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Wrong. I want to know IF I should shoot a scene that is supposed to be dark, like, say, the big bad wolf in the Black Forest, should I expose the shot as close to what I want it to look in camera, or get as much information/data as possible with brighter lights and THEN darken in post. Believe it or not, you’ve given me the answer with your example regarding the four f/stops. Thanks!
For the record, the kit lens only goes to 3.5 but it will do for now.
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Hey Jon, no problem! I think that, once again, my original point is being misunderstood. After all these times I’m starting to think the problem is on my end. 😉
Thanks to you guys I already knew a lot of what you were telling me here. But I wasn’t asking how to light a scene or what vector to adjust my deltas to, or where to position my Johnson Crane 😉
Tero came closest to answering my question, in fact I think he did. All I wanted to know, and you guys know the quality of my productions, is if I wanted to shoot, say, the big bad wolf in the Black Forest, should I light it as brightly as possible to get as much detail as I can, short of overexposing, and then creating the dark, spooky mood in post by bringing the exposure down (yes, I know about Day4Night, I’ve got like 4 different plugins), or should I lower the exposure in camera to get the look I’m going for. And the only reason I asked is that when I do under expose, I get nasty artifacts in the dark areas. Having experimented since I first asked, I’ve found that I can, indeed, lower a brightly lit scene and avoid ugly dark areas when lowering exposure in post. The key is to get it as evenly lit as possible. I can get spooky backgrounds but my face is still brighter than everything else. So I’ve got to work on that.
But, as always, I’m grateful that people with professional backgrounds like yourselves are quick to jump in and respond to my questions. I’m thinking, as a guitarist with 40 years experience, that if someone asked if it would be ok to pluck a G string rather than learn the chord, I don’t think I’d be as patient as you guys are with me.
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Hey Chris, thanks for responding. No, the G7 doesn’t shoot RAW. I’m shooting in 4K (100mbps). The problem it seems, is that when I do underexpose I don’t get solid blacks, it’s very blocky, not smooth.
I guess I’ll try again, underexpose and overexpose, and then play with the clip in PPro.
Thanks again.
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No point in putting up a job posting. I’ll take it! Will you be reporting to me?
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Yeah, that’s what I meant. Bummer! However, does what you’ve done look good? Is there a need to change it to “Set”? If I remember correctly, you only need to do that if you intend to scale your video. Did setting it to “Scale” lower the resolution drastically? If not, well, I can’t say don’t sweat it, I don’t do what I do professionally or for clients. But I do know that sometimes the only reason one can see glitches or burps is because one is aware of them.
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Just curious, have you tried unchecking “Scale” and checking “Set” to see if it affected any of your work?
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I reported this weeks ago. It gets difficult to keep things straight as it is with my simple projects. I can imagine what a pain it must be for you all.
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That option isn’t even included in CC 2015.4.
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No. If you open a new project, that project will have no bins until you create them. What’s happening is if I, for example, have 4 bins, “images”, “Sequences”, “Green screen clips”, and “Sound F/X”, and I want to get into Sound F/X to pull out an asset, I click on that bin, and 3 or 4 of the same bin opens. I do believe this is the problem the others are talking about.
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Yes, I reported this within a day or so of the latest Premiere Pro release back in June. Also, I can only create 2 bins. Afterward the first bin’s name goes into “renaming” mode. I have to create an adjustment layer or bring in an image or clip so that there’s a blank space in the project panel to create another bin.
And, as you said, opening a bin opens like 3 or 4 instances of that bin. Even with the latest update of a few days ago.