Daniel Hughes
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I would personally do it the other way around.
If you have your cut ready in Premiere, you could replace that with an After Effects composition. In AE you can create a preset for each of the three shots, meaning it won’t take you much longer to apply a particular preset to different parts of the shot.
Daniel Hughes
Freelance photorgapher/videographer
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Do you have After Effects?
You can change to Rec.709 in After Effects in Project Settings by selecting that color profile, though I’m not sure if that can be done in Premiere.
If you were willing to link an AE composition with Premiere, you could easily edit in Premiere and grade in AE without too much bother.
Daniel Hughes
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Filmmaker
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The T2i is deliciously good for what you need it for. Except Audio. Like Steve mentioned, built in mic is abysmal, but using another mic with it is also pretty useless.
With this camera you’re gonna have to completely seperate audio from video and buy also a Tascam DR-05 (~$135) or Zoom H1 (~$110) or something like that, with your boom and external mic to get decent sound where you can control the gain.
Automatic gain control in the camera with its built in mic and its line in gives you horrible hissing and harshness and just sounds terrible.
But T2i’s video quality is magnificent and its very easy and fun to use as your selection of looks and lenses is virtually limitless (hire lenses on a budget!) and you can also use it to do a bit of photography, which is always fun.
Just please don’t rely on this one for sound.
Daniel Hughes
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I didn’t know Magic Lantern offered that!
But what I was meaning was, when one shoots in HD they lose from the top and bottom of the frame, and then when you crop are cutting off the sides, but also getting less of a vertical angle than you potentially could :/
Thanks a lot! 🙂
Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
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Have you tried starting a fresh project? Print screen please!
Daniel Hughes
Amateur Writer, Director,
Director of Photography
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Sure!
You can do it by dropping a Brightness and Contrast and Gradient Map onto your event or track.
In Brightness and Contrast bring Contrast and Contrast Center right up, but not all the way (You can do what you want really), and bring the Brightness accordingly until you find a balance and the levels seem right.
Now go to your Gradient Map and try to arrange something like this:
Play about with it til you get the look you want 🙂
With gradient map the bar gives a dark to light sort of spectrum for you to then replace all of the dark colours in the clip with, for instance, brown, all of the mid colours with orange and the brights with yellow.
Hope this helps!
P.S. Apologies, my example is very rushed!
Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
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Of course you can then render this out and bring it into another project, and speed it up a further 12x. That’ll make it 144x or 24x or something, can’t think straight
Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
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Right click the event, go to Insert/Remove envelope, choose velocity. This can accelerate up to 300%. Hold CTRL and stretch the video to its maximum. This will give you x3x4 speed, so 12x speed.
Daniel Hughes
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Director of Photography
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Hold CTRL and select all the ones you want to move?
Something like that!
Daniel Hughes
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I’ll do that on Friday for you, away all day tomorrow!
My only criticism of the product is the part that rests on your shoulder – if you don’t get the two segments at a steep enough angle the back segment is very easily distorted, which can be quite frustrating, but not if you tighten it well and get a decent, sharp angle.
Daniel Hughes
Amateur Writer, Director,
Director of Photography
United Kingdom