The GAF Video and Filmmaking Thread

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killertofu

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Man, just been completely slammed at work for the past month. Political attack ads up the ass.

What do you guys think, ultrawide monitor or a 4k monitor for editing?
 
John Blade

John Blade

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killertofu said:
Man, just been completely slammed at work for the past month. Political attack ads up the ass.

What do you guys think, ultrawide monitor or a 4k monitor for editing?
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You doing any 4K raw footage edited? If not, the ultrawide monitor is more useful for me if I do any edited video. Man...the cost of them is too rich for me.
 
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killertofu

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John Blade said:
You doing any 4K raw footage edited? If not, the ultrawide monitor is more useful for me if I do any edited video. Man...the cost of them is too rich for me.
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No 4k but I feel so spoiled with the real estate of the 5k iMac I use at work... then I gotta go home and look at my 1080p 24 inch monitor :(
 
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super-heated plasma

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Hey guys, thought I'd share a test render of a scene from my show. I shot the actor against a green screen, and created the stormy city scene with after effects, photoshop, and a bit cinema 4d for the window frame. I used Trapcode Particular for the rain on the window. Hoping to have the show ready to launch in September. Let me know what you think.

https://vimeo.com/178385629
password: ezra

Also has anyone done a premiere for their web series or films at a theater before? I'm looking into renting one out here in Vancouver. What was your experience like?
 
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Professor Chaos

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Hey guys, I didn't want to make a new thread for this so hopefully maybe you can help me.

I'm an aspiring sound designer and I need help choosing some video editing software to put my show reel together. All I really need to be able to do is remove audio from video clips and insert my own. And is it also possible to render out multiple video clips in different resolutions into one resolution at the end without it looking bad?

I'm on windows and I don't mind paying if I have to. But I'm only going to be using it for this, so preferably something that isn't going to break the bank would be nice.
 
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super-heated plasma

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Professor Chaos said:
Hey guys, I didn't want to make a new thread for this so hopefully maybe you can help me.

I'm an aspiring sound designer and I need help choosing some video editing software to put my show reel together. All I really need to be able to do is remove audio from video clips and insert my own. And is it also possible to render out multiple video clips in different resolutions into one resolution at the end without it looking bad?

I'm on windows and I don't mind paying if I have to. But I'm only going to be using it for this, so preferably something that isn't going to break the bank would be nice.
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Adobe Premiere Pro for video and Adobe Audition for sound work great together.
 
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killertofu

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Can someone recommend a book/website/some sort of primer on the basics of lighting? There are shoots at my job a lot and I always shoot the shit with the grips but know nothing about it. All the terms, the set up of the lights, it's all very fascinating to me and I have yet to wrap my head around how people know how to set things up.
 
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Sec0nd

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Hi guys, need some quick help with the new proxy feature in Premiere. I've got a whole bunch of 4K .MXF footage that I need to transform in to editable proxies. When I use the Ingest and Create Proxy option it opens up Media Encorder and then nothing. I doesnt load in a list of footage that needs to be transcoded. Anyone know whats up?

Also, whats a better proxy codec? H264 or ProRes proxy?
 
Benjamin_MFF

Benjamin_MFF

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Sec0nd said:
Hi guys, need some quick help with the new proxy feature in Premiere. I've got a whole bunch of 4K .MXF footage that I need to transform in to editable proxies. When I use the Ingest and Create Proxy option it opens up Media Encorder and then nothing. I doesnt load in a list of footage that needs to be transcoded. Anyone know whats up?

Also, whats a better proxy codec? H264 or ProRes proxy?
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http://www.divergentmedia.com/editready
Skip using Premiere for proxies. I used edit ready on a music video and feature. Made it easy to roll right through the footage.
 
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afternoon delight

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killertofu said:
Can someone recommend a book/website/some sort of primer on the basics of lighting? There are shoots at my job a lot and I always shoot the shit with the grips but know nothing about it. All the terms, the set up of the lights, it's all very fascinating to me and I have yet to wrap my head around how people know how to set things up.
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Hrm. It's difficult because so much of lighting I feel is barked on location (set up the flood light there, fill behind the person, etc.) Lighting is fun and tricky, kind of like cinematography, you'll know it when you see it. Of course the viewfinder can be misleading, but at least composition wise you'll usually be able to recognize bad versus good lighting.

The least I can offer you which is waaaaay more abstract than what you're asking about is a book called Masters of Light by Salvato. It really kind of just prepares you to get in the mindset of lighting and what it can accomplish, as its so unique to filmmaking.
 
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killertofu

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afternoon delight said:
Hrm. It's difficult because so much of lighting I feel is barked on location (set up the flood light there, fill behind the person, etc.) Lighting is fun and tricky, kind of like cinematography, you'll know it when you see it. Of course the viewfinder can be misleading, but at least composition wise you'll usually be able to recognize bad versus good lighting.

The least I can offer you which is waaaaay more abstract than what you're asking about is a book called Masters of Light by Salvato. It really kind of just prepares you to get in the mindset of lighting and what it can accomplish, as its so unique to filmmaking.
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True... but I dunno I guess it would be nice to see how setting up a light here effects the scene. I see so many set ups at my job and I'm just astounded.
 
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killertofu

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Blasian Persuasion said:
I was wondering are there any versions of Final Cut Pro that works for PC?
In addition can anyone recommend me any free editing software?
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Apple makes Final Cut Pro so it wouldn't show up for PC

Davinci Resolve is a fantastic color grading program and its latest release makes it a pretty good editing program. There's a free version that has about 90 percent the capacity of the paid version
 
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jongkookie

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killertofu said:
Davinci Resolve is a fantastic color grading program and its latest release makes it a pretty good editing program. There's a free version that has about 90 percent the capacity of the paid version
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Semi related question, are there any reasons why somebody would use Resolve instead of Speedgrade?

I personally find SG to be easy to use due to its similarity with Lightroom but I've never used Resolve before so I'm wondering if it's worth the time to download the program and get some experience behind it.
 
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NipplesAndToes23

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Thanks for the help y'all. I want to get back into editing, but I'm not sure where to start for editing a video. Are there places online where I can download copyright free clips?
 
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brerwolfe

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A little ditty I threw together the other day. I'm a freelance shooter/editor for the PGA Tour. On Tuesday they flew me out to Boise Idaho to shoot some videos for their Web.com Tour (think: minor league PGA Tour).

I showed up on site Tuesday morning and found out about the "Supermarket Sweep" 15 minutes before it started, so we hustled to the local Albertsons (from the golf course) and start working immediately.

Pretty happy with how it turned out. I sometimes love the chaos of trying to figure out how to cover an "event" as it's happening. Forces me to be more efficient in my shooting, and this is the result.

Shot on a Canon 1DX mkII. Rented a Sennheiser MKE 400 Compact Shotgun to test for audio, not thrilled with the sound. It's passable but I should've used my wireless handheld mic for the interviews.

https://vimeo.com/182880755
 
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killertofu

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brerwolfe said:
A little ditty I threw together the other day. I'm a freelance shooter/editor for the PGA Tour. On Tuesday they flew me out to Boise Idaho to shoot some videos for their Web.com Tour (think: minor league PGA Tour).

I showed up on site Tuesday morning and found out about the "Supermarket Sweep" 15 minutes before it started, so we hustled to the local Albertsons (from the golf course) and start working immediately.

Pretty happy with how it turned out. I sometimes love the chaos of trying to figure out how to cover an "event" as it's happening. Forces me to be more efficient in my shooting, and this is the result.

Shot on a Canon 1DX mkII. Rented a Sennheiser MKE 400 Compact Shotgun to test for audio, not thrilled with the sound. It's passable but I should've used my wireless handheld mic for the interviews.

https://vimeo.com/182880755
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Good stuff!

Incidentally the company I work for is doing some Web.com/Jaguars stuff right now. Dealing with the ad agency is infuriating.

They never have any idea what the fuck they want and it just wastes my time
 
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brerwolfe

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It's either they don't know what they want or there's a dozen of them that all want different things. It's annoying that we work in such a subjective field, but that's just how it is.

We also went out to the Boise State football stadium with a couple players and did a handful of short, quick hit videos like this one:

https://youtu.be/XnG9fFehOGY

Had a good time, but the people working around the field take the novelty of blue turf waaaaay too seriously. But it was still fun.
 
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nintendork666

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You guys, I've got decent gear. What's the best way for me to go around, and start getting paid for video work?

I live in the suburbs of Detroit fyi. Want to assemble a portfolio of sorts, not sure exactly how to get my foot in the door.
 
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killertofu

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brerwolfe said:
It's either they don't know what they want or there's a dozen of them that all want different things. It's annoying that we work in such a subjective field, but that's just how it is.
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It's just particularly annoying because
1. The agency is literally across the street
2. The creative director sends his minions over, they tell me it looks good
3. 5PM rolls around, the creative director comes in and says it's all wrong and those spineless minons don't have the nerve to say that it was their idea

I'm doing graphics and it takes so damn long to fucking animate all of them just to toss it away. Its like they want to make a 30 second spot, then they say everything is animating too fast, and then somehow they want to keep adding copy. I just want to smash my head into the ground. /rant.

nintendork666 said:
You guys, I've got decent gear. What's the best way for me to go around, and start getting paid for video work?

I live in the suburbs of Detroit fyi. Want to assemble a portfolio of sorts, not sure exactly how to get my foot in the door.
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Do you know anyone? It's really mostly about connections. The gig I have now is because my roommate in college got a job here. Brewolfe actually got me a few jobs a couple years ago even though I've never met him (and I still owe him a beer sometime)




Sidenote: would anyone be interested in purchasing a Blackmagic Cinema Camera? Mine's just collecting dust
 
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nintendork666

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killertofu said:
Do you know anyone? It's really mostly about connections. The gig I have now is because my roommate in college got a job here. Brewolfe actually got me a few jobs a couple years ago even though I've never met him (and I still owe him a beer sometime)
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I went to film school in '10. Maybe I still have some pull through there, who knows. Networking is a must, I was on the right path making music vids for a while but then got ditracted by college/real jobs and sort of lost my way. I'm dying to get back into the scene again however.
 
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Elandyll

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Man, I'm really, REALLY trying to like Final Cut Pro X ... but I really don't.

I have used FCP7 for years alongside Premiere CS6 (classically trained on Avid systems before that, and also quite a few years on Premiere and other more Exotic systems), and just earlier this year moved on to Premiere CC and just 2 months ago finally got my requested Mac Pro with 24" Monitor, 8Tb of storage and FCPX.

I -can- work with it, I'm familiarized with the new terms and UI (honestly I think the transition to the Library/ Events/ Project setting is needlessly complicated. The magnetic timeline is... ok. I don't find that I work faster with it, or slower, it's just weird.), but after this time (admittedly not that long) I'm seriously thinking that I much prefer Premiere CC to FCPX.
It's faster for me, much more comfortable, and just making more sense with more transparency as to what is where for media management.

Ah well, not giving up yet, but it this keeps up, I can see myself making the case to order Premiere on the Mac to replace FCP .. which would frankly feel very weird.
 
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Chained Prometheus

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Hey FilmmakerGAF! I finally decided to work up my courage and share this little ditty I made for a class about a year ago.

It's nothing too major, but it's something I'm still pretty proud of. The assignment was an in-class project where everyone had to pick a single mini-scene with one page worth of dialogue with no established context from Dave Kost's A Book of Sides and direct it into a short film with a random selection of other classmates as your crew and/or cast in about 45-90 minutes or so.

Even though it was an in-class assignment, I spent like a month or two doing storyboards for my scene and creating my own context of the dialogue provided (
Basically it's a riot/jailbreak in an insane asylum or prison
) and decided to cast myself in one of the two speaking roles and picked two other actors that weren't part of my class to play the other two roles (
the obscured madman character was my own invention and wasn't mentioned in Kost's original script
), so that I could have all my crew members working the equipment.

Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this! :)
 
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Chained Prometheus

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KalBalboa said:
Thanks! I just got laid off from a full time corporate video position and wanted to make something creative ASAP. Busted out my gear and shot this in a few hours (I'm Kevin).
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I'm sorry to hear you got laid off, man. Hope everything is going okay and am wishing you the best of luck! ^_^

As I said before- you, Neil and Ryan did a great job with this work!
 
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xJavonta

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I know it's probably just because I don't know how to use it, but FCPX just feels so backwards compared to Premiere. Like, my whole workflow in Premiere is so smooth and easy, and I can't achieve anywhere near that level of productivity in FCPX. Ugh.

I'm determined to learn it though. My professor is teaching it in this class and while he said that we can use Premiere to edit if we want, I feel like Final Cut is like an industry standard and would just generally be good to know.
 
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Sibersk Esto

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I don't know where else to go for some advice on this, so I'm hoping you guys can help.

I'm relatively inexperienced, just out of school and looking for work.

I answered an ad to be a freelance editor on a local film (mostly color correction work) and the rep wants to meet at Grand Central Terminal (I'm in NYC) to hand the file over to me with a sample clip to work on.

Is this normal? I mean I don't expect an office but like I said, inexperience.

My gut tells me it's on the level, I'm just covering my bases.
 
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NipplesAndToes23

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Is there a simple way to scroll the timeline in Premiere Pro 2015? I watched like seven tutorials and none of them helped me. It shouldn't be this hard to do something so basic.
 
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brerwolfe

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Blasian Persuasion said:
Is there a simple way to scroll the timeline in Premiere Pro 2015? I watched like seven tutorials and none of them helped me. It shouldn't be this hard to do something so basic.
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Hover the mouse cursor over the timeline and use the mouse wheel.

Or do you mean you want the timeline to scroll automatically while it's playing? If that's the case, go to edit> preferences> general and where it says something about timeline scrolling you can select what you're looking for.
 
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NipplesAndToes23

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brerwolfe said:
Hover the mouse cursor over the timeline and use the mouse wheel.

Or do you mean you want the timeline to scroll automatically while it's playing? If that's the case, go to edit> preferences> general and where it says something about timeline scrolling you can select what you're looking for.
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Nah I mean I want to be able to scroll it up and down like you can in a browser. For some weird reason there are 3 cursors and they stretch shit and obscures other parts of the timeline.
 
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brerwolfe

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Blasian Persuasion said:
Nah I mean I want to be able to scroll it up and down like you can in a browser. For some weird reason there are 3 cursors and they stretch shit and obscures other parts of the timeline.
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That functionality should also be found in that same menu. By default the mouse wheel moves the timeline view forward and back, but you can change it to up and down when you have multiple tracks.
 
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NipplesAndToes23

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Sorry to bother y'all again, but you're supposed to be able to add transitions by dragging them over to clip right? I tried doing that at the end of a cut, but it still gives my the no sign. Is it because I have the trial and not the official version? Double clicking does nothing either.
 
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vern

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So I finally got around to finishing Episode 2 of my China travel series. It's longer, more in depth, has some still photos... Basically all the suggestions given earlier in this thread after my first episode. Except for an Indiana Jones type map to keep up with us and where we are. The episode was actually cut in a way that isn't exactly chronological and following episode may have stuff from places we visited before some places in this episode. We decided to have various scenes that flow together well and provide variety instead of just straight chronological.

Third episode is under construction and open to more feedback as we put it together. Thanks!

https://youtu.be/2qoejOXxn7k
 
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