DVX100B lightsaber movie format help

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Michael Pick

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I just bought a AG DVX100B camera. I want to make a lightsaber film using Adobe After Effects 7.0 Pro. What would be the best mode to shoot in? 24p, 30p, 60i? I'll have to be doing a lot of rotoscoping, so I thought a progressive mode would be best. What do you think?:undecided
 
24p of course.. then you get the movie look and you also get "whole images" and not "jagged" interlaced images..
so it's easier to find the saber when you rotoscope..
 
Michael Pick said:
I just bought a AG DVX100B camera. I want to make a lightsaber film using Adobe After Effects 7.0 Pro. What would be the best mode to shoot in? 24p, 30p, 60i? I'll have to be doing a lot of rotoscoping, so I thought a progressive mode would be best. What do you think?:undecided
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OK, this is the part where I look like an idiot: what the heck is a lightsaber film? and what is rotoscoping?? Just curious and I am here to learn (well, obviously!)
 
Deuceofspades said:
OK, this is the part where I look like an idiot: what the heck is a lightsaber film? and what is rotoscoping?? Just curious and I am here to learn (well, obviously!)
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A "Lightsaber Film" Is a film with light sabers in it. Like in Starwars...

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscope ( The light sabers in Star Wars were Rotoscoped.
 
Go with 30p if you're only planning on uploading it to the net. Most sites downconvert it to 15fps, so it's really easy to go from 30 to 15.

Go with 24p if you're planning on putting it on a reel or something. The film look really helps you sell the effect.

Please, oh please, don't shoot it in 60i. Interlacing makes compositing a pain, especially rotoscoping.
 
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