[Graham Quince]

I don’t think I have the best notebook, but I’ve got a pretty good one. It’s an HP Pavillion (couple years old now), but the features I asked for were the full keyboard, (completely invaluble for the shortcut keys alone) and a widescreen. Mine is 19″ (screen that is) although because I work for web I wasn’t bothered that the native resolution is only 1400×900. If you’re working in HD, small native resolution could be an issue. The GFX card is a GeForce, although I rarely use the openGL element, by the time I’d learnt how to use it, I found I rarely wanted to use OpenGL, perferring separate 3D software.

On a side note, (and not wanting to start a platform war), if you’re used to Windows, making the jump to Mac can be difficult and slowed me down a lot for the 6 months I used one.

Just my story really. Hope it helps you.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Not sure if this will help you, but when I render out dvd video in Premiere Pro I always choose to deinterlace the footage.
It stops flickering and the sort of problem you’re describing.

I’m not at the pro-end of things, but it may be that you need to look into field-rendering. In short, you have to double the number of frames per second. There’s some tutorials here on that subject I think.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

I spoke to him last night and he has no clue. I suspect it’s the standard codec Quicktime uses to capture. For a PC, that would be Microsoft DV, anyone have any idea what a Mac uses?

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Could you create a room out of 3D layers, roughly the same apparant size as your real comp, then rotate that room around the camera. From that you’ve now got a perfect rotation reference.

If you time remap your footage to match the reference, you might just be able to create that smooth move you’re looking for. I’ve never tried this and it’s off the top of my head, so good luck.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

That’s great to hear, thank you Arndt. I hadn’t realised I’d be able to add the extras things later.

Many thanks

Graham

PS That probably means I’ll be posting lots of questions here in a short while. Let me apologise now 🙂

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[Graham Quince]

There is a half-way option between using a dummy and full CG. Shaun of the Dead did some great shots were ‘dummies’ were composited over live action. So maybe you could film in such a way that the pitchfork bursts through a shirt, but the actor is in the shot as well.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

Actually, they may have just used Mokey. I downloaded the evaluation version a few years ago and the tutorial included showed the software removing a skateboard. Very impressive stuff, (at the time it wasn’t right for what I was looking for and too expensive to just get) but it’s very cool software.

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

hehe, that’s good.

I’ve been trying to play around with something like:

“I may look fat in this t-shirt, but I’ll fix it in post”

not quite funny enough though

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[Graham Quince]

I just did a quick search on Google for chroma key catsuit, and while I’m not going to click on a link at work, seems there’s a fetish-wear store that sells these things for TV and film keying.

🙂

Graham

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[Graham Quince]

An alternative option possibly:

Could you take a portable green-screen backdrop on location? Shoot the background plate and then bring in the green and shoot your actress on that. The camera won’t have moved and then you can key out your actress, use that as an inverse alpha matte to drop your FX onto the background plate. Alternatively, if you can’t use a portable kit, you could take a bunch of measurements and reset up the camera position in a studio.

And one final alternative. Clothe the actress all in green, hair hidden in a skull cap and buy a green wig for her.

Just trying to help. I did something slightly like this a while ago, and ‘cheated’ by having the actress (actually in my case she was digital) transfer mode-ed (yes I know I’m making up verbs) over the fx footage. This way I didn’t just have a 2D outline, I also had 3D shading.

Graham

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