Bret Williams
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As far as I can tell, Malcom in the Middle is actually shot off the screen. That’s the easiest way to do it. No rendering needed.
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[capnrock] “I modified the capture settings to capture NDF time code”
You can’t capture NDF if the tape wasn’t shot NDF. It doesn’t matter what you’ve shot in any case, it all edits into the timeline the same. I’m not even sure how you did what you dd, but perhaps your outpoint doesn’t even exist in DF, so FCP just passes right past it. Whatever setting you changed, I’d put it back and see if all is well.
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And OSX of course comes with a decent font manager than allows you to check out fonts fairly easily.
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Couldn’t you just use the tc generator and set it to film frames or something like that?
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Yep. There’s 3 things that make for good green screen. The camera. DV can be done, but I think you’d need a 3ccd for sure. The lighting. Perhaps the most important part. If you don’t light and shoot it right, then you’re in trouble no matter what camera. And the software. FCP can do some good stuff with the built in color smooting and it’s green screen tools. But there are better plugin solutions out there designed specifically for DV footage.
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[Robert Garry] “you could try to dual layer the element suing FCP’s built in text generator”
Now, now there’s no need to go around suing anything! Besides, I hear Apple has some pretty deep pockets. They’d tie you up in litigation forever.
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Yep, you can edit the clips from the timeline, right back over themselves into the timeline. Highlight the clips you want transitions added to, make sure the playhead is set to the in point of the first clip, and make sure you’re patched to the same track. Then, drag the clips from the timeline to the canvas, and over “overwrite with transition.” It will add them back over themselves and put the default transition between them. If you want a different transition, change the default.
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Much improved. White space is good. You are a quick learner. Only thing I might suggest is that you keep the text text, and the images images. Technically, there is no text on your pages. Just images. Leaves nothing for google to index. I would probably go with a white background as well, or something lighter. It’s much better than my first site, which oddly is still live. Circa 1996… https://www.visarts.com
The different colors and glows on the text, plus the black background. I had a problem when people printed. Seems the white text didn’t show up on white paper, unless they had print backgrounds turned on.
All stuff to think about.
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A standard DV camera is going to have a svideo and composite output for video. Both are far inferior to the compressed, yet component digital output from the firewire or DV recording. In fact, your camera is most likely outputting the compressed DV image anyway, so that you don’t see a better image than you’re recording. The whole idea of monitoring is to see as closely as possible what is being recorded.
A betacam camera would possibly have a component video output that could be run into a component video card, which could capture uncompressed video to a sata raid.
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Ok, the honest review. My site too has many of the same proglems…
The site itself seems pretty busy and void of any navigation. I think it could also use a bit of typography 101. It’s also still download heavy. You’re using the web browser to scale down the images visually, but it doesn’t scale down their size. The 5 main images across the page are all 100k or more, when the whole page shouldn’t even be that large. Those same images could be smaller too. Maybe just icons (little cropped versions showing just their faces or something) with the title next to it.
I think I’d reorganize the content. One idea, the logo across the top with your picture at left, if you feel the need for your picture. But I’d lose the zillion titles. Call yourself owner, founder, ceo, proprietor, or art director. Saying that you do everything doesn’t usually inspire conifidence that you’ll do it well. Plus, what if you get sick? Who will do the work then It’s my belief that people feel more secure if it’s a small company rather than a one man shop.
Down the left I’d make a few links. Hire us, contact us, examples of our work, etc. To the right of those links I’d have a few paragraphs about the company. Instead of listing all the type of work you do, tell them what great work your company can do. Hype it up in plain english, especially if your clients aren’t production houses. It appears that you do a lot of weddings and small music videos, so they aren’t going to know what all the techie stuff is.
You might further have a column to the right that lists “recent projects.” That’s where I’d put the icons I discussed from above, and maybe a bit of text. For example “STOP STRESS video” – watch folks ward off stress by smashing cars and… blah blah. A good example of the icon thing would be a site I did for my wife… https://www.terilamprey.com/gallery/empcomm.php where we took a frame of the video and used it as an icon next to the title of the clip and a minor description.
The videos themselves look good and started playing right away. Not sure what codec you used. I use sorensen3 at about 500kb a sec, 15fps, mp3 audio. I use cleaner to create the vids. H264 is my first choice, but everytime I use it people can’t see the vids because they don’t have the latest qt. And all a browser can do is check that you have qt, not a particular version. Most people can play sorensen3 if they bought their computer in the last 3 or 4 years.