|
Show all posts by userThis forum is now READ ONLY. You cannot post questions here. Post on CAFE LA
OT: Editing advice - 14 years agoHere's a little off-topic question that I have for you guys: I'm editing a training video for a piece of electronic hardware, and during the shoot, the on-screen person was pointing out specific things, so the shooter went to get closeups for cutaways of him pointing at various things...but the talent didn't really understand the concept of editing like this, and couldn't duplicate the actionsby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Why I would want to shoot in a different frame rate? - 14 years agoYep, I definitely did that last time...I used stills, Z1U footage, and 5DMKII video in the same edit...very creative/artistic edit, so it was all good. We have a shoot this evening...a low buck, low pressure thing. I'm shooting it with the Z1U in its entirety, and my boss is going to be shooting stills for the most part, but will also be doing some video with the 7D...mostly as an experimenby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Why I would want to shoot in a different frame rate? - 14 years agoWow! Great replies! I suppose I haven't seen real 24p before, come to think about it. I've never used the Cineframe mode...I think it looks ridiculous, too. How would you recommend going from 60i to 24p...Compressor, right? Thanks!!!by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Why I would want to shoot in a different frame rate? - 14 years agoTHANK YOU JEFF for your thorough explanation! It is making more sense to me...mostly Does the fact that I'm going back down to DVD have any effect on this situation? Also...I'm shooting with a Sony Z1U for everything, I can't change it from 60i. It does have this fake Cineframe mode, though. We just got a Canon 7D yesterday and are planning on integrating footage between both camerasby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Why I would want to shoot in a different frame rate? - 14 years agoThis is the biggest mystery to me. I hear all the time of people shooting in 24p, 23.97, 30p, 29.97, 25p, 50p, 60i....etc. I'm having a hard time understanding all of this. I looked on the FAQ, and it's still a bit of a mystery to me...it's a little over-technical for me to understand at this point...so I'm going to try to ask this as a simple person would ask. Why would I want to shoot iby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Changing timecode on a clip - 14 years agoI have footage that was captured off a DVC Pro tape...looped through a firewire camera into the computer and captured as a "non-controllable device" The customer has made edit decisions off a timecode windowburn copy of this tape. However, since I can't capture timecode off my DVC Pro deck (no firewire output on the deck, and no other type of input on the Mac Pro, other than firewirby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Decent Additive Dissolve - 14 years agoTMTS is similar...it handles the chroma a little differently, but it is definitely close.by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Decent Additive Dissolve - 14 years agoI see that Noise has it...but I'd have to purchase FxFactory Pro...and update from OSX Tiger...so that would be roughly $500 just to get this effect to work. I see that Nattress also has this for $100. Any free ideas from anyone who uses this kind of transition? I'm looking for a simple effect, not necessarily an investment Also, thanks Jeff!!! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Decent Additive Dissolve - 14 years agoHmm...don't seem to have that on my transitions list. How would you do this effect? Thanks! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Decent Additive Dissolve - 14 years agoActually, I'm transitioning to a solid white matte. The dip to color is a straight dissolve into white...what I'm trying to do is a dissolve to white that is also blowing out the contrast of the previous video clip -- see HERE at 0:05...this is the effect I'm trying to get...it has a bit more dimension than just a "flat" fade to white. I was able to make this effect work here with tby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Decent Additive Dissolve - 14 years agoI'm a bit frustrated with FCP's Additive Dissolve. I love the look where it is more of a "contrasty" fade to white, rather than a straight fade...however, this transition is quirky and doesn't always work right...and it usually leaves a bit of residue from the last frame of video when it's supposed to be 100% white. Otherwise, this effect when it's 2 seconds long, the actual transitioby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: But I don't want to trash my preferences - 14 years agoOkay, I created a "Favorites" project and copied everything there, trashed the prefs, and moved the favorites back into the real favorites bin, and that worked great. All the settings are back to normal except one which I can't figure out. I had been working on a project with 48K 16bit audio, and I had a Compressor/Limiter filter on one of the audio tracks, which was over music.by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: But I don't want to trash my preferences - 14 years agoI think that will help to move them to a project bin...then I can do this without taking a whole lot of time. Andy....do you mean locking the prefs as you would in the Finder and going to Get Info? I don't remember the names of the preferences files...since FCP Rescue came along, I haven't needed to! Thanks!by CaseyPetersen - Café LA But I don't want to trash my preferences - 14 years agoFor some reason lately, FCP has been taking 10 minutes to start up. I backed up the prefs with FCP Rescue, then trashed them, and FCP started up fine. The problem is...I have so many favorites (filters, transitions, etc.), that it would take a very long time to get them all back to the way I have them. Furthermore, I don't remember all the User Preferences and System Preferences that I havby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: this looks so cool - 14 years agoDOH! It requires OSX Leopard and all I have is OSX Tiger.by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: this looks so cool - 14 years agoSmoothCam works nicely for me, a wedding videographer, as long as there are no camera flashes. If there is a camera flash, it screws up SmoothCam. Would this work better? Casey Petersenby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Font problems - 14 years agoI have had the same font problem appear occasionally and am trying to get to the bottom of it. Sometimes a customer will send me a specific font to use in their video. I have tried using Text, Alex4D's Text + fonts, Motion, LiveType and Boris Title3D and have the same results. For instance, I enter the text using Times or Zapf Dingbats or something that is completely different than the fonby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Film transfer - removing flicker - 14 years agoActually, after I went below about 85-80%, the bulb shut off. I'm not smart enough to know how to adapt the rheostat into the motor alone...nor do I have the time or motivation at this point...none of my 16mm films are critical. Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Film transfer - removing flicker - 14 years agoThanks Nick, I tried the demo of the Furnace filters, and yes, they were very slow to render...I have a quad-core Mac Pro and it took 20 minutes to render 3 seconds of footage in standard def. It didn't seem to take care of the flicker enough to make it usable...although, maybe if I played around with the settings more, I could get it better. I went on ebay and bought another projector...ideby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Jagged graphics from Photoshop - 14 years agoThis problem has been plaguing me for a long time and I want to get to the bottom of it. Say I have a logo in Photoshop that has no background, and I want to put it over some motion video. I have tried saving as a Targa with and without an Alpha channel, as well as importing the PSD file. This has happened in standard def, ProRes and HDV projects...the graphic will look nice and sharp...untiby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Film transfer - removing flicker - 14 years agoI am currently working on a film transfer project. I have a Bell & Howell dual 8mm projector with variable speed control. It's been working fine until recently...regular 8 film looks great, but when I switch to Super 8, there's something wrong with the way the film advances and the image is kind of jumpy. I'm not sure how to fix that, I tried everything I knew how to do. I have anotherby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Need Help with .MTS Conversion for FCP - 14 years agoTry Voltaic: http://www.shedworx.com/voltaichdby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: FCP 7: Motion 4 : Color 1.5 ect :-))) - 14 years agoSo is this going to be able to access all the 10Gb RAM I have, rather than the 2Gb (I think) that it does now?by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: Dropouts during Print to Video - 14 years agoI've talked to a few other people this morning, and they seem to think the heads are too worn on my cameras...they have around 1000 hours on the drum. Thanks! Caseyby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Dropouts during Print to Video - 14 years agoRecently, I have begun to see an occasional dropout after I have done a Print to Video. I am editing HDV and mastering back to HDV tape. When I play the tape back after putting it to tape, I will see a dropout where the image will freeze and the audio will go silent for a few seconds before recovering. I have tried 2 different computers, 3 different firewire cables, 4 different decks (whicby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: OT: Closed captioning online video - 14 years agoIs it possible to get the second clip to start playing immediately after the first one? I haven't been on YouTube for a long time.by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: OT: Closed captioning online video - 14 years agoAlso, the captioning company gave us a .SCC file and a .DOC of the captions (used for DVD Studio Pro).by CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: OT: Closed captioning online video - 14 years agoBasically the problem is the client wants it on YouTube so they can send an email link to people to watch the video...they don't necessarily have their own website they can host it on. YouTube allows videos up to 10 minutes long, this video is a tad over 11 minutes long. We use Vimeo typically for uploading rough edits of videos for clients to look at. As far as I was able to tell, Vimeo dby CaseyPetersen - Café LA Re: OT: Closed captioning online video - 14 years agoAdobe has a Flash tutorial on how to do closed captions in Flash Professional: http://www.layersmagazine.com/closed-captioned-video-in-flash-cs3.html Also, YouTube has captioning abilities on their videos as well...here's a random example: click the little CC button on the lower right corner of the video. My problem is, I can't use YouTube because my clip is 11 minutes long. I doby CaseyPetersen - Café LA |
|