days before and after the shoot and make it a road trip from Vancouver to Banff and back. Set in late October, this was the prime time for the Fall's colours.
The challenge for this video was to shoot only with the iPhone X. Luckily enough, I received the newly designed mobile lens from Moment — the Anamorphic lens x1.33 — featured on Kickstarter a few months earlier. I expected this lens for my trip to France in early September. Sadly, it didn't ship in time.
The road trip to Banff was to be the first test with this new toy.
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Dive Down by Bob Bradley & Thomas Balmforth
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Codec Filmic Extreme — 100Mbps
UHD 3840px-2160p
60 fps (80% of the shots)
Shutter speed under control with a set of ND Filters + Moment filter ring adapter
90% of shots with the Moment Anamorphic lens x1.33
Edited in Premiere and downsized from UHD to 1080p timeline
Ratio set to 2:39.1 (In post-production)
Graded with Film Convert Nitrate
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Some of my ND filters were visible in the shot with a very wide anamorphic lens. Moment suggests the use of filter wider than 62mm.
I didn't use a tripod nor a handheld stabilizer, resulting in a lot of shaky footage. I used the warp stabilizer in Premiere, but in some cases, it created some weird warping and artifacts.
Unfortunately, around 30% of the overall footage was lost due to an issue within Filmic Pro where the software couldn't properly de-squeeze the anamorphic shots.
For this project, I didn't use a Denoise tool (NeatVideo), although some shots could have used it.
I would strongly suggest transcoding iPhone shots to ProRes before editing. This way, Premiere will handle footage more efficiently.
