HP Commercial spoof

Actually did it all in FCP. Took a freeze frame just as he held the frame up to his face then "PAINSTAKINGLY" cropped and moved him down frame by frame. Took me about 2 hours to get it looking like this. When it's full screen, you can see more mistakes, but again...fun to play around!
 
I think it looks great.

It's liek when you try to rotoscope the cheap way by doing mattes and go frame by frame adjusting, tkaes like 2-3 min per frame so a second of footage can take an hour... I love that pleasantville effect sometimes though.

The energy was well worth it. Good job!
 
eppdidit,

Very nicely done and worth the PAIN! You clearly have the skills of a digital wizard.

Just saw your Sawyer Brown CMT video. What a masterpiece! Questions in that thread centered around your camera settings and CC work in FCP ... especially how you achieved that green look of the int./ext. bus shots. Since these questions were not addressed in that thread, would you mind sharing with us exactly how you accomplished the amazing look of this video via the camera settings and FCP's color correction? If you wish to keep it confidential, we would respect your wishes.

Thanks!
 
No problem. Thanks for the compliments!

The look of the Sawyer Brown video was tedious adjustment of colors until we were happy. I used Magic Bullet and then went into to the presets and adjusted accordingly. There were a few shots that I applied a filter called "One Color" (came in a plugin package, but can't remember where I found it...sorry). This filter allowed you to pull out only one color, everything else is b/w...works well.
 
eppdidit,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts so promptly. While I aspire to emulate your Sawyer Brown video look, I am also a realist and acknowledge that my attempts will be far from successful!

Do you recall which MB preset you used and the parameters you might have adjusted relative to the int./ext. bus shots using FCP's CC? Did you pump up the greens and then saturate? Do you happen to remember the camera settings? In other words, how might I attain that look using the camera presets and CC tools for that one delightful and specific greenish look?

Thanks!
 
eppdidit :

Does FCP allow you to what in AE is a Corner Pin? You would save yourself loads of time if it could.

Basically, it tracks all the data from the four corners of the frame, and then ou just plop a new piece of footage in there. It takes care of rotation and scale, so no tedious keyframing.
 
Yes. I think? if your talking about interpolating frame

FCP does interpolate between keyframes, but to make this effect I had to literally tweek almost every frame because the border (picture frame) was not real steady on the way down. I tried to cheat between a lot of frames, but could never get a clean enough look.

More on SB video. I used the Green Pearl in the MB Look Suite, but don't remember the exact settings I used. If you play around with it long enough, you should get some nice images. I do remember bringing up the saturation, crushing out some blacks, and diffusing the image a bit.
 
Thanks for the MB info. Top notch work .... looking forward to seeing more of your fine creations in the future.
 
eppdidit said:
Yes. I think? if your talking about interpolating frame

FCP does interpolate between keyframes, but to make this effect I had to literally tweek almost every frame because the border (picture frame) was not real steady on the way down. I tried to cheat between a lot of frames, but could never get a clean enough look.

More on SB video. I used the Green Pearl in the MB Look Suite, but don't remember the exact settings I used. If you play around with it long enough, you should get some nice images. I do remember bringing up the saturation, crushing out some blacks, and diffusing the image a bit.
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Corner Pinning is more like motion tracking. You simply set up the Corner Pin, place the tracking boxes where you want them to be and then the footage is analized and the positions of the track boxes are set. then you take an immage or animtion, size it and tell the motion track data to be applied to the image. Not overly difficult, and with decently stableized footage and your actor not waving the box around like mad, it will save gobs of time.
 
Great job! I saw that commercial a while back and thought it was pretty cool (but had to have taken a while to do). Maybe with one of those animation programs it would have been a little easier to do?
 
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