Brian Berneker
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Looks like he’s using mostly green screen and various blend modes.. add, screen etc… very fragmented and chaotic! Kind of inkblot sort of stuff..
I have to say, it’s been a very long time since I dropped acid, but I was starting to get pretty tripped out by those videos! I better stop watching before I start seeing trails!!
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Glad to hear you got around it, but in retrospect, as a vector purist, it would be nice to know if there is a way around rasterizing it. Perhaps saving the file to an EPS and opening it in Illustrator to make a proper AI file of it?
If you wanted to zoom in a lot to a detailed part of the logo, you would definitely prefer it over rasterizing at 2400dpi or something ridiculous like that…
Then again, it could be one of those issues cleared up since version 6.5…
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Actually, I read somewhere that the windows version of CS4 is in fact 64 bit but only 32bit on OSX, because of something to do with programming for the Cocoa interface. Sadly, I’m a mac aficionado, so this comes as a bit of a disappointment. I do also have to agree that AE seems to run just that little bit slicker on a Windows machine. Adding the 64 bit advantage isn’t going to be any better for us mac nerds.
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They might be, but not to my knowledge without jumping to the next price point around $3000-$3500. I was opposed to tape at first, but after all the research, I had to make a choice, and in the end, the quality of the finished video won out over convenience. Read some reviews, write down a lot of specs, chip size, codec, resolution, bitrate etc., and find something that matches your needs well…
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I’ve never encountered this, so it’s hard to know what you are describing without seeing a sample. Are you rendering at full resolution? The only thing I think you could be describing would be some kind of resampling of the image?
Just stabbing some guesses since I’m not 100% sure what you mean, but are you using easy-ease keyframes? Turning on motion blur? Perhaps if the effect you are describing happens only during “pan,” movement then you might consider starting the shot with a very slight gentle pan rather than completely still at first to at least have it look consistent?
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…and even then, if you’re on a mac platform, it’s probably not worth having just one PC app in your arsenal.
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You might want to try using cc particle world and make a 3D field of stars. It will be more convincing for sure, since it will give you the much desired parallax effect…
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You seem to have some decent gear and presumably some experience with keying, so I would say beyond the tools you have, the only extra thing you can add is some elbow grease and some creative masking techniques. Sometimes it’s a matter of motion tracking an object and breaking a shot up into multiple precomps etc. to get it working. It all depends on how determined you are.
Failing that, it comes down to re-shooting whatever is impossible to work with (which nobody likes to hear).
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Yeah HDV format is a non-square pixel aspect, so 1440×1080 actually translates to 1920×1080 on screen. The editing software will take care of it, and even Photoshop should display it properly with an aspect ratio warning. Most editing apps have an aspect correction feature to show it to you proper width. Technically you’re still getting ripped off a few pixels but it all works…
I had to transcode a video for a friend of mine who had painstakingly made sure all his animation and elements were 1920×1080 and the format they wanted it in was HDV 1440×1080 so it got squeezed in the end anyways.
Point being, don’t sweat it – your camera is doing exactly what it’s supposed to.
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The HV30 captures HDV, not MPEG2, at 25MB/s. I know that AVCHD is basically an H.264 type codec with tighter compression, but this is processor hungry. I suppose someone could argue that AVCHD at 17MB/s is as goood as HDV at 25, but you still have to factor in the software you are using, generational loss in editing (EVEN BEFORE YOU START), and how much of your CPU you want to be eating up just to be able to even work with the stream… The AVCHD cameras actually have a WARNING about panning too fast because it can’t compress the movement fast enough! I’d prefer HDV for that reason alone, but the HV30 has some other features that stand out too.
I really wanted an HF series camera, or at least a hard drive based one, but in the end it was the size of the chip and the 30PF mode on the HV30 that sold me. MiniDV tapes aren’t going anywhere soon, so I’m not worried about running out of tape, though you could burn through some flash cards pretty quick. HDV is also a very standardized workflow, and while there is ground being broken for AVCHD, it’s more a delivery format straight to blu-ray than for editing.
That being said, if you just want to straight shoot and transfer with little or no post, then you might be ok, but if you want to do any kind of intense editing, you should take a second look.
Mind you, if your budget can take you up higher to $3000-3500, you get into a whole other league of cameras that blow the HV30 away, but in it’s price rance, it’s arguably your best shot.