[Michael Cassidy]

Hi Cody.

I capture video on this camera only for my YouTube work. I connected the 70d via USB to my computer and use the EOS Utility software to see what the camera is seeing, I would use the flip screen but I find the software much easier.

For the record, I installed Magic Lantern on my camera so that if the recording goes over 29:59 (which it does every time I record), it stops the recording for literally 1 second and starts recording again on a new file.

So in this particular occasion, I was about 2 hours into recording, I’m not usually looking at my EOS software because I’m looking in a different direction and upon checking the software sporadically, it had closed down and upon reopening, it said the card was out of space. When I put the card into my laptop (and camera), it was unreadable by either of them.

A friend of mine said that in this situation, often the camera doesn’t have the opportunity to end the file and hence it is left ‘unfinished’ hence it’s unusable/transferrable.

Since then, I’ve formatted the card and the camera/EOSU recognise it again and everything seems rosey… I guess it’s just a case of not pushing it too far, or, trnsferring and formatting as more frequent intervals.

[Michael Cassidy]

Jeepers!!!

What a great post, thank you so much Dave for taking the time to write all that, I REALLY appreciate it mate ☺

Boring stuff:

OS – El Capitan 10.11.6
AE – CC 2015

I’ve actually been consuming tutorials like crazy over the last few weeks and I’ve already made a couple of videos using AE and it seems pretty intuitive for the kind of (simple) stuff I’m making! Looking forward to really unleashing the power of it.

With regards to the above guy in the vid, he actually shoots in a proper studio which is floor to ceiling green screen, amazing lighting rig etc so he’s obviously got a quality key already in place.

I was wondering about how he appears IN stuff, be it a bath, a train cockpit etc… If I’m understanding your post correctly, he’s doing standard one layer Green Screen and then in post (AE) sandwiching himself between front layer (2d image) – him in the middle – and then the background layer (Another 2d image which gives the illusion of a 3d image).

I do most of my cartoon sketches in Flash so it would be simple enough to create the front layer, and the the background layer on another layer. If the above is actually the way he does it, that answers my question, thank you so much ☺

Another quick one,

In the second video down on the OP, at the very start, his face morphs into a monster…. Is this an effect which is easily achieved?

Thanks again for taking the time to respond mate, I really appreciate it 🙂

[Michael Cassidy]

I started doing all of my images in Flash, importing them into PS and then into AE…. Seems like doing it this way, at least on my machine, get’s rid of all of these sketchy chops between frames