Scott Sheriff
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[Jayasri (Joyce) Hart] “Most camcorder manufacturers now simplify matters by giving you daylight and tungsten light presets that you can use–and even customize. I find these work better than “auto” white balance which isn’t accurate under low-light or mixed light conditions.”
I agree. Unless you’re shooting under some odd lighting like an industrial setting where the lights are an odd but consistent color temp, the presets are the way to go. Too often people re-white balance the camera in the middle of a shoot and make post coloring more work.
I was thinking Fredy was referring to continuous automatic white balance, which should be avoided like the plague.Scott Sheriff
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A wrong, but consistent color balance is a lot less work to deal with in post, than an ever changing wrong color balance.
And in mixed lighting if you go with a manual balance towards the most dominant color temp, and don’t try to ‘split the difference’, the other color temps can ad a nice look to your shots. This most often works out best with a daylight (5-6K) setting and letting tungsten lights add some warmth.
When you balance for tungsten, any daylight in the shot will seem rather blue or cool looking. This is all based on the assumption that your mixed lighting is a mixture of incandescent and daylight. When you throw fluorescent lights into the mix since their color spectrum is all over the place, but leaning towards a daylight balance will usually get you close in most cases.Scott Sheriff
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Simple answer, no. That is why people hire professionals.
It will never get it right, or stay that way long if it accidentally does, which will make the inevitable post-production color correction a thousand times harder.
If getting professional results was as simple as walking in with a point and shoot set to auto-everything, you could let your 14 year old neighbor shoot your event, and edit it in iMovie for 50 bucks.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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[Michael Hancock] “Let’s pretend that FCP-X is a flop. It’s missing a key feature you require – maybe it’s buggy, there’s no or XML OMF export/import, can’t load older FCP projects, can’t turn off the auto-stuff, no traditional bin structure and the metadata tagging isn’t as efficient…whatever your imagine will break your workflow and be a no go at your shop.
What do you?…”
Sit back and laugh while I continue to use what I already have, because it works reasonably well. And I won’t be out 300 bones, or have wasted my time being an unpaid Apple beta tester.
[Walter Soyka] “The FCPX forum has been very quiet over the last few weeks, and I miss the entertainment.”
Well, there you go. I usually don’t take requests, but what the hell…
Scott Sheriff
Director
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Do you really need another preview?
It’s 300 bucks, not like it’s going to break the bank to try it out.
And based on all the positive reviews/postings it’s gotten so far, seems like you can’t go wrong. There are hundreds of folks on this forum alone that will be downloading it at 12:01 am on release day to be the first to actually try it out.
It would be a different story if you had to pay well over 1K for software, and then years later there were still features that didn’t work right despite several updates.Scott Sheriff
Director
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[Matt Hannon] “Obviously, if I simply increase the speed of the clip in FCP, it’s too much data for playback.
I was just wondering what the best way to create the time-lapse effect will be (in post)?”
Speed up the clip. A lot. It’s just that simple.
Figure out the length of the finished shot, and mark the in and out of the source footage. Use fit/fill to set the speed for you if you like.Scott Sheriff
Director
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Just keep FCS2 or 3 on your system and use the L&C in it.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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Along the same lines, but this one is a bit more hard core, and sure to ruffle some feathers.
The subs have quite harsh language.https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com
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Would be better if it had the words “DON’T PANIC” written in large friendly letters on the cover.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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There’s lots of them in Colorado, including myself.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…