Mike Smith
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I’ve found some useful tracks at https://www.akmmusic.co.uk/
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Interesting. Is it different, do you think, in a client / service provider or employee / boss context ?
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I haven’t quite got that. You want to render SO THAT you can play on the timeline, but you are frustrated that it JUST PLAYS on the timeline … don’t qutie see the bug there.
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Maybe it’s time to think about how you might find or create a small pool (3? 4?) of freelance film writers / concept people to develop ideas for your pitches and projects – ideas to hand off to you at concept or polished script stage. Managing freelance writers through the pitching process will still take some of your time, particularly in early days – but if you can get two or three you know who produce good, fresh ideas running at the same time, it should increase your capacity. Though having written in a pool like that (long, long ago) I could add that after a while the writers might want to start some workshopping or other group activities for better development.
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Many thanks Matt
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Have you been looking at the puppet tool …?
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Sharpness, alongside exposure and colour balance, are fundamentals of photography and not at all amateur-only concerns. Normally, people will want areas of interest in a photo to be clearly “in focus” – often, as sharp as possible, as accurate as possible a representation of what’s in front of camera. Of course it’s not always the case that max sharpness is desired – but it’s much easier to soften a sharp image than to construct detail not recorded.
Sharpness will dictate how much detail an image can reproduce (a lens can resolve, a sensor capture.) So resolution tests can involve series of increasingly tightly-packed lines, and then a comparison of how many lines per unit length can be distinguished in the captured image. https://www.imatest.com/docs/sharpness/
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/06/26/test-your-lens-sharpness/Digital cameras (as well as early analogue video cameras) often allow an artificial sharpening process, or edge enhancement, to give an image a cleaner, clearer look. https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/image-sharpening.htm This sharpening can be added in post for stills or video, and sometimes people like it, or some people like it.
On your specific test (which I haven’t seen), it’s not unusual for tests published online to be not that strictly set up or controlled in a “scientific” neutral, accurate, reproducible and balanced way, to measure a clearly identified property … And often people will feel hostile to published results that do not confirm (or run contrary to ) their expectations. This effect can be enhanced when people are identified with a specific brand or item of kit which they take to be and want to be “the best” – particularly if it’s kit they’ve spent $$$ on. Some brands encourage that kind of product identification, choice and loyalty in their promotion and marketing (a good way to add profits, if people will pay a premium for the brand independent of actual performance, features and functions) and it may be that some of the camera makers whose kit was tested in that survey use that approach to customer communications.
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Lumix GH2 can also be had for a fair price, and is hackable to allow an all-i-frame codec and a high data rate (onto very high performance SDHC card) – which might allow the better codec and so cleaner picture you might value in compositing / vfx.
https://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/1318-hack-to-give-the-gh2-an-all-i-codec/
https://www.philipbloom.net/2010/11/21/gh2/https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/vfxEncodingGuide
https://www.liftgammagain.com/forum/index.php?threads/what-codecs-do-you-get-vfx-to-deliver-hd.2343/
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Animation menu
Animate Text
Line Spacingshould give you what you want …