John Young
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This is depending on your budget but…
You need to focus your money on 1)Adobe Software 2)Graphics Card and 3) RAM.
The MPE Hardware mentioned above, is the Mercury Playback Engine. But it is only on PP CS5 not on CS4 which is what you are looking at. It uses the graphics card for a lot of acceleration (real-time effects, little to no rendering time) and it really made my editing workflow faster.
Again, all this depends on your budget but if you already have CS4 consider an upgrade to CS5.5 and get a graphics card that is compatible with the MPE and you could really be smoking.
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What about your local camera shop. Because I’m so used to traditional video, I forget that most of what I need for DSLR can be found at the photography shop that is two blocks from my house. I would assume that most metropolitan areas would have of these. Here in Kansas City, there are quite a few. Very handy.
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[Mike Thomas] “”Yeah, that’s a nice video you made but too bad you didn’t use the Quadra-coated Z series F1.0 lens with glass made from the sands of the Sudan”. My point is the average viewer won’t know or care about such details. “
You are right. An audience will never say a quote like this. And when you shoot your movie on a your mom’s handycam, they also won’t say “Well, the compression rate is just too high and there was so little color latitude that I just couldn’t get into the characters.”
But, they WILL say, “It was terrible. It looked amateur. The story? The character? I don’t even know. It was like watching one of mom’s home movies.” A common audience will not know that the pace of the editing, but they will be more engaged in a well paced scene.
My point is, you are right, people don’t notice “such details”. But they most definitely notice the whole, which is comprised of many many many of “such details”. I think quality glass is a very important detail that comprises what we do.
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And then today, I got an email from Adobe saying I would get a free 5.5 upgrade. OK I feel better now.
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When was 5.5 released? I just bought CS5 Production Premium on Wednesday. I don’t need the upgrade right?
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F-stop is a mathematical calculation of the size of aperture, i.e. the amount of light hitting the sensor.
So, there is not a difference in measurement of f-stop between a HOX170 and a DSLR on the lens itself. There may be difference in the camera interpretation of the light levels. Because DSLRs have a large sensor they are able to do low light situation very cleanly (with little to now noise). Where some camcorders will use a increase the gain on the image in low light situations. This increases noise and decrease image quality.Another low cost options for lens, is old Nikon primes. I just got a 50mm f1.4 that is in pretty good shape for $100 (70 for lens, 30 for adapter).
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I believe you have to install the Canon software that came with the camera in order to plug camera directly to computer. That is what I did, and I am able to view footage off the camera when I don’t have my card reader.
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The first thing you need to do is determine what are (as you put it) ” the exact specs of each camera”. You need to know what you are working with and your aspect ratio is determined by these three things:
1) Country format. NTSC or PAL.
2) Resolution.
3. Pixel Aspect Ratio.
In Premiere CS3 you can right click on the clip in the project folder and go to “Properties”. That should tell you all that information.
Find out those three things on both your cameras and then go from there. Then you can determine the best project settings for your intended output. -
Thanks everyone.
In order for the disc to start up automatically on insert, you would need an AUTORUN program, right? What is the best was to make sure that your CD is cross-platform? -
In my After Effects, Color Finesse is a third party plug that you have to buy. Are you saying that buying Color Finesse will make the color matching more precise? Or am I still just going to eye balling it and using my scope to try and make it match.
What is your color correction workflow when using PP and AE?
Thanks for the responses.