Terence Curren
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JVC keeps making new formats without making sure there is a post workflow in place. You just got burned by one. 🙁
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Your biggest problem is the sky. Day for night shoots tend to avoid eveer getting the sky in them. You will never get the overall picture dark enough to sell the sky as night. You really need to do the two separately.
Copy the chot and place it back on top of itself on V2. Color correct the V1 shot looking at everything but the sky. The trick is to darken, desaturate chroima and then go blue, more so in the blacks in the blacks. Curves are great for this.
Then Color the V2 shot looking only at the sky. bring it way down and desaturate the chroma.
Now the tricky part. If you were in anything but Xpress, you could use an animatte effect which would allow you to draw a mask allowing you to composite the two elements. In Xpress, you can try a horizontal edge wipe with a soft edge if the horizon is clean enough.
If that doesn’t work, is the sky brighter than everything else in your shot? If so, copy the shot yet again and place it on V3, use a color correction to make it black and white, use the master curve to bring up the top end and drop down the bottom end until you have a solid white sky and everything else is black. Now drop a Matte Key on top of that and it will key V2 through the sky.
If not, do you have Avid FX on your system? Or Boris Red, Fx , etc? Go into them and mask the sky.
PS: Or tell your director to go reshoot it the right way. 😉
Terence Curren
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Have you seen this?
https://blackmagic-design.com/products/multibridge/
Terence Curren
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[Shane Ross] “Again, this in NO WAY compares to eCinema or high end Sony and Panasonic stuff.”
Shane,
For what it’s worth, the high end monitors don’t match a CRT either. 🙁
Terence Curren
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I get what you are saying Tony, and I agree that everyone is limited by their budget. I only jumped in here because someone was claiming you could use a magic box to make a standard LCD match a broadcast CRT. I wish someone would show me how to do that, I would turn around and approach Sony, Panasonic, JVC, eCinema, CineTal et.al. and sell the trick to the highest bidder. Then I could retire to paradise and buy ice cream off of Bob’s truck all day.
Terence Curren
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I think you could bring them into a 29.97 SD project in Symphony, then modify them to 1080 59.94 and export.
Terence Curren
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On second thought, will you still be able to render? I’ve run into issues where FCP won’t render when it is missing the filter someone applied in offline.
Terence Curren
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Now that’s a tip worth slogging through all the crap. Thanks for thinking outside the box!!
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She’s missing the right codec. What does she see when she opens it in QT player and does a get info?
Terence Curren
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[grinner] “well, maybe they’ll clean house and start making strides to regain some lost cliente”
Much harder to win back a client then keep them in the first place.
Avid salesguy: “hey, sorry about Adrenaline, but we have a new solution, it’s still 8 times as much as your FCP, but hey, it’s Avid!” (Insert salesman smile here) “So, what do you say, ready to dump your FCP that you’ve gotten used to and come back to us?”
Terence Curren
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Burbank,Ca