[Fernando Mol]

When I’m on low budget I use my photoflood kit (two lamps with umbrellas) for the key and fill of the subject. For backlight and backgrounds I use halogen work lights. Very cheap, but very hot.

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Mark is totally right.

If a client ask me for a two minute video, but there are hours of not-cataloged raw material, just finding the good shots and assembling the video, plus versions and changes can become quite more difficult than if I were asked to make a two minute video from a ten minute interview.

I was just explaining a client the other day: “I’m not selling you a video, if that was the true, I’ll come here with a catalog of twenty videos for you to pick one. I’m charging you for my services, and the consequence of my services will be a video that will be good only for you”.

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What gamma mode are you using?

I asked for best settings a couple of weeks ago and received great advice, I also made some tests, but with an HPX-170. The two Cinelike gamma modes were the noisiest, B.press was the one with the lowest amount of noise.

Detail level can change the way you see noise in your images. There are different controls for it: the detail level, vertical detail level and the core detail. Test lowering your detail and vertical detail a little. You can have a high detail level if you want a crispy image, but then you need a positive number in the detail core. The core is like a threshold value for the detail to show up.

My tests were not for green screen, but I liked a detail level of +3 with the detail core of +2. Vertical detail on +2. I use those settings now as a starting point, but you should do your own tests (my camera is different). The light on your footage looks fine to me, so check if you’re using a Cinelike gamma mode and change it to normal or b.press.

Keylight have an option for softening the edges of the mask, if I remember well it’s called “edge softness”. A value of 1 or 2 can improve the look of the key by softening the jags of a noisy image.

I hope this helps.

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Google for “how to change quicktime source with javascript”

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Indeed it’s difficult to get rid off the artifacts in the borders. Alpha Add helps, but the lights mess all up. However, I’m tricking the design, testing different colors and borders for the cubes and I managed to get a decent look.

If I found a better solution I’ll come back and share.

Thank you all for your time!

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It’s great to see you got results, Todd.

Frames still have some uses. Like linking to an external site maintaining some navigation or functionality of your own. Google Images use frames and I remember seeing about.com using them too.

But I think that’s all (I don’t want to get a bite). Frames for web design are a heritage of the low bandwidth days. A nice use of templates or includes can achieve the updating functionality without compromising accessibility. I won’t even mention printing.

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Great to know you found the help you needed.

For video, depending on the project and the computer I use, I work on Premiere, Vegas or Final Cut. However, in the past year most of my works were made fully inside After Effects.

I use Premiere for in-house projects.

Vegas works smoother with footage imported from a Mac or AVCHD files. I edited a 30 minutes short film on Vegas with footage captured in Final Cut and some fellow editors were shocked when I told them. There’s the perception that is not a pro choice, but as you know the editing is not in the software. Great audio tools there.

Final Cut was my only one for almost five years, but since I’m not working on a Mac anymore I just occasionally put my hands there. It’s a great software, very stable.

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Hi, Karin

I couldn’t resist to check in your other questions after looking at the Take2 site. Interesting project.

I do not have much of experience using HDV (my experience goes with DVCPRO HD), but I have to say that there’s no such thing as a bulletproof format for HD video.

David is not so lost by suggesting DV, but that will totally depend on the final delivery of the sutdents projects. Today, most of the producers choose to shoot in HD even if the final delivery will be on SD. The quality of the image is still better.

Definitely the help you need is a volunteer. You can post your help request in the “SERVICES” section of the COW, under the Jobs forum.

There’s also an HDV forum, no harm asking there too.

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Greetings from Mexico.

Here we’re still far from having a decent transition between SD to HD (in the final delivery, at least). So, I hope 3D TV gets here before the flying cars.

😉

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I can’t see your code. Can you post a link to your site?

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