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Re: VIDEO PRODUCTION COSTS - 16 years ago
Ben and Wayne are right on -- can't tell you how many "it's a five minute video - how much will it cost" calls we get each week. I tell them if they'd like us to help them brainstorm the video first and pay for the consulting time we can save them thousands at the other end. The smart clients agree. We've had clients say "oh it's just a few interviews" and then insisby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: OT: No good at Photoshop? Go Here - 16 years ago
there is a funny thread trying to guess who actually did these "tutorials" theye really are laugh out loud funny -- best Andy go here for thread who did these tutorials guessesby Andy Field - Café LA
OT: No good at Photoshop? Go Here - 16 years ago
This may be FUNNIEST tutorial site EVER if you need to sharpen your Photoshop skills for Final Cut. This guy is furious at his wife -- so he has a tutorial site on how to do things in Photoshop (real useful lessons) mangling old pictures of his wife. Go here (you can really learn useful Photoshop tips and laugh at the same time) Funny Photoshop Tutorial Siteby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Flicker Removal - but maybe you already know this one - 16 years ago
actually it was two problems -- one a photo supered over a pre-done animation (took the photo into photoshop - but yes I tried taking it frame by frame in CS3 and fixing the animation too) But that nesting trck was pure sorcery! There's also an excellent PHOTOSHOP ACTION that does a number of things beside bluring that helps The biggest problem is small or repetive lines (even shiny pby Andy Field - Café LA
Flicker Removal - but maybe you already know this one - 16 years ago
Out of desperation - and after trying every trick in the book, found a new magical way to get rid of flicker on a picture Yes - I previously tried Photoshop -blur and deflicker Flicker Filter De interlace Voodoo dolls - nothign worked Then out of desperation (see above) I just nested the offending flickering image -- and applied the flicker filter to that Voila! Ficker be gone!by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Sony XDCAM EX Frame Rate Conversion - 60fps to 23.98 - 16 years ago
Go here and ask Phillip Bloom Phillip Bloom XDCAM EX Site he may be the global leading expert on XDCAM Ex - he's good about answering emails and can probably help you (had some beautifully shot EX videos on his site too.) also you can email him directly philip.bloom@mac.comby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Downloading FLASH movies.... - 16 years ago
Gentleman -- I have your solution -- go here -- I know it works for YouTube Videos not sure about other flash video sites......will convert to Itunes TV format and then you can use quicktime to scale it to your desired timeline size - happy converting - Andy Tube TV Flash to Quicktime converterby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: 3D Titling Software Recommendations? - 16 years ago
Jude - Pro Animator is far more powerful than it looks --the series they advertise on the first page of their web site - tutorial training set called "Making it Look Good" encompases how you can combine Pro Animator with texture mapping - After Affects.....splitting elements etc....you can make things look like a million bucks with a few simple keystrokes -- The NBC 3D Peacock from theby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: 3D Titling Software Recommendations? - 16 years ago
Jeff - to answer your question way up there over this entry -- yes Zaxwerks Pro Animator it's on a Mac...all mac all the time (have had them since they were a 128K Beige Box....) rock solid stable.....charge a client a 1000 dollars to animate their logo - make it nice and fancy - will take you less than an hour with Zaxwerks (probably less than 30 minutes) ....you'll make a nice 200 dollar prby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: 3D Titling Software Recommendations? - 16 years ago
Highly recommend Zaxwerks Pro Animator for stunning quick render 3d Titling -- takes any vector graphic (your client's graphic in Illustrator) and extrudes it with unlimited control - texture mapping etc.....I am far from a graphic artists (producer/director/writer/correspondent/editor - but no artist) and I regularly come up with stunning 3d animated Text and logos with Zaxwerk's pro animator...by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Lens effect and Alpha - 16 years ago
Also try this -- NEST what you want the lens flare on -- then apply the lens flare - Knoll Light Factory does this beautifully in FCP -- also in After Effects without the Unmult -- the QUICKTIME lens flare is fairly limited and doesn't seem to work that well - if you do a lot of this Knoll Light Factory is the best - Andyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: LENS FLARE - 16 years ago
Lens Flare works in Final cut -- but often you are putting it on one layer but then putting that layer on top of something else -- the flare will only work on the layer you apply it to and sometime obliterate everything below it -- my suggestion....nest all the clips you want to have a lens flare with...then apply the lens flare to the nest..... Andyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: LENS FLARE - 16 years ago
Michael, Knoll Light Factory works in FCP ...make sure you have the latest update -- the older version doesn't play well (or at all) with the newer version of FCP...also make sure you obliterate any older version you have on your machine or you will get crash-o-rama selecting that plug in - at least I did till i figured out the problem -- Knoll is the best lens flare package out there and workby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: What book should I use? - 16 years ago
also if you just want to resize pictures -- Automator program built into the OS is great - you set it up to batch convert and resize I use that all the time. - Andyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: What book should I use? - 16 years ago
Here's an excellent FREE resource -- Richard Harrington's Photoshop for Video podcasts -- they are outstanding -- you will learn everything you've faked your way through for years (at least i did) Go to the Itunes store - do a search for Photoshop or Harrington and subscribe to his podcasts -- You will learn so much from the free lessons that you'll go out - as I did - and buy his DVD set -by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Drive went south, now wha -- help! - 16 years ago
Just two cents about Drives -- Agree the Maxtors are the worse (every one I've bought (3) have failed) The 1 western digital I bought at Comp USA also bad - crashed never to breath again. LaCie -only experience has been with their small firewire powered pocket drives -- all have been rock solid for on the road editing - Andyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Problem with .avi file - 16 years ago
Oh yeah and MPEG streamclip -- what they said!by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Problem with .avi file - 16 years ago
convert the AVI to a QuickTime file using this utility AVI free converter for Mac You can also play AVI files with this VLC playerby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: What works for you? - 16 years ago
We've had the JVC BR-DV6000 DV VTR for years - it's a work horse --will record and playback DV in NTSC and PAL -- will also playback only DVCAM -- it's an excellent deck and contrary to reports you've heard/read - we've never had a single problem with it and Final Cut Pro - it's straight DV Firewire back and forth from computer - also Component and S-VIDEO and composit in and out -- greatby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Pal to Ntsc for edit - 16 years ago
Nattress is excellent...we used it on a documentary in Africa....worked great both ways ...it resizes...uprezes downrezes...keeps audio sync...outstanding and a bargain to boot -- Andyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Lav Article Debuts - 16 years ago
Dan -- great timing (for me) in market to buy new lavs and this is about the most exhaustive testing and review anywhere - thanks - great work - Andyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Online Tape Logging - 16 years ago
There IS a third party solution that's FAR easier than doing this in Excel -- Movie Logger from Digital Heaven -- it makes logging so much easier (and creates XML and RTF files which you can import into excel or other data base if you want) no more typing time code (it picks it up from Quicktime Files -- Martin Baker made a great logging program that should be included with Final Cut go hby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: A Big Thank You to LAFCPUG - 16 years ago
Your trailer is a hoot! Nice work. Andyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Microphone connection - 16 years ago
Yes you can use virtually any USB Mike (I use a USB connector with a Neumann in a pinch!) But you must 1 - choose that imput in System Preferences - Audio and 2 - set up a new capture preset and choose that audio imput and then make it an easy set up - or chose that capture preset in log and capture - 3 - make sure you set up log and capture to NON CONTROLLABLE Devision and Audio onlyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Where does FCP hide Audio Mixdowns? - 16 years ago
Are we talking about the processes where you "render and mixdown" the audio via APPLE OPTION R command? Not sure what that does other than smooth out the audio for playback - had some weird sections of no audio at all in exported videos (where the audio DID show up in the timeline) in earlier versions of final cut..but this APPLE OPTION R for all audio seemed to fix it Andyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: OT - FCP 6.5 is out - 16 years ago
Whadaya mean, it's working great for me. The auto edit and write the script funtion is AWESOME! Andyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Best filter for background traffice noise reduction - 17 years ago
Here's the solution - shoot greenscreen and key in the bus! Or if you have a tremendous amount of patience - use the voice over tool - the same mike and "room tone from the street" and try to have the person talking revoice what they were saying - looping till you get it right if it's critical....but yes the soundtrack pro noise removal works to a point as long as the sound isn't inby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Still Images to Video -- HELP - 17 years ago
This is an excellent tutorial on how to use Photoshop to get rid of the flicker -- highly recommend Rich Harrington's DVD series Photoshop for Video -- even after using Final Cut from version 1.0 - his lessons are still teaching me many useful time saving techniques. go here Photoshop for Video - reduce flicker He also has a podcast with a lot of free advice (both for stills and final cuby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: OT: MiniDV quality - 17 years ago
Derek -- why aren't you teaching Doc film classes? - very good advice and commentary As a middle ground -- having produced and written network news and documentary programs for the last nearly 3 decades...you learn how to dance to the music in front of you. If you are producing SHOAH -- the talking heads are so compelling you don't need much more. If you want to help the viewer pour theby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Avid sequence into FCP - 17 years ago
May I ask a sidebar question to this? IS there a way to take video digitized into an AVID system and convert it into usuable quicktime files AND translate the AVID sequence into FCP? We have a client who wants us to take over a great deal of AVID projects and digitized video and they don't have access to a lot of the original material any more - just the digitized files... A converter to tby Andy Field - Café LA
