Jason Jenkins
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[Ronald Lindeboom] “I wanted to thank you for your kind words on the Business & Marketing forum about our video serving. They were truly appreciated.”
They weren’t meant to be kind, just true! 🙂
[Ronald Lindeboom] “Bessie said to tell you that she is going to award you her much coveted “Milk Mustache” award.”
I am honored and will wear it proudly.
[Ronald Lindeboom] “After that, we will roll out the new reworked video services area (which is already fully designed and now needs to be coded into PHP) and we would be honored to have you in our private beta before we open it to the public, Jason. We think that people are going to be happy with what we have come up with.”
Looking forward to it! Just yesterday I was contacted by a local company looking for someone to edit 2-3 videos a month. Guess where they found me… not my website. Yep, the COW!
[Ronald Lindeboom] “So we hired a full time designer and Creative Director to work on the face while we worked on the guts and systems. Sean Mullen is great to work with and when you see the new StockYard, Jason, as well as the new video services site, I think you are going to be a happy bovine.”
I’m already a happy bovine; anything else will just be clover on the cud!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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I liked the first look better too. That being said, I really like the look of the Creative Cow Career Center. The whole site should look like that!
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[Dave Gage] ”
Do you mind listing the steps involved in how you created the zoom effect?”Last I did it was apparently in FCP7. It was a simple matter of creating a couple of scale keyframes.
[Dave Gage] “P.S. It appears we might have the same laptop. I just picked up a new MBP i7 17″ about three months ago. I upgraded the ram to 8 gigs and so far, it’s been great.”
Yeah, my Mac Pro is 5 years old so I went all out on a new MacBook Pro. 8 Gigs of RAM, matte screen, and an SSD. I’ve been considering a 16 GB RAM upgrade from OWC. I’m looking forward to the Thunderbolt stuff coming from Sonnet. It will be sweet if I can run my Kona LHe from my Macbook Pro!
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Flowmotion Media
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[Dave Gage] ”
Wow, very cool with the Dr. Lichtenstein clip. It does look like a 2 camera shot with cuts back and forth. Now, my question would be if it’s possible to pan or zoom in with keyframes or another technique.“I use a slow zoom (hoping it looks more like a push/dolly) occasionally, to add some emphasis.”
I wasn’t able to pick up on where this was used. Can you tell me at what point in the clip this was used? But, this should pertain directly to what my original question was a la “Ken Burns” effect.”There is no zoom in the Dr. Lichtenstein clip, but I have used it in an interview before.
[Dave Gage] “Comcast Community Ice Rink Clip:
I wasn’t able to pick up where and how you used it in this clip (which I suppose is a very good endorsement for how well it came out).”Sorry about that! I thought I had done a zoom, but I just went back and checked… nope, just scaling change-ups.
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Flowmotion Media
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[Dave Gage] ”
I’m essentially shooting myself doing instructional video to post in the Members Area of one of my websites. Some will also go to Youtube.com. It looks like what you described might be my solution.”Absolutely, Dave. With that extra resolution you can zoom on the footage. As long as you don’t push it past %100 scale, you won’t have any quality issues. IMO, zooming should be used subtly and sparingly. I use a slow zoom (hoping it looks more like a push/dolly) occasionally, to add some emphasis. I use the virtual focal length change, a lot, to create seamless cuts! Very handy technique.
Here is two examples where I used these techniques:
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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I shoot at 1920×1080 24p and edit at 1280×720 24p. A lot of my stuff goes to the web and 720p is perfect for that, IMO. I really like having the extra resolution to work with on the timeline. I can do a virtual focal length change if I wish, by scaling to %100. If I want to see the full frame, I edit at 66.7% scale. This is a huge boon when editing talking head stuff. In FCPX, I set the Spatial Conform on my footage from the default of “Fit” to “None”, before I drop it in the timeline. You can still scale it when it’s set to “Fit” but the scale percentage will be different and it can get confusing. There is a performance hit when editing non native resolution, but it has been very workable in FCPX on my 2011 Macbook Pro. When I need to go to DVD or BetaSP, I downconvert to a letterboxed version.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Have you updated to 10.0.1 since the first time?
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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The solution is simple; just reschedule all events to take place during the day when there will be plenty of daylight pouring in those huge windows 🙂 What kind of events are these? A speaker at a lectern or a group of performers? What camera(s) are being used?
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Thanks, Simon! The swish pan is perfect for a spot I’m working on right now.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Why don’t you just use the COW’s video streaming? It’s free and it streams better than Vimeo any day of the week.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!