Adam Taylor
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I had a very similar pain, which got worse over the course of a few weeks to the extent that it crept from the shoulder, down the arm and was affecting my hand.
An idiot doctor decided i had a viral infection and actually prescribed antibiotics!
I went to a physiotherapist who took less than 15mins to accurate diagnose that I had a displaced disc in my neck. Basically described it as the disc was bulging out to one side, which trapped nerves, etc.
She showed me some simple exercises which actually pushed the bulge back into place, and relieved the pain.The cause was not so much editing (my screens are positioned so i dont have to look downwards) but from using a laptop on an evening. Constant looking down seems to cause the disc to try slip out on the side with less pressure…naughty disc!
Go see a physiotherapist – they are definitely specialists worth knowing!
adam
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UKhttp://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk
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I thought that HDV (like DV) is a Lower Field first format ?
– you have yours in upper field first – so you are seeing the fields in the wrong order – which might account for the echo
adam
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UKhttp://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk
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why are exporting files at 300dpi from FCP? – its a video editing package, not a photo editing one.
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UKhttp://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk
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oddly, thats made it worse!
I never really had this problem until a few weeks ago although I have been running 10.6 since it came out, and every other flavour of mac before then.
Gamma issues on wmv’s always seemed to be negligible…but over the past month or two, i have noticed they are suddenly much darker on my mac. My boss has also noticed, and he is not a video person, and has always been happy with whatever i sent him in the past…..we’re both running 10.6!
I’m beginning to wonder if something in the flip4mac plug-in has changed during one of its regular updates.
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UKhttp://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk
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rafael – the problem is not with my own system, but with the systems used by clients over which i have no control.
I am not told who uses a mac and who uses a pc, more pc than mac – so i send out wmv’s.
I’m looking for a one file solution that is OS independent, but it seems that is just a dream.
rgds
AdamAdam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UKhttp://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk
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Screenflow – costs a bit but its worth every penny!
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UKhttp://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk
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i thought the AE system needed to have FCP installed to use the Prores codecs?
but i may be wrong.As AE works across macs and pc’s, it might be worth asking the AE operator what file types he needs.
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UKhttp://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk
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is surprising how obvious some things are once you actually look and think about what you are trying to replicate.
Its good you have picked some reference – as you no longer need to rely on imagination.
So – look and think – what do you see?
its not very well defined – the detail is lost in the haze you already mentioned.
The sun is low and behind the ship, so you are getting some sun coloured hazing around the edges of the ship (often refered to as lightwrap).The ship has also a different colour caste to the ground – as if the underside of the ship is still getting some light from the sun, whereas the ground is in full shadow.
So – knowing what we just observed, its easy to work out some basic steps… and these are by no means the only way – just suggestions to get you thinking along the right tracks
1 – Contrast is very very low on the ship. So assuming your ship is on a separate layer, i’d apply an effect that controls contrast. Either Brightness&Contrast, or Curves, or even Levels.
Carefully adjust these to reduce the contrast.
2 – add haze – which is really just light hitting particles of dust and water in the atmosphere. A glow effect is probably going to do what you need. pick a glow colour that matches your scenes lighting, then adjust the various settings to make the glow very soft and barely visible. This glow will also help add to the overall soft focus feel of the details
3- try to force the feeling of distance by having a foreground detail (such as the actor) in sharp contrast. In your sample – the guy is almost a silhouette but with enough light on his face to see just a hint of detail. Its also a much darker silhouette than that of the distant ship.
You may also notice how the colour balance is split horizontally. The sky has a warm pink hue, whereas the shadowed ground has a cold blue/green hue. The transition between the two is softened by having a lens flare create a soft warm halo that spills over onto the land in the area just below the sun. Its just enough to tint some of the land with the sun colour. This use of light to tie the sun to both the ship and the land creates the impression that the image as a whole was caught in-camera.
good luck with your own attempts.
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UKhttp://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk
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unless you want the option to zoom into the image, then 72dpi soon falls apart…
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UKhttp://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk
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for audio monitors – i swear by the PMC DB1SA models.
I have put them in direct comparison with several other well known brands and i found these to be the most accurate sounding monitor for the price.
adam
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UKhttp://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk