[Corbin Gross]

So I’ve downloaded the trial versions of both Boris Optical Stabilizer and New Blue Stabilizer. There’s some serious stability issues it seems. It’s very likely user error. I have no idea how to properly set up my computer and preferences to keep most of this stuff running smoothly. I suppose I’ll learn.

The New Blue Stabilizer will crash Premiere by just dropping the filter on any clip. If I am occasionally successful at adding the filter, any change, render, or save will bring a crash.

Boris Optical Stabilizer is a little touchy, but as long as I tweak the settings in precisely the right order, it has beautiful results.

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.

[Corbin Gross]

Thanks for the advice everyone.

I really want to stay in Premiere as there are bunches of little clips, many of which are panning shots or walking through crowds or that kind of thing. I’m sure Mocha does a dynamite job but for this project I require speed over quality.

I’ll probably go with the Boris plugin over the New Blue as I already know that everybody loves Boris and New Blue doesn’t seem to have the same reputation.

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.

[Corbin Gross]

I’m not the expert here, so I apologize if I’m out of place…

But could you have something animated instead of filming?

I don’t know which would be more expensive/complicated to produce but I’d be interested to find out.

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.

[Corbin Gross]

So I’ll attach two videos with text animated in a way that is not what I’m looking to do. Both of these have all the letters turned the same way. I like how they resolve their position but I’d like them to all start turned different directions.

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/unified-resolve

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/random-sequential-resolve

[Corbin Gross]

2D might actually look pretty cool. Maybe like a pop-up book or something. You know, I could do a super tight shot of the quaking leaves and then a very speedy pull back. then I can jump right from a easily digestible couple dozen leaves to a shot of the forest, no sweat.

“Cripes, after all the effort to make that tree, why would you want to?”

For the wide shot, I was picturing a dozen or so of these similar trees and I just can’t bare the thought of animating all those leaves. If it works, i could duplicate the tree but I’m sure the render hit would be crazy.

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.

[Corbin Gross]

Alright, just noticed the date on your posts. I found this looking for something else and it looked interesting.

Hope this year old project turned out ok.

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.

[Corbin Gross]

Have you considered possibly a fish puppet? That would do nicely for a story book type effect. The puppet could serve as the totally controllable body of the fish, then you could still put the actor’s face on in post.

If you record the actor first, with maybe a green head sock on a green bg (or blue or whatever), then you could run the puppet to sync up with the actor. Then key out the fish and composite. If you painted some scales similar to the fish’s on the actor that might make the finished image more seamless as well. Don’t forget to get some side shots of the actor if you plan to have the fish swim around at all.

Plus, with this way you won’t need a displacement map since you can just make the fish swim around at will. You might even be able to use some stock animation for the water. Something with exaggerated bubbles and seaweed and such.

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.

[Corbin Gross]

I tried doing the key one-by-one, no luck. I also thought I’d try to just import the clips into AE, drop them on the New Comp icon and render them out as Quicktimes but that didn’t work either.

I’ve since tried Wondershare (which I’d purchased earlier for a different project) but it’s not recognizing my files as having any length, and Handbrake was suggested a different place online but I can’t get it to recognize anything not on a disk.

There’s got to be something.

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.

[Corbin Gross]

I actually have Quicktime Pro. I’m not seeing any of those options in Adobe Media Encoder though. I know the Animation codec from rendering out of AE…

Maybe I need to download some of these codecs from somewhere?

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.

[Corbin Gross]

That’s got to be the problem.

So, um… how does one convert to a different codec. I recorded directly to a disk using OnLocation, I’m sure there’s probably a setting in there for next time. I don’t have Final Cut, just Premiere.

I promise to look into it further. I just need to know how to get these guys keyed out.

Thanks

Corbin Gross
Creative Services
Marketing
SanMar Corp.