| | | | Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme Card for sale by Frank Di Bugnara on Nov 6, 2009 at 8:25:56 pm in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme
HD and SD digital and analog I/O support
The ideal solution for connecting to any camera, deck or monitor, all with the same card. DeckLink HD Extreme is the first DeckLink card to feature both SDI and analog I/O co | | | | |
| | | | Re: RED Announcement - Screw you Scarlet Wanters by Uli Plank on Nov 6, 2009 at 1:29:18 pm in the RED Camera Forum The complex situation is that optical printing would never preserve this, so DI became the norm.
But hardly any feature film is getting finished with a DI in 4K…
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| | | | Re: Light created Shadows on a Transparent Plane? by Luke di Rago on Nov 5, 2009 at 6:11:08 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I was looking for the same effect, and after thinking a while how to achieve that in AE, I've found a simple workaround:
If you make a white solid in 3D, and the shadows are projected with a light, you can use that as an occlusion pass; a white pl | | | | |
| | | | Re: HD question by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 31, 2009 at 11:05:17 pm in the Art of the Edit Forum Few considerationss...
I come from PAL world (H=576) and not from NTSC world (H=480) and I think there are differences in converting down from H=108 (pal is 1,875:1 ratio NTSC is 2,25:2)
In the article there are at least TWO things I think are | | | | |
| | | | Re: Still Store Fixed Apparently by Darin Wooldridge on Oct 31, 2009 at 5:56:39 pm in the Apple Color Forum I just checked it.
It's much better but not perfect. I still see a very slight shift looking at the scope going from live to still.
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| | | | Re: 4k - 2k transfer costs by David Battistella on Oct 30, 2009 at 9:34:53 pm in the RED Camera Forum [gary adcock] "which stock, is the DI complete for the stock at hand.
but start about $65K USD and go up very very quickly. "
Also, prep is different for a film out as there is a right (grading in log space) and and no as good way (convertin | | | | |
| | | | Re: 4k - 2k transfer costs by gary adcock on Oct 30, 2009 at 9:16:44 pm in the RED Camera Forum [David Battistella] "To vague. How long is the program, etc. "
which stock, is the DI complete for the stock at hand.
but start about $65K USD and go up very very quickly.
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| | | | Re: m2t files opening by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 30, 2009 at 7:21:09 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Instead of converting, try just re-wrapping. Is faster and you'll lose no quality. Try CLIPWRAP software.. It will rerap m2t footage to mov footage (keeping m2t format inside). It might be easier for AfterFX to work with it.
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| | | | Re: HD question by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 30, 2009 at 7:34:09 am in the Art of the Edit Forum Downconversion should work good on any software. If you have some problems here I should check my workflow. Usually going down from HD can increase detail.
Having said this I should always shoot and edit in HD when possible. Obviously if you are d | | | | |
| | | | Re: interlaced? progressive? AE workflow by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 30, 2009 at 7:17:16 am in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum If you send 50i (or 60i) footage to a flatscreen it has to do in-frame interpolation (between the 2 fields) but also in-time interpolation (it creates a new frame in between two normal ones). It works this way. Good (all new) LCD TV sets use a specia | | | | |
| | | | Re: Field Dominance Problem! by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 30, 2009 at 6:42:13 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum After FX "doesn't know" what you will need until you render.. so the best way of working is this...
1) Interpret correctly all your footage. You have to check that After FX "knows" what are the fields for each piece of footage. If it knows what fiel | | | | |
| | | | Re: interlaced? progressive? AE workflow by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 30, 2009 at 6:34:35 am in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum When it comes to output.. the question is not if it is flat screens or CRT, but if it is for PC or video. If it is to be played on a PC you can render progressive. If you want to make a normal video DVD (no matter what monitor) then you can choose in | | | | |
| | | | Re: Motivation Needed by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 29, 2009 at 2:43:59 pm in the Art of the Edit Forum When I have long repetitive jobs, where no actual creative effort is asked, I try to see it as a factory making a car. So I split up the jobs in even more repetitive steps until my job is more about optimizing, organizing, etc.. than actual editing. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Pricing for an event by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 29, 2009 at 2:33:45 pm in the Event Videographers Forum In these cases.. I always make a price for the event and the master plus a small price for every DVD (that includes box, printed cover, my time in recording it, etc).. So I would say something like... 1000 + 5 x dvd
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| | | | Re: quicktime conversion tool by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 29, 2009 at 9:58:54 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I always go out from FC in Pro-Res.. then I can use whatever I like to compress in whatever format.. .Like the free MPEG STREAMCLIP
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Corporate video productions in Italy
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| | | | Re: blur or mask background by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 20, 2009 at 7:53:16 am in the Sony Vegas Forum Try to increase depth of Field on sit by going far with the tripod and shooting in TELE. If you still need to do something afetrwards, as well as duplicating layers and masking one (as described above), you could try TIFFEN DFX filters for Final Cut | | | | |
| | | | Re: JVC HD Camera Options by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 19, 2009 at 7:12:52 pm in the JVC cameras/decks Forum I recorded a 1hour concert , it didn't stop and I didn't loose any frames.. in 1080 50i format. if this helps...
I have this camera since it came out (was one of the 1st to get it here in Italy).. around April 2009. Here is what I like and what I | | | | |
| | | | Re: The Hitchcock Zoom by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 19, 2009 at 5:14:00 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum Don't know how it works there.. in Italy we have plenty of tine to shoot the little girl that usually brings the rings.. You can shoot her before in this way (maybe try e few times) and then edit it just a moment before she moves and brings the rings | | | | |
| | | | Re: Plasma for playback by Bruce Greene on Oct 19, 2009 at 4:36:19 pm in the Apple Color Forum When I did a DI this past summer, I asked the colorist what kind of monitor they used for video color correcting (we used a projector for the DI). He showed me...all Panasonic plasma displays. Of course they are calibrated and characterized by a LU | | | | |
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FotoKem opened as a film lab in 1963, and has continued to evolve and expand. Here are some of the tools they're using as the industry, and their business, now adds another dimension. Tutorial, Feature, People / Interview Author: John Daro |
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In this article, Tim Wilson talks with da Vinci user Ron Anderson in his Part Three look at Blackmagic Design's acquisition of da Vinci Systems. Ron Anderson’s relationship with da Vinci has also taken places over several decades, starting as a customer, and evolving into demo artistry even while he continues working with da Vinci systems at Atlanta’s Cinefilm.
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In this real world video production RED Camera review from The Creative COW Magazine, Assron Zander discusses how The Brooks Institute students put RED ONE through the paces of a student production. Here are their findings. Review Author: Aaron Zander |
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A Creative Cow Exclusive! DigitalFilm Trees Zed Saeed has helped create pioneering digital workflows built around FCP, custom-designed for large-scale productions. Their biggest challenge so far has come on The Forbidden Kingdom, an epic film partnering Jackie Chan and Jet Li for the first time -- with production and post in China, Korea, Australia, and multiple locations in the US. Heres a look at how they put it all together with FCP, Xserve, XML, Color, file-based workflows...and hard, hard work. Feature Author: Zed Saeed |
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If you don't want to know, don't ask. Bob Zelin is one of the industry's straightest shooters, and he'll tell you how he's seen things work during his 30+ years in the broadcast trenches. Feature, People / Interview Author: Bob Zelin |
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