Dean Sensui
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Depends on what state it’s purchased in.
Here in Hawaii, there’s a general excise sales tax that’s charged for anything bought here (4.712% on Oahu).
If you buy mail order the sales tax isn’t charged except by Apple. Technically everyone should be charging this, but it would be a bookkeeping nightmare for a mail order company: Having to know how much each state charges for GE tax, then file paperwork and payment for all 50 states.
Sometimes for us here it’s a tradeoff: a dealer can match NY prices. However you pay the sales tax. On the other hand, there’s a savings on shipping. Plus there’s that hands-on experience.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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[Dave LaRonde] “And, before you say “well fix it in post,” always consider who’s doing the work, especially if you’re the one doing the work.”
And Dave, you know as well as the rest of us that the people who say that are NEVER the ones who sit in our chairs! 🙂
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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BTW, if I were to do something like this, I’d set up the shots in FCP for timing and getting the right “feel”. But I’d do all the rotoscoping and keying in After Effects.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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If you look closely (better yet, look at it frame by frame), you’ll see that there’s a lot of rotoscoping going on.
The arms, jackets, etc. are being used to wipe from one person to the next. Careful addition of shadows helps enhance the illusion.
The process can be very painstaking and it requires a combination of careful planning and craftiness to make it work smoothly.
As for the background changing, just shoot your models against green screen and key them out. Green screen techniques is a whole art unto itself. There’s a lot of info available out there regarding green material, lighting, formats and keying software.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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As Shane and others have said, mixing frame rates could set you up for unwanted problems in post, and goal #1 is making it work and telling the story.
As for frame rates, shoot with the delivery format in mind. There’s not a detectable difference in cadence between 24p and 30p. But converting one to the other could create some undesirable temporal artifacts.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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Just FYI, I purchased both EX1’s from Video Life here in Hawaii to support our local dealership. Great service: he let me try one out for a day before I made my final decision.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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Well, with all this in mind, for me it’s about getting my job done. I’m comfortable with what I got and the tool set does the job nicely enough.
However, I’m not against increases in capabilities or speed. I just hope the next upgrade comes before 2012. Because that’s when the world comes to an end.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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Mocha is now bundled within After Effects CS4… if you happen to have After Effects.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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Was your camera set to skew the colors? It appears as though you have the camera set to provide a certain “look”.
If so, then that’s part of your problem. Any in-camera color adjustments when doing green screen will compromise the chroma information in the shot, and that chroma information is crucial to discern what portions of the image is part of the matte and what’s not.
It could be that the green you chose has way too much yellow in it. What was the source of the green screen material?
The green screen might be too hot in some parts. When setting green screen it should ideally read as 50 IRE.
Primatte is actually able to distinguish one green from another, and I’ve successfully keyed green on green (my fault for not sending a memo). Yellow on green is a breeze. Keylight, on the other hand, isn’t nearly as adaptable as Primatte. Keylight tends to sacrifice detail to pull a tighter key. Primatte, on the other hand, relies upon better user definition of what is and isn’t green to pull a tighter key.
With Keylight, you tell the program what’s green. With Primatte, you tell the program what’s green, what’s also green, and what’s NOT green. That alone makes a huge difference in the results. Then there are a long series of fine-tuning controls that requires the user to carefully read the user manual just to make sure the program is used to its max potential.
Hope this helps.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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You might consider doing a face replacement on Doc. You’ll need to match lighting, of course, and match-move your face with his. But that would save you from doing a lot of rotoscoping and compositing.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing