[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Dennis,

Once you’ve seen the real thing, you can’t go back.

Is there a reason for why you need to AI your client, rather than just film them?

To make it perfect, Hollywood style, you’ll need a 3D scan of your clients head (face), then you’ll need to make their lips move the same way when they talk.

AI will help you some of the way, but not all the way.

With the videos that you have created, if good enough, maybe show them to people who does not know your client, and see if the spot that it is an AI speaking.

Good Luck!

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Matthew,

That is great news, and the Hisense U7N is not a bad choice for the money.

Consumer, Pro-Sumer and professional monitors is a fast moving market, so when you come to buy the next monitor, you are likely to find something much better than what is on the market now.

Although there is mixed opinions about self-calibrating montors (depending on brand) that is what I would suggest you look at next. Adding to the other high specs that you will want for a good UHD grade.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Dovlet,

Storyboard your scene.

Carefully plan your actors placement etc.

Shoot greenscreen – then use free-to-use blender or Unreal Engine 5 to build your background.

Or buy “office elements” off the shelve – plenty of those around.

Example:
https://cosmos.leartesstudios.com/search?q=office

If you are looking for a tutorial, this is where I got mine from (this is my refferal link!):

https://boundless-resource.com/ultimate-unreal-engine-for-filmmakers-bundle-build146525?am_id=madsnybo590

Yes, you can use AI for some of this, but the hard work is going to be to get the basics right from the start – before you look inside the viewfinder and press record on that camera.

Hope this helps get you moving with the project.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Ralph,

Yes, we are not no to a great start when BorisFX renames the VEGAS upgrade, that I only purchased in November last year, without explaining the difference.

And I am not about to spend more money for another perpetual upgrade. When I am already spoiled for choices.

If spending money with BorisFX it is more likely that I use the money on their plug-ins, than Vegas.

This may change as we see what magic Boris will add to Vegas to make it serious a competitor against the likes of FCP and PPro.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Ralph,

Not that I was going this year in any case, as I am not.

However from the people that I have spoken with, there is not a great appetite for travelling to the US, when most of the information can be found online, or will appear at European exhibitions/road-shows Post-NAB.

Regardless, I am sure that it will be interesting and fun for those who make the journey.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Joseph,

That is near impossible to answer, as on any video production, the raw footage go through a number of stages before ending up on the distribution format.
You give two different examples from two different time-periods, with different owners of the business.

First video (4:3 – assuming NTSC):
“Classical Music For Babies | Toddler Music | Baby Beethoven: Symphony of Fun”

Original Release Date: November 1, 1998

I would guess most likely Digital Betacam or Betacam SP.
IMX (Betacam “format”), DV-CAM or DVC-Pro is also a remote possibility.

Most likely to have been through something of a digital process, including NLE.
Ending up on an analogue master of some kind.

Second video (4:3 – assuming NTSC)

“Old MacDonald had a Farm | Learning about The Farm | Full Episode | Baby Einstein | Toddler Show”

Original Release Date: September 9, 2003

At this point Disney had taken ownership of the brand, and revenue had in 2001 passed $25 Million in revenue. However, they still choose to shoot it 4:3.

Looking at the video elements of the kids, I would suggest either Digital Betacam camcorder, or recorded in a studio to Digital Betacam (or media drive, or both).

Sadly, Mark Burr, who filmed and edited this episode passed away in July 2024.

However, the pricipal creator of the brand, back then, Julie Aigner-Clark is still very active. And, you could reach out and ask her. It would be wrong of me to publish her details here, but she is not difficult to find.

There will be funtioning Betacam cameras out there, but not sure that they would be for hire with one careful owner coming along.

I’ve got a Betacam SP VTR sitting next to me in my studio.

If can find one of those, and a camera that can give you analogue locked signal out, then you just need a VTR to record to.

There are a number of plug-ins that offers you Bad-TV or VHS effect.

You could also just record your finished edit, or raw footage to VHS and play that back into your edit.

The sky is the limit for how you can solve this creatively.

Hope this helps you?

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey David,

Watched the YouTube video, thank you for sharing.

Was the video mixed on OBS, or was the split effect added later?

Also, with the audio, was the microphones recorded on seperate tracks?

If so, what happens if you only run one or the other voice track, but not both together?

If everything else fails, and if you feel that is ethical to do so, maybe consider AI voice cloning using Elevenlabs, and then recreate the voice clean and insert.
https://elevenlabs.io/voice-cloning

I have never tried doing it this way, as last time I had to rescue a voice, we went to an audio studio and had the Talent revoice to their own lip movement.

Hope that this helps?

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Mads

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Ian,

Just as a test, it is worth a try.

If it works, you can always revert to MP4 for the final output.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Ian,

MTS is likely to be a Long Gop format. And depending on the encoding, that might be the same with the MP4 files. And FCP is notourious for wanting to dominate what file formats works, and what doesn’t. It can be helpful, until it is not.

On import to FCP, have you tried to transcode to ProRes?

Although it will “cost” more in storage, that would be my starting point to resolve the issue.

Hope that this helps?

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey David,

Would be good to know what camera(s) was used, and how the audio was recorded.
Could be a reference (sync) issue.

Also, have you checked whether the two camera sources are running on the same frame-rate?

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