Dave Navarro
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You rock!
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I’d like to see more instrument stuff. A better looking heart monitor, more realistic radar/sonar, etc…
Grunge is also an “in-thing” right now.
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Okay, I learned that the Canon AVCHD cameras encapsulate EVERYTHING they shoot in a 60i (or 50i for PAL) wrapper.
So most software will see everything as 60i. While the wrapper is encoded as 60i, if you record at 30p or 24p it actually does record progressive frames for the data. So After Effects is properly interpreting my 30p footage as 30p and when I re-encode, it works properly.
And the apparent reason for the 29.97 and not “true 30p” is that the “broadcast spec” for 30p is 29.97. So again, After Effects is interpreting things correctly.
The only thing I have not been able to figure out is how to do the correct pulldown in After Effects for stuff recorded in 24p mode. I have to use FFMPEG or Neoscene to handle that.
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h.264 is a lossy codec, however the footage from the D5 is steller to say the least.
The problem is that there is SO MUCH data packed into each frame that most computers simply cannot decode it in real time. At least, After Effects has a lot of problems decoding it on my computer (3.2 GHz Quad Core with 16 gigs of RAM).
I personally use NeoScene to convert my footage to QT MP4 for editing.
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If you are looking for people, I highly recommend Aharon Rabinowitz new venture “Crowd Control”. Individually, they are very reasonably priced and I’ve purchased a few clips for some projects.
If you’re looking for motion graphics elements (3D objects, etc.) then Digital Juice is the way to go. They have individual packages of themes for $15 and run $1 deals on the weekends if you’re on their mailing list.
Most of the stock sites like iStock, ShutterStock, etc.. have fixed pricing, but Pond5 lets the artists set their own prices and there’s a lot of good, but low-priced stuff to be had if you spend a good amount of time searching. You can sort searches by price, but you can’t search by price itself as the criteria.
Honestly, it all depends on what you consider cheap or too much.
All Bets are Off (Crowd Control):
https://allbetsareoff.com/Digital Juice:
https://www.digitaljuice.com/iStockPhoto (footage area):
https://www.istockphoto.com/video.phpShutterstock:
https://footage.shutterstock.com/Pond5:
https://www.pond5.comArtbeats (mentioned by Joe):
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You don’t say what tools you have… But watching the original clip, it reminds me somewhat of a combination of Andrew Kramer’s disintegration tutorial and Aharon Rabinoitz’ sand tutorial with trapcode form.
You would use the same technique in the sand tutorial to create a “form” of pixels for your person then use a grey scale image to drive the particles exploding out in a streaming fashion like in your original footage. Then layer the “chunks” and other effects from Andrews tutorial on top of that.
Disintegration Tutorial:
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/disintegration/Text to Sand transition
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/videos/redgianttv/item/22/(notice how the particle movement in Form are driven in the desired direction by the gray scale image create in the linear wipe section, and since form is 3D, you can drive particles towards or away from the camera as well.)
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You can expand the keyframe properties in the timeline and right-click delete any individual property (or hit the DELETE key).
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Wow…. wonder if they’ll start supporting video on the iPhone soon.