Jeffrey Gould
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on the subject of talking heads…I have always shot testimonials with the subject looking slightly off camera, but I read an article in Video Systems Magazine that stated the talent should talk directly into the camera. This isn’t an intro to a video, these are testimonials from healthcare workers talking about the facility they work in, in the hopes of increasing their sales. We will feed them questions, but only the reply will be used. I’m then going to encode them in flash and post on a web site. Any thoughts?
Jeffrey S. Gould
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Wow Leo! Thanks. Great info. Yes, I will be using the same background and lighting. I’ll even take a digital still of my setup for the next day. I get what you are saying about lighting the white with as much care as you take for chroma. I think from all the info on this thread, I’ll be fine. I’ll post a video or still when I’m done. Thanks again.
Jeffrey S. Gould
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Thanks for the replies guys. I just ordered the white paper this morning :-(. I was going to shoot green screen at first, but then I would have to deal with hair, earings and trying to get 15 people to not wear green. I always separate the talent from the background…do you think a hair light would help? I use two softboxes, key, fill and then fresnel or tota for background with diffusion. My field monitor is very accurate. There will be two different locations, so white balance shouldn’t be too much of an issue. I’ll post a link here when I’m done editing. Thanks again for the input.
Jeffrey S. Gould
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Thank you Leo, I knew there were issues with white as I used to do still portraits, I think they were known as High Key. I’m using a fairly good camera, the Sony 450WSL. I understand about the balance between the fore and backgrounds. Thanks again…not only for replying to my post, but for being a constant source of help and inspiration.
Jeffrey S. Gould
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Thank you Thomas for the excellent starting points and info. I did find the Pioneer drive you mentioned. There are controllers that control your chapters in the DVD or touch screen panels. I’ll use your links…thank you again.
Jeffrey S. Gould
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Thanks for the replies, which were basically how I envisioned my setup. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing some hard and proven way to do it. Thanks again.
Jeffrey S. Gould
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Thanks Richard, I’m not sure which question your answer applies to. I do have your original photoshop book for non linear editors, I’ll check out your CS2 version.
Jeffrey S. Gould
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Sorry I don’t have an answer, but I did come here to ask the exact opposite of what you asked. I have stills from an NLE timeline and I need to make them square square pixels for computer viewing. I’d also like to use batch processing. Thanks.
Jeffrey S. Gould
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Craig…glad it worked out for you. I have mine, will install it this week.
Jeffrey S. Gould
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Thank you Michael for reiterating your points in a much less abrasive/scolding tone…I agree with you 100%. I guess I looked at splitting the drive with them as a win win solution, not knowing that there was an unspoken rule against this. Your analogy of the lawn service really put it in perspective for me. You’re a well respected member of the Cow and I appreciate your input. I’m glad I opened up this conversation as it seemed to help other members. Thanks again.
Jeffrey S. Gould
Action Media Productions