Kelly Goden
July 15th, 2006, 10:39 AM
I am preparing a film shoot and looking to do some non-essential continuity stuff, mainly involving greenscreen, partial sets(to offset any greenscreen motion blur problems), closeup to medium shots, and then using compositing, splitscreening in the final process. I have a minor cast member who may be unavailable later so I want to get that done to avoid problems. The scenes can almsot be completely separated from the rest of the shoot, with only a couple of instances where I would have to splitscreen composite one performer into a scene with another.
Leaning towards an HVX as the capture medium-mainly because of the P vs I issue.
Once i get to the main production stuff, I might look at another rental cam if there are other new prosumer models out there with better options. I may have the budget to rent a better cam for it(one day of shooting) but the SDX and varicam are the only other options I have seen rentable here.
I know one shouldnt mix formats.
So I was curious about uprez options and how it works for making footage look better than it is. My only frame of reference is the "sharpen" options in photoshop--and I know if you press it too much you get serious pixellation mess.
I have seen a demo by Legend Films--who colorized a Three Stooges movie. The original footage looked extremely washed out and fuzzy--but in the "after" presentation, it looked like 1960s technicolor-and appeared amazingly sharp.
So my question is, would they have been able to create such a sharp image just by computer enhancement, or would they have got a better source image than they show in their "before" demo to do that part of the process?
Leaning towards an HVX as the capture medium-mainly because of the P vs I issue.
Once i get to the main production stuff, I might look at another rental cam if there are other new prosumer models out there with better options. I may have the budget to rent a better cam for it(one day of shooting) but the SDX and varicam are the only other options I have seen rentable here.
I know one shouldnt mix formats.
So I was curious about uprez options and how it works for making footage look better than it is. My only frame of reference is the "sharpen" options in photoshop--and I know if you press it too much you get serious pixellation mess.
I have seen a demo by Legend Films--who colorized a Three Stooges movie. The original footage looked extremely washed out and fuzzy--but in the "after" presentation, it looked like 1960s technicolor-and appeared amazingly sharp.
So my question is, would they have been able to create such a sharp image just by computer enhancement, or would they have got a better source image than they show in their "before" demo to do that part of the process?