Rick Sebeck
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I did a 12 screen HD wall last year. We used a 6×3 orion screen powered by 6 mac minis running Renewed Visions’ Pro video player to synch all the feeds.
As for my workflow, I worked in one large comp in ae, then precomped that into 12 HD comps, and rendered each one out. The piece was all graphics with some pretty advanced filters and compositing and 5 minutes long – i think it took about 12 hrs to render out on an 8 core with 12gb of ram.
If you are doing a lot of editing – I suggest editing in fcp, and when the edit is locked, using FCPtoAE and then start animating.
Of course the other option is to treat it like a real video wall, edit all the pieces then use a show control program to “animate” the pieces into one show.
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Google earth has a pro version. – https://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/earth_pro.html
It let’s you record videos and such. I I actually used the free version, set points with no names, then change the settings so there is no visible pin. Screencaptureprograms were very studdery, so I put the browser on my black magic “desktop” and recorded the signal on an HD deck. Digitized the tape and added it to my edit. Because the playback was still studdery, even on my 8core I set the playback to really slow, then speed ramped it in my edit.
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Kelton,
There is no denying you have the talent and creativity that only fun experiments like this help to refine the craft and skills of filmmaking. My only critique would be this…. I realize you were going for the action adventure “bourne” look… but the quick cuts and tons of action movements are hiding some fundamental mistakes like matched action cuts, and breaking the 180. I think you should try a scene with less action and maybe more dialog between two characters. I realize your writing may not be as refined as a hollywood blockbuster, but it will help you focus on directing, blocking, using limited and specific camera movements to help move the story, using different angles, focal lengths, ect.
Again, you are well on your way and I applaud your energy and gumption. Most kids your age are probably just playing video games and surfing the web doing nothing “productive”.
Keep it up!
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I found a great tutorial describing what you mean… for those of you in the future who google this question!
https://planetpixelemporium.com/tutorialpages/bevel.html
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That’s it exactly. Thanks Brian. The 0 is the the one that is most tricky – with the arrow cutting it off.
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Heres what I have. I just want to connect the two and create a bevel between them.
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Yes, I separated them into layers.
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I took the leap -and am starting my own creative production/post boutique. I was going to drop you a line to ask recommendations on best bang foryourbuck products. Now that it is my money on the line, making big purchases is so much more stressful. I have been putting off updating my Mac pro for 2months now because of all these darn rummors! Of course the biggest hurdle is external storage. I know I should grow slow, but I feel like I\’m wasting money buying sata cards and external enclosures that can\’t grow into a San environment. But droping $10-20k isn\’t an option. I read one of your posts last week where you told someone not to buy a San if you don\’t need it because they will be faster, bigger and cheaper the longer you wait. That gave me some piece of mind. So what would you recommend for uncompressed HD external storage? At fusion we used sonnet d500 boxes. They were okay. But i haven\’t used anyothersimilar external enclosures so I can\’t compare.
Anyway– it\’s exciting being the boss — but it definitely is a different kind of stress. I\’m sure I\’ll be on the cow picking everyones brain!
-Rick
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Thanks bob,
That’s what i thought. I was able to get a kona3 card off eBay for $870. I saw some kboxes for $50 I knew my luck was going to run out! -
Switched from DG to Extreme Reach and loving it. Customer support is way better, and the online hub is incredible. Access to your entire creative library, easy to create/track orders, and you can even set clients up to view these as well — so instead of them calling you to ask “is it up” they can log on and see for themselves!
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