Igor Vukojevic
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Thank you so much.
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Wow that Amazon package is really cheap, I wonder if it’s any good. I’ll give it a shot probably.
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“Also, are you telling me you are shooting against a white wall and then soft-wiping-in the tech background around that?”
Yes. The decision was made after we shot the videos so i’m stuck with the white background. The decision is not final, but I personally liked it. It’s supposed to be subtle.
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I am. I am an internet marketer who turned into a video marketing expert over the past year. We rank videos on Google and we’re killing it. Nowdays 95% of our income is from video marketing and it used to be around 25% a year and a half ago.
I hire camera operators when I need more than one, but I also have the equipment needed for some basic videos. The animation templates that are available nowdays make it easy to “wow” the customer and in some cases, a client will end up with a voiceover/animation even though they thought they needed to get in front of the camera and talk. I was able to enter the production market thanks for that model and then I ended up buying the equipment and stepping it up so I can cut the costs of hiring camera-operators that were eating up the budget. After a year and a half, I find myself on the other end, where I see the importance of good cameras, mocrophones and overall direction of videos and I hate those newbies who enter the market the way I did, telling people that they just need a voiceover and animation (which is usually outsourced to Phillipines or Bangladesh).
Either way, you mentioned “content” and “content” marketing is where the money is.
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Yeah my editor will add the lower thirds and the animation, he’s better at it than I am.
I will try the blankets I suppose, but I wish there was something more professional looking for when I have a client come in. What do they sell that absorbs the sound that you can step on?
BACKGROUND – we are using the white background and I placed the animation around the edges. If I turn the opacity up too much it doesn’t really blend in as much. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. I have never used the animation around the actor with the white background.
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Thanks Mark, I had a tascam recorder above his head pointed at him at a 45 degree angle, with a line directly to my camera. Canon t4i’s are not known for great sound, and I usually do much better when I record straight to my Tascam, but it’s easier for me to edit if I send the sound signal to the camera. I was told afterwards that this cable would make a difference because the regular headphone cable sends a signal that is 10 db higher and can be distorted (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/750963-REG/Sescom_LN2MIC_ZMH4_MON_3_5mm_Line_to_Mic.html). Also, the sound may be hollow because I had to EQ some of that hum (electric buzz) that I mentioned and that affected his voice too.
The overhead light is something that I should’ve moved up a little, definitely.
I hated the standard “white” backdrop and wanted to add something subtle but “techie”. The opacity of the background animation is at around 30 or 40, because I am thinking that the regular visitor will not be trying to analyze the background too much, especially if it’s subtle, and they don’t have an eye that you have as a producer. Maybe I’m wrong.
I have these Owens Corning sound traps that I used in my music studio and I am seriously thinking about bringing them to the studio that we rent to shoot videos, but it’s too much work. I’m not sure if there is another way to improve the sound.
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Excellent. I already have the black matte paper.
Now, my only question would be what to use to block the light, maybe buy some black sheets and put them on each side of the actor, in between the lights and the backdrop?
I’m assuming the actor will have to wear bright colors so that i can eliminate anything close to black in the post production. But then again, I see this guy with the black t-shirt so I guess that shouldn’t make much difference if done correctly…
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Every time I do green screen the colors around the hair don’t look natural and have some shade of green in it. I want to master the black look. I have a reception area in my office that is pretty deep.
I’ll start setting up over the weekend, but I wanted some ideas before I set up. I guess I need some fabric to block the light from hitting the background…
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wow, thanks for the response.
All of the camera settings were set on “auto”, so yeah, I realized that the light levels were going up and down as the guy was moving around.
The first thing I will do is play with the ISO settings to see if that takes care of the problem with the background. Looking at some other videos here below, it looks like I used much brighter lights than I should have.
It doesn’t look like I have Zebra setting option on this camera, but I do remember the camera operator mentioning it when we were renting Canon 5D. I think I will have to do some more research on the exposure and how to manually set it up.
It looks like I have a lot to do. It’s fun and frustrating at the same time 😀
