Technical Notes:

Some experimentation with 3 strip technicolor, color correction, composite mixing, shutter speed, iris and rainbow optics throughout — shot with a Panasonic AG-HMC150P HD video camera at 1920x1080p in progressive mode 30 frames per second. Video editor is Final Cut Express v4.01 with some extra filters from FxFactory Pro.

Filming the sun is challenging because it is such a bright object. At points in this film you will notice the sun dimming and picking up definition as the shutter speed is increased. At maximum shutter (1/1000) the manual iris is next selected and slowly increased until maximum, at which point the screen goes dark.

The protective glass over the camera lens can create some interesting optical effects including rainbows, flares and concentric glowing ring formations. In a sense, studying this video will help you know what sorts of “artifacts” are optically produced, allowing you to detect genuine media vs frauds more easily.

For example, there has been some discussion of an unknown star named Nibiru and some videos on the internet which seem to show another, smaller star near Earth’s sun (Sol). These videos are rather intriguing to watch. I decided to look for myself using a reasonably good HD camera via various optical and video editing methods. I collected video footage in two different Canadian provinces (Alberta and BC) over two days (April 04 and April 05, 2011) and the results you can watch for yourself in this movie..

Music is by E-Mantra from the album Arcana, “Approaching Nibiru”

Safety Note:

The driving speed in this video has been sped up in post production.. please don’t actually drive as fast as this looks for safety reasons =)

Technical Notes:

This footage was shot entirely with the Sony HDR-XR200. A vacuum suction mount was used to secure the camera for the driving parts. All the water and nature clips were shot free-hand (deep in the woods).

I’ve been wanting to create this project for awhile (since June) and I was waiting for the right music track to score the video. Needless to say, “Give me Love” was the final inspiration.

This music video was edited using Final Cut Express v4.01 and I made liberal use of FxFactory Pro 2.5 to render the special effects. I used markers for the first time to tag certain points in the music track first, then keyed the video effect filters from these marker points.

At certain points in the movie there are some “green screen” effects that were generated using the bright blue sky as a blue chroma key.