Dean Sensui
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I was helping out on a production and the LCD monitor they had looked great when fed a component signal. Looked terrible when fed an SVHS (Y/C) signal. Could have been a faulty cable. But that’s something to consider.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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Hope it helps.
After looking at it again, and doing a quick test, it seems that it might have been a slight distortion applied in FCP that changed the “corner pin” values in AE. Those corner pin values had to be reset. Might have ocurred while I moved an image. Perhaps when grabbing a corner to re-scale and not being careful to avoid distorting the image. If I use the “center” feature of FCP’s motion tab it translates nicely into AE via Automatic Duck.
Once all of this is imported into AE, you can fine tune the pans and zooms with features such as “easy-in” and “easy-out” to make the motions more fluid.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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A light light is alright if the beam is not too tight. Otherwise anything at the edges are gonna be outta sight.
Some say I’m a lousy poet but that’s just a bum rap.
I just started using a VidLED and the color of the daylight lamp is a nice match for sunlight. It’s a bit dim for daylight fill at most distances, but I was looking to use it for early morning hours when a tungsten fill would be the wrong color.
I’m also planning to use it during daylight just to give the eyes a bit of sparkle and, hopefully, to provide a bit of fill in the shadows if the person is wearing a ball cap.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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Hi Lee…
Everything in FCP is in real time, and is better when it comes to things that require a sense of timing.
AE isn’t in real time, not without some rendering. But it handles FX and everything else with a lot higher quality.
Automatic Duck will create an XML file which AE can import. It’ll bring across your entire FCP project more or less intact, including anything that’s been re-scaled (zooms, pans and tilts) and transitions such as dissolves.
I’ve had this done to long form projects, then worked on just the sections that needed help, and rendered just those short sections. The rendered movies are then dragged into the FCP project and overlaid atop the existing edits. That way in case I need the original edits for future referene, they’re still there.
Sometimes re-scaled images with pans and tilts will also have their anchor points reset. I haven’t figured that one out yet but it’s probably because of the way I do my pans and tilts. I’m using a method in FCP that makes use of position values, and that’s interprested by Automatic Duck and AE as a shift in anchor point. As a work-around for now, I’ll select all the shots in AE with a shifted anchor point and reset them globally.
I’ve only done three of these presentations so far but will look closely at how “position” in FCP is translated into “anchor point” in AE and make adjustments in my workflow.
Just this past year I learned that it’s better to use anchor point when making movements on stills in AE, rather than simply applying position values. But old habits die hard… 🙂
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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Here’s what I do:
Create the montage in FCP for timing. Do the pans and zooms as usual.
Then export the whole thing to After Effects via Automatic Duck. AE does a lot better job of scaling and tilts/pans than FCP. It can also do a nicer job of color correction with its “curves” feature.
Automatic Duck helped me rescue someone’s project and paid for itself the first time out.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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And to think at one time I thought having a pair of double-density 5.25-inch, 180k Percom floppy drives was a big deal!
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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Mahalo, Walter.
And, by the way, we’re going to use that cooking process for a standing rib roast that I saw on Good Eats recently. Perfect timing for the season.
Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hau
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The HVX200 is quite fat for a “compact” camera. As others mentioned, adding accessories such as matte boxes, etc, will increase its size. For me I always work with a shoulder brace as the camera’s rather short. The shoulder brace makes it a lot steadier.
For our own company, we were requested by our governor to shoot one of her standups after we did a PSA with her recently. The size of the camera didn’t discourage her staff from hiring us. But what made a really big difference is how we worked with them.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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They make an HVX-200 that can shoot in 1080p30.
It now comes with an 8-gig card and can be found for around $5300.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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I use mirrored SATA drives with Firmtek cards and enclosures. Brings the price way down. For example a 250-gig SATA is going for less than $90 and a 500-gig SATA is about $190.
Store them someplace dry and cool. And I’d avoid vacuum-packing them in bags. You don’t want to apply pressure to the broad, flat areas of a bare hard drive as it would damage the drive mechanism.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii