mikeyonwordress

my indislider came today.

i had made a glidetrack for my camera for barcelona, it was pretty budget anyway… made for £15 from stuff in my dad’s garage and some skateboard wheels off a couple of crappy decks i bought down to argos. it was working alright till i took it on location, and it kind of ruined all the shots i had planned for it. and it was heavy and awkward. also didn’t make it to fit on a tripod.

so i came back and just went and bought a manufactured one. it was like £70-£80. but i have decided it is a better decision for long term use, and also ease of transport, and the fact that it actually works well.

although i am pretty angry that i didn’t have it for barcelona, i will be using it in the next week to create some stuff for my showreel.

mitsuki 28mm 2.8

canon fd 50mm 1.8

ghosting…

i’m having trouble with using different frame rates in the same composition, so i posted this on a forum

michael simpson 20 days ago Delete / Edit

i have both 29.97fps and 59.97fps clips i have both exported out at 720p.
the clips that were 59.97fps, i have conformed to 24fps in cinema tools.

i’m using premiere cs3, hdv 720p 29.97 composition setting.

when i use this, my 29.97 is obviously fine but i get some ghosting on the slow stuff.

this will be the same but the other way round if i use the 24fps composition setting…

so as my composition is a mix of both, is any other way to do this apart from changing the 24fps footage to 29.97fps and it not being as slow?

would appreciate any help! thanks

mike]

annoyingly, i had no reply. so i went to get some help of jason watkins.

he came up with this… i haven’t had a chance to test this yet. but will need to tomorrow at university. couldn’t get on the computers yesterday as there was hand-in for the second years and they slowed me down.

i came back with a few shaky clips – so i put them through the image stabilization tool in after effects…

from filming for a month and a bit now on a dslr, i have learnt that it will be good to acquire a follow focus system. luckily, this is one thing i am sure i can DIY.

kind of wish i had one of these for barcelona when using my glidetrack -YOU LIVE AND LEARN. got away with it though, with chance and about 10 tries.

i am at a point now where i have to start looking in to the finer details of my video.

i’ve seen a lot of stuff about colour grading recently, shin su showed me the work of one colourist.

however i am definitely colourblind. which means in terms of what looks good to my eyes, will look stupid to someone else. so apart from contrast and brightness, i am not very useful. however, most of the shots i have chosen to use are pretty good colour wise and don’t need a lot of correcting. so what i am going to do is use someone elses eyes to look at what i can do to the shots i am unhappy with and see what we can come up with.

in my testing i played about with the magic bullet software, which i have found to be useful in creating moods… but most of the effects look a bit heavy and overused especially in the world of vimeo. so i don’t think i will use them on my piece and if i do – wisely.

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i think this is kind of a cool way of displaying titles

thinking about titles and also, how i can explain my work to my peers, especially on the critique…
i had this idea before i even went to barcelona. i want to make a written piece that is basically a rewording of my learning agreement that will be read out in spanish with english subtitles. it will tell the audience what to expect and why i have done it. also it will get them in the right mood for something european!

also, i know i have posted this before but in ‘people of brighton’ they have mapped the camera shake pattern to text which is a nice technique.

i got back from barcelona last sunday and have for the last few days, doing the mammoth task of looking through all my clips and converting them to a file that is readable by final cut or premiere. (.mov)

my camera films in AVCHD. i encountered the problem of having to convert my files back when i was doing my testing, which led me in the search for some conversion software. i came across a program called ‘toast titanium’.

this program took a while to get working how i wanted it, as i had to experiment with using it to cut clips before i exported them as .movs as otherwise it would take ages outputting a lot of unnecessary footage. and also learning what export settings were the right ones for 1080p footage and 720p footage. i ended up exporting my 1080p stuff to 720p.mov as well the actual 720p footage.

problems encountered/
had some problems with editing…
(show premiere tests)
went to use FCP and i couldn’t because the version i have doesn’t read .MTS files (AVCHD format).
so then I went to Premiere Pro. This was fine, until i began filming in 720p instead of 1080p… I did this to get some slow motion testing done and i’m glad I did now. I’m not sure why, but I just can’t get 720p .MTS files to come out at the right resolution.
So i went back to final cut pro. It took me a while to get it working on here but it eventually worked. I did however encounter this problem with cross dissolving, as it is different in FCP. That was solved by this advice.

http://www.fcpbook.com/Effects1.html

in uni right now. here are some screen shots of the sequence.

i actually had a massive problem here, i was working for about 5 minutes before the last auto-save and i think i started rendering and premiere crashed. lukily, i took a screen shot about 1 minute earlier and had to look at it as a reference to correct the edit to what i had before the crash. thank god for screenshots!!!!!!

i also didn’t know how to fade out audio tracks so the help paged HELPED me out. FANX.

here we have me, saving loads.

here is a list of the raw files i had to wade through. and then a list of the files i chose to keep for editing.