[Stuart Ireson]

thanks again Greg that’s very useful… i just tried a section and it work out fine.

[Stuart Ireson]

Ah Greg, you put my mind at rest.

I will have to edit it a bit on cs4… by what your saying i should finally render out quicktime anim codoec and convert using quicktime pro.. fab

and by what your saying ill stay the hell away from slow motion!

Thank very much! Stu x

[Stuart Ireson]

I really appreciate your input Mark. im much clearer about the backlight now. and your advice on reducing frames per sec is something i hadn’t thought of – so thanks for that. also i see how perhaps overexposing a i bit may help… ill have to play around as much as i can for the first few hours of the shoot. luckily for this commission – they’re not expecting too much, im sure it will exceed their expections even if it has its flaws. for my own projects later in the year i’ll prolly have a clearer idea what im doing.

Thanks a million

Stuart

[Stuart Ireson]

thanks, Marc that helps with the back light alot!

the kit im gonna use is actually one of those led light rings with the glass bead screen. it sounds great. but we will see when it comes to the day…

I’ve already tested TOONIT alot on pre-matted green screen stock for practice. im happy enough with the result – no, it certain ally wont look anything like a scanner darkly, but for me it works well when the effect applied is subtle. ive attached some rough pics of the practice…

im just applying toon IT to the video footage, inserted backgrounds are drawn by hand on photoshop.

Stuart x

[Stuart Ireson]

thanks again John thats very helpful and i will experiment along the lines of what you suggest.

it also occurred to me today.. and i could have misunderstood this, that my blacks are too black… maybe i need to use levels to bring the blacks of the whole image up to 16, which i believe is a safe level. i was doggedly trying to get them all to 0,0,0 to make sure no unobservable slight variations were exacerbated by the encoding process. maybe now Ive done that bringing them up to 16 will help. or maybe vie got that wrong.

with encoding i followed some previous advice on here and went for 7.5 CBR and setting the general quality slider to 5. now ive had a suggestion to try VBR with 2 passes as its only 11 minutes long – and also advice to get more I frames happening…?

thanks again . Stuart

[Stuart Ireson]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stoooo/4340701302/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stoooo/4340701870/in/set-72157623378180148/

sorry the previous link wasnt spot-on x

[Stuart Ireson]

Hey Jon – thanks again for taking the time to reply.

i dont have the software for a proper screen grab. however, i knocked a very good approximation of what it looks like MPEG2 on a telly here:-

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stoooo/sets/

(compression probs set)

if it isnt something else, then i think i have to look into making these films as graphic novels instead, ive got a whole bunch of work for a next film which is gonna have the same problem. i feel a bit dumb for forging ahead without understanding enough about these things. but i trained in animation when you could do whatever you wanted and it looked fine on VHS. I never envisaged these problems

I wonder if a render farm could help me out and do a better job.

anyway, thanks for looking.

Stuart

[Stuart Ireson]

Dear John

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.

Indeed im realising now that the mistake i made was to rely on the monitor and not to check it MPEG2 on a television as it was progressing. This never occured to me. Now Im learning alot by my mistakes. Maybe I have to chalk it up to experience and accept its not showable other than on a pc – you tube or wahtever

If thats what you mean by grading

The images were handdrawn on photoshop and imported as PSDs
The live action – of which there is only a little – was shot PAL SD on a PD170.

I am going to have one last try at altering the film to remove or replace things are casing the chunky streaking… getting rid of ramps etc… otherwise to move on to something else.

Many Thanks

Stuart

[Stuart Ireson]

thanks for your help vince. ive managed to bash somrthing om out. the black/dark areas are still a bit ugly, but maybe i have to live with that. the rest of the picture is very good. cheers

[Stuart Ireson]

hey Mike and thanks for your reply and apologies for my language..

its only 11 mins long

ill try what you said. but im frustrated by my own ignorance of exporting. the ultimate aim is to get a dvd i can send to a film festival for projection – so im not sure how using those other formats will get me to DVD??