Paddy Uglow
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Maybe actually shoot on real super8 film. There’s the extra cost and faff of developing and telecine, but if you’re seeking that “messed up” look, it might be worth it. Maybe even edit it as film and digitise the final result for distribution. You might draw in some extra audience from chemical film fans and get some publicity and good stills from the shoot.
Just one of my outside-the-box ideas!
Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk
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Interestingly, the perception of relative loudness of different frequencies (the Fletcher/Munson curve) is said to vary at different amplitudes, so playing back at the same sound pressure is worthwhile, as well as good flat monitors. (I’ve just been on a music production course!)
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I usually create h.264/MP4 as a practical codec/wrapper for playing on as many platforms as possible.
I hope that helps.
I’ve recently been looking at projectors which will play media directly from SDHC or USB stick, like Optoma ML1000. Some of them will play Powerpoint presentations too.
Good luck
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I use QuickTime 7 Pro a lot. It’ll do some useful things like trimming and cropping; you can remove or replace the audio track, rotate, etc etc.
And you can install things like Perian, MPEG component, Filp4Mac etc to get it to open more formats.
I like how you can get a load of footage and cut and paste together just the bits you need into a single mov, export and save it as a ref. And you can do dozens of exports simultaneously.Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk
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If you’re editing in Premiere, you can right-click the clip and choose “interpret” (or “modify” on newer versions) to choose what framerate you want to convert to (ie slowing down the clip). It will also slow and pitch down any audio, but it will keep all the frames.
I expect other “pro” editing apps will do the same, but I don’t know the method.In QuickTime Pro, you can export to an image stream at the native fps, then import the images at the slower rate of your choice. That’ll do the same thing, but you’ll lose the audio.
Good luck.
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Could it be interpreting it as the wrong frame rate? You could check in the Project window.
Good luck.We shoot XDCAM on a JVC HM150 – ppro CS6 is the only thing we have that’ll play it, so I have to use it to convert it to AIC if my colleague needs to edit in FCP Express.
Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk
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Hi Carlos,
If you have a laptop with firewire input, you can record long videos straight to that from a domestic DV camera. We still use an old iBook with BTV Pro running on it and can capture hours of DV at once.
Depending on your setup, getting some lighting (I love the cheap YONGNUO YN-160 lights from eBay) might mean you could get away with a cheap’n’cheerful camera (a nice bright scene looks pretty good on just about anything!).
Or an even cheaper option, I’m quite a fan of the little Kodak zi8 cameras. I use them as “b” cameras when filming talks. You can get second hand ones for around £60 here in the UK, and they’ll shoot several hours of HD onto a 16 or 32gb sdhc. You could get a few and do a multi-cam shoot.I hope that’s helpful.
Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk
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I don’t use Compressor at the moment, but I found out the following:
One person says “If you click on the blue button on the top right corner of your screen (the one showing a magnifier icon) you can trace this temporary files folder and get rid of it.”The other found the files in /private/var/spool/qmaster
I hope that helps.
Presumably there are some preferences somewhere where you can set a location for temporary files?Good luck
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Doing my classic of answering my own questions – hopefully it’ll be useful to someone else.
In this example, After Effects CS6 did a pretty good job.
1. I set up a composition to the size and frame rate I wanted
2. I turned on Layer/Frame Blending/ Pixel Motion
3. I output as Animation codec at the size/rate I wanted – I could have gone straight to mp4 format (which is what I wanted), but I wasn’t sure if the AE exported mp4 would work with the DCP converter, whereas I knew the QuickTime Pro mp4 would, so I opened the Animation one in QTP to do the compression.It’s not perfect (perfection’s impossible without someone probably redrawing the whole thing at 24fps, or I could have slowed the whole thing down and not lost any frames), but it’s LOADS better than the Adobe Media Encoder export with frame blending. If I go through frame-by-frame I can see a few dodgy draws, where elements are wobbly or parts missing (the dragonflies lose their wings a few times), but in motion, it’s pretty good considering!
This approach I imagine would run into trouble if there were scene changes, because it’d try to draw an intermediate frame between the cut. Presumably one would chop the animation into sections somehow for that. Luckily, this animation was one long scene.
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As a follow up: for thhe last couple of laptops I’ve logged in as the admin user to install p-pro cs6, and ran the update from CS6’s help menu (also logged in as admin).
Timeline playback is OK.
Deleting the plist doesn’t seem to be necessary in my case.
Good luck to everyone with this problem; it’s pretty major!
Similarly, I remember when I installed CS4, I found it wouldn’t export any timeline with jpgs or titles in it.
Much as I love much of Adobe’s software, I’m very wary of new versions!