PUSH - Directed by Matt Sconce

Well, Today I will be working on a couple more VFX shots. I am editing at 2k in After effects and not using proxies. It is handling it okay, but the effects are slow going. They look good though. Green Screening is going well, I need to clean up some keys with garbage mattes and then things will go more smoothly as the green screens were not lit evenly enough it seems. No significant hurdles yet except for the size of the footage being worked with. I will let you know how the next couple days go.
 
msconce said:
In the midst of this all, Mark and I just found out we were nominated for an EMMY for a Educational Weather Program we made for children. We find out if we win it on May 10th. I would then be able to say I am an Emmy winning Cinematographer/Editor. That would rock. Okay...back to Push...I will hopefully finish a large chunk of the VFX tonight.
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WOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!! EMMY NOMINATION!!! YAY!!!!!

Congratulations on your Emmy nomination Matt! :D

I see your amazing work up close, and as your father am biased...but it is neat to see that you are being recognized by peers and the industry as well. Even to be nominated is a tremendous recognition of your abilities as a director, cinematographer and editor.

Other news...

I finished the complete shock absorbing arm of the HYPERCAM over the weekend. The unit is articulated with three moving joints, each with two bearings instead of the normal one. The rig will be adjustable from 1-80 lbs. (although I don't want to carry 80 lbs!) I am have made major improvements to the vest and articulation points, and am making a new 'Hyper-drive' method of control the as far as I know hasn't ever been used. Shoud work well for Mark's shoot of Netherborn.:happy:
 
Gary Sconce said:
WOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!! EMMY NOMINATION!!! YAY!!!!!

Congratulations on your Emmy nomination Matt! :D

I see your amazing work up close, and as your father am biased...but it is neat to see that you are being recognized by peers and the industry as well. Even to be nominated is a tremendous recognition of your abilities as a director, cinematographer and editor.

Other news...

I finished the complete shock absorbing arm of the HYPERCAM over the weekend. The unit is articulated with three moving joints, each with two bearings instead of the normal one. The rig will be adjustable from 1-80 lbs. (although I don't want to carry 80 lbs!) I am have made major improvements to the vest and articulation points, and am making a new 'Hyper-drive' method of control the as far as I know hasn't ever been used. Shoud work well for Mark's shoot of Netherborn.:happy:
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Sounds Awesome! I can't wait to see the finished product! Thanks for the congrats too!:2vrolijk_08:
 
I was going to say, That looks like Justin from blair Media, I know him, lol, I got to play with that red on saturday over at Cine-look, got to see some rushes I believe of this film, looks sharp as hell!



Jon
 
The RED is pretty Awesome! I am definitely going to purchase one when I am no longer a starving director. Until then...thanks to Justin for the use of the RED it is MUCH appreciated! I love that Push involves a lot of us here in Fresno, Fresno is becoming a growing film community and it is nice to start to unite instead of struggle with each other to get ahead. If we all did this, we would all complete many more projects and they would be much better quality. Thanks for the compliments, the cut is coming along nicely. Stay tuned for possible new screen grabs...perhaps...we shall see...
 
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msconce said:
The RED is pretty Awesome! I am definitely going to purchase one when I am no longer a starving director. Until then...thanks to Justin for the use of the RED it is MUCH appreciated! I love that Push involves a lot of us here in Fresno, Fresno is becoming a growing film community and it is nice to start to unite instead of struggle with each other to get ahead. If we all did this, we would all complete many more projects and they would be much better quality. Thanks for the compliments, the cut is coming along nicely. Stay tuned for possible new screen grabs...perhaps...we shall see...
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The Red IS awesome. Justin and Ian are great and really talented. Fresno is a really inviting place to shoot with amazing areas visually, and has a firm talent base for even feature length projects.

BTW, really liked the effects you showed me this weekend. Nice! Man, you really know your stuff Matt.

I will be glad when the Red is easier to use with windows formated machines and one doesn't have to perform as much work to get stuff edited as you have had to do. Just wait, that will come. :2vrolijk_08:
 
Gary Sconce said:
The Red IS awesome. Justin and Ian are great and really talented. Fresno is a really inviting place to shoot with amazing areas visually, and has a firm talent base for even feature length projects.

BTW, really liked the effects you showed me this weekend. Nice! Man, you really know your stuff Matt.

I will be glad when the Red is easier to use with windows formated machines and one doesn't have to perform as much work to get stuff edited as you have had to do. Just wait, that will come. :2vrolijk_08:
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Hey, thanks! I look forward to the easy Adobe Workflow days as well. It looks like we may be almost there. Cineform released 4k and NAB will tell us if it converts R3D code (Native Red Raw Code) to AVI. If so, We will be able to use it in the future. Adobe should just get a plug in though so we can edit the actual R3D code in Premiere Pro CS3. I'm going on my lunch break. Time to edit some Push!:kali:
 
Got some rough cuts rendered. I am still not happy with the timing. AE and non real time playback make it very difficult to time the cuts correctly. I will be making notes on my cut then going back into AE to tweak things. The ending effects are definitely no where near done yet.
 
Kholi said:
Gotcha. So REDCine does work on a PC? That I hadn't any idear about.
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Yeah it does. We tried it on many systems and it works on my PC, which is the one Matt has been working on and I can get it to open footage on my laptop, but you can't play anything. The bottom-line is that I think that it really need processor and RAM power so it takes a lot of resources to play nicely. But it rocks when it works.
 
Matty_g said:
yeah, redcine works on a pc.
The big problem is editing on a pc.
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The big problem is editing at all. :B The 4k will only play like two seconds before it starts stuttering on the Core 2.

I'm gonna upgrade my Quad Core at home to Leopard or 10.4.11.

How far off is PUSH from finishing post? You think the insane post is gonna kill your deadline?
 
Kholi said:
The big problem is editing at all. :B The 4k will only play like two seconds before it starts stuttering on the Core 2.

I'm gonna upgrade my Quad Core at home to Leopard or 10.4.11.

How far off is PUSH from finishing post? You think the insane post is gonna kill your deadline?
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No... we will totally make it! Matt is doing most of the work... Most of the shots are fairly straight-forward and he had a crash-course in Compositiing and AE work when we did a bunch of stuff to pitch some of our other projects. He did a real nice job. I will handle a couple of the rougher shots and probably do some tweaking on the shots that he does, but KUDOS to Matt for going into this head-on without flinching. I think part of it is the GEEK-FACTOR though... he just had to see how things were going work/look etc.... he couldn't wait!!!

But I don't blame him... I feel the same way!
 
msconce said:
I am working on a Fast PC Boxx system with the Adobe CS3 bundle. Editing Tiff 16 bit sequences out of Red Cine.
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Matt, maybe you can do me a favor and run a little test...if you don't have time, no worries. I don't have access to photoshop on my mac right now and I'm curious about the quality of the image when Redcine does reframing.

Render out a 4k Tiff from redcine and keep it native at 4k; bring it into CS3 and resize it down to 1080p. Then adjust your project settings in Redcine to 1080 and adjust to fit the width; render out a 1080 Tiff file now from redcine. Compare the two and see if you notice a difference between the two.

I've been doing a lot of scaling down in Redcine lately and I feel like it's not resulting in a cleaner image. The amount of noise I see on the 4k image is the same as the 1080 scaled image. I don't have CS3, (it doesn't run well on intel macs anyway) and my older powermac is down, so I can't do this test on my own.

I have a feeling that the photoshop scaled version would look tons better.
 
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