Jeff Brown
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If your talent is not moving around a lot, you can do basic garbage masking in Premiere.
-jeff
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I’m a little out-of-touch with the BlackMagic products; I personally use an AJA card (Kona 3). But if you don’t need SDI or analog capture, and not many of us do anymore, I think they have at least one output-only card. SDI and SDI-HD out is really the key; the broadcast monitors I know of don’t use DVI/HDMI. I’d also suggest that the monitor you select does native 1080×1920 (pixel-to-pixel, without scaling); that may require a 24″; but I haven’t been shopping for a few years.
-jeff
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I’d suggest:
Blackmagic or AJA i/o hardware,
a Flanders Scientific, Panasonic, or JVC, broadcast SDI-HD monitor.
Hardware waveform/vectorscope if you can possibly afford it; I cheat a little by using a composite signal to an SD waveform monitor, but it still shows me where things are, and in real-time.I’m sure there are other valid opinions & options, though.
-Jeff
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File sequences!!!
From an earlier post of mine:
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A few reasons why to render to file sequences:Need to fix 10 frames? with file sequence, render 10 frames. With a “movie” format (like QuickTime), render entire project.
Computer crash, power outage, have to interrupt rendering? with file sequence, pick up where you left off. With movie, start from the beginning.
Need to tweak compression? with file sequence, you only have to wait for compression pass, not re-rendering. This is true even if you need to use AE to do the final compression.
From my recent tests, TIFF or DPX files are the fastest to use with Adobe products. TIFF is more universal, and supports alpha channel, so I would suggest starting with those. TGA files work well if you only need 8-bit color depth.
About the only down side is you will need to track audio separately in the final compression.
———-BTW, feature-film workflow is, to the best of my knowledge, always file sequences once things get digitized.
-Jeff
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“Small scale” for me would be: testing with one character, to see if I can make 5 seconds look right; not setting up a 5-minute comp at the start.
Big projects are built from lots of small pieces, not by building a big project…-jeff
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If you can use 3D geometry, a site I use for models is “TurboSquid” (rather 3ds-Max-centric, but lots of models in multiple formats).
-Jeff
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What kind of work are you doing?
-jeff
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Tektronix have produced some very good “learning” materials; they might help. Not sure if the SD literature is still available.
-Jeff
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What is your connection from Premiere/AE to the TV (what hardware do you use)?
And, is your Premiere preview set to “full quality/100%”? It sounds like a scaling issue somewhere along the line. (Media Player probably uses a different scaling algorithm).
BUT: you should really avoid checks, seersucker, plaids, houndstooth, and other tight patterns for interviewee clothing. It will lead to moire _somewhere_ down the line. Plus, they tend to distract from the interviewee.
-Jeff
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I think finding a good makeup artist would save you lots of time in post.
Lots of time.-Jeff