[Chad Treanor]

Actually it is. I still havent been able to find a website or any information about the company online. I’d really like to see what kind of work they’ve done so far.

The reason I’m posting this is because the last time (about 4 or 5 months ago) I applied for a motion graphics position with them I never heard anything back. This time (with a new demo) I want to send a professional cover letter with my resume- Instead of just relying on the -apply here- function on the Mandy.com site.

Any help is appreciated
thanks
chadwik

[Chad Treanor]

Steven, did you shoot the florida video from your previous post? If so did you shoot it on the sony hdv camera? the footage looks amazing. Im looking to get one and i have the same PC set up as the previous post and im wondering do you need 2 gigs of ram to get full functionality out of hdv footage?

also, ive heard of digitizing SD and then uprezzing to HD for the final online edit. Can this be done within the camera? As if you were to re-dig. the online footage.

Thanks
chadwik

[Chad Treanor]

and pleaes fill out your profile!

we want to know what your working with and the more we know about you and your situation – the replies you get back will be more accurate, faster and more useful!!

so fill it out!
chadwik

[Chad Treanor]

I do this all the time…you can use file>export>targa sequence… you’ll more than likely want to make a seperate folder for these frames because it will hold all the frames for the video. Then once you have that folder full of the frames you can import them into PS and apply all the effects your brain can think of. Then save them out to a new folder (which I always label as OUTPUT)and once i have that folder of effected frames, I import them back into premiere as single frames, and export that as a video and you have PS effects for your video!

hope this helps
chadwik

[Chad Treanor]

I cut the bank robbery footage together on a linear JVC SVHS system when i was in school (august ’03). My class at the Art Institute of Dallas slacked on it, but those of us who were into it put some fun music to it and made it into a trailer, a documentary, and a training video. Fun stuff. Once we learned FCP a few months later we seriously cut it together and made it a whole lot more fun.

chadwik

[Chad Treanor]

Im glad to see an Ep3 thread on the COW as well… At first I thought wow about the opening sequence with all the ships and destroyers battling like all the warships from WW2. Good stuff included all the limitations Lucas surpassed to get all his ideas to screen. I dont know what happened to the kid who played anakin, but at the end of the movie he seemed to start ACTING. go figure. I did however not understand all the cutting to speaking like someone stated before… Another thing i dont understand is that after all the gruesome body burning that anakin went through and all that robotic plastic surgery that makes him darth vader as we know it- why did Lucas make vader hold his arms up the way he did??? I thought that the gesture in his arms said . . . “im upset but i’ll live” vs. throwing his arms up and choking a droid while using the force to get his saber out and chop everything in sight in half.

i think that would have concluded that he was just a little bit more upset than the trucking shot away from him at the end. wah wah wah…

i did however like the way they did the wipes according to the subjective contours of what was on the screen. That way he could use his wipes and make those transitions a little smoother and more interesting.

my 4 cents worth
chadwik

[Chad Treanor]

thanks for the good direction Willie…Im almost positive that i will need this piece of hardware for VO recording. I plan on doing multi-camera shoots later on and I plan on getting a mackie mixer for that so if it ever came down to it I could just use that when in need. Then again that may be a few years down the road. This m-audio hardware will be a good start though. overall im starting in post production and later on moving into production work.

thanks
chadwik

[Chad Treanor]

Willie-

i posted here a while back stating i wanted to be able to record a good voice over and was having trouble. I concluded that i would just wait to find a mic pre-amp or just get one of the firewire solutions that seem to have pre-amps in them. I was looking at the Digidesign M-box for the past two years basically and i just dont know if i want to pay that much for it. I already used protools a while back when i was in school but now that im out i have Audition and i want to be able to record a good VO.

so i looked at the last post Barend Onneweer and his link to the M-audio stuff. I’ve seen this one firewire break out tool that has an XLR and quarter inch input that seems like it would be able to handle a simple sm58 w/ an xlr. I think thats all i would need to record decent VOs.

Im posting this to see what you think about this one piece of hardware as far as quality of recorded audio and functionality w/ audition.

https://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FireWireSolo-main.html

any help is appreciated.
chadwik

good thread to read as well

[Chad Treanor]

Generally speaking OFFLINE edits tend to be more of a rough cut with proxy files/placeholders of graphics for when they are finished etc. etc. These edits (as far as high end avid’s go) are digitized at a low res. and save time/space/$ for the project to move ahead without that much money going into it.

Then once all the bells and whistles are done rendering and are all the audio is set exactly the way the client wants it thats when the upres happens and all the footage is (ideally) brought in uncompressed and is made into a final master “online” edit.

In reference to film production in the way that Cold Mountain was offlined in one suite and then onlined in another: Many editors use their EDL’s (edit decision lists) like they hold their lungs. Using an EDL is a technical back up or written account of what the edit looks like. Editors most often work with a single source transfer of the film (which doesnt look that great, but its still film). Therefore, the film is transferred once but not at the best quality. Then, they can edit that first transfer of the film on an offline suite at a low res. Later when everything is set and the client is happy- then editors move to the final step which is creating the master. The film should be re-transferred at full quality and adjusted as close to perfect as possible. Then the footage is replaced with re-transferred, better quality, uncompressed video.

everyone is happy with the master and the invoice is in the mail.

hope this helps the whole ‘offline’ / ‘online’ jargon.
chadwik

[Chad Treanor]

first of all, please post your information on your profile so we can know what your working with and what you do . . . all that fun stuff, plus it gets answers to questions faster for those who want to know this info. Speeds up the whole process of getting what you need to know.

You can do this a number of ways.

One way would be to do the crop composite of the Left Person video clip on top of the Right Person video clip. You could shoot the Left Person while the Right is off screen (but still speaking his/her lines).

Then without moving the camera you could shoot the Right Person’s action while the Left Person is off camera (& still speaking their lines-for timing of cours). Then you could digitize the footage.

Once you’re in post, you can put the Left Person’s clip and crop it’s right side off and put the Right Person’s clip underneath that. That way you get a perfect match (if the camera wasn’t moved). Then you have the choice of either doing a freeze frame or using an exported frame to cut to as your freeze frame options.

Depending on what kind of camera you have…I know my sony has a function to overlay a digital picture (taken by the camera or just put on the memory stick) over the video. I use this function to check continuity when i have to break a scene into two days and for just simple checking myself on space issues when shooting something like this that will eventually be composited together. You can bring up the picture of the Left Person and bring the opacity down so you see where the Right Person would stand and double check your work. -just food for thought-

I’d like to see how this comes together and I’m interested in the direction you take this.

hope this helps.
chadwik