Jonny Cates
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Update:
I disputed the YouTube flagging of my video last night, and now I see that it has been removed. Anyone interested here’s the link. It’s short as well…
https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=FE4pMaxvz3A&ns=1Jonny Cates
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Well, I certainly didn’t research this subject thoroughly. But I originally heard all this from a restaurant owner himself, and took him at his word. But he does seem to be correct on it not being legal for his waiters and waitress’s – not being able to sing the “Happy Birthday” song to it’s patrons. I never hear it anymore.
If anyone is interested, I’ll post the actual video I did. And it’s the second half of the audio that was in question. I put (2) different segments together in the same Key.
Joseph, thanks for helping to clarify this as well.
Jonny Cates
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Thanks Neil….Well…I wonder why Apple puts loops and jingles in the program to begin with? Surly they’re not put there for our own private enjoyment? Maybe so….but you can hear apple loops and jingles all the time in the commercial world. In their entirety as well. And my YouTube video is not even monetized.
I’m not against songs being protected or anything like that, but it seems this will never end. It’s just like the person a few years ago that went out and copyrighted the tune; “Happy Birthday To You”. He didn’t even write that tune. The real author is unknown. Now restaurants and businesses can’t sing that jingle to customers that come in on their birthdays. They sing some other goofy riff….with about the same lyrics. Crazy world.
Thanks again….
Jonny Cates
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Wow….great information from Mark, Rafael and Dave!
Yes, had I known what was coming my way, I would have dealt with this in any number of ways as Mark suggest; expose the powerpoint on one take and then the speaker on another. Or just shoot the speaker and put the powerpoint show on a thumb drive and built it in FCP. I simply had to make a fast decision to do this shoot all in “one take”… all 55 minutes of it.
At the time, I thought the simple way out was to set exposure for the show, and then set up grid lighting up on the speaker. But due to the light to subject distance, the grid lighting was not powerful enough to bring it up to a 0db camera setting, so I had to lower the db and try to get both. That in itself was not the sole problem, but still a convoluted way of going about it.
Mark’s suggestions would have been better. Moral of the story is: I should have acquired more detailed information from the client beforehand. I had no idea a PP show was involved. I thought it was just a lonely ol’ speaker by himself.
I don’t have Neat Video Dave, and it certainly it sounds like a good plug-in to me. So at this point, I have crushed the blacks more and it has improved the noise to a [perhaps more] acceptable level.
Thanks to all again…
Jonny Cates
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Well thanks guys, for all the good advice and observations. I do have QT 7, but maybe I should have pulled a still directly from the QT window itself, instead of using the utility “GRAB”.
So from what I gather from Rafael, I need to crunch the blacks some more, and try to do something about the highlights?
A note;
The client originally wanted me to simply show up, tape this live presentation that he would edit himself. Problem was, there were all sorts of lighting, sound and camera positioning mistakes.
He originally had me at about a 40 degree angle to the screen. Now the perspective was all wrong. Thirdly, practically all the auditorium lights were all up. As a result, the screen could not be seen very well.
I had to go though a quick technical explanation to correct this – and instructed the lights to be brought way down.
I arranged for (2) grid lights to be put on the speaker – only. I actually preferred the speaker a little darker in relation to the screen, but had to compromise at best. Getting him exposed along with a ‘too bright show’ was a little tricky. The PowerPoint just had too many highlights blown out.Jonny Cates
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Hi Mark… here’s a screen grab from the footage, and a viewer scope image as well. Hope the captures are good enough. The man in front of the screen looks worse on my iMac than it does on the Cow for some reason.
When you say over driven, is that in regards to my camera settings or something in FCP 6.06 – that I have set wrong? FYI, I don’t use compressor when I write a QT file… I just click on export to: Quicktime Movie.Thanks for the reply
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Jonny Cates
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Dave….I may put up a screen grab. As you asked, there is a lot of ‘dark’ on this project – being that it is stage ballet. But here’s a little more info that might be of importance:
This ballet was shot on tape. Halfway through the show, I put in a fresh tape. The fresh tape doesn’t show too much noise. Only the first tape. I tried using a noise reduction filter out of FCP 6, and after it renders it looks greatly improved. But when I output a Quicktime at that point, it doesn’t look the same. Never have used a noise reduction filter. Maybe that’s indicative of noise reduction filters perhaps? It did improve the noise a little, but not significantly. Is it possible this could be the tape itself?
thanks for your input
Jonny Cates
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Thanks also Chris….this cleared a LOT of things for me….I now know what to do!
Jonny
Jonny Cates
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Yes, that solved it Michael! I have not used Soundtrack Pro very much, and did not click on the stereo or mono setting when creating a new project. Exports the the way I need it now.
Thanks so much!Jonny
Jonny Cates
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Yea Steve, I just figured that out. I decided I wanted a few a few transitions when this all started. However, I discovered that if you set the sequence setting to “NONE”…it will render. Thanks.
Jonny Cates
