SHORT: I have a continuity problem in a shot I need advice on.

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ironpony

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I wasn't able to have the location for shooting as long as I was originally scheduled. The owner cut us short by about 3 hours, and we had to work fast to get as much done as we could. I didn't have time for getting much coverage in the end and we had to leave. The scenes I did get were good, and with the coverage I got, I think I can cut and splice and make it all work. However there is one problem, I could not fix, now that I went through the footage. There is a scene where one of the actors is standing, then when the camera goes behind him, he is all of a sudden sitting. I was going to shoot another part of the scene in between these two takes, but did have time of course.

Now I can start with the take of actor A, standing. Then cut to a second to Actor B's look on his face. Then cut back to the actor A sitting, all of a sudden. In the middle cut with actor B, I can also dub over with the sound effect of actor A getting back into his chair. But it did not show him sit back down, as it cut to the other guy for a second, then back. Plus he was in such a dramatic unrelaxed moment, that I find it hard to believe he would all of a sudden sit back down in a second. It just doesn't feel convincing. But I think there is no other way around this one. Thoughts?
 
If the quality of the footage is good enough, on the editing, Zoom in on the actor A while is is standing, in a way that we can't know if he is sitting or standing.

Or use the sitting footage twice and dub the first dialogue on it. Since we can't see the mouth moving, it should work. Just zoom in and move the footage a little bit to the right then a little bit to the left so it doesn't look like the same footage. You can add a little bit of soft shaking with after effect to simulate a steadicam movement to make it even more random...

Or while the actor A is talking standing up, in the middle, cut it and stay longer on the face of Actor B listening to him and dub an "extra text" saying something like "****... I need to sit!" then the rest of the real text and then go to the sitting footage...

Don't know this can work since I can't see the footage...
 
Okay thanks. I haven't tried zooming yet. I will have to get a better program for that, but I was going to anyway so it shouldn't be a problem. It will be a few weeks before I can get it, and the actors might consider a reshoot the last time I talked to them. I will prepare for the first and see about zooming. So if I shot at 1080p at 24fps, is there a general rule of thumb as to how much I can zoom in post, before it looks 'too bad', as in ruins the movie from any potential?

Another thing is, how is it that at my day job, we can zoom in with security cameras, and then add more pixels to make everything clear? I don't know if it's adding more pixels, but they do something to zoom in, then clear up the pixelation. Couldn't I do something like that?
 
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