Tudor "ted" jelescu
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I did quite a few low budget jobs where I had to use a HD camera – see the clip below- it works to a certain extent, with careful planning (like Brian said). However I stand by my previous post- DSLRs are not quite the best option when it comes to chroma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WcSPl76Vdg
I think it was a SONY HDW 650
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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If you want to shoot chroma you need the best possible method of capturing the image. Although in the end, for a student project, you can theoretically shoot chroma with an iPhone4, that would not provide you with the best results. Even if the footage shot with a DSLR looks good, it is compressed, that means it looses color information that is precious for a good key. So for best results in post get the best camera that you can- RED One or Alexa would be at the top of my list, followed by a full HD camera that captures using as little compression as possible. If you can use a good HD camera and capture to hard disk with no compression at all that’s even better.
So my answer is no, I would not recommend a DSLR for shooting chroma for a professional project.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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AE uses audo for reference only, it was never meant for any audio work. Your client should get his audio from the original file and not from your export!
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You start with an idea. Think about what you want to do, the looks you want to achieve. Use PSD or AI to design stills that describe your look and then think about how you want to animate the transitions, what you want to highlight through animation. Create a storyboard for that using the stills you made and transition/animation ideas. Break the whole piece in scenes you are going to work on separately. Take each scene and determine which techniques you will use for it. Then you can search for tutorials that deal with those techniques.
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AE is not really designed for compression. Adobe Media Encoder is what you want to use. If you just have a .mov you want down-converted then open that file in Encoder and use a preset, if you have a AE project, open the project in Encoder, select the comp you want rendered and then the settings you want to use. AE does not do multipass while Encoder does and that’s what you want for a compression.
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It’s not an easy task- not seeing the footage it’s impossible to say for sure, but I presume that the laser pointer goes over different textures which requires you to deal with it in segments. First animate a mask around the point with room enough to feather the edges. Then comp the footage on top of itself. Now you will have to animate an offset on the footage below to match the texture under the hole left by the mask. This way you will get the same texture, color, grain and even movement
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If you just want to grade the woman, you may get away with using a feathered garbage mask. Only extreme color grading will affect the white background in such a way that it will be visible.
Only real option you have if you need a precise mask is to roto – I Mocha can help a great deal since you need detailed mattes with heavy adjustment on the hands only.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Trapcode Soundkeys:
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/trapcode-sound-keys/Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Definitely off. I run CS5 on an Alienware MX17 i7 8GB RAM and even on that system out of the 8 cores AE ends up using only 2 for multiprocessing (at the optimal 2GB per processor setup), so with just 4BG RAM all it will give you is a slower render time.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist