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EDL_Convert: Workflow Developement for Sony Vegas Pro - DaVinci Resolve
@tida Brilliant - thank you! Getting there - got something into Resolve but not quite sure it's doing what I'm expecting it to do yet. I'll follow your instructions carefully again in the morning. This should be really useful if I can…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp March 7 permalink
EDL_Convert: Workflow Developement for Sony Vegas Pro - DaVinci Resolve
@tida Hi there - I was going to ask this particular question on your vimeo piece, but thought I'd ask it here as it may help more people: I'm using Vegas 12 and can export individual DNxHD clips and an XML file, but I can't for the li…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp March 7 permalink
GH2 is out of stock in most shops
@olegkalyan I'd be happy with two bodies, depending on whose the other one was. Lara Croft, maybe...

Comment by Mark_the_Harp March 6 permalink
For Sale: Zoom H4N Audio Recorder
That's a good price and I think they are great machines. Aside from using with video, I've always thought they would make a great multimic solution for location recording of a concert, rather than bringing in tons of dedicated multitrack e…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp March 1 permalink
How to Create/Sell/Gift a Secure Downloadable File of Your Film?
@dregenthal I do this too on Vimeo for work in progress to share with project teams, but if someone's that determined there are usually ways to capture a stream - so if someone's determined to pirate things, they will. Hence if you work on…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp March 1 permalink
How to Create/Sell/Gift a Secure Downloadable File of Your Film?
If you're determined to go down the anti-piracy route (and see further down about what alternatives I think are better) the only thing I can think of is to have a burnt-in graphic with that person's email on it or something - basically so …

Comment by Mark_the_Harp March 1 permalink
DaVinci Resolve 9
Thanks for the tip re batch rendering - will look at this in the morning. @Japatz have you investigated ipad control surfaces for resolve? I've used similar for audio mixing where you need to control more than one thing at once. Dunno if it wo…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp February 28 permalink
DaVinci Resolve 9
I've had a lot of fun with resolve - just exploring. I've tried importing mts's directly by rewrapping them as mov files and while it works, Resolve crashes when trying to track on my win 7 6-core. I notice that if I edit in Vegas 12 …

Comment by Mark_the_Harp February 28 permalink
Titanic II set to sail in 2016 without TV or Internet access
I was wondering that too. Maybe it could be a plastic one. That would be tasteful!

Comment by Mark_the_Harp February 28 permalink
Titanic II set to sail in 2016 without TV or Internet access
Quite fun idea. Maybe people will discover the lost art of conversation - although it's alive and well on here. Maybe I can get a gig in the Irish band below decks!

Comment by Mark_the_Harp February 28 permalink
Chroma key experiences, workflow,tips, etc
Sorry if this isn't done on the GH2 but it's a FAB exposition of how greenscreen is used in the movies - often for stuff I'd never have assumed was greenscreen, such as street scenes. Suppose it makes sense, though, to be able to do s…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp February 21 permalink
GH3 patch joke
NB Because of effects of steam on the adhesive on electricians tape, you will not be able to use "Electricians Bliss 1.0". An alternative is to use "ElasticBand 0.8" although it's not so reliable.

Comment by Mark_the_Harp February 15 permalink
GH3 patch joke
You do realise, though, that any SD card can be speeded up? You just put it in boiling water. The speed gain is s.rt (t.f/t.a): where s.rt is the existing measured speed at room temperature, t.f is final card temperature and t.a is ambient card temp…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp February 15 permalink
Windmotion - upsampling to 4:4:4
Ah, @endotoxic, then I've got further than you - although I had to install it twice because I couldn't work out where the install directory was (only because it didn't launch the readme on completion) - the other programs appeared in …

Comment by Mark_the_Harp February 13 permalink
Windmotion - upsampling to 4:4:4
Looking forward to some simple directions - had a play at exporting a 444 8-bit lossless version of a GH2 file, but for some reason only got audio, not video. I know the energy should rightly go into a release version; it would be brilliant if any d…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp February 13 permalink
Sony Vegas 12 Topic
Thanks for the heads-up Vitaliy. The bug where it would reset curves if you split the clip (but only sometimes) was really annoying, as I use that a lot in projects where I am doing footage with one single take. I hope the following tip is useful …

Comment by Mark_the_Harp February 2 permalink
Abandoned places
@svart And the insides of buildings - always interesting to explore the intestines of concert halls or the hidden bits of cathedrals @Hopcreek Superb to see that. We used to use a nuclear bunker occasionally when our studios were busy. Everything a…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp January 29 permalink
Metabones lens speed booster adapter, focal reducer
@kazuo That's always the problem - yet more stuff to spend money on. I haven't actually made any video in a month, and any "serious" stuff for a lot longer than that. I'm not sure this adaptor would solve my current un-produ…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp January 15 permalink
Metabones lens speed booster adapter, focal reducer
@BurnetRhoades And then there's the question of how to adapt different lenses to the Speed Booster - because I'm sure most people have a range of different lenses.

Comment by Mark_the_Harp January 15 permalink
Metabones lens speed booster adapter, focal reducer
@BurnetRhoades >That's not spin. It actually makes the lens faster Yes - I realised that - just saying, I like the way they chose to use that description over the focal reducer one. I've followed the similar topic on here for a long …

Comment by Mark_the_Harp January 15 permalink
Metabones lens speed booster adapter, focal reducer
Great news. I like the positive spin they've put on the product title: 'Speed Booster' sounds more sexy and more expensive than 'Focal Reducer'.

Comment by Mark_the_Harp January 15 permalink
Banding - Avoiding It and Fixing It - Current Consensus
+1 itimjim - a bit of noise captured in the image, and then NR in editing, will dither the 8-bit posterisation and then removing the noise gives you a nice clean image. Noise reduction is so amazing nowadays. Where you're really pushing an ext…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp January 13 permalink
Editing audio with video reference
In other editors, like Sony Vegas, I would split the audio at the point you want it to change, move the section after the split to an adjacent audio track, add an effect to the new track only, and then move the start point of the audio on the new tr…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp January 13 permalink
Editing audio with video reference
Not sure exactly without seeing what you're doing, and a while since I've used premiere, but if you are doing what I think you are, the easiest way of doing it, without having sync problems, is to export a copy of the entire audio for that…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp January 13 permalink
Music Rights?
@goanna Thanks! And I hope I don't come across as some holier-than-thou type about copyright, because like (I'm sure) most people I've got the odd bit of stuff that is a copy of something I should have paid for. But putting an illegal…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp December 2012 permalink
Music Rights?
@RBD the CD itself will have the rights info printed on the CD or box. If you are using a copy with no printed text information then stick it into a media player and you should be able to find out the rights information from an online database once …

Comment by Mark_the_Harp December 2012 permalink
Music Rights?
I agree with @alcomposer above. Do check - I know someone who invested in a load of time to do a video and included a song from the 1940s and when she checked, after she'd finished editing it, she found out she would never be able to have the r…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp December 2012 permalink
Big sound, stereo ambience, 3d sound, Binaural audio, the missing link.
Hi all, just in case anyone wants to hear the binaural Radio drama I mentioned a few comments ago, it's called the Revenge and it's on Radio 4 Extra tonight (21/12/12) at 2030. Available now at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jr11

Comment by Mark_the_Harp December 2012 permalink
Chroma key experiences, workflow,tips, etc
Exactly - so light / expose the shot for keying so everything is slightly above the background black (and match the lighting / direction so it works when inserted) so i can make the black bg transparent, and then adjust that footage down (or whateve…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp December 2012 permalink
Chroma key experiences, workflow,tips, etc
Yes - and I had a go at shooting against black and essentially doing a luma key. That seems to work much better. Still going to be tricky as obviously the lighting needs to match the scene to work convincingly, and also ensuring that none of the lev…

Comment by Mark_the_Harp December 2012 permalink

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