Mark Whitney
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[Matt Dodds] “I do believe the codec I am running is H.264. And for compression, I am not doing anything myself. I am uploading it from the SD card to a folder, then to After Effects, so AE might be doing the compression, if any at all, but I am not manually!”
Hey Matt,
Looks like Steve is giving you some assistance. I can’t really as I’m “archaically” still using CS6.
Here’s tiny utility though you might want to check out. It installs as a windows Explorer Right Mouse Click menu item when you’ve any sort of media file selected. It’ll give you a LOT of info on the files make-up such as codec, frame rate, bit rate, etc. Very worthwhile having to diagnose with.
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
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If it’s After Effects related, it sure is.
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Very nice piece Tom. I suspect we’ll be learning from you quite soon.
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[Matt Dodds] “So, that is the reason why I am getting dancing pixels. That does make a lot of sense then. I will try to get a blue screen and get more distance from the screen, than I was before. I think that this footage isn’t usable then?!”
Replied to this earlier but it vanished into the ozone. Anyway, you might want to take a look at this short making of that shows what can be done on a shoestring budget yet paying attention to the basics:
VideoCopilot has a bunch of good tutorials as well.
You might research doing multiple keying passes but if you’ve a wrinkled, moving green backing, you’re fighting an uphill battle.
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If you can, get it stretched on some sort of frame. Also, get as much distance as you can from screen & subject.
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Are you using the Keylight keyer that comes with CS6? There’s a Screen Shrink/Grow control that taking it into the neg direction should help. A tiny bit (like -.7 to -1.5) of that plus a touch of Screen Softness should help.
In the future, try adding a bit of back light on the subject. Doesn’t have to be much; just noticeable to the eye. That will often clean up the subject edges from green spill.
Above all else, use an external mic & get it much closer to the subject, just out of frame. More people will notice that over any matte issues.
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Saw your post last night but too beat to reply then. Figured you’d get some good advice overnight & you did.
Only other thing I might add is to try & have your source images somewhat larger than your comp size so you always stay below 100% on their resulting scale.
I’ve been on again – off again working on updating a 20+ year old documentary from 16mm to full HD and there are hundreds of stills where pans & zooms have to be cleaned up from having been done originally in camera, to having being badly done in older AE projects, yet the timing and head & tail composition needs to be maintained. One was a complex Right to Left then back to Right with a subtle tilt & zoom. I made myself a Rostrum Camera rig project to handle other shots like that. It essentailly does what Steve suggests, just breaks the controls out to be a bit easier to access. I can post it here later if you’d like to use or just pick it apart.
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Looks like you took things a LOT further. Nice simple & elegant piece.
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That’s not really bending but rather just simple parenting of layers to one anothers edge. Do some research on building a 3D box or room in AE.
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I’m assuming that client objected to two eye-catches which in this case for an interview situation is frankly picking nits. You want one otherwise the eyes look dead. Moving one light further to the side & diffusing a bit more might have lessened that w/o introducing objectionable shadow.