Darby Edelen
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[BillyShark] “Like where you can make the same person on the screen twice.”
The easiest/fastest way to do this is to use a stationary camera and shoot the same scene twice with the person performing one role the first time through and the other role the second time through. Provided you have control of the lighting and you don’t move the camera there shouldn’t be noticeable differences between the backgrounds of either shot and they can be combined with a simple mask. You see this technique a lot in TV shows that don’t have time for costly alternatives.
If the characters cross over one another it becomes more complicated and some serious roto (masking) work or green screening will be required.
You could look at this tutorial for some other ideas:
Darby Edelen
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2 * Math.PI radians = 360
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[jpsendall] “The fact that infrared will only light things in the 10 foot range from camera is a benefit, not a hindrance. It adds to the effect.”
It sounds like you know what you’re looking for. If the area the body is going to be floating in is going to be pure black you could use a plug-in like unmult to remove the black from the floating body. This technique would cause problems if the body floats in front of any non-black elements though.
I’m still concerned about the dual technical limitations of mini DV and night shot though =)
Darby Edelen
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The MPEG2 encoder is something Adobe licensed from MainConcept (https://www.mainconcept.com/site/) and is only an option in an activated Professional version on Windows.
Do you have the professional version? Have you activated the software?
Darby Edelen
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Left Coast Digital
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I can’t give you a complete list of keyboard shortcuts, although that would be useful, but I can give you some info on the specifics you’re looking for.
Move clip in-point to current time – [
Move clip out-point to current time – ]
Trim clip in-point to current time – alt/opt [
Trim clip out-point to current time – alt/opt ]You can snap a layer’s in/out-point (or a keyframe) to the current time if you hold shift as you drag the layer (or keyframe).
Darby Edelen
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Left Coast Digital
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[Dave LaRonde] “I guess it would all depend on the warmth of the body as to whether or not you could pull a good key.”
Here’s the other problem. I’m pretty sure he’s talking about the default night setting that a lot of consumer level mini-DV camcorders come with in which the camera isn’t sensitive to something as subtle as body heat.
These cameras work by using a light that illuminates the scene with infrared light. We can’t see the infrared light, but the camera does. This is the shooting mode made famous (infamous?) by the Paris Hilton tapes in which the subject appears bathed in an unnatural green light. And frankly I don’t think keying of any sort will work with it, especially seeing as you’re already talking about shooting in mini DV which has terrible chroma compression.
If you’re talking about using a built-in infrared light/night shooting mode on a mini DV camera then I think this is pretty much all around a bad idea. In addition to the other problems I’ve brought up, the infrared light only has an effective range of a few yards.
Darby Edelen
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Left Coast Digital
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You should ask this in one of the After Effects forums. And I don’t know the answer off the top of my head =)
Darby Edelen
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Left Coast Digital
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[sam.mltn] “turn off openGL acceleration. it is set to always on.”
…and then try using a more dramatic blending mode like Linear Burn or Hard Mix if you really want to test it =)
Double check the opacity of the underlying layers as well. My money is on some sort of OpenGL related issue though.
Darby Edelen
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Left Coast Digital
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[Rick Neely] “24 bit audio”
You can definitely do 24 bit audio. Furthermore, you don’t need to use AE at all to do this.
I don’t have FCP in front of me right now so I’m not sure what is or isn’t available as a QT Export option, but I can tell you that in QuickTime Player Pro you can use the Export function to export a movie to a TGA Image Sequence and to export audio to 24bit/44.1khz (or even 32bit/44.1khz).
I’m guessing that FCP will allow you to export using a QT Conversion to these settings.
Darby Edelen
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Left Coast Digital
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It sounds like you’re making an uncompressed AVI out of compressed footage. What are you using to make the AVI? Whatever it is, you’ll need to specify some kind of compressed codec for the AVI.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA