Questions tagged [post-production]
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How does green screening work with green objects?
A question that has been on my mind for so long is: How exactly does green screening work with an object to vanish?
Short example: Normal green screens as a background are replaced with an image the ...
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How to add "AR" elements over video?
disclaimer: I'm completely a neophyte, mildly competent with Photoshop and that's it.
I was trying to figure out what would be the quickest/easiest way to add AR-ish elements over a video. For ...
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How to automatically pull text out of a video
I am currently experimenting with after effects and premiere to see what sort of strange things they might be capable of and was hoping someone had some insight on an Idea I had.
In this situation I ...
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What hardware do I need? Multiple audio input devices + BMCC video to Media Express
I'm a non-professional user with a Black Magic Cinema Camera 2.5k (BMCC). I have a number of separate audio outputs that I want to record with the video in Black Magic Media Express so I use multiple ...
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How to fix a video with changing exposures (I didn't know about A/E Lock until now!)
I was filming an interview. Everything was cool with the right sound, WB, shutter speed and focus, However, my subject kept on moving in his chair the exposure changed whenever he moves. Then I ...
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How to cut a single clip in a Sequence into multiple clips for use in multiple Sequences in Premiere Pro
I have a single clip of a multi-speaker conference in Premiere Pro CS6 that I need to split into individual clips of each speaker, so that I can make a timeline of each clip with the end goal of ...
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Is it possible to mask out unsharp areas of footage with After Effects?
Is there any existing filter/effect, that will automatically mask out the unsharp area of my footage?
Let's say I have an object in focus and a lot of depth of field. How do I show only my sharp ...
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Batch processing in Camtasia Studio or others
I am making some tutorial videos for which I need to have same production setting. Like
1. Noise cancellation. Camtasia studio has a option where it automatically cancels the noise.
2. Intro and ...
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When and why to use Speedgrade?
I read both of these questions which came up in my search for Speedgrade:
Tips to make professional looking hand-held videos using smart phones?
Adobe CC Post-Production Workflow (Story, Prelude etc.)...
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Do talent show programmes film lots of footage or is it set up?
I keep watching auditions from talent shows. It seems like they have an interview process before each audition and apparently 'randomly' select them before they even enter the arena to do the audition....
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Recording video's with two cameras?
I have started to make some videos and I want to add a second camera to get a different angle.
The main camera I have is a Nikon D7200.
I am looking at a secondary camera, but I am hesitant because ...
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Best way to dub the voice in a very low budget or no budget film
I am in the middle of making of a short movie. I have tried dubbing in ordinary mike and later clearing the noise in adobe auditions. But it is not working for me. Can I know the best trick to dub ...
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Archiving AVCHD from camera for later processing
What is the recommended way to copy AVCHD data from SD card to a hard drive for later processing? My video camera would be going on an extended trip and the post-processing will be done after the trip....
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What are some ways to simulate an explosion?
I'm beginning production on a film in the next few weeks, and I need an explosion in one of the scenes. It's not super complicated, just one shot a few seconds long with an explosion coming off the ...
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How can I stay motivated and become more productive as a video editor?
I really like the editing process, how it's possible to bring a vision you've had to life, by timing things just right, etc. It's a great art.
Unfortunately I am super un-productive at it. This has ...
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How to deal with this heavily underexposed footage
I recently was at friends birthday with a few musical performances and this friend asked me to film the event. Unfortunately, it was really badly lit (I did notice it, but I couldn't do anything about ...
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Even though Apple Motion is used with FCP could I still use it with iMovie?
I don't want to get FCP just yet but I still want effects from motion.
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How do I make titles look like they are in the room as an object?
I want the titles to look like they are actually there moving with other objects in the room
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Post production automated addition of text
I'm a software developer who has a video that has been pulled from a livestream event in which attendees commented on the video as it was running. I've got the data on when each comment was made and ...
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Remove light reflection from eyes
I have a video with a man speaking (very stable, motion tracking on his eyes works perfectly)
The problem is each eye has reflections of 4 light sources, so each eye looks like it has 4 white pupils ...
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Grading Colour To Black And White In Davinci Resolve
I use Photoshop / ACR a lot and I'm well used to they way they handle conversion from black and white. I have control over reds, greens, blues, yellows, cyan and magentas, which allows a huge ...
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Search mpeg / avi frames in linux
I might have an unusual problem for this site; among other duties, I manage the wireless network for a large corporate campus. As part of an upgrade to our wireless access-points, I used a metal ...
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How to stitch images from DIY panorama video rig with 3 canon 60d's?
I want to build a camera rig with 3 canon 60d's to get some kind of panorama video. To verify my idea before building the real rig, I've implemented the setup in Blender to test all possible cases:
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wrapping circular black frame for video - What is this effect called?
when using magic bullet looks on a video it applies - alongside color corrections and such - a frame, some sort of wrapping mask thingy - a black outline for the video the gives the center a bit more ...
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Layer dimensions in after effects
How can I find the dimensions in pixels of a layer in adobe after effects.
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supply video files to editor in another country
My editor is moving from Los Angeles (where I live) to Canada. Is there a common, reliable, cheap way for me to supply large video files (up to 10 GB) to him? I don't have much of a budget, and I have ...
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Making the camera travel through a hole in a letter
I need to know if there is a way for a camera to travel through a hole in a letter or something flashy like a portal in After Effects CC.
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What software can be used for pre-visualizing video presentation environments?
D3 Technologies offers both a previz and a playout platform for video presentations. I'm interested only in the software part, for pre-visualization of complex, multi-screen presentations.
Using ...
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What title(s) should a one-person film crew receive in the credit role?
I recently worked on an interview series that had the following contributors:
Producer
Interviewer: Person who contacted and arranged the interviews
Me, the "predator" (one-person film crew) who set ...
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What is the best software to do color pass effect for a film?
I want to select a colour which the computer picks up on and then only allows that colour to be viewed on the video, hence turning the rest B&W.
(for example like Sin City)
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How to make a film in black and white and add color to some objects?
How is a movie made to show selective colors. For instance, in Pleasantville a sister and brother are transported to the universe of an old black and white TV show, and the movie switches to being B&...
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What is a subtle displacement at the moment of the cut?
In In the blink of an eye book (page 6), Walter Murch explains that displacements at the moment of the cut should be either subtle or total:
What we do seem to have difficulty accepting are the ...
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How to achieve "Acid Burn" saturation?
The TV show 'Utopia' has become renowned for its stylized visuals, including a type of saturation that is frequently described by reviews as "Acid Burned"...
Director Marc Munden, who shot the ...
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How to make a vehicle number visible?
Due to all the lights in the video the vehicle number is not visible. The video was captured by a CCTV camera. In the video the car comes close enough to be able to read the vehicle number if it were ...
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Spot removal tool
I took videos with my DSLR and then saw that there is a speck of dust in my sensor. With stills I can use Photoshop's or Lightroom's "Spot removal tool".
Is there spot removal feature in video ...
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My converted videos look bad... what am I doing wrong?
I am a software developer. I understand the video concepts, but I am no expert.
I have a Sony Action Cam AS-15. It records ate 1080/60fps/25Kbitrate. The 60FPS videos just dont; play smooth maxemised ...
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Post-production workflow: VFX before color correction?
I'm shooting my first internet video tomorrow. It has a spaceship chasing and shooting at a superhero in it. With knowledge accumulated between ~a year ago and now and more focused research over the ...
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Adobe Premiere Pro CC - Crop a video and export at the exact cropped size
I have a video that has 4 up-down-left-right black borders of different sizes.
I want to get rid of these black borders so the exported file has the exact size of the cropped area.
To do this, I ...
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How to achieve trippy breathing effect (visual drifting) on static photo
How can I achieve a trippy visual drifting effect like the image is breathing?
See The Visual Components of a Psychedelic Experience - Visual drifting section or more precisely this fragment of this ...
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Achieving the Elf "Angel" effect
I'm looking to achieve something similar to this effect in a short film for 2 shots :
This is from the new Hobbit movie, with of course a massive budget. To me it looks mostly a digital effect they ...
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How should we back-up our media files for our production studio
We've had a video production studio for about 6 months, and we're revisiting how we should back-up/archive our client files and in general what our workflow should be with about a 8K limit on hardware....
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How can flicker from a slide projector be removed from existing video footage?
Previously it was asked how to prevent flicker when recording a presenter and a slide show simultaneously. I'm interested in how to correct pre-existing video where there are flickering slides.
Here ...
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How do I communicate with post-production team? Need a list of effects and examples
I'm doing a short video and I am not from video editing background.
Sometimes I want to show my post production team the effect I want but it's very difficult to say... Just look at [...] video. I ...
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How to make black text accept light in After Effects
I'm trying to add a light to a scene that has black text on a white background. My goal is to keep the light in position and slide in the text. As the text slides, part of the text will be less black ...
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placing text in video filmed environments
I really love mixing reallife environment with floating text over buildings or virtual paintings on the walls.
When the camera moves, the text also moves and looks like it is really attached to the ...
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zooming animation is not smooth in Premiere CS6
Animatedly, I tried to zoom into a video clip in Premiere by creating two Position keyframes and two Scale keyframes
But the result is very shaky for some reason?
What am I doing wrong with this ...
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Tips for recording pen and paper
I've got a set-up where I'm using an iPad to record myself writing something on a white sheet of paper (with less-than-perfect lighting, of course). I'm recording a video in 1080p, and would like to ...
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Lightworks problems importing, editing, and exporting using Canon EOS Rebel T3i
I'm using Lightworks 11 for Windows and I can't import the .mov files from my Canon EOS Rebel T3i. Lightworks identifies the .mov files as "Apple / H264" but the show up in a red color.
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Why not filming computer or TV screens?
I see this all the time: a character is doing something on a computer or watching TV. Instead of filming the actual content of the screen, they film the scene with a fixed camera and add a layer with ...
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Help with playback stutter in Sony Vegas Pro 11
I've got 2 DSLRs in my kit, a Nikon D7000 and a Nikon D3S, for 1080i and 720p respectively. I experienced stuttering playback with footage from both cameras, and figured it was something with Nikon's ...
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