Ryan Elder
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As for adding blurs, I didn’t add a ‘global blur’, I used the Timewarp plug in After Effects as tutorials were telling me to, to create motion blur, but is Timewarp a bad choice?
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Okay thanks, but what does the blurriness have to do with it?
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Oh I was cutting out frames and then adding motion blur to the frames that were left.
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Okay thanks, this was the idea that I was going to do but wanted to do tests without actors first to see if it will work. But even if there are no moving subjects or people in the shot, it still looks like it’s been sped up and not natural.
Here is a test I did. The first is sped up without motion blur, and the second has the motion blur added. But it still looks like it’s been sped up, even if there are no people in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOAtp43Ko0
Or is it just me?
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Also, when I boom, I keep reading how you should hit -12 decibels. If I can get it in close I can, but when it comes to mastershots, with a few actors in the shot, it becomes more challenging. Like this scene here, for example, is what I have to do a lot when it comes to mastershots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AApQkNSViGg
How do you get a good recording at -12 db, when you have to boom from further away in a master, if that makes sense?
Also would a different field recorder than the FR2-LE allow for higher pre-amplication, and therefore can record from further distances, at even less than 90% gain and volume, or no?
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Oh okay thanks. Yes the 10 db pad seems to be working on the mic.
Unfortunately most locations where I live to do not have high enough ceilings for a shotgun to sound as good as the hypercardioid. I don’t boom from a fixed position though, I move the boom mic from actor to actor as they speak.
If you say that 90% on the gain and volume is not normal for a professional quality movie, what percentage should it be at for professional quality?
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Oh okay. Well it’s just that at 2 feet above the actors I have to have the level gain dial turned to 90% about, and the volume dial at 90%, which I thought maybe was quite high, but is that normal?
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Oh okay. I ordered the mics from Long & McQuade. I was told by other filmmakers that I should use a hypercardiod mic when booming indoors, and they said that the 4053b was a good hypercardioid for indoor shooting. Is that true though, or is the distance on it, not far enough? I’ve been using for a few years now and it seems to be working fine, unless I’m wrong?
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Oh okay thanks! When I asked about a -10 db pad at the store, the person told me it was a separate component that I would have to order, but I guess not. Thanks!
So the Rode NTG-3, doesn’t come with those options, does it make it the lesser mic to use in a lot of situations then?
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Okay thanks, thank you very much, I didn’t know they were switches! So I would use the -10 db pad to give me extra pre-amplication, and use the other switch to cut down on low frequences such as background noise, like a furnace, etc. If I am understanding that right?