[Davide Marchesi]

Right, thanks Rafael, I didn’t realise I was missing that step. What other solution am I left with then?

I am clearly starting to think that I should use the 25p conformed footage as little as possible in my final edit, but I might still need a few clips from it.

Would it be possible to slightly speed up the footage after conforming it? I feel that it’d just be a big mess…

[Davide Marchesi]

Thank you guys for your help. I was actually going to do a multiclip thus it seems that I’d better use Compresor for this. However, I am not really concerned about altering sound as I have a separate audio file I will synch to all my footage.

Would there be any difference conforming 23.98 footage to 25fps footage and conforming 25fps footage to 23.98? Any particular reason that you know for which I should prefer one way over the other?

Thanks

[Davide Marchesi]

Right, it might be a bit silly of me to start using Color when its time seems to have passed, but I have started following some tutorials and I have to say that I like it.

I’m going through the grading of the footage I was talking about and thanks to your advice I feel that I am getting closer to the look I want. I can see I’m not yet there though. I have been working only in the primary and secondary room for now and I was wondering if there’s any effect that you would suggest for me to use in this case? I think I’ll add a little blur and grain.

Also, would you have any idea on how they pushed the highlights so much in some shots without affecting the rest of the picture too much or loosing too much definition. I’m thinking of the kid’s white t-shirt which is always incredibly bright and some shots showing around 00:43 with that bright backlight.

Thanks again for your help.

[Davide Marchesi]

Thanks Stephen. I eventually decided to give Color a try instead of buying Looks. I always wanted to learn how to use Color and this seems like a good occasion to start.

[Davide Marchesi]

Thank you for putting me on the right track. I eventually downloaded the trial version for the Magic Bullet Looks plugin to see if my computer can handle it. I will play around with it in these days. How do you think I should go about it? Is there any preset you were thinking of?

[Davide Marchesi]

Thank you Stephen, but unfortunately I don’t think that the Magic Bullut suite would work on my computer. It’d have problems to run the effects. I’m afraid that I’ll have to rely mostly on the FCP color correction.

[Davide Marchesi]

Thanks for your ideas, Jonathan. I believe that if I if I decide to work with videos at full resolution, I could just use the motion controls of FCP without needing to use After Effects. Or do you think that importing the big files into AE and then using it to convert them would work better?

The only problem would be previewing them in Final Cut Pro, I think it would be impossible to run them smoothly (just like the tests I made with QuickTIme Pro were impossible to play at a normale pace on my computer). I’ll have a try.

[Davide Marchesi]

Hello everyone, I hope as well your proposal went well.

My problem similar to Walter’s, thus I thought I could ask here too. Basically I have some sequences of pictures I imported in AE. Frame rate is set at 24 fps and the resolution of the original stills is 4256×2832 (shot with Nikon D700). Initially I thought I would go about it resizing and/or cropping the bunch of pictures in Photoshop and then importing the pictures with new dimension of 1920×1080, perfectly fitting HD 16:9 presets. I guess it’d work perfectly this way (or the way Erik described too). On the other hand, now I’m thinking to add some simple simulated camera movements to the footage through anchoring and moving the centre of the video up or down, left or write. In order to do that, the video has to be a little bit larger than 1920×1080 of course. Although it would still be acceptable to enlarge a 1920×1080 footage in order to do what I want, it seems pointless to me to scale down the images/footage size in Photoshop if afterwards I will have to enlarge it again, that would leave me with a very unnecessary loos of quality.

I am also very new to After Effects and just dragging the image sequence with its original size (4256×2832) in a composition of 1920×1080 is giving me some problems (i.e. the preview won’t load all the way, but just partially and the exported .mov file is really stuttering a lot in QuickTime and, I believe, in Final Cut Pro too). Oh, yeah, my goal is to get sequence of footage I can edit on FCP.

Do you have any suggestion on how I could do this?