[Darren Edwards]

There’s an insight into the Spider-man VFX over at Studio Daily:
https://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/searchlist/8140.html

Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

Like most pros, I try not to touch anything associated
with DivX anymore, but well don eVince on unearthing some
good ol’ useable freeware. 🙂

Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

Cool.

Cheers,
Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

This is a fantastic tutorial (speaking as someone who’s camera/DP/
editor on a couple of zombie films during this summer). Forward/reverse
tracking is, I think, as important to indie VFX stuff as the reverse-
reverb technique was to the audio world of horror and sci-fi.

The only thing that could possibly improve the tutorial is a podcast
version. 😉

Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

Like I say, just curious. We have an IPTV company in our
building whose Vegas suite imports DVDs willy-nilly and whenever
I’ve quietly tried with Prem and AE it’s looked at me like an
idiot. Normally I use Canopus software for such things.

D.

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[Darren Edwards]

Edit: PPro isn’t designed to exploit 16GB of RAM on PC…

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[Darren Edwards]

16GB of RAM is cool, but you’ll probably need an Intel/Mac
to exploit it because, if I rememeber rightly, PPro is
designed to exploit 16GB of RAM on PC. And even if it was,
it would require a non-XP Pro operating system – and we all
know how useless Vista is.

Secondly, forget Dell … for anything. Even if you plump
for a Windows machine, plug some expensive Apple monitors
into it.

Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

Betacam bodies are still comparatively expensive, and
a digibeta camera with (for example) a Canon J1-11 HD
lens creates beautiful SD pictures. That said, I hope
the expense is a quickly dissolving luxury for digibeta.
There are HD cameras out there, a third of price,
capable of producing superior pictures, and yet we’re
all still somehow enslaved to digibeta’s legacy, and
cost. It’s even impossible to find a digibeta bargain
on eBay.

My favourite SD camera at our office is my XDCAM 530p.
Its lens (Fujinon A13x6.5) is getting on a bit now
– as is the camera – but I’m really happy with the
creative stuff (music videos, short films, etc.) we’ve
shot with it over the last two years. Shooting in
25p with Magic Bullet handling the grading, and I’ll
happily choose it over the the HDV cameras sitting on
the shelf any day of the week. In fact, I’m already
bored of the Z1’s ‘look’.

Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

For UK designers:
It took the DVD about 7 days to arrive in England
from CA.
We’ve used the TV interference stuff in a short
corporate – which I can’t link to because it’s not
online for a week or so – and some of the grunge
stills have used in rock music/Photoshop projects,
like the promotional video/DVD I filmed/designed for
The Wildhearts:
https://www.x-gf.com/misc/wh_flesh_promodvd.jpg

The HD stuff’s great; it also imports effortlessly
into AE7 SD projects.

Darren.

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[Darren Edwards]

Lionel,

I thought of you whilst I was reading this:
https://www.highdef.org/library/faq.htm

Lots of good advice about shooting in 23.98
instead of 24p, 3:2 pulldown, audio pullup,
audio drifting out of sync with 24p, etc.

Darren.

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