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Brandon Rice said:
Head over to the cafe... and look for the thread for my film Smuggler's Ransom, and you can see some stills from my CC'd footage.
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I'm new to this site, so I don't know what you're talking about. Could you link it.

And to get matters correct, in color correction, it's only the brightness that destroys the quality of ur vid, right? Not doing something like..changing the colors (RGB levels)​
 
WhiteWood said:
But I did brighten some dark footage and brought up the saturation a little and it came out light, ugly and GRAINY! So is it HOPELESS for dark footage? I read somewhere that for dark scenes, just shoot at duski, day for night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxuLfOB3PEo
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You have to expose PROPERLY Don't blow it out, but get as much light as possible. Or it will be grainy and nasty...
 
Brandon Rice said:
Head over to the cafe... and look for the thread for my film Smuggler's Ransom, and you can see some stills from my CC'd footage.
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P.S....Just watched the Trailer for your film. Nice footage. But you mustv'e been focusing on your footage for so long, that you forgot about sound. It doesn't sound too sweet. Every cut, the ambience changes. But other than that...Looks nice.​
 
Sounds not done yet (balanced, sweetened)... kind of cut that trailer QUICK for a film festival... thanks for the comments on the footage...
 
Been shooting for about two and a half years... Me and my friend adapted the screenplay from a stageplay and novel written in the 80's.
 
WhiteWood said:
And to get matters correct, in color correction, it's only the brightness that destroys the quality of ur vid, right? Not doing something like..changing the colors (RGB levels)[/CENTER]
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Whitewood... first off, you're not going to lose any quality by importing. All info is captured onto the mini dv tape, and whichever camera or deck you use, you'll get the same info (as long as you're set up correctly in your editing station)

Second - never use the "brightness" to brighten up your "dark" footage. Use your levels, and play with the "white level" and "black level".

Third - If you're serious about learning, I think the best way is to search through the forums and SPEND SOME TIME READING what everyone has to say. There's SO much info on here, and it's usually written in layman terms so it's easily understandable.

Do a search for "export", "best export", "export settings", etc., and you'll find tons of info.
 
rcbrown23 said:
Whitewood... first off, you're not going to lose any quality by importing. All info is captured onto the mini dv tape, and whichever camera or deck you use, you'll get the same info (as long as you're set up correctly in your editing station)

Second - never use the "brightness" to brighten up your "dark" footage. Use your levels, and play with the "white level" and "black level".

Third - If you're serious about learning, I think the best way is to search through the forums and SPEND SOME TIME READING what everyone has to say. There's SO much info on here, and it's usually written in layman terms so it's easily understandable.

Do a search for "export", "best export", "export settings", etc., and you'll find tons of info.
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The 'don't use brightness' tip helped LOTS. Because that's exactly what I've been doing. And importing DOES seem to screw up my footage. I firewire it in just fine and then...f*ck it. I'll worry about that later.

Ok, so all I need to know now is the absolute BEST audio exporting (I usually choose one encoding pass, 48kbs 44kHz Stereo CBR...And I don't know what ANY of that means, I just know that the numbers are higher, so it must mean something better)
And the best media encoder...Quicktime, Macomedia...How do you even PLAY Macromedia if you don't have it on your comp. MySpace and YouTube don't accept that type for uploading do they...
 
If you're exporting to DVD, you should probably use a Dolby stereo setting. You get good sound at a fraction of disc space leaving more room for your video. In any event, you probably want your audio in your timeline at 48 kHz.
 
If its good compresion you want easy

If its good compresion you want easy

If its good compresion you want easy get this program Sorenson Squeeze. this realy helps somehow and sacrafices realy little. I recomend it only for showing people you know or web but not for film festivals.
 
For web encoding I get best results with H.264 for QT. For DVD CBR 2 pass - best quailty.
 
Brandon Rice said:
What are you using to edit with? Which program? Maybe there's a setting wrong when you capture...
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Adobe Premiere Pro. And I also find that when I import, it frames it with this black..like, it makes my image smaller. And I can't find the setting to make it full screen, so I have to stretch EVERY clip to 185. The stretching of the pixels may have something to do with it too.​
 
Blaine said:
If you're exporting to DVD, you should probably use a Dolby stereo setting. You get good sound at a fraction of disc space leaving more room for your video. In any event, you probably want your audio in your timeline at 48 kHz.
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Why do they even HAVE settings like 8 kHz which sound like complete sh*t?​
 
vortex677 said:
If its good compresion you want easy get this program Sorenson Squeeze. this realy helps somehow and sacrafices realy little. I recomend it only for showing people you know or web but not for film festivals.
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Well, THAT'S what I need.

The PERFECT IMAGE.

How can I IMPORT, edit and EXPORT without loosing ANY QUALITY.

WHATEVER I have to do, I'll do it. Because I work VERY hard on my writing and editing to come out with these half-ass images.​
 
WhiteWood said:
Adobe Premiere Pro. And I also find that when I import, it frames it with this black..like, it makes my image smaller. And I can't find the setting to make it full screen, so I have to stretch EVERY clip to 185. The stretching of the pixels may have something to do with it too.​
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I have never used premiere, so I am afraid I cannot help... I'd go to the premiere section on this forum, and ask your specific questions there... they'll be able to help ya.
 
ncje said:
For web encoding I get best results with H.264 for QT. For DVD CBR 2 pass - best quailty.
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Now this is what I like to hear. Hard facts and not opinions
(Is that video or Audio)​
 
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