Alan Lloyd
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Are your sequence settings the same as the sampling rate of the clip?
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You can import your PPro project directly into After Effects.
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Shadows and darkness are your friends for horror interiors.
Seemingly stray beams of light, as mentioned above, can add “pop” and interest through implying, rather than literally depicting, people and objects.
Rake lights across backgrounds to accentuate texture.
Color is your friend – as long as you don’t overdo things.
Some amount of “uplighting” is classic horror-noir stuff. Again, don’t overdo it.
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[Todd Terry] “An amateurish zoom-happy shooter might likely start with a closeup of the door, then zoom out to show the whole building. That usually looks cheap and unnatural, more like bad news footage or someone’s home movie. The same shooter with the same camera and same zoom lens might instead choose to shoot a closeup of the door (not zooming), and cut to a wide shot of the building. Much more filmic, natural, and professional. All with the zoom lens.”
And a shooter who’d also edited would likely include at least some small angle change as part of that cut.
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This is what I posted in the earlier thread:
I worked on the one-hour “Real Meaning of Halloween” special for a local puppet show known as Transylvania TV that the producers funded with a Kickstarter page.
Fun show that actually got more than they asked for. One hint I can offer is to give people some sort of spiff for donating. Something associated with the show they can’t get any other place is good. We had the top donors come in to watch a day of production and gave out metric buttloads of little goodies to most of the other donors. Then all donors were credited and invited to the preview screenings.
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Mike – I seem to recall working with an outfit called Medi-Cine quite a few years ago, when they came into town, I think it was twice.
It was a referral from a third party who wasn’t taking that project, passing it off to me instead.
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Are you near any universities with French and German language programs?
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This is going to be an ungainly solution, maybe someone can find a more “elegant” one.
First, make sure “scale to frame size” is unchecked, so files will be at their original size.
Then, go back to your picture. Duplicate as many layers of it in Photoshop as you want “pieces” for your sequence.
In each layer, cut out one piece and delete the rest, leaving placement alone. (When you view all layers it should still be your picture, looking normal.)
Import it as a PSD file, with each layer on its own video track, and turn opacity on as you want the pieces to appear.
That will work.
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Once you get done beating the guy senseless who deleted the originals, try something called “Any Video Converter” – it’s free, and can turn almost anything into almost anything else.
If you have already tried that one, mea culpa, and continue with the beating.
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Or simply output the opening as an uncompressed file and import it into any subsequent projects as needed.