Derek Boettcher
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I would personally do the editing in Premiere; utilize the crop functions to get the slicing in there. You can also add a white matte down below your footages to get the line. For the slide effects, pick which footages you want to use before hand. Take it into AE, make a new comp to fit the footage, drag the frame off in what ever direction you want the slide to come in, make a keyframe, more forward to when you want the movement to stop (looks like 10-15 frames or so in that example) reposition the footage center creating a new keyframe. Easy-ease the last key frame; open the graph editor and smooth out the Bezier even more. Then turn on motion blur and there you go.
Add those clips back into Premiere and by doing the sliding in AE but the cropping in Pr, you won’t need to do much positioning work while edit. Hope that helps. Ask me to clarify if you need me too, and would love to see a final product.
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Derek Boettcher
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I doubt he is using a plugin to get the “seemless” cuts. A lot of his cuts appear to be extremely well planned out with camera motion. If you notice, most of the cuts occur while the camera is moving, creating a motion blur, then a quick 3-5 frame fade will make it feel like the cut was “seemless.” That’s probably how he got the feel of it. Other than that some of it may have been done in post using motion blur etc. but my guess would be good pre-production.
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Derek Boettcher
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I guess I am confused, are you looking for just interesting coloring techniques or something to look similar to what you currently have?
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Derek Boettcher
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If you go to the project panel, you should be able to adjust the Composition’s frame rate even after the comp was made. Right click it, and where it asks for frame rate, put in 12. All comps and precomps have to have the same frame rate in order for this to work right, so be sure to double check that. The main comp will override the precomp settings.
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Derek Boettcher
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I tried this, and it kind of worked. If you tweak it right it may do what you want. Bring in your footage, apply CC Threshold to it, adjust it to where the white coals are pretty much the only thing selected, bring in a red solid underneath that layer, change its track matte settings to “Luma”, bring in your standard footage beneath that. Add a blur to the threshold footage, and to feather it out, and play with the color, modes, and opacity settings until you get what you are looking for. That might do the trick for you.
Edit: You also could try a darker red to start and composite a lighter red on top with a slightly less blur effect, giving it a highlight effect. You could also just add a glow and try to tweak settings that way, maybe add a wiggle for a type of flicker feel to it.
Edit2.0: I just tried it with the red layer’s mode set to overlay and that seemed to look really good.Best,
Derek Boettcher
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If you want everything to be 12FPS, right click the Comp (and precomps if you have them) and change the FPS to 12. Otherwise, you can precomp, right click the precomp and select “Speed/duration” and then raise the speed to 200%, effectively making it twice as fast 24fps:12fps. If that isn’t doing what you are trying to accomplish let me know and give more details, and I’ll try to help in another way.
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Derek Boettcher
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Here is what I would do in this instance: Assuming you only want to slow the speed down, and keep your motion just as smooth: right click your composition and choose composition settings and change your frame rate per second higher. For instance if it is at 24 fps change it to 96fps. Hit apply
After that, precomp your entire workflow, right click the precomped layer, and use time stretch and then change the speed by a factor of 4. (100% to 4000% for a 24fps-96fps rate) This will lower your frame rate back to normal, keep all of the detail, and allow you to slow it down.
The reason why this works best for your initial request is because you are basically doing what high frame rate cameras do, adding more frames and then playing back at a normal speed.
Here is what the other effects will do. Time remap allows you to set keyframes to slow down then speed back up motion, allowing for Bezier curves etc.
Timewarp reuses pixels in each frame to create a slowmotion effect (more used for video).
TROUBLESHOOTING: If the first technique didn’t work, double check that any other precomped layer has the same frame rate as the main comp. That should fix any issues.
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Derek Boettcher
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Most likely used the echo effect and adjusted the echo blending mode accordingly.
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Derek Boettcher
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If you are going to shoot with 1 camera two angles, I would suggest taking and shooting the script from start to finish on both angles, and have them a line or two back if they mess up. For your job, it isn’t necessarily what makes it easy for you, but for the editor who has to piece it all together. Typically: The more coverage the better. (within reason)
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Derek Boettcher
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BTH Media Group
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I personally use the Canon 6D for small business. Yes, it is a DSLR, but for your price point, it hits a lot of the options you need. It performs extraordinarily in low light, has a full frame censor, but also has versatility of shooting a quick headshot for a client on set. You also get the great cinematic quality of the lower depth of field du to the censor being so close to the lens. It does suffer from some rolling shutter, however, it is considerably better than most other DSLR’s in Canon’s line up. I was able to get the body with a lens for roughly $2050 AUD.
Quick note: you can also change the recording format to PAL in the menu.
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Derek Boettcher
Creative Management
BTH Media Group
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