George Goodman
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Yes, shape layers are essential. I’m using trim paths, pucker and bloat, and host of other effectors. I also just generally prefer shape layers to solids. I feel I personally tend to have a bit more control without running into oddities when manipulating them.
Maybe there isn’t an easy way to do this? Even when I create a circle shape layer, I can’t seem to add pen points to it, so that would eliminate working backwards from there, right?
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Hey Tim,
I think you’re site looks good. The navigation is clear and it’s a pretty clean layout. An issue I would consider addressing is the demo reel.
The problem I see is that the player itself is tiny. But what makes it worse is that the footage you showcase isn’t full frame. When you’re looking at the tiny player AND the footage isn’t full frame, it’s very difficult to see your work. As a client, this is the most important thing to me. IMO you either need to change the format you are presenting your work in (my recommendation), or enlarge the player.
Anyway, I hope that’s helpful,
George
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Start playing with the contrast and curves of your original image now that you’ve multiplied the color on there. You may also want to tweak the colors of the original image. Just gotta play with it until it looks right.
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I’m not really sure, but the way you phrased this title makes me think you may not know about adjustment layers. If not, look into those, very useful. But ya, do it with shape layers.
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Hey Dave,
Thanks for the response. Ya, I don’t use its audio for much, but a simple fade on a piece of stock music shouldn’t be too much to ask for.
I tried typing in the value like you suggested, and it actually worked. Was surprised; figured since it didn’t slide any further it wouldn’t let me. Cool to know.
I actually already fixed it though. I added the stereo mixer effect and brought the “left level” and “right level” down to 0%. Haha, pretty ghetto, but was just trying to do it quickly. I was going to edit it in audition but I actually dropped it in twice so it would have effected both layers. Didn’t want to export it as a whole and blah de blah de blah.
PS You’ve helped me tons in the past with your countless responses to others queries 🙂 Thanks!
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Use time remapping with the ping pong looping expression and set it so that it only bounces between 2 keyframes.
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First off, don’t overlook renting. You can bill this to the client and it’s not too expensive. There are a lot of reasons to do this from a business perspective. Here’s a pretty good article covering some of them:
https://www.videomaker.com/article/15642-to-buy-or-not-to-buy-video-equipment
That being said, it’s definitely more fun to have your own gear. I’m guilty of buying more than I needed to because it’s a hobby and not just a business.
I’d pick up a slider if I were you. That will bring your production value up a good bit. You can spend as much as you want on one, but I’ve found that with proper support (and a little ae stabilizing knowledge) the konova sliders are at a good price point for DSLR shooters.
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You can do this with mpeg streamclip. Just open the files sequentially to stitch them together and then file>Save As
No recompression – man I love mpeg streamclip!
George
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The crucial element here is your sample rate, in this case 48k
Make sure that when you’re switching to 30fps that your camera isn’t changing itself to a 44.1k sample rate. If your camera sample rate matches the 48k of the audio device, you should have no problems with the audio slipping out of sync.
George
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I think I may have your answer, but you’ll want to verify this.
I believe you are talking about changing the color depth (since you said 8 bit) which is a little different than your bitrate. The reason you may want to change your color depth would be for grading purposes. For example, if you changed your color depth from 8 bit to 16 bit, you would have a larger color palette to work from. This is my understanding of it anyway.
Bitrate is just the amount of data being transferred and is usually measured in kbps or Mbps
Hope that helps,
George