| | | | VFX Soup: Ken Ralston, Jay Redd, VFX for Men in Black 3
by Debra Kaufman on May 24, 2012 at 10:43:51 am
in the Cinematography Forum
Just in time for the theatre release of Men in Black 3, Creative COW had the opportunity to speak with Visual Effects Supervisors, Jay Redd, and five-time Academy Award winner and vfx pioneer Ken Ralston about their adventures with aliens and the Men | | | | |
| | | | Looking for workflow suggestions
by Jay Windland on Mar 4, 2012 at 1:26:17 am
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
Hey everybody. I recently DP'd a short film that is going to be edited in Premiere CS 5.5 (on a Mac), but which I will be grading myself. I am a FCPX user and honestly don't know how to grade in Adobe. Also, I want to stabilize some handheld footage | | | | |
| | | | Re: how to do super fast cuts between two clips?
by Juan Salvo on Feb 10, 2012 at 5:28:30 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
In all likelihood that video just did a bunch of edits. One quicker was of doing it is laying one shot over the other and then using the razor tool to cut holes in the shot on top. If you want to do it back on forth in a fixed number of frames you ca | | | | |
| | | | how to do super fast cuts between two clips?
by sean miller on Feb 10, 2012 at 1:04:34 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hi Guys, was wondering if anyone knows of a quick method to do really fast cuts between two clips (aside from frame by frame with the blade tool) in fcpx
this video has the technique used loads :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6j4f8cHBIM | | | | |
| | | | File issues when exporting from PP to YT
by peter djorino on Oct 9, 2011 at 3:48:14 am
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Hi,
I've been editing video files shot on my canon dslr and exporting them as .flv files then uploading to YouTube with fantastic results. Full HD 1080 option becomes available. Now, for some reason, I have done the same for another video. The vid | | | | |
| | | | The Perils of Parallax
by Angela Wilson Gyetvan on Oct 6, 2011 at 9:17:53 pm
in the Stereoscopic 3D Forum
There are some very simple rules to manage the somewhat complicated idea of where the "screen" is in 3D space. There are also some very simple rules for breaking those rules. | | | | |
| | | | Re: organic transitions in 4:3
by Scott Sheriff on Apr 19, 2011 at 5:34:41 pm
in the Art of the Edit Forum
Mark,
"The trick is in how an when you put the cut, so that it seems seamless. Walter Murch talks about cutting on eyeblinks. I think that's right. You can cut on an eyeblink, but also on the place in the shot where a human would most likely blink w | | | | |
| | | | adding many images synced to music - MTV style
by Gilles Gagnon on Apr 7, 2011 at 5:19:45 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
Hi,
What's the simplest way to add many jpgs to the timeline such that they will be in sync with the audio/music track? I'm looking for fast cuts MTV style (I also have Ultimate 4 if that makes things easier)
Cheers, | | | | |
| | | | Re: Sports Package on FCP
by Scott Sheriff on Mar 18, 2011 at 5:11:22 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Mike,
I suggested the other forum just because you have other editors there besides FCP guys-just a bigger audience. Not a criticism.
I'd go easy on the cheesy for hockey.
Fast cuts! Big Hits. Boarding. One-timers. Big saves. Teeing up a big sla | | | | |
| | | | Re: Sports Package on FCP
by Steve Eisen on Mar 18, 2011 at 4:47:13 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[MIke Jones] "My main concern is working with effects"
Do your edit then add effects. A good edit can be done with no effects.
Hockey is a fast sport. Fast cuts are all you need. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Music video Effect
by Chris Tompkins on Feb 1, 2011 at 11:50:26 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum
I don't know or see what "effect" you are referring to.
It's camera work and editing my friend.
They're zooming in,focusing,moving around, zooming out.
Then fast cuts in the edit.
Live concert shot with a lot of hand-held. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Achieving A Scene: Car & Drowning
by Jonathan Ziegler on Jan 3, 2011 at 3:02:36 pm
in the Indie Film & Documentary Forum
It will largely depend on how you are shooting the rest of the film. I'm guessing you have a small budget so you need to get creative - scenes like you describe are basically dramatic action scenes. That means lots of fast cuts and well placed closeu | | | | |
| | | | Re: Best Stripe Size RAID 0 array
by Jose Nunoz on Jul 22, 2010 at 10:40:42 pm
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Well I don't know if it makes a difference, but I dumped all the footage on the RAID using the 256k stripe, and it seems to be playing the footage very smoothly even when there are lots of fast cuts, so no issues yet..... | | | | |
| | | | Re: Rapid cuts to music - is there a term for this?
by Mark Suszko on May 3, 2010 at 2:17:37 pm
in the Art of the Edit Forum
"Montage" alone has no set speed amd has several meanings open to mis-interpretation; it could be slow or fast and use a lot or relatively few shots and still be called "Montage".
I call what you're asking about "kinetic cutting", which to me im | | | | |
| | | | Re: Final Cut Pro Editor--Freelance
by ron sussman on Apr 22, 2010 at 10:30:12 pm
in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum
To whom it may concern:
I am an editor/designer/post production supervisor with over 20 years experience editing commercials, promos, trailers and long form programming. In addition, I also have an extensive production and photography background. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Ideas to Make Boring Street Scenes Energetic
by Steve Crow on Mar 11, 2010 at 11:47:04 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Thanks for all the advice....it was really too bad but the streets weren't busy at all which is what really concerned me to begin with - that essentially was the whole problem.
I totally agree with the music and fast cuts but I didn't realize th | | | | |
| | | | Wow looks good
by Roli Rivelino on Jan 20, 2010 at 1:30:02 am
in the COW - Videos Forum
I like this trailer, this sport was banned in Europe and they replaced it with the Red Bull Air Race, which as I'm sure you're aware, is more like a time trial than a race.
This is proper seat of the pants stuff and the trailer has REALLY made me | | | | |
| | | | Re: MPEG2 Encoding
by Michael Sacci on Oct 14, 2009 at 3:42:13 pm
in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum
Bitrate is the ONLY thing that determines file size. GOP is just the way it compresses. But bitrate is an average and in the normal sec you have 2 "I-Frames" when you change the GOP to 6 you now have 5 or 6 (depending on if 24 or 30 fps). So for the | | | | |
| | | | Re: Fast editing effect
by Paul Holland on Oct 8, 2009 at 9:32:33 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Well, I'm doing my own music video and there's parts of the song where fast cuts - such as in the example video - would really suit it.
So really I just plan on having various clips edited together with occasional fast cuts thrown in at various po | | | | |
| | | | Re: Repair/Replace Medea Video Raid 4/160
by Rodney Wolford on Aug 30, 2009 at 1:34:10 am
in the Forum
Hi Gerry,
Looks like you did a great modification, but I don't think it's the way I want to go. Seems SATA is the right wave for now, both for speed and cost.
What I am after at this time is probably 1 of 3 things: 1) New control board for the | | | | |
| | | | Bob Frace - Editor
by Bob Frace on Aug 6, 2009 at 10:41:07 pm
in the Forum
WORK EXPERIENCE Editor, National Geographic Channel, Washington, DC September 2004 - July 2005 Worked as Editor for National Geographic Channel - International and US. Edited Programming Material and some Promotional material for broadcast. Freelance | | | | |
| | | | Re: Feedback on short demo
by Lloyd Claycomb on Aug 5, 2009 at 5:33:04 pm
in the Demo Reels Forum
Great work! I liked the camera work (not the content, but you didn't ask. haha!). I particularly liked the fast-motion to slower effects you did like at the bridge. Very nice!
Nice choice in music for the fast cuts.
I also think the col | | | | |
| | | | Re: Music Video Syncing?
by Todd Terry on May 6, 2009 at 3:28:25 pm
in the Cinematography Forum
Well, I'm sure this is not the right way to do it, but it works...
We don't really do music videos, but I have done a couple just for fun, and did them exactly the way you said...
Performers lipsynced, of course, and rather than shooting MOS we | | | | |
| | | | Cinematographer's Legal Rights to Footage
by David Brunsman on Jan 8, 2009 at 12:09:01 am
in the Cinematography Forum
Any help that you can provide on my situation would be awesome. If you can please pass this e-mail to your Cinematographer friends, I'd really appreciate it.
Here is the situation:
I was working as the Cinematographer on a small start-up televisio | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cadence Problems
by Sean ONeil on Dec 16, 2008 at 5:30:05 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
No, export your edited movie as a self-containted 1080i. Open it in JES and inverse telecine to 1080p 23.98 which creates a new QT file. You should save as ProRes HQ to preserve quality. Make sure "detect cadence breaks" is selected. When it's do | | | | |
| | | | HD recapture issues
by Anthony Bairstow on Sep 13, 2008 at 11:29:52 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hi,
First of all, system:
FCP Studio 2, 8core processer, 9gb RAM, FW 800 GRAID storage, AJA IO capture box, Sony HDV deck (HVR-1500), Blackmagic videohub
This is one of my first times posting but I would greatly appreciate any help you could offe | | | | |
| | | | Spliting up layers in the timeline
by Carl Fritzell on Jun 24, 2008 at 11:52:46 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Hello all!
I'm fairly new to AE and I have one small problem. I mainly use the program for editing undergroud music videos with alot of poor footage and fast cuts.
As it is now, I do all the cuting Premiere and export a final cut to AE for placing | | | | |
| | | | Re: Need inspiration to spice up talking heads
by Ed Dooley on May 3, 2008 at 8:33:57 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
One quick thought. We've had a couple of similar situations with limited b-roll, and what worked for some of it was to scale down the talking head (1/4 to 1/3) and reposition it in different parts of the frame at cuts. So the full frame guy telling y | | | | |
| | | | Re: out of focus video- fixes in post?
by Robert Schwieger on Mar 12, 2008 at 8:32:40 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Question for you, Is the camera out of focus for long periods of time or is it on auto focus and it's bouncing back and forth between two focus points frequently?
Also what type of project is it and do you have any other footage, (b-roll, cut aways, | | | | |
| | | | Timing sync issues
by Fred Hunter on Jan 31, 2008 at 4:14:20 am
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
I'm having some troubles with a render of a clip that looks fine in PP(cs3) but the output avi looses sync to music. No trouble with voices syncing on the original video, just the overdubbed music.
There are two sections that I've edited fast cut | | | | |
| | | | WMV from FCP6
by Skywalker on Dec 4, 2007 at 3:44:54 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
My dear friends,
What is the best method and settings to use for delivering a 'Full Res' (or High Quality movies for presentations) & 10MB (for emailing) to be played on PCs with Windows Media Player by my client.
The source is a DV PAL sequence in | | | | |
| | | | Re: Make Dv looke good
by murforama on Nov 15, 2007 at 4:07:57 pm
in the AVID Forum
Any chance you can post a link to the commercial on the internet so feedback can be a little more constructive?
DV's main problem (and there are many) is that it is a 4:1:1 format and you're losing quite a bit of color information. Color correction | | | | |
| | | | Advice on reel.
by Scott Davis on Oct 4, 2007 at 11:05:53 pm
in the Demo Reels Forum
I'm having trouble putting together a reel. Most of the reels I see online are "sizzle" type reels. Fast cuts of flashy shows cut to the beat of a fast song. My best work does not lend itself to this type of edit (nor do I think this is my strength | | | | |
| | | | QT Conversion from HDV yields terrible results.
by carrcs on Aug 27, 2007 at 1:43:02 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I'm currently working in an HDV 108024p timeline at 23.98fps. I was going to post a scene i'd cut in this timeline on Youtube, but the results I'm getting by exporting via Quicktime Conversion are horrible to say the least. Fast cuts seem to throw t | | | | |
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