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Lighting for video in room with no windows, choose led or cfl
It's not just about lumens. Generally you get what you pay for when you're buying lights, and the difference between an expensive LED and a cheap one is not usually the power output, it's the colour ...
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Remove flickering due to artificial light with ffmpeg
The following worked well for me, based on the same ideas
http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/quick-trick-for-de-flickering-your-video-shots/
https://superuser.com/questions/1025794/merge-two-videos-...
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Wattage for green screen lightning
Wattage has nothing to do with lumens, as different instruments provide a wide spectrum of output lumens based on lamp type. For instance, a 1.2K HMI ArriLite would put out more light than a 5000W ...
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Would this camera light solve a lot of my indoor shooting problems?
This light fixture will not solve your problems. As a painter, you surely understand the need to transfer paint to your canvas, so you choose the correct tool for the job. It could be a brush, an ...
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Health issues concerning video lights
Mercury is enclosed within the bulb, and does not pose any threat to the user, unless the bulb breaks. In such case the amount of mercury released is still rather small, though it certainly makes sure ...
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Adobe After Effects CC - stabilize lighting
I'll assume the camera op was fooling with the exposure?
You'll need to key-frame color correction or AE's Auto Color function may work for you:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/color-...
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What exactly do eggcrates do to light?
Here is a video that shows a series of effects from no Egg Crates® to 60°, 50°, 40°, 30°, and finally 20°.
The answer is that up to a certain ratio of subject size and distance from the lighting ...
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Things to consider when shooting through car window at night?
I'm making a short film that takes place mostly in a car at night. Will I need a polarizer to see the actors through the windshield?
A polarizer could help reduce reflections, but the best way to do ...
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Which of these two crude green screen lighting setups is better?
Well the 2nd is better. But the correct way is to light your Green Screen first, and you want to have it lit so it's a flat 70 IRE. You'll need a monitor with a Waveform option, and the waveform ...
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Camera flash produces unwanted artifacts on the video
This is actually a collateral effect of the concept of rolling shutter. Most video devices do not expose all the frame area at once. They expose starting from one side and (up or down) and move from ...
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How to get the Cinematic look
There are a few important things to consider:
Lighting is perhaps the most important aspect to creating a filmic image. A lot of filmmakers like to use natural light such as Innaritu on The Revenant. ...
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Shutter Speed or frame rate we looking at when dealing with flickering issue?
The reason you get flicker in the video is that many conventional lights don't actually stay on all the time. When running on AC power, the power actually "goes off" 100-120 times a second (depending ...
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LED light types
The first question you asked answers itself: just read the specifications of the two products and compare.
The second question you asked is perhaps more interesting. LED matrix lights on cameras ...
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I am doing a scene in a movie where someone runs through a forest
There are a number of options for keeping a moving camera steady. There's the new electronically controlled gimbal mounts, they do an amazing job of removing camera movement, and they're relatively ...
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Three Point Lighting on Green Screen
Using 2 lights with softbox would be great for your background.
The goal here is to get the background lit equally on all sides.
You can use the zebra on your camera to help achieve this.
Avoid ...
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LED light temperature why does it matter?
If I'm adding light to a scene that already has a light source - say I'm shooting near a window, and I'm adding a key or some fill light - I need to be able to match the colour of the existing light ...
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Lighting a chalkboard
Bad lighting and/or bad camera placement are the cause. If you can't move the lights or the chalkboard, such as in many typical classrooms, the first thing you should try is moving the camera.
You ...
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Can I achieve effective keying if I use green lights to illuminate a white wall?
My favorite quick, cheap, DIY greenscreen over the years is a gallon of chromakey paint and a sheet of drywall from Lowe’s or Home Depot. One sheet is enough for a seated, talking head, like you see ...
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Dark interview setup, what should the subject wear?
Here is a great tutorial about lighting ratios: http://wanderingdp.com/cinematography/cinematography-school-lighting-ratios-101/
Tl;DR? Whatever skin tone your subject has, and whatever tattoos you ...
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After Effects: Generate floating effects (smoke, particles, plasma, light, etc)
This effect can be achieved by using different particle systems.
I've almost done the same thing for TV-show intro. It was done with Red Giant Trapcode Particular plugin, see the result here.
You ...
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Home office studio setting to create Calculus videos - Lighting issues
Lighting a green screen is even harder than lighting a whiteboard. And performing in front of a green screen also requires practice different than that of writing on a whiteboard.
Here are two ...
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Lightbox required with LED Lights?
Depends on how big the panels are, I'm assuming these are LED panels. Really, you only need 2 lights for the subject, and 1 light if you want to stylize the background. You can use a foamcore if you ...
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How to light a video properly?
For action, you're probably going to need flat, even lighting. Builders' work lamps, bounced off white walls or reflectors, are probably the most cost-effective way of lighting large spaces.
You can ...
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Yongnuo YN 160S - how to get inside?
Well, I'm an idiot, or was just really tired the first time I looked things over, because after taking another look today I realized that the shallow circular indentations at the corners of the face ...
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How should I light two people teaching a dance video tutorial?
I've been in similar situations/venues in the past. It reads to me like you have little to no budget and no crew to speak of, since you are asking the question yourself which suggests that you are ...
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How to light a set using coloured fluorescent lights
Try searching for "LED Neon Tube". Nowadays LEDs are so common for venue lighting, maybe the set designers might went that route.
If this is fluorescent, they could be white fluorescent bulbs ...
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How to light a scene with a window and monitor in the background?
Your foreground lighting must exceed your background lighting, or else you'll have to manually increase your iris/gain a lot, which is not ideal because it will washout the window and monitor.
I ...
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Cheap or diy lighting for video production
LED's especially strip LED strands may give you flicker problems, especially if your shutter isn't locked to the same Hz of the AC the LEDs are running off of.
Best bet, cheap shop lights from a ...
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How are/were low-light scenes such as concerts shot on film?
I was an assistant editor on Song Remains the Same. I think the fast lens answer is probably correct and I think the stage was lit a lot more than you would think. It was shot multi camera at MSG and ...
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