Sam Comer
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I just did this and it worked perfectly. Thanks!
(Although I didn’t set it to 720p/60 because, for some reason, my camera won’t let me. I get only 1920 or 1440×1080 or the SD settings. Nothing in between).
There is a quick trick to getting rid of he dead pixels in post, if you have After Effects. Use the CC Simple Wire Removal filter in the Keying submenu. Place points A and B on just either side of the pixel and increase the thickness parameter to taste (Usually 5 to 8 pixels) and it takes it right out. Much faster and easier than all the duping and masking and repositioning I’d been doing before.
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Many thanks for the help!
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It won’t look any different, I promise.
Maybe this will help.
I’m getting the impression that people don’t believe me when I say it’s not a compressed H.264, or that I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Here is the info window from Quicktime –
Exported directly from Motion as a ProRes HQ.
Project settings:
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I have a frame from the Motion file saved as “Save Current Frame.” It is a 16MB tiff file (too big to upload here). It looks like the screen grab. (Note that screen grabs of background that export as normal look normal, too).
I exported a 1 frame only .mov as Uncompressed 10-bit. It looks the same. I uploaded it to the COW just a big ago, but I’m afraid it’s going to compress it.
https://reels.creativecow.net/film/one-frame-only
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This is my point/problem. That IS a screen grab from the Uncompressed QT.
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My original post may not have been clear – I exported it as both Pro Res HQ and Uncompressed QT, and they both look like that even before the transcode, so i’s not the H.264.
I don’t use Compressor because we don’t have it in the studio. They bought FCPX for editing and After Effects for effects. (I had to push them to get Motion, mainly so I can make custom titles and themes for FCPX).
Media Encoder came with After Effects, so I use that to convert my Master Files to other formats. Regardless, it looks like that even in ProRes HQ or Uncompressed QT.
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Yep! to Bill Davis –
The last video I edited was done in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Took forever. I laid down all the video tracks on top of each other, on top of the audio track. Then used markers to help sync up the tracks. Not only did this take a while, but it was a really messy timeline. I’m really looking forward to using FCPx and the multicam function for my next one. Should be a piece of cake.
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Use Keyword Collections. Click Command-K to bring up the keyword collection window. Then fill in the fields with whatever keywords you want. “Partybus” … “Band shots” … “Closeups” … whatever. The select the corresponding clips and assign the keyword to those clips. Then you will have essentially subfolders, or “Bins” as we called them in FCP legacy.
Another option would be to put the clips of each type into their own folders in the finder. When you import your files into the Event Browser, click “Import folders as keyword collections” and it will do the same thing.
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Although, nothing screams “Cheap” and “Amateur” like using those. There are only a few on there that are halfway decent. I’ve actually heard them on national commercials (usually for lame personal injury lawyer spots or the like) and I cringe whenever I do. The “best” ones are only slightly less cheesy than the hundred or so others included in the collection.
Check out pond5.com or audiojungle.com. You can get music there for as low as $5-$10 (or as high as $150, depending on the song). I once scored a 10-minue long short film with multiple tunes from pond5.com for less than $60. I’ve gotten plenty of stuff for 30-second commercials for $25 or so.
If you’re doing it for clients, then cost shouldn’t be too big of a deal, as long as they’re reasonable. Just bill them for it and call it a day.
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I don’t use the built in effect because I want more control over my moves than what a plugin will allow.
