Erik Pontius
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The photograph at the end and the hallway are also references to The Shining….he’s got a little Psycho in there too.
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as far as I know the only way to export HDV is to choose the export option for exporting an HDV mpeg transport stream (m2t file). I don’t know if FCP would be able to export it…not to mention it might not be the best choice for doing any kind of finishing work on since it is an MPEG long GOP stream.
Erik
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Specifically, I think it is the second season disc set. It has a feature called “putting life into death”
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You might want to check out the extras on the series DVD box set. Essentially they filmed several passes, one with the dead, one with the living and an empty plate. Then a ton of manual rotoscoping was done and the shots were composited. They show an example on the DVD, where an old man who has died naked and is unable to wear any clothes, he’s walking around the park, walking through people.
Erik
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Ahron “super tight junk mattes” tut might help with that. It uses the autotrace feature to automate a mask around a subject….
Erik
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I’ve used StudioCutz they have a variety of sounds. Royalty free, pay per track or disc. You can download, or get a disc shipped or both.
I’ve used SmartSound before as well. Nice that you can create music to fit but their music selection leaves a little to be desired some of it starts to sound the same track to track.Erik
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I’ve shot similar things in the past, at least instances where I couldn’t use screen recording software or get a video output out of the system (high end datacenter servers, etc…). Best thing to do is just to make sure to get as much coverage as possible. Do a number of setups, a wider one with the talent from the side, one of the entire screen more less dead on to the screen…you’ll have to cheat your talent out of the way so they don’t block the shot while using the product. And then a extreme close up of screen of whatever the focus is (a button, a mouse cursor, etc…)making sure that this is close enough shot to make it large in the frame adjust the aperture and shutter to get best exposure. Get a bunch of b-roll of pans and tilts through buttons on the screen, etc… Then in the edit, mix the shots together to make, moving to closer shots. Your presenter talks about the product (wide shot), then references the display (the dead on closeup, a b-roll shot of a pan across a list of buttons), then they press a button (ecu of the button)…rinse, repeat.
Some cameras have an option for “clear scan” usually found in the menu which aids in filming computer CRT displays and TV’s it can attempt to match the scan retrace or refresh rate of the crt to eliminate flicker and that annoying rolling black line (the retrace). Sometimes adjusting the camera’s shutter speed to a the CRT refresh rate or multiple there of can eliminate the flicker/rolling line as well. Majority of LCD displays are 60hz which film better.
Erik
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Make sure your using the “best” setting for the Animation codec. Export using the field renderer set to lower field first (I’m in NTSC land). If you are exporting an alpha, make sure you are exporting straight alpha and not pre-multiplied.
On import to Avid make sure that your import settings are set to 601 non-square (if that’s what your comp was), RGB, Inverse Alpha and lower field first…then import.Erik
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You’re thinking of Premiere. Selecting a clip in the project window will show a thumbnail and a “used X times” with a little down triangle where you can select an instance. AE is similar as well.
Erik
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Could be. Tweaking your edit to match some key points in the music can help a bit with the flow. I like to hide some cuts by timing them around a beat. It’s also a good chance that network TV programs have their own in house composers.
Erik