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Editing for large plasma screen installation – HELP!
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Since I don’t know exactly how Avid works, but do know how video works, I would capture your 720p24 stuff @ 720p60 and then upconvert your SD footage to 720p60. Can your Avid upconvert on ingest? There are tools/plugins with FCP to make your 60i SD stuff 24p, but I don’t know if these same tools are available in Avid.
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I will have to get back to you on that one. We’re still in the learning stages here at Cluster#%*! Productions. We have two offices in two different states, and I’m not in the one with the Adreniline that has the new HD board. This was all digitized by someone else before we even had the board, and I’m not sure what the capabilities are for upconverting with the Avid, and whether or not the board makes a difference in that situation.
If it’s possible to upconvert the SD footage, I’d love to do that, and hope it would look good. What is your experience with this? Does the upconverted SD footage look OK? I’ll be using ESPN X-Games footage shot on Beta, so it’s at least starting out as a high-quality product.
It may take a while to get back to you on this, is there another way I could contact you down the road? Or can I just respond to this post again?
Thanks!
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Just write back here, I’ll answer.
It depends on your hardware, but upconverted footage looks pretty good (not as good as HD of course). What you need to find is a superior deinterlacer. The one in Boris Continuum Complete 4.1 is great. Also, you can get your SD footage professionally upconverted through a Teranex box. This will probably be your best upconversion method. But it will cost you. I have a Kona/FCP system that I use to do my upconverts. Depending on the footage, I find it’s sometimes better to capture at high quality SD NTSC (29.97) and then drop that into a 720p60 or 23.98 timeline, scale up, deinterlace, and render. Other times I find using the KOna to do the upconvert looks pretty good as well. There is no question that the teranex is a much better solution, though.
Jeremy
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One other thing as far as “edit design” goes…
I get a lot of inspiration from looking at print design. It may not always match the aspect ratio, but some of the best designers still work in print and *sometimes* it can inspire things that translate over to our work pretty well.
Go to your local bookstore, pick up some magazines and look at the typography, color, graphic elements, and aesthetic balance. Take a pencil and a sheet of paper and sketch out what you like about it. Take those sketches to your edit suit and hang them up where you can see them.
If you begin with some strong, but simple themes and keep the audience in mind, you have a great opportunity to make something you can really be proud of. Most of all, have fun! Some of the best work I’ve done started out with the phrase “this may not work, but let’s try it just to see…”
Tim
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Had to do a similiar project about six months ago—cept for a large convention. My problem was a bit different in that the staging company was taking four 16×9 HD plasmas and were going to break the video into 4 seperate vids, each playing in one of the HD’s. On top of that, 90% of the footage was SD.
My approach was to create a looping background to play for the entire piece. Secondly I created a bunch of simple wipes using solid lines of that matched the look of the show. Sometimes 1 line would come from a diagonal, sometimes 2 lines would come from opposite sides, maybe just 1 line wiping from top to bottom.
Next I made individual comps in AE to incorporate the video. One composition might be the video, stretched and blurred, with smaller versions of that same video layered on top. Others, might be 3 PIP’s, but cropped, so box 1 shows the left 1/3, box 2 displays the middle, box 3 the right 1/3. Also did that but offset the boxes in space, so it looked like a staircase. Did some with the same video playing, but offset the time. Others had different shaped boxes, diamonds, odd shapes.
During this stage I created text look for the piece—would layer it over and under(much larger, low opacity…trite, I know). Played with the tranfer modes some.
Finally I put on a couple of pots of coffee and ground it all together.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net
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