Mark Petereit
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Render your video out at normal 16:9. Copy it, pull it up in QuickTime and rotate it 180-degrees (so it’s upside down). Deliver both files. If they pull one up and it’s upside down, tell them to use the other.
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Or as Paulo has suggested in the past, use a JavaScript timecode generator to display timecode on a monitor, have all cameramen start recording by shooting the monitor first and don’t interrupt recording. Sync the timecode at the head on all angles and you’re good to go.
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Yes, we have several original Apple TVs that we to loop our digital signage.
The trick is that you have to use QuickTime to set the video to loop before you sync it to your ATV.
We use Compressor to convert the video to Apple TV format. We then pull it up in QuickTime, press Command-L to set the looping flag, SAVE IT! then drag it into iTunes to sync.
I seem to recall that some videos gave us problems. We had to tell iTunes to convert them to Apple TV format, then pull the resulting file up in QuickTime to set the looping flag, save it, delete the original out of iTunes, re-import the new looping version, and sync to the ATV.
Yes, it can be a pain, but yes you absolutely CAN get it to work.
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HDV is a lossy format and doesn’t respond well to abrupt changes (like a camera flash.)
From the Wikipedia article on HDV:
“The relatively low data rate can cause bit rate starvation in scenes that have lots of fine detail, rapid movement or other complex activity like flashing lights, and may result in visible artifacts, such as blockiness and blurring.”
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No question. Get the 250’s.
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One suggestion: don’t use ProRes HQ. HQ only improves quality for 2K and above. At standard 1080 HD and below, all HQ does it increase file size and bandwidth requirements with no useful increase in quality. Capture to standard ProRes 422 and your 1080 footage will look beautiful.
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This would be pretty easy to do in Motion. All you’d have to do is find (or create in Photoshop) the black paper and a single image of the “corners”. Make the black paper your background, put placeholders where the pictures go and drag/rotate the corners and place them at the corners of each placeholder. Save as a template. Drag in your photos, animate your camera movements and voila!
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You could also get creative with the framing by placing the footage inside a stock image of a 50’s TV set, or doing a red velvet movie-house curtain reveal, leaving the curtains on the sides to conceal the pillar boxes (and maybe even place some MST3000-like silhouettes of people in front)
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Nope. Since my cameras are all stationary (on tripods in our church’s sanctuary) I run all A/C power.