[Paddy Uglow]

You can make a Vimeo Album and send a link to that. If I remember, you have quite a bit of control over how the embedded album can look, if you’re embedding it on a web page.

Re Vimeo v YouTube, I always think Vimeo has more of a kind of “film-maker” reputation rather than the “anything goes” of YouTube. But I find YouTube’s interface lots easier to work with; it took me a while to work out that you have to save each Vimeo tab separately when entering film details etc – YouTube auto-saves all your updates as you do them. And you can upload more videos at once on youtube.

Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

[Paddy Uglow]

I’m a big fan of the Tascam DR100. The DR-60D seemed somewhat overkill for what I need, at least.
Though I’ve ended up with two DR100s; it’s the most practical way for us to record four people on phantom powered tieclips. I can monitor both by wearing some mini jogging headphones underneath a pair of “proper” headphones.

Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

[Paddy Uglow]

I had the idea of making a lightweight tripod into a heavyweight by adding a weight:
https://youtu.be/tYOThRUbkNE
If you used some kind of canvas bag, you could find something heavy on-location, or fill something with water.
There are some decent oil-damped lightweight tripods around – I’ve actually seen one with a hook under the head, presumably for this purpose, so someone else must have thought of my idea too!

But one viewer added a bit too much, and broke their tripod 🙁

If you’re on a budget, you can search for separate heads and legs on the second hand market; then you can upgrade one or the other, or take the head off to use on rails or other mounts.

Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

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[Paddy Uglow]

Whew! That looks like it’d be a massive job, and you might as well be using CG tanks, which I guess would defeat the purpose of the exercise? I’m impressed you’ve found a way to make it look like the tracks move.
I think it’s quite quaint that they’re clearly model vehicles. A bit like the war films online where everything’s made of cardboard.

Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

[Paddy Uglow]

As promised, here are my test results for high-speed drafting (particularly if you need to send a new draft every time you make an update; even savings of a few minutes can mean you get a lot more work done in the day).

It appears (in Adobe Media Coder at least) that FRAME RATE is the best way of speeding up an export.
I turned off frame blending and maximum quality to start with.
A 25fps export of my 6 minute 2-camera edit with some overlaid stills took 6:17
A 12.5fps export of the same thing took 3:56
And a 10fps (a bit jerky, but still useful as a draft) took 3:25.

Interestingly, data rate didn’t make a lot of difference. The exports above were 640×360 at 0.3mb/s. Exports at 3mb/s were about 3% slower.

When I did the 0.3mb/s 10fps one at 320×180 pixels, it took 3:11 to export.

Bear in mind that the “reading XMP” stage took around 1:15 of the export time in all cases.

Yes, this isn’t super-scientific, I’m certain that low-framerate drafts of long videos will be a lot quicker than native framerate ones. I’m not so sure about video with lots of effects etc; possibly a smaller framesize will benefit there?

I hope that’s helpful to someone out there!

Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

[Paddy Uglow]

Re transcoding, I DO transcode (to AIC coodec, because my CS3 doesn’t like ProRes). I only do that because my macbook can’t play back my Panasonic GH2’s native AVCHD files very well in realtime (even on the desktop), and Premiere exports take AGES if I edit in AVCHD. Once I add any video effects, timeline playback becomes impossible with the AVCHDs
There’s definitely a theoretical loss in quality doing any kind of transcode, but I can’t see it on screen. If I take a frame grab of the two versions and overlay them on each other in photoshop with a “difference” blend mode, I can see a really subtle difference when I turn the contrast right up. But my AIC workflow is a good compromise.

I started out in audio before moving into video: if one had an mp3 to edit it was always recommended to convert it to an uncompressed format so the computer didn’t introduce all kinds of rounding errors and suchlike when processing. Does the same apply to video, or is Premiere making its own uncompressed “mathspace” to work in?

[PS, Chris, I’m doing some speed tests today to find the quickest way to output draft videos :-)]

[Paddy Uglow]

I don’t think there’s a way of changing the default speed, unless anyone knows better?

Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

[Paddy Uglow]

You can do it with QuickTime Pro 7;
1. open the prores and a wav (ideally an IDENTICAL length – you can export the movie as WAV and alter that audio file)
2. Select all of the WAV and copy it.
3. Go to the start of the ProRes movie and choose Edit / Add To Movie.

You can add several audio tracks to a mov file – you’ll see them in Properties; you can tick them on and off.
If you want to be sure it’s really attached, you can Save As Self Contained.

I hope that’s helpful – I have to normalise sound on MOVS, and I don’t want to have to wait to re-export a video with normalised sound.

Actually, if you’re still able to run Soundtrack Pro, you can open a movie in that, do things to the sound, then just save and it shouldn’t touch the video at all (unless you change the length of the audio).

I hope that’s what you need.

Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

[Paddy Uglow]

Hi,
I think your Illustrator idea might be the one to go with: I just knocked this together in Illustrator:
7003_illustratorcurves.png.zip
I drew a long rectangle, used Transform Each and Repeat Command (look up Illustrator Repeat Command on Google for tips) to duplicate stripes consistently, then used Envelope to get the bend.
As long as the original has been done in a similar and straightforward way, you’ve a good chance of getting a match.
Or you might be better off doing the rectangles and warping in After Effects if you’re going to have ribbons flying around the place in 3D…!
Good luck – it looks like a complicated logo to animate!

Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk

[Paddy Uglow]

Thanks Kevin; I was hoping I could maybe avoid upgrading 8 macbooks…
I’ve become a bit of a “don’t upgrade” zealot again, in this new world of CC and FCP-X!
– Paddy