Jeffrey Gould
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Thanks Daniel, that’s pretty high isn’t it? I’m shooting in HDV and hoping I can give them the same quality. Is there a tool for knowing or just an educated guess?
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I did it for 15 years and got tired of the control freak photographers , banquet managers that they think they are running a White House gala and couples that don’t think to feed you after 12 hours (I used to start at the house). With all that, I’ve met some great people and had some great experiences, but I realized it wasn’t for me anymore. I give credit to the ones that really enjoy it and I’ve seen some videos that are masterpieces. Me…I prefer doing corporate projects, where one week I’m filming a Nature video and the next a surgery or flying in a Helicopter or the riding in the back of Ambulance…talk about diverse and educational…don’t know I can say that about a wedding.
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Thank you guys, appreciate it. I did order the westscott Black Muslin for the backdrop and black cotton muslin for the table…but that was before I got the replies and I had to make a move. In the meantime, the shoot is being postponed one week, so I will go to Home Depot. What size sheet? The whole 4×8? and I’m assuming Matte? Thanks again and for the lighting tips Mark, I have pepper lights I could use for accents.
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Hi Rich, I use VBR set at 8 2 passes. I sent the H.264’s to a guy wrote a great article on HD for You Tube, I think his site is https://www.webvideotechniques.com His name is JP…great guy. He thought my source files were fine, but for some reason you tube was interpreting them the way you see. I did upload another clip from a different project and it looks great. Here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy7dv0fwjZAJeffrey S. Gould
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I posted on Vimeo and got the same result. One seemingly knowledgeable guy said to use keyframes every 30 instead the 300 I had, would that affect the playback? It almost has a strobe effect. I hate to be annoying about this, but it’s really bugging me that non professionals can get better results than I can, not to mention that this a paying job.
Vimeo
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So that you can see what the H.264 looks like? I can understand the jerkiness on the HDV shots, but not the slow pans/zooms on the digital pics. I sent it to a friend who is not video savvy at all and she noticed it right away. If you’re willing to look at sample, I could email it to you using https://www.yousendit.com I know it’s asking a lot…let me know either way. Thanks, Jeff
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Here is the final that the client is getting…I’m only making one change before I upload to his account; there is one pan shot from the water view to the house, that is actually reversed footage, so I took the reverse off as it played more smooth. I’m still generally not happy with the jerkiness of the whole video. Hopefully the client will be. Thanks everyone for your help. Here is the link:
Thank you Chris, your post made me feel better. Yes, I usually do a lot of jib moves as well, but this guy didn’t want to pay for an assistant. This is my first hand held camera in over 20 years of shooting and although I have a shoulder mount, it’s still not the same. I’m hoping that the general public doesn’t see the flaws that we all do. Thanks again for taking the time to view and reply.
Jeffrey S. Gould
Action Media Productions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y31Y0NZveIA video quality looks better, but still jerky. The HD looks much better. The scenes which are jerky, are all in slow motion…does that affect it? My pans were too fast, so I had to slow them down. 2nd time using the camera. I think this is as good as were gonna get it. I think the fountain shot looks good, so it can’t be You Tube or S5.
I do see a little artifacting in the source AVI, so maybe it’s just symptoms of HDV? Also see a little banding in the blue sky.
Jeffrey S. Gould
Action Media Productions
Under export movie, the choices are Matrox AVI, QT, Mircosoft AVI and uncompressed. Source is HDV, I’m editing in HDV timeline, but for export, the only choices are the ones above. I think the Matrox is MPEG2 I Frame codec. Is it normal that my MP4 is only 20mb for 35 seconds? that is encoded at 5000kbs. Video is uploaded to you tube, but being processed. I’ll provide link when it’s up.
Heres the link: its getting worse: but it says still processing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y31Y0NZveIA
Jeffrey S. Gould
Action Media Productions