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| | | |  | Edirol or Fostex?by Makis Asimakopoulos 2 months agoHello to all ! I'm new to the forum and to the job as sound recordist in short and feature films. In a few days I 'm going to work in a feature film. To the point: I need a 4 channel recorder (1 for b | Re: Edirol or Fostex?
by Chris Wright 2 months ago
wait, why would you want to wait another 1:1 playback hours to offload DAT tapes, you'd need to buy organize like 1 thousand tapes, lol...plus no Db soft limiter, bad snr, only 3 freqs, yea, hehe. Plu
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| | | | | Canon 5D "stutter"by Brecht Boelens 2 months agoHi, I'm trying to film with my Canon 5D mk 2, but for some reason it has some kind of weird stutter jitter in the footage. I have uploaded a small clip to youtube as example. I have also uploaded it f | Re: Canon 5D "stutter"
by Chris Wright 2 months ago
im going to take a stab at this. ok, since you're using a dolly, I bet the 24p on the dolly is the culprit. You probably wouldn't see that if you used a glidecam because it doesn't have wheels that ar
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| | | | | How to put a shine on the hair?by Cindy Luk 2 months agoI've shot a sequence on an overcast day which is great for exposure but not so wonderful for the climber with great blonde tresses. So, is there a way to fix this in ae Tkx! | | | | |
| | | | | Feedback on my first stop motion video?by Laura Callaghan 3 months agoHi everyone! My other half and I have made a stop motion video for one of our band's songs. It took 8 months to make using a point and shoot digital camera, iMovie, lots of eggs and plasticine. If you | | | | |
| | | | | Framerate mess - converting frameratesby Marc Nibor 3 months agoI have source footage with different framerates that I need to combine later in Premiere. From my personal experience the standard solutions like interpretation and frame blending don't give good resu | Re: Framerate mess - converting framerates
by Chris Wright 3 months ago
"Can someone make a recommendation how to make good and reasonably fast framerate conversions without having to spend hours during the setup process " I humbly recommend you try an instant hardware so
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| | | |  | GH2 too sharp ?by Harvey Brepson 3 months agoHello, I've noticed that the GH2 is sharp, perhaps a little too sharp... I have the 14-140mm Panasonic lens, and my videos look too much like camcorder videos, even in "Smooth" or "Nostalgic" with -2; | | | | |
| | | | | Trailer for my new noir feature.by Dominic Deacon 3 months agoToday I finish work on my third feature Only The Young Die Good. It's a period detective noir film shot in black and white on a 5D for a four figure budget. As an editor I don't have great technical s | | | | |
| | | |  | RED Green Screen Questionsby John Reis 3 months agoGetting ready to do my first RED Green Screen project, just had a few questions, and any further suggestions are welcome 1 Should I get a plug-in for better compositing 2 Project is for the Web, but a | Re: RED Green Screen Questions
by Todd Kopriva 3 months ago
I mostly agree with Dave about shooting 4K, but do consider that shooting with a higher resolution than you need can given you the freedom to scale, reframe, and otherwise transform shots in post---wh
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| | | | | Optical Flares Compression Problemsby Roderick Vella 4 months agoI am using Optical Flares plugin in 32 Bit project. The footage looks very good when exported in "uncompressed .avi" or ".mov animation" but when exported as mpeg2 or f4v or uploaded to YouTube bandin | Re: Optical Flares Compression Problems
by Chris Wright 4 months ago
this also might help if you add an adjustment layer - mode color add effect median around 5 it will blur the chroma and not the luma. might help the compression. also, make sure you don't use any 8 bi
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| | | |  | Complex Wire removingby Eli Rezik 4 months agoHello, I've recently started working on a new project were one of the things asked of me was removing wires from a stunt jump. looking at the shot made it clear that simple "CC wire remover" won't wor | | | | |
| | | |  | D800 Color Barsby Gregg Schieve 4 months agoIs there a way to import color bars into a Nikon D800 I'd like to calibrate a video monitor with color bars from the camera. When I write a color bar image to the memory card, the camera tells me that | Re: D800 Color Bars
by Chris Wright 4 months ago
Color bars wouldn't work even if you recorded right off a monitor. Why Luts only exist on the canons, example, cinestyle. You only have the flat neutral look on yours. The most the color bars would he
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| | | | | a creative and stylized 3D LUT.by andy mike 4 months agoHi dear friend My discussion is about how to create to creative and stylized 3D LUT. Our film is in the postproduction the director hope that the final color would be seem a older film exactly it shou | Re: a creative and stylized 3D LUT.
by Chris Wright 4 months ago
you can create 3dlut's with software and then use it in the projector too, but why wouldn't you just send color correction to post and burn in the CIE XYZ color space 2.6 gamma so that the film will w
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| | | | | Grade previews miss-matchby David Davis 4 months agoHello, I've include a image of my AECS6 screen preview, color corrected by CF and its preview window. The image also include a FLV render from AECS6. I listed some details about each preview. At this | Re: Grade previews miss-match
by Chris Wright 4 months ago
i'm pretty sure that if you add the after effects utility color profile converter to the clip and burn in the exact same color management that you had the display set to and precomp it and turn color
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| | | | | DSLR transcoding/decompressing. Necessary?by Bryan Martin 5 months agoI have been reading for a while about the necessity of decompressing DSLR footage, so I have been doing so using the Squared 5 software. I have always been told that this is required if you plan to do | | | | |
| | | | | Any other difference matte options?by Jason Fisher-Jones 5 months agoI know how unreliable difference mattes are, but wondered if there was any other option other than the built in After Effects effect Something like Keylight that allows fine tuning thanks! | Re: Any other difference matte options?
by Chris Wright 4 months ago
I've never used optical flow with keying before but I doubt it would work. It's used to restore a background, not a foreground. There's feathers and blurs all over the place. just a note, mocha has a
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| | | | | free ae film density light templateby Chris Wright 5 months agoI got some pictures back from the photolab, yep, I still shoot 35mm film. I noticed that they time the colors richer. I thought, wouldn't that be cool if you could do that in after effects. Well, an h | | | | |
| | | | | how to cheat adjustment layersby Esteban Bustos 6 months agois there someone who knows how to cheat adjustment layers i want the adjustment layer to only affect specific layers beneath them is there an expresion i could use or script u know about thanks in adv | | | | |
| | | |  | cc simple wire removal tutorialby Rowby Goren 7 months agoHi I am looking for an in-depth tutorials for CC simple wire removal. I want to learn the subtleties, all the features, of the effect. Beyond the Point A and Point B. Most of what I find on Youtube an | Re: cc simple wire removal tutorial
by Chris Wright 6 months ago
i discovered a while back a new feature for simple wire removal. if you use bender effect above and below it, you can remove curved wires. although using a bezier plugin would be far easier. in effect
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| | | | | warm soundby Chris Wright 7 months agoI was experimenting with making some cheap mics sound like sennheiser 416 mics. I first tried simply eq but that only raised and lowered respective quality, but it did help with wind and unneeded high | Re: warm sound
by André Engelhardt 6 months ago
Agreed, you should regard microphones as a tool, not unlike the brushes a painter may use, I found that having a wide range of microphones is better than just having one or two really expensive "high-
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| | | | | Adding warmth to voice over reelby Christopher Bagnall 7 years agoI'm putting together a voiceover reel myself. I am recording on a Shure BG 1.0 with windscreen. and recording on Spark XL. It sounds decent in terms of no pops or hiss on playback, but I'd like to twe | | | | |
| | | | | match mic warmnessby Chris Wright 7 months agoI was experimenting with making some cheap mics sound like sennheiser 416 mics. I first tried simply eq but that only raised and lowered respective quality, but it did help with wind and unneeded high | | | | |
| | | | | rescue severe OUT OF FOCUS SD videos !!by Nick Ag 10 months agoDoes anybody knows any good filter or 3rd party plugin or any trick that helps to rescue severe OUT OF FOCUS SD videos, unfortunately regular sharp-unsharp filters are not enough for this purposes and | | | | |
| | | | | free chroma repair projectby Chris Wright 2 years agoI made a chroma smoother for After Effects. It sandwiches rgb to hsl, then smart blurs only the saturation channel, so there's zero blurring on the actual rgb. It fixes minor DCT blockyness and grainy+1 | Re: free chroma repair project
by Chris Wright 8 months ago
you can get the same chroma smoothing as most expensive keyers for free by simply adding an adjustment layer with ae's median effect at 2-4 and set the transfer mode set to color.
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| | | | | Disconnecting a Condenser Micby Pedro Ramirez 12 months agoHi there! I recently bought a used AT4040 for recording my voice, but in the lack of preamps I got a XLR-USB adaptor (includes preamp) that seems to lack any options to turn it off without disconnecti | | | | |
| | | |  | Need assist with collor correctionby Tom Daniels 1 year agoHello everyone, currently I am making a short action movie and editing it with Adobe After Effects cs4, but I need a good movie looking edge to it. I am trying to correct it, but it just doesn't look | Re: Need assist with collor correction
by Chris Wright 1 year ago
Since you have a very limited color palate, I recommend when you do all your tinting, that you don't tint the actor's skin in with everything else. I wrote a small ae project called 2 strip. It works
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