Ray Butler
Forum Replies Created
-
Hello Greg. I am interested in your backlit greenscreen concept i am a musician doing solo instrumental. The green screen area is approx. 7 ‘ wide by 8’ high. With some flooring. I am using multiple ipads at different angles. As camera source. Do you have an ideas how on how to do something similar to what you did with light reflecting back w green leds on camera lens? Thanks
-
Sorry for delay. I found a solution using large sheet of green felt. 6’x14’ adjacent covering 12×8’(high wall) and 5’ of floor as well w 2 rolls of felt
-
Thx Mike is it possible to send a google drive link of short segment of video, and you could see if on your fixes could work? I dont have any plug ins’ and am a beginner. I would be glad to pay you to do if it could work. There are several segments of this vid. Thx Ray
-
i will try that as shadows are on bottom. to improve it further is there any to recolor it so green is consistent and covers shadow section? the green screen format was not the best, using poster board. there were two big LED’s onto the greenscreen, but subject sitting in chair may have been too close as well/ thanks Ray
-
thank you for this second level technique. should there be any concern by using 2 cameras on initial video at different angles or one camera closer than another ? esp when dissolving between cameras? thanks Ray
-
Hi Glenn. Thanks so much for the info. I have never used avid, but there’s probably a trial version. I am not so fluent on video editing,being more of a musician and havimg others do the real editing at my direction.
Do you think the scenario i had suggested for freeze in lst clip; then same freeze position to movement in 2nd would disguise the jump cut?
Would you consider trying it for me for compensation? It would be a close up of guitar neck and body shot. I believe i can get the freeze position nearly perfect in both segments.
I think showing anymore in the vid e,g my head would make it more difficult.
I could send you some sample brief clips , representing various stops/starts in the music, to see what works if anything. As a classcial guitarist, i could discern details of feasibility that non guitarists may not. If this works, it would save me a lot of time in doing vids, of technically difficult pieces ,so the recording could be joined in segments. I know the other tricks that are employed but when i see them used, i always suspect what they are doing, and having the same shot perspective is much better for a critical audience.
Thank you. RAY -
Thank you. The subject is in the same position throughout ; i,think i understand the solution on AE . I will try and figure it out; i am primarily a musician and just learning the editing software. Could i send some screen shots or a short clip of another issue? I was in shooting in a room w unfinished sheetrocking and there are splotches on the walls are two different colors showing. I see now the only solution is to mask the subject (me playing,the gtr in sitting position from basically chair up…… i heard there is some kind of motion sensor that could take a basic mask and compensate for the motion of the head and arms in playing the gtr, that would eliminate having to go frame by frame precision mask?
-
Kathy, thank you for the suggestion of using mMorph cut. Is this better than the built in transition flow in Final Cut Pro? Also if you may know, what are the limits when using final cut to speed up a video ,e.g 10% and still keep original pitch, without the audio being apparent it is out of sync the the sped up vid? It may be more noticeable for what I am using it for – solo piano pieces.
And I need to keep the audio quality very good. I record the audio and vid at the same time , so it’s in synch . Thank you -
thank you again. i will have my vid editor try it. and possibly post some clips if we can’t make it work well.Ray
-
thanks Mark this sounds promising. i dont know what is involved cost wise in shooting in 4K.. i am currently just using ipad cameras at 1080 and using an interface device called IRIG, where my mic chord next to classical guitar, goes into the Irig, the out of irig goes into lighting port of the ipad video camera.. this way music and vid are perfectly synched. Ray