Mark Petereit
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Check out some of Andrew Kramer’s tutorials on VideoCopilot.net. Though his tutorials are for After Effects, the concepts will still apply.
From your description, it sounds like you’re dealing with the absolute worst-case scenario: a moving subject, a moving camera and moving background objects. You’ll most likely have to rotoscope your subject by hand, a task that will be VERY daunting due to interframe motion blur. And even if you can cut a clean mask, you’ll have to figure out what you’ll put in the “hole” he leaves when you mask him out.
Just so you know (in case you’re asked to do this again in the future), this scene should have been shot in two different takes. The first would have been a shot of everything BUT your disappearing man.
The second shot would have been of ONLY your disappearing man, shot against green-screen, with the camera moves matched exactly to the previous shot.
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I don’t know why you put up with that. But then I guess we Americans have a reputation for “handling” out of control taxes. 😉
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Wow! $2895 for a Nano Flash? You could buy a whole Mac Pro workstation for that. 😉
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Dave’s right (as usual.) Just because you can edit on a laptop doesn’t mean you should. And really, there’s nothing inherently wrong with editing on a laptop — just realize that if you’re producing a piece for broadcast, you’re never going to know how it really looks until you move it to a desktop system equipped with a broadcast video card and broadcast monitor.
Another thing you’ll probably need to be aware of is making sure your piece is broadcast-safe. There’s a very real possibility that you could deliver your final product to the broadcaster and have them simply reject it because it’s beyond broadcast legal limits.
Ask your broadcaster for their technical submission guidelines (they’re different for every broadcaster) and follow them to the letter. If you don’t understand something in their specs, ask here.
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First rule of production for SD broadcast: you need to view your output from a SD broadcast card on a SD broadcast monitor.
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What are you viewing the output on?
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What is your final destination? Web? Broadcast? DVD? DV? HD?
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You DEFINITELY want to convert from the component out — it’s uncompressed analog. If you go Firewire out, your video is going to get reduced in quality a bit due to the HDV compression and it will come out with a significant delay.
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I have that exact camera and use the BlackMagic Analog to SDI miniconverter. Works flawlessly!
And at $470, it’s about $500 cheaper than the AJA.
Mark
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What does it look like on your broadcast output monitor?