[Melanie Easton]

Thanks Ty and Bruce. That’s kind of what I suspected the answer would be, but wanted to make sure it wasn’t just my general inexperience with sound editing that was making this so difficult.

I’ve told them to lower their expectations and have offered to shoot the footage for them next time around. Hopefully they will take me up on that.

Also – subtitles are a great idea. Probably the only way to salvage it in this case. Thank you!

[Melanie Easton]

Thanks so much Martin and Nathan.

To answer the list of questions quickly:

1. Is the camera moving in the shot?
I was planning on it, yeah. Wanted to do a slider shot with the camera moving towards the TV. But maybe I will shoot a static version too for safety in case I screw up the tracking.

2. Is the television a modern TV or an old one?
Old one. Video is set in the 80s so will probably be quite curved.

3. Do you need the footage being inserted on the TV to help light the room in any way?
Nah, it’s daytime, so not really.

4. Do you need to keep any reflections on the screen?
Wasn’t planning on it.

With regard to putting green material over the screen – much of the decor in the room is green or green-ish, so could I cover the screen with maybe a solid magenta material instead?

Regarding matching the resolution of the two videos in the scene… the video is set in the 80s and the actor is watching an 80s video on TV. So could I have the video inside the TV be a lower resolution deliberately? So the main video looks super clean but the one on the TV looks a bit crap on purpose?

Watching your video now Martin. This is extremely useful.

Thank you both so much for the advice.

[Melanie Easton]

Thanks Alex! I’ll play around with that right now and see if I can pull that off. Though it does sound like just getting the backgrounds to match in the original shoot would be a heck of a lot simpler than the whole “fix it in post” strategy.

Thanks again! 🙂

[Melanie Easton]

Sorry for the extreme delay, I only just saw this now.

Yes I could render it out to an AVI, although the quality probably wouldn’t be very good.

I think this may be the only real option, it’s just going to hurt the quality I won’t be able to edit the individual clips any further. Shame there’s not a better option for moving a project file between these programs – although I guess the programs make them incompatible deliberately.

[Melanie Easton]

Alright, that’s what I thought but hoped there might be a different/better option I wasn’t aware of.

Thanks anyway!