Majorasshole
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Lots of motion tracking and a 3d model of the character.
You will need Bijou or Sytheyes to match move a camera. Then you will need to model and exact Then if you can’t get use of a cyberscan full body scanner you will need model and detail your character. You will need to use zbrush to further detail your model. Then you need to mocap or animate your main character so you have CG match move footage. Then you need to composite it all together and hope they all match 100%. If they don’t match then you will need to go back and redo the parts that don’t work.
If you don’t have a CG expert just do the makeup and meshwarp animate it in post.
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The Cycore “CC simple wire removal” plugin is easier than the cloner tool. It has a start and end point to the line and variables and sliders for how many pixels to remove and blend.
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The difference is $40,000 worth of camera.
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Copy the entire directory structure from the p2 card to your hard drive into its own folder, then import from there. Apparently the version of FCP you use is important as several versions (5.1.2 that I know of) have P2 issues.
Copying a full 8 gig p2 should take about 4 minutes via fw,usb, or pcmcia slot.
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you can batch with AE. you just drag all your footage into a bin.
then set up a comp for each conversion
add all your comps to a render queue and hit render.
then go for lunch while AE renders out to whatever you want.I use this method for converting 720p DVCPROHD footage down to uncompressed SD or even DVCPRO50
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Generally you shoot all footage keeping action safe in mind. It is not an afterthought, If you compose all your material and shoot all your footage ignorant of action safe (everyone does it on their first real job) The only options will be obvious hacks like black bars.
Good composition keeps all the important parts of the image within action safe but doesn’t have alot of unused screen around it.
Do not scale your work down to fit. Reshoot any video. If you need a visual guide while shooting you can mark action safe with a sharpie on some clear acetate and tape that to your LCD.
After Effects and Premiere have action safe markers you can toggle on/off.
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Rather than cutting and seaming the image itself
Also, try moving some layers to seperate PSDs and import multiple PSDs with 20 layers each instead of one with 115.
Flatten/merge as many layers together as you can, and flatten any effects so its just pixels.And that said. thats a hell of a lot of layers and very high resolution. I wouldnt comp a feature film at once using assets that data heavy. The pros break it all into less system taxing elements because of experience. You may have to wait weeks for your final render.
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can you shoot to P2 rather than use DVRack. I believe DVRack does its own encoding.
I have an HVX200 and often use AE with the footage. I use Raylight to convert the mxf files to raylight AVIs Raylight is a lossless codec. I can then render any kind of file from AE.
Check out the Cow’s HVX forum here: https://forums.creativecow.net/viewforum/193