Randall League
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Well , I’m going from AE to PP because I’ve never had any luck with audio (voice overs, sound effects) in AE. And because the individual classes are 10-20 minutes, I think it would be too much working in AE, so I broke them down to 1-5 minute scenes.
The course is setup in 7 distinct stages so I am trying to keep everything down to 7 DVD’s in total. Each stage a seperate DVD.
I did some tests and downgrading to a SD comp and rendering it had no effect in render time, it was almost exactly the same as the HD comp. The files sizes were different but I’m more worried about the render times. My fastest times have been for a 40 sec comp that rendered at 50 minutes. The long end is for a 3 minute comp that renders out in 7 hours.
I forgot to add my computers specs to the original post. I’m working on Windows 7, 64 bit. Intel core 2 Quad q8400, 8GB RAM. I wonder if upgrading to 16GB RAM would make a big difference?I’ve found that at 8GB of RAM, multiprocessing takes more time to render files.
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I’m sorry , I thought make-up and soft lighting was a given. We do have a a make-up artist ,though this being Japan movie/tv make-up artists are not easy to come by, but we’ll do the best we can.
I was kinda thinking techniques such as this:
go to artists-Bill Pollock-Beauty to see the ….well..beauty reel.
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Show him how he can intergrate AE with his Flash work. Thats how I originally got turned on to AE. There are a couple of books on this, one is written by Tom Green. Then later on down the line he can take a consumer video camera, put up a green sheet on the wall, and with key light, cue points and a little actionscript he can create his own interactive video games (I think the book has a good example with a quick draw shooting game), once he touches the video he’ll want to look at Premiere and then hopefully Soundbooth to clean up his sound and the next thing you know he’ll be cleaning up the newgrounds awards.
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Thanks for the post
I’m assuming when you talk about pre-production yourr talking about the website, delivery systems, customer service, ect.. rather than the video pre-pro?
I was planning on something similar to that website (I was originally thinking of Lynda.com), I also planned to send a bunch of free sets to some teachers, bloggers, ect.. to try to raise some word of mouth.
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The HV30 is a good well priced HDV cam. The next step up would be a XH-A1 which is a great camera for the price but costa rund 3000.
Remember that even good lighting is the most important thing, so make sure you have descent lights. Also get plenty of distance from your talent and the screen to keep away spill. I’d all suggest watching the COW tutorial on creating super tight mattes, and if you already have it, Red Giant’s Key Correct Pro plug ins are a good addition to Key Light
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Thats a very good point Bill.
I personally am trying to make the edutainment myself and sell them thru my own website. But your idea certainly still applies, I have to find the customers or bring them to my website.