CC Stills.. Have at 'em

redcap

redcap

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These are some stills from a shoot I did about 2 years ago.. Its an ongoing process..

Anyway I screwed up (this was the second project that I shot with the DVX) and had this habit of shooting really wide and not framing the subjects properly. I used the panasonic anamorphic lense and squeeze mode so in post I basically zoomed in on a 4:3 box of the image that was most pertainant.

Thats why the footage looks the way it does.. I dropped it into shake and a few nodes later this came out:

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The cc's are definitely better than the originals. Unfortunately the orginals aren't that great. They actually don't even look like typical DVX shots to me.

Still, good cc work.

Chris
 
Why Shake? Why use a $3,000 compositing application for basic CC? Not implying anything and please don't feel compelled to respond, but I've found the majority of people using Shake have no idea what it costs or even what it's supposed to do because they didn't pay for, they, uhh, "borrowed it from a friend"... Sorry for the rant, it's a pet peave.

You can adjust levels, but the shots weren't all that compelling to begin with... Just have to live with the results. I like the way you boosted the saturation, but otherwise it's hard to imagine much could be done with CC to enhance these shots any further. One idea is to make this a 2.37:1 project, in other words, super wide screen. Hope this helps.
 
thisiswells said:
Why Shake? Why use a $3,000 compositing application for basic CC? Not implying anything and please don't feel compelled to respond, but I've found the majority of people using Shake have no idea what it costs or even what it's supposed to do because they didn't pay for, they, uhh, "borrowed it from a friend"... Sorry for the rant, it's a pet peave.
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I think you're overlooking those of us who have purchased a book on shake basics which comes with a trial version of Shake.
 
You've got to work with what you've got. If you've filmed something in the past and there's no way of reshooting you just try to clean it up as best you can.

It does look out of focus but if that's all you have to work with do your best.

I liked the last pic of the couple the best.
 
My problem is not only with the lighting setups and the scenario color schemes (and your colors being too red), but with composition. This is awfully framed and that is not just the fault of the anamorphic adapter, but this shots really lack depth, and the subjects are framed too wide for situp interviews. There is way too much headroom and the subjects have their feet cut off. Sorry for being harsh, but that is truly how I feel.

If you had framed this propperly, your raw images would certainly beat the cc'd ones...
 
I'm going to re-shoot. Its no big deal, I shot this three years ago and I've learned a lot since then.
 
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