Everything Digital Video

Trouble with After Effects

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:18:15 GMT

Any have an idea what I am doing wrong?:

I capture 1080i footage from my HDR-FX1 in Premiere, and have it from there. When I bring it into After Effects it's got the correct aspect ratio, but when I try to render it out it squishes the aspect ration. I have to take the footage in through Super and for the aspect ratio, to get it back to the 1.333 with a 640x480 file.

Any idea how to remove this extra step?

FLASH question

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:26:32 GMT

FLASH question

I have several HUNDRED paper drawings I scanned in that I want to trace in FLASH.

Other than "import to library" or - what I am doing, is copying one of the layers in Photoshop and dragging them over and trying to align them by hand (ack!)

is there an easier better way to import a psd file with about 300 layers?

this is the web cam edited version that i want to scan in and make into a crisp flash movie

.intercourse

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:02:13 GMT

.jackie

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:58:29 GMT

FCP exporting

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:05:51 GMT

This SHOULD be simple. It sure used to be. Exporting from Final Cut Pro to use in DVD studio pro.

I go to file.... export.... and then I thought I would just choose MPEG 2

My chpices are mpeg 4, among others, which isnt right

if I make it as a gigantic ".mov" it says "wrong format"

what should I export it as?

Its a 2 hopur piece, should I break it in two and re assemble in DVDSP?

Goodbye Suddenly

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:49:35 GMT

Hi, my name is George Wong, I'm an actor from Toronto, Canada, and currently living in NYC.
This is my first music video, me dancing to a mix of music of Nancy Sinatra (remix), Gigi D'agostino, Hellogoodbye, and Gloworm.
It's a closure piece for my last relationship.

Happy 4th of July - Skeleton Music Video

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:50:05 GMT

Stop-Motion animation edited with After Effects and Reason 3.0 for the music...

AE / FCP Training

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:10:44 GMT

Can anyone suggest a good school/facility that provides any kind of advanced motion graphic & video editing classes/workshops/conferences in the NYC area...

My company has offered to cover charges for it, and now it's just a matter of finding the right classes..

I'm having trouble finding something that sounds right..

Getting Adobe Certified

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:09:19 GMT

Is anyone here certified with any of the Adobe video products? I'm thinking of starting with After Effects CS3, and would like recommendations of what to to study for the test. I've got the Lynda.com stuff, and the actual manual. Any other suggestions?

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:25:52 GMT

Call for entries Coney Island Film Festival

indiefilmpage.com and Coney Island USA present the 8th annual Coney Island Film Festival September 26- 28, 2008 at Sideshows by the Seashore and The Coney Island Museum in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood Coney Island, New York!

Late deadline June 25th, 2008 (postmarked)
Extended late deadline July 3rd, 2008 (postmarked)

The Coney Island Film Festival is open to filmmmakers working in ALL GENRES, SUBJECTS AND FORMATS.

Coney Island Film Fest website, click here

Enter through Withoutabox.com, click here

Paper entry form, click here

Final Day of Voting! Help Me Win $5000 for the Greater Boston Food Bank!

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:35:46 GMT

I'm a finalist over at http://irisevideo.com/index.php?/official-voting.html, my video is #5, "Irise Viral Project"...the one with the juggling.

If I win their Grand Prize ($15,000), I'm donating $5K of that to the Greater Boston Food Bank! If I pull a runner-up prize ($2500), I'll be donating $1000.

But, of course, I need votes to win. So, vote for me! :-) And, of course, tell your friends, if you're so inclined. Voting ends tonight at midnight!

Thanks!

Francis Ford Coppola Predicted Youtube!

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:27:51 GMT

Light Meters

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:49:14 GMT

Since I am getting professional lights, and I'm getting pretty sick and tired of doing things half-assed, I'm thinking about getting a light meter.

Recommendations? I'd prefer to get something cheap but effective, but failing that I'll hold my nose and buy the Spectra IV-A.

Random Hi Def anxietys

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:05:36 GMT

Should I sell my Sony VX2100 now? Im thinking that when HiDef becomes standard next year, all SD stuff will plummet in worth. Id probably only get half what I paid for it now, bit much less later. Yes? No?

Do you think Hi Def Cameras with go up or down in price next year?

Whats the best Hi Def camera to get?
Someone told me that the ones that will take mini dv tape only shoot in letter boxed hi def (1080 by 70?) is that true?

The TRUE hi def cameras don't use tape - they have build in hard drives a/o use SD cards? is THAT true?

Im an independent filmmaker- and Im thinking that shooting stuff now in true big hi def will make my stuff more sellable in the near future?

any experience in "bumping up" SD to hd?

I have a dozen tapes of a band that were shot in sd mini dv- if I want to make a documentary on them and stretching the image up to hi def OR ,making the sd footage a shrunken box within the hi def image- play it off like I did it on purpose ( I've seen shows on ESPN where its apparently old standard def footage in a box within the screen.

I've played standard def dvds on a hi def TV and it looks ok, a little too horizontally stretched- bit I wonder if anybody but a video person would even notice that.

.LOVERBOY

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:52:13 GMT

volume: up
lip dub: modern take on an eighties rock classic
music: loverboy - take me to the top - 1981 - get lucky
actor/model: rob lloyd (aka. great dane)
assistant: bruce strait
creator/director: evanoah sea
video: 11

.svetlana in HD

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:59:39 GMT

hello everybody. after taking a long break from LJ, i am really excited to see several cool video communities exist. have enjoyed looking at some of your work, thank you for the inspiration.

made this HDV last week. you can view it in HD on vimeo through the links...
enjoy,
evanoah

video capture problems - sound

Wed, 28 May 2008 15:14:08 GMT

I have a problem, got an old hi8 camera, using a digitiser and the software is Ulead7 [also got 9]. after much faffing about I can get the video to capture but on my laptop the sound is there but really really quiet, while on the PC it doesn;t seem to be there at all. Does anyone use Ulead software who might be able to give some hints? have looked for every instance of volume control and mute options I can find and all those are now set ok. I just can't get sound captured.

band music video contest with a $5000 prize

Sun, 25 May 2008 00:14:16 GMT

If you are into making videos it might be a good match. I am posting a small banner and not a lengthy description to save everybody time. All info is on the site, if you want to know.

Also don't dwell on my user pic, I deleted my old LJ like a year ago and this new LJ is for personal blabbering only. :)

http://www.farecords.com/lena-contest.html

Hillary Clinton explains

Sat, 24 May 2008 21:42:14 GMT

We made a video. Send this to all your friends.

solid blacks in B+W without noise?

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:07:12 GMT

Hi,

wondering if anyone has any techniques for keeping my blacks solid in B+W, i.e. no purpule and green video noise. maybe its a compression issue or something, but i wish that stuff wasn't there.
i am on osx using fcp 6.

thank you

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:52:06 GMT

Hello! Some friends and I are about to attempt our first full-length video. I need advice on finding some things for it. Some background information:

We're certainly not expecting anything magnificent, we're just some really amaturish high-schoolers making a video for fun. We really have no higher aspirations for this than to be a little youtube video. But we do want to try to do a quality job.

It's going to be a satire of bad horror movies with some political themes.

Music
My friends and I certainly don't have the resources to make our own music, so I'm going to have to find music on the internet (and of course I'll credit it). Of course I'm willing to pay for the music, but unfortunately, I run into problems doing that through iTunes, as they sell you protected music files that cannot be used in a video file. So, I have two questions regarding music:
1. Could anyone recommend me any songs that might be appropriate for our movie? We need some suspenseful, foreboding music, as well as some music that would go well with a chase scene. Anything that sounds very stereotypical horror would be great.
2. What are some good sites to obtain music or sound effects? Again I am willing to pay but I need to be able to receive unprotected files.

Software
Right now, my only video-editing software is Windows Movie Maker. I don't need anything really advanced, but I'd like to step it up. What software would you recommend? Anything free is great, but again I am willing to pay, since I will continue to use it in the future, but I'd say my limit is $300 at the very most. I'm not looking for any specific features, I'd just love to be able to do more than what WMM has to offer.

A huge thank you extended in advance!

Dirt on footage problem

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:50:24 GMT

Adobe Premiere, 60i.
How would I go about getting rid of this dirt from a moving image?

advice on lecture filming/sharing

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:34:55 GMT

I have to get a camera for work, so our staff development person can record trainings and lectures to share with other people.

Simplicity is the important thing here, as the people using this won't be the best computer users.
Quality isn't much of an issue, but recording time is.

I'm leaning towards a hard drive based camera, since trainings can go all day, and I can foresee changing tapes or dvds resulting in a call to the helpdesk (me).

The JVC Everio cameras seem to meet the recording time requirements, and the share stations look pretty easy to use.

Has anyone had any experience with these (or similar) products, or with doing the same type of filming?

thanks!

INDIANA JONES draws STAR WARS!

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:26:22 GMT

Fan of INDIANA JONES and STAR WARS are already aware of numerous instances in which the Indy films reference the films from the "galaxy far, far away..." (Did you know that in Temple of Doom, the sound the plane's engines make when it runs out of fuel is the same sound the Millennium Falcon makes when the hyperdrive fails?) Now, paying homage reverses in my latest How To Draw STAR WARS video!

In this episode, I dress up as the famous archeologist, (can you tell I'm having way too much fun with this?) seeking the Temple of Vader. I uncovers the mysteries of the Original STAR WARS Style D "Circus" poster, and prepare to illustrate it's bookend piece for REVENGE OF THE SITH. With the aid of Lucasfilm's Pete Vilmur, you'll see the entire process for getting a STAR WARS poster approved and the many different sketches an artist often goes through. You'll also see how I incorporate digital technology to accommodate changes to the traditional sketches.

How To Draw STAR WARS! Episode 10 of 20: Sith Circus Sketching!

You can check out the first Indy-themed episode on MySpaceTV above. As well, you can see a higher res 640 X 480 version at StarWars.com by clicking HERE. Last but certainly not least, you can also download this episode as a Quicktime movie right HERE.

Hope you enjoy!