Bohemian Rhapsody

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Shoot a monitor connected to the camera’s output.

The camera’s output would be combined (video switcher) with anything else you wanted on the screen (keyed or dissolve-mixed.)

[Iain Mackinnon]

So let me get this, Camera 1 is pointing at my subject, output to a monitor, camera 2 is pointing at the monitor.
Is that right? then combine the 2 images in FCP?

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[Iain MacKinnon] “So let me get this, Camera 1 is pointing at my subject, output to a monitor, camera 2 is pointing at the monitor.
Is that right? then combine the 2 images in FCP?
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Nope.

Cam 1: Subject
Cam 2: Monitor

ON the monitor is a LIVE combination (via a video switcher) of Cam 1 -AND- Cam 2.

BTW, the Cam 1 (subject) shot can be a video tape, but Cam 2 and the monitor must be “live.”

[Iain Mackinnon]

Aha! Cheers mucker! i’ll get right on to it. Muchos gracias and all that jazz! BY the way, any idea how to reduce my rendering time? 2 hours for 47 secs of video! Eek!

I used to spend my time wondering, now it’s all used up rendering.

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[Iain MacKinnon] “any idea how to reduce my rendering time? 2 hours for 47 secs of video! Eek!”

“FCP4 HD filming in mini DV”

Mac?
Speed?
Drives?
Timeline specs?

[Iain Mackinnon]

Power MAc G5,
Not sure of speed,
Timeline specs? not sure i get you on that one.
Pretend i’m 5 years old here will you? cheers.

I used to spend my time wondering, now it’s all used up rendering.

[Dylan Reeve]

Great. I’ll be singing that all night now. At least it’s displaced the songs from the music doco I was working on earlier today.

The honeycomb thing is a physical glass lens. I believe you can get them (I know they exist for still photography).

The video feedback thing is a bit tricky I reckon. First of all, I think the video was shot on film and the feedback effect has been added as a optical later (it actually superimposes slightly over Freddie’s face at the beginning, not behind it).

So I think they did this – shot the singing heads clean against black. Then had the shots transferred to video to shoot the element for the feedback. Then a video camera (connected through a switcher to a monitor) was positioned next to a film camera, both pointed at a large TV monitor.

To start the feedback, the video of Freddie is switched to the monitor, along with the signal from the camera. The trick would be in how they were mixed to the monitor – a linear luma key of the filmed element in the foreground with the camera feed in the background would be my bet.

Anyway, the video feedback loop is filmed with the film camera and then recombined on top of the original singing closeup to form the finished shot.

That sort of look it nearly impossible to create artificially, the way to get it is to actually film a screen.