Jason Jenkins
Forum Replies Created
-
[Ronald Lindeboom] “Googlebots are told NOT to catalog private videos. They do not show up in our site. They only show up wherever you put them and to whom you show them.
They are intended to be for your use, not for the COW’s use or for Google’s.”
That’s perfect, Ron. Thanks for making great video streaming part of the COW!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style! -
[Abraham Chaffin] “Yes, the ‘Make Private’ makes it so the video is not automatically included in any other pages around the Creative COW site. It also adds a meta tag to the page so search engines will not index the page.”
This is perfect timing, because I was just wondering about private videos myself. Does this mean that the title and description fields for a private video will not show up in Google searches? I uploaded a private video today and when I came back to check it, it had 3 views! That made me a bit nervous, because it is a very old video and does not represent my current standard of quality. Who was viewing my “private” video?
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style! -
70% email; 10% text; 10% in person; 10% phone. I gave up my cell phone several months ago. I transferred my business # to a Line2 account, so now my phone is on my iPod. Unlimited calling & texting (over Wi-Fi) for $9.95 a month. Sweet.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style! -
[Todd Terry] “Well, I dunno. Maybe not more, especially if the instruments are a pain in the rear to get, you might be able to pull it off with what you have on hand. That was just my first guess as to what I would use, and I was imagining a big hockey-sized rink where you had to put your instruments, say, back where the spectators’ stands are. If you can put the instruments on the ice, closer to the talent, you can get away with less. In that case I’d probably use a 1200w for the backlight, and maybe the 575 for a key/side light. Your backlight is probably going to be the most important instrument.”
I’m thinking I’m probably going to rent an AF100 for this shoot, so I might as well pick up a 1200w HMI while I’m there.
[Todd Terry] “Well, I’m telling you what you already know, but…. the lower the temperature, the warmer the light. And the higher the temperature, the cooler the light.”
Your are right –my brain was in Fahrenheit/culinary mode… or something; y’know, the higher the temp of the oven, the warmer it is 🙂 For cryin’ out loud, for someone who named his son Kelvin –I’m pathetic!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style! -
[Robin Probyn] “Just a thought.. does the rink have any spot,super trouper.. that someone could operate to follow the skaters..?”
There is actually a second rink in the same building that has two follow spots. Not sure about the availability of that rink at this point, though.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style! -
[Todd Terry] “You’ll never be able to light the whole space (without the aforementioned couple truckloads), but if the goal is to isolate, say, a couple of skaters, the HMIs are a good idea.”
Thanks, Todd. Yeah, I should have mentioned that, yes, I will be focusing on one or two skaters at a time. As I mentioned, the existing light is plenty bright and the white surface of the ice tends to reflect and diffuse the overheads. So I don’t need to add to the ambient level, I just want to add some accent lighting; y’know, a little shape & style. The skaters, except in one case, will be moving very slowly and so won’t be covering much ground. I was hoping that, by setting it as close as possible, I could get away with using my 575 watt HMI Fresnel as a backlight. Do you really think I need a 1200w or more? Rentals are an hour’s drive each way (grumble, grumble). I am going for subtle, as opposed to an ‘in the spotlight’ look.
My thought for the china ball was that it could be ‘flown’ on the end of a pole to add a little glow to the faces and some life to the eyes. But maybe it doesn’t have enough throw… I have yet to use one.
[Todd Terry] “If I’m reading it all right, I think you have that backwards… if you balance a at 4500k but use 5600 instruments, as you suggest… your key and backlights will actually be cooler, not warmer.”
Ha! You’ve got me confused on the color temps now…
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style! -
Thanks for the feedback, Don. I’m testing it out now, playing back 1 “track” of AVCHD (scaled) w/color correction & shape mask; overlayed with a high rez jpg w/movement, color correction and opacity fade. All plays back in realtime. No rendering. On a laptop. WOW! This is with playback set to “high quality”. The GPU must be doing a fair amount of work because the processors are only running at about 25%. It’s nice to see some software take full advantage of this $4,200 laptop!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style! -
Thanks, Peter; that clarifies it nicely.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style! -
Hi Peter,
There is a lot of techno babble in that thread that is over my head! In layman’s terms, what is this hack doing for you?
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style! -