Theo Van laar
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COW Coins
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‘I wasnt clear on how you accessed what tools you used Theo. I am willing to toy around with this considering I wont be going back to Australia soon to get more clips!’
LEVELS and COLOR CURVES both can be found in the Video FX tab. Make sure you activate your histogram when you start working with these tools (VIEW-VIDEOSCOPES-HISTOGRAM)
Theo
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How many photographs do you want to have moving on a curved path?
Theo
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You didn’t get the message that the missing clips are offline?
What filetype are the missing files?
Theo
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Hi Graham,
‘Did you add some “Increase Contrast” in Colour Curve?’
no, all settings were made manually.
Theo
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Boris FX
Theo
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A movement of half a circel with only 3 keyframes? Hmm, a nice puzzle for the coming weekend. If you would allow the use of a plugin, then it could be done.
Theo
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Shots that are too bright, willnever become perfect, since they have lost all the details. But still you can try. It is very difficult to judge from a YOU TUBE file how the final results will be. But Vegas can do some amazing things. In the attachment, I show you an example with just a few mouseclicks in Vegas: Levels and Curves. On the right side is your original image and on the left side the edited part. Just to show you that many things are possible in Vegas.
Further corrections could be made with the color correction tool and the secondary color correction tool.Theo
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‘Is there some resource I should be aware of?’
There are many many good Photoshop books (unlike Vegas, where there is (nearly) only Douglas Spotted Eagles book about Vegas).
I would start with Scott Kelby’s Photoshop CS2 (or CS4) book for digital photographers, followed by Photoshop for Video (Richard Harrington). This book is written for CS2, but free updates can be downloaded for CS3 and CS4
Next, to get a bit more deep inside information, you can go to The Layer Book, written by Matt Kloskowski (there are more books with the same title, but I like Matts book the most).
After the layers, you will have to dig into the channels with Scott Kelby’s (absolute my favorite photoshop author) The Photoshop Channel book.
To finish your basic photoshop training, you can read Photoshop Masking and Compositing, written by photoshop expert Katrin Eismann.‘Someone else told me that I should join the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, or something.’
I don’t think that the NAPP will accept my membership since I’m not a professional photographer or editor 🙁 .
What about you?Theo
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It depends. If your footage is HD and you have a full HD TV + BD player, I would just make BD. But if you are making the disk for someone else and you are not sure whether he/she/they is/are HD-proof, I would just make a normal DVD.
Theo
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Yes you are right Mike, I had completely forgotten about this possibility…
Theo