Jim Arco
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COW Coins
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I haven’t heard anything lately from DJ. And I don’t see anything different on their site.
The thought of unlimited downloads forever is appealing, but “forever” is only as long as they stay in business. They’ll need to get an awful lot of “lifetime memberships” to be able to sustain future business, especially if you expect anything new or different. MY guess is that they are cashing out and in a year or so, they’ll quietly disappear. Still, $250 or $500 for two years of DJ would not be an awful deal either.
I did not buy into the “lifetime” deal because I already have quite a bit of their material, and any future requirements will need to be from someplace that can provide fresh material matching current trends.
Jim
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You can bring video directly into Photoshop and apply correction there. At least you can with current versions of PS. It sounds like you may be using PS5. Look here for added info
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/importing-video-files-image-sequences.htmlThird-party plug-ins may or may not work on video. Some companies purposely restrict their plug-ins, usually because they want you to buy a version of the same thing for Premiere and/or After Effects.
Jim
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The human eye/brain combination has an amazing ability to notice changes, so hiding a particular frame will be difficult unless it is VERY similar to surrounding frames. Search for studies done on ‘subliminal advertising’ to get more specific detail on this.
In addition, the actual playback rate of most moving imagery is limited by the physical display device. So your 240fps video will be played at 30 or 60 fps, unless you have some special device that can actually display 240 fps.
Jim
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I mostly use After Effects when color correcting and color grading video. But Photoshop is a powerful tool and can easily do much of what AE can do.
I often use Photoshop for difficult footage (underexposed, mixed light source, color lighting, etc) and find that curves, vibrance, and sometimes blur or unsharp mask, are my plug-ins of choice. Changing the video to a smart object and using the camera raw plug-in can also provide amazing versatility and effects.
I haven’t used them, but some of the stylizing overlays and actions from Graphic River, Creative Market, and others would probably work.
Jim
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I’m not on a machine with AE at the moment, but you can probably luma key the flare.
Jim
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Well, if distortion is acceptable….
Mesh warp is one way to do it. Set up a 2:35.1 comp with your footage, add mesh warp, then drag individual points on right and left side out to the edge of the frame. You may want to slightly spread them vertically to give a more spherical image.
You’re almost tripling the width of your image, so you could also experiment combining mesh warp overlayed on top of an enlarged and blurred copy of your footage.
Jim
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There is no way to “warp” the footage that will look correct.
Fitting 4:3 aspect ratio into 16:9 is done by centering the image in the frame and adding black bars to each side, or by scaling the image beyond the frame and cropping the top and bottom of the 4:3 to see the central part of the original image.
To fit 2:35.1 into 16:9 aspect, you could invert the strategy and add black bars to the top and bottom, or scale the image and crop off the sides.
Jim
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We’ve used DJ products for many years and have been happy with them. They’re good quality and reasonable price. They have lots of free tutorials that can get you familiar with their various types of stuff.
Not sure I like their new subscription model, however.
Jim
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Mark,
Thanks for answering, but I need to verify the printer specs. So if the manufacturer says that it is 1200dpi, how can I confirm that it is actually printing 1200 dpi and not, say, 1124 or some other number?
Jim
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On my system, After Effects warp stabilizer does a pretty good job of stabilizing this. You might get even better results by first masking out the helicopter tail, running warp stabilizer, then removing the mask.
Jim