Scott Sheriff
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Are you taking sound? If so, forget consumer generators. You will have to locate them so far from the set there will be a voltage drop in that length of power cord.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Alina Postula] “I am shooting a stop motion animation and need it to look like a bright, dreamy, sunny day in the woods. How do I accomplish this? (preferably without 1000’s of $ in lights, if possible). I see a lot of animations that seem like they are trying to get this and totally fall flat and look HORRIBLE! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,”You didn’t mention the size of your set.
A bright sunny day is simulated by using a single point light source. Multiple sources will give multiple shadows. The size (physical size, not wattage) and/or distance should be set to approximate the same shadow you get on a sunny day. If your source is too close or too large it will reduce shadows and cause flatness, which you don’t want. The main characteristic of a bright sunny day is a single, hard edge, dense shadow. Using a butterfly or any overhead increases the size of the source, which would simulate clouds and reduce shadow density. The height and angle the light is placed controls the ‘time of day’, and the ‘season’.
The wattage of the light would be determined by the final distance from the set, and the surface area. To keep the sunny feel you will want a lot of light so you can use a smaller f stop to increase the DoF.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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There are a couple of Epson printers that had a disc tray that would do one at a time. The Artisan 50 is hard to get, and may be out of production. There is also the Stylus R2000, or Stylus 1400. These are also hard to get, and the ink cost per disc is pretty high, and they are OK for a few here and there. But they will wear out pretty quick if you are doing more than a handful per week. If you’re doing any type of duplication work considering ink cost, labor, and longevity you need something like the Primera Bravo. Other options would be to go with Lightscribe, which is much slower, and LS discs are more expensive and you end up with more coasters. The other option is to farm out larger print jobs.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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1. Cut
2. Dissolve.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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One other thought. Most cameras have scene files that allow you to alter the exposure latitude, color channel balance, knee, etc and save those settings, and even move it to other cameras. My preference is to use the scene files to open up the cameras exposure range, and make it more neutral for post grading, but you can paint the camera to be anything from neutral to an Amelie’ or Three Kings look. The one downside is doing this makes post grading more difficult if you don’t want/like the look.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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I’m with Phil on the warm cards. There are lots of other ways to do this a lot cheaper. But was in the days of analog, in the digital era, this is completely unnecessary considering what you can do in post. It is much better to stay neutral during acquisition and grade in post.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[kim krause] “actually i have a lot of clients and they all love me…i’ve been doing this since you were in diapers so i think i have earned my right to my opinion and know not everyone will agree. but that’s the point, it’s my opinion and over the years my ideas have all born fruit in reality. you want profanity? go stick your head up your posterior….see i didn’t even have to swear to prove my point!”
LOL. That would make you about 80 years old, and most likely nothing but hyperbole. But it would explain the whole get off my lawn mentality.
FYI, if you want to waste bandwidth bragging about your ‘clients’ that love you so much, you might want to at least use proper punctuation, capitalization and grammar if you expect anyone over the age of ten to take you seriously.
BTW, there’s an app for that.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[kim krause] “i can’t stand the arrogance of some of these people. they are so shit scared of change and losing jobs to the new generation of up and comings”
Not sure who you are referring to. You and Reed can have all the 15 dollar an hour Cragslist gigs, and low pay grinders that come down the pike, as most of us are not ‘worried’ that you, or FCP X glee club will take these from us. As for real jobs, I would say the odds of finding that crashed UARS satellite in your backyard this morning are a lot better than they are of real editors loosing any jobs to you two guys. If anyone on this forum sounds “arrogant” or “shit scared”, not to mention ill-mannered and ill-informed, it would be you and Reed. Plus your profanity laced, off topic, chest thumping posts on here make you both sound like the last two guys on earth any client would want to be sitting in a room with for hours, or doing business with. You should keep in mind this is a forum for professionals, and not 4chan, and try to act accordingly in the future and exercise some decorum.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Reed Black] ” I said this about him, directly to him, when FCPX was first released. I was criticized for saying “although FCPX had its flaws its still an AWESOME program.” And he immediately attacked me for it.”
Deception by omission.
You have left out why you were being criticized, and are making it sound like David swooped down from the clouds and randomly picked you out for no apparent reason. This is not accurate at all.
The way I remember this, David pointed out that you were calling X “an AWESOME program”, and going on and on about how great it was, without ever having used it, but I don’t recall the part where he attacked you. Which by the way I would say is a proper thing to do since your post could influence those on the fence into making a purchase, only to find out it was not as “AWESOME” as you claimed. To call someone out for for giving what amounts to a glowing review of something they haven’t actually used ( by your own admission) isn’t really “an attack”.
However saying you were ‘attacked’ when you weren’t, actually is an attack. How ironic.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Chris Harlan] “Innate presence is actor speak for “know how to love the camera”
Sarcasm. I’m saying he’s hella annoying and not much else.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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