Jonathan Grant
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Then how am I supposed to do the sound? I have to sync it to the render. What’s the point of having volume keyframes if they don’t work?
I exported it to a premiere pro file but the sound won’t play and the keyframes are gone. 🙁
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Thanks for the responses. The problem is that I need the spacial interpolation because of the movement. :-/
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Well, I would agree with you except there are a few things that might save it.
One, we never say what season it is. The majority of it was shot in the spring where the weather really was teetering back and forth between chilly and nice. So, the scenes go back and forth between wearing jackets and short sleeves. Pants are always worn, though.
Two, this is supposed to be a foreboding house so the dead trees actually work really well. There are some leaves on them but they are brown. So, putting leaves back on the trees isn’t really necessary. That helps. We do want it to look kind of dead, but have enough green that it doesn’t look too jarringly obvious that it’s a different month from other scenes.
The sky isn’t great, but maybe we can key that out? Luckily the sky is mostly covered up by trees and given that it’s a pretty quick establishing shot we might be able to get by with the overcast sky, or hopefully key it out and replace with another sky.
I think changing the grass to a greener shade and changing the brown leaves to a greener shade will be enough to sell it. Test audiences will confirm or refute that. The biggest problem is that there’s just so much of that brown in the picture!
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Sure thing, here are a couple of screen grabs. I’m having a lot of problems with it. The change to color just doesn’t isolate it well enough and there’s not enough options on there to make it the right color anyway. I tried keying it out but that looked awful. I tried using a mask that that’s looked the best so far, but as you can see from the composition it’s really hard and it doesn’t look perfect (the feather mask bleeds color correction onto the actors and other things.
I tried using another mask for the trees just using change to color which did a good job except it changed the color of the branches and trunks of the trees which looks kinda funny.
What do you think?
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You’d think that’d be easy, wouldn’t you? lol Adjusting the hue just isn’t making any sense. The output is nothing like the hue we choose. In fact it seems like when we make a darker hue the output of the grass actually gets lighter! We’ve played around with the hue saturation and brightness but can’t get anywhere close. We just don’t know which to change and which way to change it to get the color we want.
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Thanks for your response. We are using change to color which does a great job of isolating just the yellow grass. The problem with adjustment layers and other effects is that it applies it to the whole picture and there are actors walking on the grass. So we’d have to mask them out in each frame which would be a nightmare to get to look right. :-/
Maybe we could key out the yellow grass and put a duplicate layer underneath with the color correction?
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Okay, fixed the problem. The issue WAS the difference between 23.98 and 23.976, but it wasn’t the footage that was 23.98 but the COMP that was 23.98! I didn’t think to check the comp! (or rather I thought I was, but I was just checking the footage)
Thanks for the help!!!
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Only one file used in the project, and motion blur is turned off. Frame blending is also turned off.
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Okay, I checked and it’s 23.976. So that isn’t it. Drats! I was hoping that would be the problem. 🙁