HVX video- Metal band from Iowa

jontuttle said:
Thanks Ben. We need to make the switch to FCP. Premiere Pro is the bane of our existence. God I hate it. At least you can tell when it is acting up and save before your whole PC crashes. Sorry to rant. Good job.
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I'm a premiere fan myself.

Great work on the video. I'm from nebraska so it's nice to see the midwest represent! Great job!!!
 
Great video...

I couldn't stop watching it. Looks like high resolution film, HVX doing a great job in your hands !
I'd like to see a DVD resolution version in my monitor :)
You can be a director if you wish :)

I liked the subtle effects and blur masks. Nice job !

Only a suggestion, in the timecode shots, a small shake in the center area should create an interesting heavy feeling.

Congratulations !
Ulisses Simionato
 
Man, this is some great stuff! Thanks for posting it. What was your lighting package for when the girl was drinking wine at the table? Thanks.
 
4mat said:
How did you crop the balck bars off for 2:23:1 ?
I've been searching for the answer for this for ages.
Cheers.
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Well the original FCP sequence was 720P (16:9) and I matted with 2.35 filter.

Cropping off the bars: if you saw the Flash version, I did it in Flash Video Encoder. If you saw a QuickTime version with the bars cropped off, I did that in Final Cut Pro by creating a custom sequence with the 2.35:1 aspect ratio, placing the 16:9 letterboxed HD aster within it and exporting the small .mov's from there. For DVD I leave it as a 16:9 file, through Compressor, so the whole image will display on screen (minus overscan). Maybe somebody has an alternative method, this is just how I've done it.
 
bosindy said:
Man, this is some great stuff! Thanks for posting it. What was your lighting package for when the girl was drinking wine at the table? Thanks.
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A single 1K softlight. There is some serious post filtering going on, so it'd be dishonest for me to say the look of those shots of her is simply lighting. I would've preferred to nail the look in the acquisition stage but I didn't have it totally determined at that point. Thank you for looking and for your positive feedback.
 
ulisses said:
Great video...

I couldn't stop watching it. Looks like high resolution film, HVX doing a great job in your hands !
I'd like to see a DVD resolution version in my monitor :)
You can be a director if you wish :)

I liked the subtle effects and blur masks. Nice job !

Only a suggestion, in the timecode shots, a small shake in the center area should create an interesting heavy feeling.

Congratulations !
Ulisses Simionato
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Thank you. Good suggestions. BTW, my good friend Isabel Machado (who works in Salvador Bahia now) had a heavy hand in the look of this video. I like to think she brought a Brazilian sensibility to the project:)
 
Ben Hill said:
Well the original FCP sequence was 720P (16:9) and I matted with 2.35 filter.

I did that in Final Cut Pro by creating a custom sequence with the 2.35:1 aspect ratio, placing the 16:9 letterboxed HD aster within it and exporting the small .mov's from there.
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Hey Ben,
Thanks for the info I was refering to the QT version.
What aspect ratio or frame size do you use for 2:35:1, my maths a little rusty.
Cheers.
-matt
 
n8ture said:
You can just crop them off in Compressor. Super duper easy.
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I must be missing something but I can never get compressor to crop.
What are the exact settings I need to use for say a full size 720p (16:9) movie cropped to 2:35:1 in compressor.
Many Many thanks in advance.
 
4mat said:
Hey Ben,
Thanks for the info I was refering to the QT version.
What aspect ratio or frame size do you use for 2:35:1, my maths a little rusty.
Cheers.
-matt
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The aspect ratio is itself 2.35:1, so just apply that to whatever size you want your product to be.

My original sequence was 1280x720. So, 1280/2.35=545 (roughly). 1280x545. My web versions are much smaller but the same aspect ratio.
 
4mat said:
I must be missing something but I can never get compressor to crop.
What are the exact settings I need to use for say a full size 720p (16:9) movie cropped to 2:35:1 in compressor.
Many Many thanks in advance.
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I don't know how to use Compressor for actually cropping or masking off part of the image. I only use Compressor for encoding HD files down to MPEG-2, to either 4:3 or 16:9. For wider I crop either in FCP or in Flash Video Encoder.
 
Thanks Ben :)

So for say a web export width of 580 you get a hight of around 247 (580 divided by 2.35). I didn't realise the math was in the aspect ratio lol (I faild math due to other interests).

I have found out how to crop with compressor now !!! All you need to do is go to inspctor and crop about 88 top and bottom ( drag the red lines to crop the image in the viewer). Then the imporant bit is to make sure you imput the correct 2:35 custom frame size into the custom frame size fields (and not a regular 16:9 frame size as I was doing), see screenshot:
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