"It's a commonly accepted industry practice to shoot in HD, then downsample to SD, particularly for chroma key work"
um. nope. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Aaron F. Ross <aa...@digitalartsguild.com>wrote: > The level of technical ignorance displayed on this discussion list never > ceases to amaze me. VHS is much worse than 480p. You're lucky if you get an > effective resolution of 320 vertical columns on VHS. VHS = ~150,000 pixels, > 640x480 = 307,200, DVD/DV = 345,600. > > It's a commonly accepted industry practice to shoot in HD, then downsample > to SD, particularly for chroma key work. Most indie makers can't afford > 4:4:4 pro HD gear, so they shoot in HD, then knock the resolution down to > lossless 4:4:4 SD before cutting a key. This eliminates the color sampling > limitations of consumer HD gear & formats. This is the optimal pipeline for > no-budget VFX work. > > Downsampling after compositing will give some relief from the chroma > sampling limitations, but it's far better to downsample before compositing. > Just be sure that the downsampled footage is in a lossless format such as > Quicktime Animation. If you're tight on disk space, you can nest > compositions or timelines and render the composited SD footage directly, > with no intermediate. > > Aaron > > > > At 8/17/2013, you wrote: > >> Aaron F Ross... downsampling it to 480p is not the same as laying off to >> tape. It's like suggesting he hands out blurred glasses to anyone viewing >> the film. It's an interesting idea but not what he's asking for. >> >> Jeff Kreines... I agree with you about fixing the mistakes, but the cool >> part about laying off to tape and then viewing the results, is that laying >> off to tape and then recapturing the footage creates a copy of the footage, >> it doesn't modify the original. If he isn't satisfied with the results, >> he's free to try something else. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Jeff Kreines <<mailto:j...@kinetta.com> >> jeff**@kinetta.com <j...@kinetta.com>> wrote: >> >> >> Hey Im making a stopmotion video using adobe premiere and it looks >>> terrible because its HD and looks too crisp. You can see all the shitty >>> blue screening and whatnot so I want to convert it to VHS so the mistakes >>> don't look so obvious. >>> >> >> If you want less resolution just to mask the mistakes, why not fix the >> mistakes rather than make it all look like mush? >> >> Of course if you want it all to look mushy, why work in HD in the first >> place? A generation of VHS will do many things, some of which you may like >> and others you may not. Choice of format is important. >> >> Jeff Kreines >> Kinetta >> <mailto:j...@kinetta.com>jeff@**kinetta.com <j...@kinetta.com> >> <http://kinetta.com>kinetta.**com <http://kinetta.com> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> <mailto:FrameWorks@**jonasmekasfilms.com <FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com> >> >FrameWorks**@jonasmekasfilms.com <FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com> >> https://mailman-mail5.**webfaction.com/listinfo/**frameworks<https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ FrameWorks mailing >> list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.** >> webfaction.com/listinfo/**frameworks<https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> >> > > ------------------------------**------------- > > Aaron F. Ross > Digital Arts Guild > > ______________________________**_________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.**webfaction.com/listinfo/**frameworks<https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> >
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