[Renato]

I am far from being an expert on any of this but I am sure that if I am wrong one of them will solve your problems for you, so

have you tried watching this rendered footage on a tv screen or refecence monitor?

hope it helps, sorry if its not the case

renato

[Renato]

Thanks Steve for the reply,

I was just really curious to see how to go about setting up the technique that Jim talked about.. Even if it doesnt make a perfect result, I wanted to give it a try to see what kind of results it creates.. If there is anyone else that could tell me how to set it up, I would appreciate it..

But thanks to all for the great advice

renato

[Renato]

[jim] “Some single-chip imagers in low-light also have a non-random noise pattern. I have heard of a process where you cap the lens, shoot some footage, then “subtract” that noise from the other footage. I have not had any luck there, but the technique is used extensively for astronomical photography (about as low-light as it gets.)”

Hello,

I was very interested in this technique since I also only have a consumer camcorder to use and this could be extremelly handy even if its not perfect…Any way to remove some grain would make me very happy..

So I grabbed my camera, captured some really underexposed footage, as well as some footage with the lens cap on..

I can see the grain on the footage with the lens cap if I mess with the levels, but then I have no idea on how to make it subtract from the underexposed footage…

I tried different blend modes and none of them gave me any improvements, so I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction on how this is done, or what kind of tests I can do..

Any ideas are welcome..

cheers

renato

[Renato]

It may be a bit (or a lot) more expensive then you expect, but you could become the “superstar” you are already supposed to be, by just watching a couple of dvds from totaltraining… definetly more expensive then books but worth every penny…specially if you consider working with photoshop for a long time (the illustrator training series is excellent too)

I work with photoshop since version 3.0 without any training and I bought the totaltraining series only when photoshop cs2 came out, thinking that there wasnt much left to learn..boy was I wrong…

sorry if you already know about them..but if not..give it a look

http://www.totaltraining.com

HTH

renato

[Renato]

if you lived in brazil and your currency was worth less then half a dolar maybe you would understand why we cant buy everything we wish for..getting enough cash to buy a g5 is already hard enough…

so..nope..I dont..

[Renato]

Thanks for the quick reply Jim, sounds very interesting indeed…I will follow your suggestion and give the demo a test..

cheers

renato

[Renato]

hey Jim,

I was looking at nucleo’s site last week and I am really interested in purchasing it very soon. I dont own any plugins from trapcode so I am more interested in “normal” after fx workflow…Was there a truly substantial increase in ram preview speeds? Is it worth the money (I know its not that expensive…but 150 bucks is 150 bucks…)

thanks for any input

cheers

renato

[Renato]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the reply… I found out the answer at the sitegrinder forum and sadly it doesnt work for what I need, but its definetly worth checking out, I couldnt believe how easy this plugin works..

thanks for the tip anyway

cheers
renato

[Renato]

Hello Jim,

Thats a really amazing plug-in… I got the demo version from the site, and I have zero knowledge on html, but I was able to make some buttons with mouse over in less then 5 minutes.

have you used this software before? I was trying to make custom shape buttons and apparently it has to be rectangles…is it possible to make custom shaped buttons with the plug-in? I can draw any shape, but it places it inside a rectangle and in the end some parts that are outside the button can be clicked too…any solutions for that? hope it makes sense..

thanks

renato

[Renato]

if you have cs2, you can try to use transform > warp and just bend the marks to fit the road…might not be the best way to achieve what you want, but until someone else posts a better solution it might be worth a try..

good luck
renato