Jonathan Ziegler
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Can you provide an example? Also, the steps you are currently taking and exactly what you are expecting. I’m not sure I’m following what you are attempting right now.
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Just a quick note: both the t2i and t3i take Magic Lantern and both provide focus peaking which is practically a godsend on those tiny little screens (also vector scopes, live histograms, audio levels, etc. for only a tiny bit more battery power – maybe 5-10% more). The audio is absolutely terrible – I use a zoom h4n and feed it back to the camera via the jack on the side as well as record from the camera then use FCPX to sync it all up so it’s fairly painless. I do not have a camcorder, but I’m getting one as my shooting has changes from doing a few short clips to needing longer shots, and a camcorder is a bit more portable (with handles and such). I only wish DSLRS were 4k, but I’m sure that’s not far off.
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It really depends. If you need to come back to the smart group, then I wouldn’t, but if you won’t and you can live with it being rasterized, then do. I’m not exactly sure how ps deals with memory on a smart object, but it tends to keep nearly everything in memory when the file is open so a single rasterized layer will probably take up less memory than a similar smart object. That’s my guess.
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You’d likely have to use some type of script to automate the process – place a linked file into a folder full of psd files or something like it. May be able to automate the process with a recorded action and then use Image Processor to do a whole folder.
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Well, it looks like the basic issue is there are stripes in the shirt. That’s not really a moire pattern, but the pattern of the shirt itself. Try smoothing out the shirts better and making them more stiff so the lines contour better. Beyond that, try rotating the shirt 45 degrees and reshoot, but fix in PS. Sharpening will also over-enhance those lines – try using Bicubic or Nearest neighbor when reducing images instead of bicubic sharper (default for image reduction).
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Honestly, check out the Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera at B&H. I think the sensor is far better than most DSLRs and it’s under $500 for about the next month (a $500 price drip which is actually more than 50% off the usual price of $995) AND it uses off-the-shelf mft lenses (I would prefer EF, but that’s the 4K model). I’m getting one next week to supplement my existing DSLRs (I use T2is and T3is with Magic Lantern installed on both).
Using a DSLR is gonna be quite the change from using a camcorder like the one you’ve listed. They’re not quite as point and shoot as even a video camera. Check out https://nofilmschool.com/dslr/ for a great guide if you’ve never used a DSLR before. All the manual settings in DSLRs can be cumbersome and counterintuitive for newbies. For me, it was like doing 16mm film again: checking exposure, fiddling with shutter speed and f-stop, but that’s not for everyone.
My advice: rent one or 2 for a weekend before you buy (don’t forget lenses, memory, and batteries).
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You can shoot it how you want of course.
2-2.5x isn’t really that fast (depends on the BPM of the original, anyway) and they can fake the instruments due to the visual effect – people will want to watch the singer anyway. Shoot in small bursts – most musicians and singers can sustain a faster rate with the original track playing at 2-2.5x speed (pre-recorded of course) for small bursts pretty easily. Play it for them a couple times and have them go along with the audio. They’ll get it. Sometimes the singer cues get missed, but then you just keep rolling, have them go back a little bit, then do it again. Later on, shoot some fun/funky b-roll that you can cut to to keep the video interesting.
I find trying to convert footage on the time line correctly to be spotty at best and if you don’t do anything with the audio you’d have to drop frames in order for the “slo mo” effect to work. If you just want to slow it a little bit, shoot at 60fps then plan to go up the same proportion for the audio. It’s sooooo much easier to match these up first during production than trying to fiddle with it in your editor. Also, try a couple different methods to see which is best for you.
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You already have the idea, it seems.
For this video: https://youtu.be/EPTWR_7_xgA (not my video, but a friend’s)
Sped up the audio 2x and played back at 2x for the musicians to lip synch to during production, shot at 60p, then re-timed to 30p and dropped it into a 30p timeline with the original recording. If you are going to 24p from 60p (40% of original frame rate), retime the audio to 2.5x normal speed (24 x 2.5 = 60) then play back at 2.5x for the actors or whomever during the shoot and shoot at 60p, then retime the footage (don’t discard frames) to 24p instead of the original 60p. Remember to convert 60i to 60p before you retime footage. You can do all the retiming in Cinema Tools if you have it or even MPEG Streamclip I’m told.
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Hi there, it sounds like you are already doing what you can. Maybe try using unsharp mask, too? No picture was attached. As for any deviations, I suppose that’s up to you: what do you want to add? You mentioned examples, but, which one do you want? Are you looking to automate this? If the client was supposed to show with a photographer then didn’t, I hope you’re charging extra for the new labor.
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The problem is it is requesting a non-existent object (likely mis-named). Unfortunately, without the files to work on, I’m only guessing. Can you just save the files as PSD and open in a later version? Might be a bug with CS3.
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