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Michael Schmidt
December 13, 2014 at 11:00 pm in reply to: FX alternative to keying poorly lit video?

I wanna thank all of your for your input! You confirmed my fear the problem would not be easily fixable, and I took some of your advice about how to proceed. What I ended up doing was to come up with something like this. There are many soundbites by different people, and I alternate them between left and right – it’s not so bad in the end. Since the material was shot in 1080p, and the final video will be 720p I got some leeway. So I was able to zoom in a bit and move around the frame rather freely.

Again thanks!
Michael Schmidt
December 10, 2014 at 6:50 am in reply to: FX alternative to keying poorly lit video?

Thanks a lot for the fast response! Well, I don’t get paid for this at all, so it’s not really an option to use the roto-brush. That’s why I was thinking “outside” standard keying, and maybe just applying some effect that “hides” the background by treating the whole scene, and still remaining somewhat professional.

Thanks!
Michael Schmidt
March 11, 2009 at 5:31 pm in reply to: 2D objects along a 3D path

Thank you SO much for pointing me towards those presets!!!

https://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~schoebem/animation1.gif

Now it looks exactly like I need it 🙂

Cheers

Michael
Michael Schmidt
March 10, 2009 at 2:17 pm in reply to: 2D objects along a 3D path

Right, speed is something I haven’t thought about. Thanks!

I should go 3D, but I have no idea how to achieve what I’m looking for in 3D.

If there is an appropriate tutorial online it would be great if I’d be pointed towards it.

Many thanks!

Michael
Michael Schmidt
March 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm in reply to: 2D objects along a 3D path

Hi Andrew,

thanks for your reply.

But I did use that exact way to create the positions – those paths are perfect ellipses:
https://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~schoebem/zwischenablage01.jpg

And since it’s all done in 2D there is no camera position I have to chose. It’s an entirely flat composition.

My guess is that this is exactly the problem – that I can’t really create the right feel without going 3D. Problem is I have no clue how to do it in 3D, even though I imagine it to be very simple.

Thanks though!

Michael
Michael Schmidt
January 19, 2009 at 11:54 am in reply to: Transcode and shrink DV

You are propably right. I can delete some of that stuff. The rest I either keep on the HDD or copy to tape.
Already the effort to find a proper codec for transcoding takes time, not to mention the actual transcoding itself.

Thanks for your advice!

Michael