Enzo Tedeschi
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Spot on – if you needed sync footage. This stuff was just weird movement.
Come to think of it, Marilyn Manson do a lot of sped up sync in their videos.
I don’t know if you guys in the States ever got to see the awesome Australian film “Chopper” about one of our notorious crime figures. It has a scene where they are doing Coke, and the entire scene is sped up, but still in normal sync speed for dialogue. Simple technique but it works so well when used right.
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Found the “Fighter” video on launch.com
It’s definitely time-shifting. Play with your time effects.
If I were to do it manually, I’d chop up a clip into a few segments, speed up some at different rates (eg first clip 100%, next 200%, next 150%, then 100% etc…) and then maybe drop the odd frame here or there to get that flitty, jumpy, weird look.
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Debbie,
I have found that Windows sometimes has issues with .mp4 extensions – try a rename or encoding a .mov with mpeg4 compression (if this is the case, of course).
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Welcome, Todd. Again.
😉
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For my money, external SATA SCSI seems a good compromise between cost and performance if you’re doing uncompressed SD. FW800 can have performance issues (ie dropped frames) when your drive starts filling.
Obviously this will blitz DV!
HD capable drives are a huge price jump…
:o)
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Hey Todd,
I’ve only been here about 6 seconds myself, but welcome anyhow!!
;O)
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Thanks, Jim. Looking forward to getting my hands dirty!
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A lot of what gets done in the Manson videos (I haven’t seen the Aguilera clip – I’ll have to have a look on the web) is about speed ramping, or simply speeding up the frame rate. It’s sometimes done in short bursts with a film-style “flash” or dip-to-white. This can create a twitchy effect. I definitely think you should be playing with the time effects.
Can you post some links to the videos you mention? Seeing an effect makes it easier to “reverse-engineer” :o)
Also bear in mind that there are plenty of ways to skin any given cat in After Effects. Don’t be afraid to noodle around. You’ll find all sorts of wonderful gadgets that’ll be helpful at some point down the line.
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When I started on After Effects (version 3!), I had a strong grasp of Photoshop, and it helped me a lot. I started to think of After Effects as Photoshop with a timeline, and my learning curve started to arc drastically upwards. Obviously there’s more to AFX than that, but as a newbie, those Photoshop skills were indispensable to me.
It also helps that they are from the same company, making the interfaces similar enough to be unintimidating.
I agree that it’s not necessary, but it sure helped me.
And echoing Jim’s post, every new tool you learn makes it easier to learn the next. Absolutely.
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Thanks, guys – looking forward to it!
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