[Leah Stipic]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your advice thus far!

Keying hasn’t been too much of an issue, firstly because the green screen we shot on was well lit and the JVC studio camera was quite good, that combined with motions primatte it’s come out looking pretty good!! Luckily the overall style allows me to hide the edges a bit.

As for the posterize time effect I did try that and it works, but not exactly in the way I hoped. I have played with the strobe effect in FCP/motion and I am now starting to get somewhere. I set it to 20 and then to 18 and it seems to be doing what I want now. As the characters are green screen I think you are right in not changing the frame rate… this way I can just effect the characters individually and not have to mess about with different frame rates until it’s absolutely necessary.

Thanks again. Best,

Leah

[Leah Stipic]

We are trying to get it into festivals so there’s a chance it may have to be converted to film at some point. The output will be PAL DVD. I don’t think it will ever be for television broadcast, but I suppose if there’s a specific technique that allows it to work properly for all that would be best!

[Leah Stipic]

Hey thanks everyone,

You were all very helpful – we managed to get it sorted in the end by mainly having to eye-match a bunch of clips in. Not ideal, but got it sorted on time!!

At least now I have a better idea of what can go wrong and how to cope when doing a conform on FCP.

Bye for now,

Leah

[Leah Stipic]

Thanks for responding Jeremy, that’s the problem we don’t have many details as this was handed off to us to conform and get ready for a grade and now it’s been nothing but problems. I believe it was an HD project to begin with and now we are conforming it. Most of the time it tries to take in a whole tape rather than just the clips it needs and that’s when we get the error message about it referencing stuff outside of the original clip – this is why i am thinking it has been sub-clipped, but I don’t know why that would create such a problem. Also the other worriesome thing is how after it captures certain clips it then says due to timecode breaks it will leave the media offline…

I know this isn’t much more info, but I’m not sure how to answer your questions because it was not originally our project to begin with and we have been given minimal details on it thinking it would be fairly straight forward. Any suggestions or ideas you’d like to throw out there would be great.

Thanks again.

[Leah Stipic]

Thanks Simon you’ve been extremely helpful – much appreciated!!

[Leah Stipic]

Hey Simon,

It’s the split screen effect I’m wondering about. My only hesitation is that it may look obvious the media has been merged together… I want it to look as though it’s one piece of media and not 2 pieces slapped together – Is there a certain way to shoot the footage to make it blend better if I use this effect?

Thank you for responding!!!

Leah