[Omar Itani]

i just wanna first thank everyone for putting their two cents into this. i had no idea that video formats were such a controversial topic, haha.
Richard, that was a great idea, just cutting first then converting. i am going to do that from now on.

anyways i have partly finished editing the footage which i asked about before i imported it and now i was wondering if you guys could critique it (only 30 seconds long). The white balance of my first couple of shots was set to fluorescent instead of sunny but i THINK i fixed it in post. please, what ever you think needs improvement, tell me. i really want this to be a good commercial and you guys seem to have a lot of experience from what i read of yalls’ posts.

there is sopposed to be 2 funny parts: when i give the illusion that the son has gone a long way in the desert and at the very end. Did you guys get both of the jokes the first time you watched it?

here is the link (please watch in HD): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv1IzZ9kk5g

PS My skies dont match up. in the conversation the skies are blue but after that the skies switch from blue to white with a tint of red. i was thinking about leaving the conversation skies blue and then change all other blue skies to match the white ones. i already tried using the color corrector to change the color but it doesnt work very well because of the clouds in the skies. i have searched the internet and this forum for a solution but have not found anything. anyone have any ideas?

[Omar Itani]

shot on 60d and i converted it to prores HQ.

Okay wow sorry for the dumb question! I guess i just thought that when you just drop the clip in the sequence it will just change the sequence settings for you. so i wasn’t sure if i needed to adjust any other settings as well.

[Omar Itani]

o thanks Lance!

[Omar Itani]

What are the benifits of working with 4444?

[Omar Itani]

i’m sorry, i meant the default is 4444. 444 isn’t a option. There’s just 4444, 422 hq, 422, 422 lt, 422 prime, and apple intermediate codec.

okay so Richard what format do you recommend then? 422?

Also, what would i be doing in order to take advantage of 4444? (just wondering)

PS i was also going to match the color of all my scenes because i shot in different lighting

thanks

[Omar Itani]

did you convert the footage before you imported it?

[Omar Itani]

No mics can be seen. i can have one person, maybe two on audio. budget: sub 700. only one person is going to be speaking at a time. i am going to be shooting on a dslr and the next scene i am going to be shooting at is in a grocery store, so i really need something to separate most of the background noise from my subject.
as i said before, i have heard a lot of things from the h2 but i am not sure that is what i need for this type of filming.

thanks for the reply.

[Omar Itani]

Do you have any recommendations for external audio? i dont really know what to get. i am going to need something that records individual voices (i am going to be doing short films), like a shotgun mic.
thanks

[Omar Itani]

are you allowed to have other brand labels in the commercial (for example the fox sticker)? thats something you probably wanna look into before entering so you don’t get disqualified.