DVL-Digest 1528 - Postings: Index History Channel Still Photo Move Technique Mac Render starved electrolyte batteries:any good for on camera light?? History Channel Still Photo Move Technique - "Perry Mitchell" From: Danny Grizzle Sunday evening, and I'm watching the History Channel, programs about Vietnam and Korean Conflict. They are doing an interesting effect on still photos, obviously heavy with Photoshop technique. Instead of a simple move such as iMovie's "Ken Burn's Effect," they are dissecting still photos, isolating foreground and background elements. I've done a lot of this using the Photoshop lasso tool and pen tool. Then, instead of a simple move one one plane, the cut images are moved on different planes at different rates. This is not unlike traditional cel animation, where background planes are moved at slower rates in order to correctly simulate perspective (look out the window of a moving car -- things far away appear to move slowly in relation to nearby things.) Here's the question: I'm not seeing how they "fill in" the background where the foreground objects have been removed. A little background regeneration is possible using the clone tool, I suppose, or perhaps enlarging the background in relation to the removed foreground elements, sort of like chokes & spreads in color separations. At first, I thought they were simply removing the foreground, then matting them against non-descript period backgrounds from other photos. A blurred drop shadow is animated against the background image, further enhancing the 3-D effect of a camera move around the foreground subject. But I saw this was not the case in a group photo, where portions of the image were on at least 3 plans: foreground people, mid-distance people, and background. Very, very cool technique. It looks a little labor intensive, but definitely worth the effort on a serious production. Mac Render - "Perry Mitchell" From: Robert Rouveroy I will finally admit I know next to nothing of making good DVD's and I hope that one of the technocrats on this list can put me straight. I am (was) a cinematographer and am now, hobbywise, very involved with DV production, mostly travel docs and wedding reports. I've a Mac G4, DP533, 896MB, 240GB HD running latest OSX, iMovie, iDVD and shortly, FCExpress. FCP is too difficult for me, is also overkill for my purposes. DVD burner is the Pioneer A05. But I'm totally frustrated by the 6-8 hours rendering and 80 minutes burning time for a 50 minute show, using Nashua General Use disks. That Pioneer was advertised at 4x DVD, so burning time should be about 15 minutes tops for a 50 minute show. Also, what should I buy (how much) for some outside box or inside PCI card to speed up that @#$%^&^%$#(*&^%$ --rendering. Any input greatly appreciated starved electrolyte batteries:any good for on camera light?? - "Perry Mitchell" From: pedro pedro I am looking at buying a battery belt to power an on camera light (approx 35 watts). I see a bunch of starved electrolytes lead acid batteries in catalogues. Are they recommended. Will their power drain in a constant fashion so that I will have to white balance every 15 minutes to avoid orange faces? (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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