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What John means is that because you will be "masking" 25% of the top of your original footage and 25% of the bottom, this enables you to scoot your frame up or down by this amount. So if you screwed up your framing vertically, you can compensate for it by moving the footage up or down behind the mask.

You can also do some digital tilts this way. This is a cool way to make a static shot move. Basically, you set keyframes at the beginning and end of your footage moving it slowly up or down.
 
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[quote author=svf1972 link=board=news;num=1107979002;start=15#19 date=02/09/05 at 15:12:04]Thanks Disjecta. I apologize if I seem impatient but I was going to experiment with a little something tonight. I'm sure I can figure out the crop filter in FCP, it's very user-friendly.[/quote]
No worries, I was just kidding around. ;)
 
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You weren't being impatient; we got sidetracked by the high-jacking from Coltrain and Pookie (I didn't help).
 
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Very nice work John! And thank you for the dolly trick, definitely making one of those. Do you use any of those Magic Bullet Filters? There were parts of the zombie trailer that had a nice looking green tint to them. Looks similar to a filter I played with in MB, but the final product didn't look nearly as good.
 
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Hey man great footage, I was wondering if you used squeeze mode on your dvx for the 16x9 ratio?
 
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Hi Bombay

No. I shoot 4:3 and then Mask later (PAN/CROP in Vegas). And quit saying its great; it makes me embarrassed. :-/
 
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Hey asswipe, your work suc.... I... CAN'T.... DO... IT

Sorry John, I tried like hell to dis ya bro, but I just can't. Hey, I read in another thread that you own a premployment screening firm. I do a bit of that myself, but mostly for boards of directors. www.intelexltd.com.

Best,

Matt
 
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Hey, I've got a question. How do you guys compose your shots in 4:3 when you're going to mask off roughly 50%? Shooting in 16:9 I never thought to do this. For example if you are in on a CU and want to the subject's face to fill the screen in a certain way. Is it just experience or do you do something during production that helps you achieve the correct perspective/proportions?

Matt
 
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I know some people 'tape' off the LCD for reference but I eye ball it.

I used to that also (Due Dilly and all) but am sticking to pre-employment; I do have one client that insists on compnay checks from time to time for thier vendors; a pain in the butt!
 
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Feel free to send them my way, I'll send you a referral fee. :) Also from time to time, we get requests for lower level background checks which we do not do (unless foreign - about 40% of our work is in other countries). Next time it comes up, I'll send them to you. Send me an email at work with your details.

Matt
 
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Well I have a question for disjecta too!

What is a "disjecta"? What does the word mean? ???
 
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Sorry, I couldn't help myself.... ::)
 
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The name comes from the Latin Disjectorum.  It is used to describe a group of ancient Celtic Druids who, it is believed, actually worshiped ducks and not trees.  When this theory was introduced it was considered so heretical among modern day Druids that the theory, along with those who espoused it, went underground to exist only in a handful of secret societies.

Matt
 
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Pookie, go play with the traffic.

Dakota...."disjecta" is a made up word by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. He named a collection of his works "disjecta" back in the 1940s. He is and always has been my favorite writer.
 
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Sweet! It took a bit of time to get it, but with that info and a little tooling around I got a decent letterbox piece. Thanks again guys. It's only a very short experiment (a few seconds) but if you'd like to check it out and let me know what you think you can view it at
http://www.islandstormtv.com/TheDeal.mov
Be easy on me I'm very new to all this.
 
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