Dylan Pfohl|Filmmaker

Today I started a new Youtube channel called BMX Clip A Day. My idea is to upload one of my best BMX clips everyday. The idea came from the success of Destin’s whip clip that I posted on Vimeo on Saturday night. 2 days later it has 12,000 views, I’m guessing that since it is so short people watched it over and over again and shared it with friends. 

With the new Youtube channel I’m hoping to build on that success by putting out a new clip everyday. If the same thing can happen compounded by youtube’s huge audience and new videos everyday, maybe this could really take off. And to my knowledge no one is currently doing this, so we’ll see what happens.

Posted May 21, 2012 at 7:45 pm

This is Card Reader. It is an unbranded USB 1.0 SD card reader purchased many years ago. It takes over an hour to transfer a 16 gig card. Recently I tried to replace Card Reader with one of those modern 2.0 jobs that can do the transfer in 12 minutes. The I O Gear broke in half in less than a week and the Sunpak quit after a month. So here I sit blogging the day away while Card Reader is hard at work.

This is Card Reader.

It is an unbranded USB 1.0 SD card reader purchased many years ago. It takes over an hour to transfer a 16 gig card. Recently I tried to replace Card Reader with one of those modern 2.0 jobs that can do the transfer in 12 minutes. The I O Gear broke in half in less than a week and the Sunpak quit after a month. So here I sit blogging the day away while Card Reader is hard at work.

Posted May 19, 2012 at 8:35 pm

Here are a few photos I took of my friends Gavin Malcolm and Andrew Waytashek at the Parker skatepark when I was back in Colorado last week. The sun just happend to be at the right height to get some nice backlighting. And as I continue to discover the power of raw photographs I was able to bring the riders back out of complete darkness. I’ve never really enjoyed photography too much before, but now I am intrigued. 

Posted May 19, 2012 at 8:10 pm

Started shooting a new edit with Destin Cantrell at his private riding facility today. This is the first riding shot I got and I think it turned out pretty good. The place has huge potential for some amazing shots and I definitely got a few but really only scratched the surface for what’s possible. We should wrap up shooting next week, I’m really looking forward to putting something together with this footage. 

Posted May 19, 2012 at 6:39 pm

Yesterday I started working on a welcome to Demolition edit with Kris Fox. Check out our last edit again to see the direction we’re going with this one https://vimeo.com/34884914 We shot at the Volume/Demolition warehouse and then Sheep Hills. Kris pointed out this angle for a photo and I went ahead and snapped it. I’m stoked on how it came out, the way he’s just above the trees and in the sun while the jump is in the shade just looks cool to me. I dont shoot photos very often, even though I shoot video with a still camera and I almost never shoot raw just because I only ever upload photos here or facebook and it’s usually not worth the hassle. My camera just happened to be set to raw for this one and man is it cool how many options you have. It’s crazy to me that you can bring back a completely over exposed sky and still have detail in the shadows. I may have to experiment more…

Yesterday I started working on a welcome to Demolition edit with Kris Fox. Check out our last edit again to see the direction we’re going with this one https://vimeo.com/34884914

We shot at the Volume/Demolition warehouse and then Sheep Hills. Kris pointed out this angle for a photo and I went ahead and snapped it. I’m stoked on how it came out, the way he’s just above the trees and in the sun while the jump is in the shade just looks cool to me.

I dont shoot photos very often, even though I shoot video with a still camera and I almost never shoot raw just because I only ever upload photos here or facebook and it’s usually not worth the hassle. My camera just happened to be set to raw for this one and man is it cool how many options you have. It’s crazy to me that you can bring back a completely over exposed sky and still have detail in the shadows. I may have to experiment more…

Posted May 19, 2012 at 5:10 pm

Posted May 14, 2012 at 11:18 am

Posted May 14, 2012 at 11:18 am

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Posted May 14, 2012 at 11:17 am

I feel like a lot of people dont know everything that goes into editing a web video so I’m going to write a few things about it because this one was a nightmare. 

Mistake #1 Switching to Premiere for an edit as relatively important and time sensitive as this. I’ve been editing on Final Cut since 2005 but lately I’ve felt like the quality you lose from converting from h.264 to Prores then back to h.264 then uploading to vimeo was making a noticeably negative impact on my videos. I’ve messed with Premiere before so I didn’t think it would be an issue. It went fine at first, I finished the rough cut then I decided I wanted to stabilize a few of the clips. In Final Cut I would have applied the smoothcam filter, done. Premiere CS5 apparently doesn’t have that, at least that I could find. I knew CS6 had the Warp Stabilizer so I went ahead and downloaded the trial. 

Mistake #2 Upgrading software in the middle of an edit. Long story short all I could get CS6 to do was crash. So 3 hours later I’m back where I was, so I decide to go back to CS5, I hit the icon and… ERROR. Premiere wont open at all. Oh my god if I have to go back and redo everything in Final Cut I’m going to kill someone…

Luckily I restart the computer and I’m able to finish everything by about 1am. I export it and it just looks awful, noise and compression artifacts everywhere. Awesome. I just went to bed. This morning I tweaked some settings to clean it up and it kinda worked but really not what I was looking for. Oh well, lesson learned, stick with Final Cut.

Posted May 8, 2012 at 1:06 am 1 notes

I filmed Matt Cordova do a bunch of cool stuff at the Volume warehouse today. After we were done filming, Matt was filming some gopro clips of Danny Josa so I snapped a few pics.

Posted May 4, 2012 at 10:22 pm

My Tokina 11-16mm lens came today so I snapped this pic of Kris Fox to test it out.

My Tokina 11-16mm lens came today so I snapped this pic of Kris Fox to test it out.

Posted April 26, 2012 at 9:22 pm

Today was my second day at the Long Beach Grand Prix, the actual race is tomorrow so I didn’t film much driving. At one point I got lost and wandered out onto pit road during practice. Surprisingly when you have a camera at these type of events people dont really question you.

Posted April 14, 2012 at 10:49 pm