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barnold posted:For a VHS-C project, I would just get a Diamond VC500. It's a known good USB converter, won't break the bank, and will work great for what you are trying to do. I have one that I've used for regular VHS as well as DVCAM recordings and it handles interlaced video no problem at all. Oh good shout, thanks!
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Hello, thread. I need some advice on editing for pre-production so I hope that's still ok. Plus it's been about a million years since I did anything properly with video  What's a good tool to make an animatic/plan a branching video? I'm developing an online course and I've got access to a pretty nice video recording studio to make instructional videos. The final output will be an H5P video (you can add interactive elements like menus or quizzes). Basically, I'll be giving instructions for each class session, with buttons users can click to go to another set of instructions if they want them. I have an Adobe Creative Cloud license through the school and a reasonable Windows gaming PC from 2018 at home to work on. I work best when I can work with the work in progress, if that makes sense. I'm not someone who can really visualise a final product, I needto do a lot of workshopping. Obviously, I don't want to do this with studio time! So I'm looking for something where I can read a script over some basic sketches to figure out what works best and then build a shot list from that. Thanks for any ideas!
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greazeball posted:Hello, thread. I need some advice on editing for pre-production so I hope that's still ok. Plus it's been about a million years since I did anything properly with video Storyboarder by wonderunit is free and good for storyboarding. You can even use 3d models if you can't draw and it's easy to use. Links up with Photoshop if you want it to. The branching part, you may be better with adobe xd. It's easy to set up clicks and things.
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Please help me, I'm at my wit's end! Green screen. Resolve 18. Paid project (but not much!). This puppet is giving me so much grief. Whatever I try it ends up looking awful. - 3D Keyer on Edit tab: leaves ugly gray lines around both person and puppet that I can't get rid of (I believe because the puppet has a yellow "aura" around it? See pic) - Delta keyer on Fusion tab: Person looks great, puppet is transparent in parts and no amount of fiddling looks good - Tracking in Color tab: constantly misses parts, making it transparent Is there anything I can do to make the green screen work quickly and efficiently? 
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Oof, that looks like someone touched the lens, what was this shot on?
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Alan_Shore posted:Is there anything I can do to make the green screen work quickly and efficiently? I've never used resolve or fusion to key a shot, but general tip number 1: Split your subjects up, one key will rarely work for everything. Put loose mattes around the person, the puppet and scenery as separate layers (or nodes). Hopefully someone with actual experience with fusion can chime in, but in something like after effects, just the chroma removal tool is often just the first step. There's also tools that help refine your key, particularly when you have soft edges like that puppet there. YouTube is your friend. Is it just the one shot? Because if you get REALLY stuck and are at a make or break time crunch, shoot me a PM and i might be able to take a look for you.
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Alan_Shore posted:Please help me, I'm at my wit's end! I use the 3d keyer in Davinci but then use either simple matte choker or refine hard matte (or refine soft matte) effects in After effects to remove the halo. What it does is bring the edge pixels in a little, removing the halo around it. If you use refine hard hard matte, the control you want is called shift edge and you want to move it into the minus direction from memory (ie -2 for example). the_lion fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Nov 28, 2022 |
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the_lion posted:I use the 3d keyer in Davinci but then use either simple matte choker or refine hard matte (or refine soft matte) effects in After effects to remove the halo. If you're using AE anyway, you might wanna just use keylight as well. By pre-rendering out of resolve you're losing a lot of information that refine matte can use to bring back detail like hair etc...
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Thanks, everyone! This was shot on Black Magic believe it or not. Oof yeah, all those extra steps and fiddling are definitely not worth what the pay is, but thankfully they realise their green screen problems and are getting rid of it and have kindly offered to give me another project without the green screen.
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Alan_Shore posted:Thanks, everyone! This was shot on Black Magic believe it or not. Oof yeah, all those extra steps and fiddling are definitely not worth what the pay is, but thankfully they realise their green screen problems and are getting rid of it and have kindly offered to give me another project without the green screen. In the future, advise them that having the shot in focus is a tremendous help. On a more serious note, if they aren't adverse to it for whatever technical reasons, increasing the shutter speed will reduce motion blur and make the process a little easier. It's a tradeoff though as they'll lose light doing it and may have to decide between stopping up or adjusting gain (or the lights themselves). It's a balancing act but you've just seen why it's an important conversation to have, no one wins when you just throw a green up and hope for the best.
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Can anyone recommend some internal SSDs for cutting? I have an OWC raid box that needs to get put back together and I have a large multicam 4k project coming up. Thanks!
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How do I turn a 1920x1080 video into a vertical aspect ratio video using Davinci Resolve? Basically I want to turn what I have on the left to what's depicted on the right, with cropped sides and empty space on top and bottom:   I know how to render it with a custom resolution of 1080x1920 but that doesn't crop the sides, and if do crop it manually before rendering, it leaves empty spaces on the sides.
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Are you putting the clip/clips in a timeline that's set to the aspect ratio you want and then scaling the clip to how you want or doing something else for the crop? Cause I don't see why that shouldn't work fine
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powderific posted:Are you putting the clip/clips in a timeline that's set to the aspect ratio you want and then scaling the clip to how you want or doing something else for the crop? Cause I don't see why that shouldn't work fine Ahh nope, didn't even know that was a thing. Thanks!
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Has anyone ever had issues with parts of their Premiere timeline just disappearing? This seems to happen to me like once every 3 months and I'm completely confounded every time as to how it's even possible. I'll be working on something I have parked at the ~17 min mark and then when I'm done and scroll out, I notice that a bunch of audio and video clips earlier in the project are just gone. There's not much rhyme or reason to it either - it won't be an entire chunk missing, just a handful of clips.
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I'm using Fairlight in the free version of Davinci Resolve 17 and I am an absolute beginner. I have an audio track that I cut a section out and repasted it a handful of times to simulate a skipping record. I want to do a fade-out over all of the repeats. I've been struggling with this for two days and it seems that what I need to do is create a compound clip to merge all my cut and paste edits together. The problem is that the "Clip>New Compound Clip" is grayed out. Is that option only available in the paid version, or am I missing a step somewhere?
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You could bounce it to a new track and do the fade on that. I don’t think compound clip is exclusive to studio or anything though. Have you tried doing the same thing from the edit page instead? Saw someone posting something bout trying that.
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SkunkDuster posted:I'm using Fairlight in the free version of Davinci Resolve 17 and I am an absolute beginner. I have an audio track that I cut a section out and repasted it a handful of times to simulate a skipping record. I want to do a fade-out over all of the repeats. I've been struggling with this for two days and it seems that what I need to do is create a compound clip to merge all my cut and paste edits together. The problem is that the "Clip>New Compound Clip" is grayed out. Is that option only available in the paid version, or am I missing a step somewhere? Why not render the cut out parts as a new audio, then import that in and fade it?
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I just tested this in Resolve and you do indeed have to do it from the edit panel and can't do it in Fairlight if you want a compound clip. And just FYI bouncing the track is basically what Alan_Shore is describe except it just does it in the panel instead of going through deliver and then re-importing.
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powderific posted:I just tested this in Resolve and you do indeed have to do it from the edit panel and can't do it in Fairlight if you want a compound clip. Thanks for the replies. This will give me something to try tonight when I get home. Is bouncing the track something that can be done from Fairlight, or is that also done from the Edit panel?
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You do it in Fairlight.
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I just went into the edit tab and created a compound clip. That solved my problem. Two days of struggling with this in Fairlight and all it took was switching to the edit tab. I figured it was something easy that I was missing. Thanks all!
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SkunkDuster posted:I just went into the edit tab and created a compound clip. That solved my problem. Two days of struggling with this in Fairlight and all it took was switching to the edit tab. I figured it was something easy that I was missing. Thanks all! Hey just a heads up that you can use something called "Automations" in Fairlight to animate the fader level which will prevent you from having to do compound clips or anything. (It's also just a powerful thing to learn). It's kind of annoying that the fader isn't keyframable in the properties panel. But you can definitely do it with automations and this would solve your issue.
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I'm an amateur messing around with Vegas Pro (ver 18) and I've encountered a conundrum. This is what I'm trying to do: have a full screen static background image (png), on top of which is a moving grid (separate .veg file), on top of which is a static foreground image (png). Vegas reports that all of these are 1440x1080, which agrees with my project file. However, Vegas displays the images as wider than the video, unless I turn off "Maintain Aspect Ratio" in their video fx menus. Now, it's easy enough to do that so this isn't necessarily a problem , but I'm very confused that the program would necessitate this. All three sources should be the same size already. Can anyone shed some light on why it behaves this way?
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Do you have a non-square pixel aspect ratio somewhere perhaps? Edit: like, this is separate from the frames aspect ratio it’s the actual pixels being stretched or whatever.
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Schwarzwald posted:Can anyone shed some light on why it behaves this way? Schwarzwald posted:Vegas Pro A somewhat reductive but 100% accurate answer
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powderific posted:Do you have a non-square pixel aspect ratio somewhere perhaps? Huh, I'm not quite positive where I would look to check that... edit: sonuva bitch  Kingo Ligma posted:A somewhat reductive but 100% accurate answer oh no Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Feb 22, 2023 |
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I guess it’s defaulting to non-square pixels because it wrongfully thinks 1440px wide must be HDV even in 2023. At least you get the joy of just changing that setting and going on your merry while other fools (like myself) are stuck in a world of multiple aspect ratios because the world used to be an awful place.
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Hello! Wanted to ask what video editing software is best for a college student going into film production classes, or what my professors will be expecting me to know. The course description just says I should be familiar with sound and video editing (as well as cameras and lighting, but that’s a different story), and I’ve got the whole summer to learn.
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barclayed posted:Hello! Wanted to ask what video editing software is best for a college student going into film production classes, or what my professors will be expecting me to know. The course description just says I should be familiar with sound and video editing (as well as cameras and lighting, but that’s a different story), and I’ve got the whole summer to learn. DaVinci Resolve, absolutely no question. It's free and does everything you'll need. Some advanced stuff is behind a paywall but you won't need that stuff at this point. Have fun and good luck!
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If the course description didn’t mention a particular program, then they just want you to understand fundamentals of non-linear editing. Resolve is the best free option for this. Adobe Premiere would be the next best option, particularly with student discounts that Adobe might offer. Avid is not worth learning on your own though if the school trains you on it, it is useful to know professionally. No other program is worth your time.
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Kingo Ligma posted:Unless you want to work as an actual editor, then stay as far away from resolve as possible What? Why? Resolve is great. You get an easy to access taste of editing, audio work and finishing right there. It's fantastic for free!
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The interface is different across all of them but the fundamentals of NLE carry across resolve and premiere, the only real curveball is if they get to the class and theyre expecting you to know FCPX or something
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BonoMan posted:What? Why? Resolve is great. You get an easy to access taste of editing, audio work and finishing right there. It's fantastic for free! No professional narrative or doco has ever been made in resolve, the workflow sucks and teaches you bad habits that will actively gently caress up real world workflows. If you want to edit for a living, start on media composer. Don't waste time loving around with consumer grade stuff. There is a free version that is only limited in track number and export type. If anyone in this thread that's recommended resolve actually edits long form for a day job I'll red text myself.
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Kingo Ligma posted:No professional narrative or doco has ever been made in resolve, the workflow sucks and teaches you bad habits that will actively gently caress up real world workflows. He's taking like intro to film 101 and probably will be learning how to change project settings, cut clips together, level audio, apply crossfades, understand rendering, etc. At that level it's all basically transferable knowledge and resolve is so similar to premier and similar tools that I think it's completely fine. OP if you're a disgraced James Cameron who is trying to make his next film by himself then yeah you *might* need something more complex.
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The beginning of my post said "if you want to edit as a career", that seems pretty clear.
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Kingo Ligma posted:The beginning of my post said "if you want to edit as a career", that seems pretty clear. Actually it says "Unless you want to work as an actual editor, then stay as far away from resolve as possible" Which I think means the opposite of what you intended lol. I don't edit long form, but I do use it every day on short form stuff and I'd love to know what bad habits it teaches you for long form editing.
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