[James Harding]

Wow, thank you all for your very comprehensive response, there’s clearly a consensus in my lack of lighting direction which I would fully agree with. The film is about a psychic who believes he can talk to those from beyond the dead, so the lighting for the film is generally a stretched reality, it has had a heavy grade that I did by hand so everything is quite well crafted. Which is why this is very annoying for me, I know what I want but not nearly the technical ability to make it happen.

Thanks Walter for the link, I will make sure to check it out tomorrow and try it out if I can.

Jeff I agree there is something clinical with the ‘truck’ (is that an american term, I call it a track in the UK??) however when trying to add some organic movement, the director didn’t like it, and that jumpiness is only present in the youtube version.

Joseph you are right with the unrealism of the shadows, the film as discussed is non-realistic so the shadows feel at home being so present in my mind, though perhaps that doesn’t translate when watching it from an outsiders pov. I think that makes it easier to craft light in the scene, however the key issue is my inability to make lights look anything how they would if I actually lit the scene outside of AE.

Cheers again for all your help, I will take another bash at it and see what happens!

[James Harding]

Thank you both for your response, lighting the posters individually is something I have tried, however I can never get the reflections right, it looks like a matte surface when in reality it should be partially glossy. Equally the black frames I would have refuse to reflect the light at all. Any tips on how to get materials to operate in after effects, I am using the material options controls but they are not giving me a very realistic effect

thanks

[James Harding]

wow, thanks so much guys, thats a lot of really useful information. Based on the complicated nature of the VFX, it may be most useful for us to grade the raw footage and reconnect the media back in AE, it seems like the most useful and effeceint way of working, especially since the grader is working for free and won’t have time to go back and forth with the footage.

Thanks again!!

[James Harding]

I asked the editor to try your workaround, in Premiere Pro I can now play back all the audio from the original audio clip over black but the video is still coming in at the time of the original subclip. Do you have any idea what she can do to fix this? Or is it now my end that is wrong?

[James Harding]

This must be fate, I was literally just about to post how to work around this having just figured out why my in/out point are all incorrect. Thank you, I will try it in the morning (4am local time!!!)

[James Harding]

Thanks everyone for your help, I did quite successfully matching one colour with the scopes and then adjusting with qualifiers. However, editor has now cut the shot so no more worrying about that!

Thanks again

[James Harding]

I don’t have much expertise in beta testing but I think you should make the beta available on your website, beta testing is designed to rid the bugs so get as many people debugging as you can. Great work by the way If your a successful, this is something us Premiere pro lovers having been waiting for since CS3. Keep up the good work