http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Forum: - Recent Posts en Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:46:50 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/wedding-video-opening-animations-and-custom-animated-titles-without-plugins#post-74905 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:59:50 +0000 swavec 74905@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi</p> <p>Anyone interested in animations for wedding video or creating custom animated titles without plugins please take a look : <a href="http://www.digitalideas.eu" rel="nofollow">http://www.digitalideas.eu</a></p> <p>Animations work with software that reads alpha channel (pinnacle, edius, sony vegas, FCP, Premiere ....)</p> <p>If You are using Premiere, After effect, FCP or Sony Vegas You may be interested in volume for creating animated titles.</p> <p>Visit website for sample videos.</p> <p>Thank You</p> <p>swavec</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-enhance-and-preserve-old-video-on-vhs#post-74904 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:48:56 +0000 birdcat 74904@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>As Earl said, lots of pain going from SD to HD, especially from VHS source.</p> <p>There is a package called Instant HD (<a href="http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-instant-hd/http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-instant-hd/">http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-instant-hd/</a>) from Red Giant that can help but bottom line is you cannot create data accurately where none existed before.</p> <p>As far as what you're doing, you might want to just buy a combo VCR/DVD recorder (I got one by Sony at Costco for $100) which copies VHS tapes to DVDs by just a button click and finalize.  Not perfect but saved me a huge amount of time.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-hdr-560-settings-for-shooting-indoor-green-screen-shoots#post-74903 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:10:35 +0000 signmax 74903@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hi,</p> <p>Set your camera in manual mode to avoid auto focus. before adjust the white balance. I use manual mode, manual focus. Lith the green screen about 15 degres angle on both side. Talent is about 6 to 9 feet in front of your screen. Lith the Talent with 2 light at 45 degrees one light is the main light the other about 50% compare to main that we call the fill light. The third light is rear to the talent about 300 watts or less to hit the head and shoulder.</p> <p>Use your software and learn to use the parameter to obtain transparency (pixel range and softness. </p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>YR  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/remove-bucket-sound-from-video-or-sync-recorded-sound#post-74902 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:36:16 +0000 vid-e-o-man 74902@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> domineaux, I can't help too much with your already shot audio/ video stuff. But I think that the camcorder that you use 'HDR12' (is it HDR sr-12?) has a zoom microphone feature (goes from 'surround sound' to focused stereo) that might be switched to eliminate the bucket sound. I have the sr-11 and in the 'surround sound mode' (default) picks up a lot of ambient sound from all directions. Switching to zoom microphone concentrates the sound pickup from the scene zoomed in on. Hope that makes sense. Next shoot try test recording with zoom/no-zoom and hear if that makes any difference. As far as blank posts occuring on this forum, I have found that when I use my newer laptop with Windows 7 and IE when I try to post (send post) a window pops up asking me if I want to leave this page. If I click yes, I get a blank post.  I click no and then click send post again then when the same window pops up again, I click Yes. This time I get my post to go through. Don't know if that is what is happening to your posts or not. Hope this helps. Keep shooting.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-camera-to-use#post-74901 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:30:24 +0000 Ryan 74901@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>What do you think for music videos? Short films and stuff maybe?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/introduce-yourself/page/2#post-74900 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:20:18 +0000 Tasana Studios 74900@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Everyone else is doing it so I guess I will:</p> <p>Name: Gregory D. Watts<br />Age: 44<br />Sex: Male<br />Married: Yep (24 years)<br />Kids: 2 Boys 1 Girl (passed)</p> <p>Got interested in photography at about 9 (Not by Choice) Took an interest in it later as documentation. At 14 had the chance of a lifetime. I was living in Salpulpa Oklahoma and "Rumble Fish" was being filmed. Francis acquired the use of my cousins flat for the apartment in the movie, which allowed my sister an me to get onto the set. I fell in love with watching Francis direct. I fell in love with the action behind the camera. A young and upcoming actor on the set fell for my sister, so we both got non-speaking parts. We spent the entire shooting time on the set everyday until the movie was completed in that area. It was enough for me to fall in love with the back end of the camera.</p> <p>A year later I had the chance to work on "The Crucible Key", poor movie, budget issues, control issues, but I learned a lot even if it was never seen. I soon started shooting my own movies, which lead me to where I am today.</p> <p>I run Tasana Studios a part of Tasana Services. I shoot more for fun and personal enjoyment. I enjoy exploring the dark emotional issues of life, loss, failed hopes, unattained dreams, death, (but not these goth type people) I am working on a movie now that I will post later to give the idea. Real life type stuff, not the riding off into the sunset with the girl in arms, but real stuff. Serious issues. I have never enjoyed making comedy. Make then cry I say. (One should not write this on 2 hours sleep.)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/video-editing-best-software-for-avchd-editing#post-74899 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:16:56 +0000 vid-e-o-man 74899@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Clf, I believe that the camcorder that you have comes with PMB software ( Sony includes it on the disc the comes with the cam). This works on PC but not Mac. See if that does enough for you, 'trimming raw clips'. Keep shooting.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-do-i-apply-effects-on-sony-vegas#post-74898 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:49:59 +0000 trophy 74898@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> How do i creat plug in strings?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/studio-15-change-project-aspect-ratio-from-43-to-169#post-74897 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:37:25 +0000 DNSVideo 74897@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Video shot in 4 X 3, stays 4 X 3 all they way through, garbage in, garbage out.  Shoot in Widescreen, it gets rid of all bars in videos.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/introduce-yourself/page/2#post-74896 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:12:21 +0000 SargeHero 74896@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><em>I thought I introduce myself after all this time, who knew? Anyway...</em></p> <p>I'm Luis O. Maymí from Puerto Rico, currently owner of a corporation called "Xeneuxe" which dedicates to video production, mostly for the web, Internet marketing services and among other programing relating things. I'm an Adobe fan and I have been using all Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium programs since CS4. Although I know how to use Sony Vegas Pro and Final Cut Pro 7, I prefer Adobe because I can't imagine working without After Effects, Photoshop and Premiere at the same time. I'm a dedicate and passionate person, always willing to learn something new that can help me grow. I can be a little ambitious when is time to work and I don't know how to stop unless I finish my projects. As a business owner I strongly believe  in my team members and I'm always open to work together so we can all get to the finish line. I expect great results from everyone because each have something to share with the world. In general I'm a passionate working person that likes establishing goals no matter what the circumstances are. Personally I like listening to people stories (that why I join Video Storytellers), I have basic knowledge in martial arts (Aikido) and I'm open to learn new things that will make me better than I was yesterday.<br /> My motto is:<br /> "The meaning of a movie are the characters, the life of the movie is the music, but the magic is in the editing"</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/introduce-yourself/page/2#post-74895 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:01:51 +0000 Tasana Studios 74895@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi Greg, I like your name its keen</p> <p>Posted by "Gregory" Greg Watts</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/introduce-yourself/page/2#post-74894 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:54:45 +0000 Greg 74894@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi, I'm Greg.  I've been a commercial photographer for 40+ years.  I<br /> am 1 of the first shooters to bring digital photography into the studio<br /> over 23 years ago.  in the 70s &amp; 80s I used to shoot cinema &amp;<br /> video for commercial &amp; documentary production.  I found I didn't<br /> have enough time to do both still &amp; cinema so, as my passion was<br /> still, cinema &amp; video went to the sidelines.</p> <p>My wife of almost<br /> 40 years passed away &amp; I semi-retired.  This has given me the time<br /> to get back into video.  The introduction of large format chips for<br /> video now gives videographers to finally get that film look, instead of<br /> the old up against the wall, soap feel.  Much better.  </p> <p> I have<br /> been involved with many world wide forums &amp; find them very helpful<br /> &amp; informative.  Look forward to seeing what everyone has to say<br /> &amp; hope some of you can help when I may need it</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-hdr-ax2000#post-74893 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:54:15 +0000 SargeHero 74893@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>James, have you tried different settings in ND3? I believe that for sunrise shooting you will need to add an external ND filter (the AX2000 use 72mm filters). External ND filters are really expensive (at least the good ones), so I suggest to start a new forum threat asking about sunrise shooting and what settings and filters others use with their camcorders. Also (if you don't have one) I suggest you buy a UV Filter to protect your camcorder lens from UV sun rays, dust, scratches and even bugs (funny story that one). They are around $30 to $60. Your AX2000 need some love you know :-)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/new-here-1#post-74892 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:53:18 +0000 Greg 74892@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi, I'm Greg.  I've been a commercial photographer for 40+ years.  I am 1 of the first shooters to bring digital photography into the studio over 23 years ago.  in the 70s &amp; 80s I used to shoot cinema &amp; video for commercial &amp; documentary production.  I found I didn't have enough time to do both still &amp; cinema so, as my passion was still, cinema &amp; video went to the sidelines.</p> <p>My wife of almost 40 years passed away &amp; I semi-retired.  This has given me the time to get back into video.  The introduction of large format chips for video now gives videographers to finally get that film look, instead of the old up against the wall, soap feel.  Much better.  </p> <p>I have been involved with many world wide forums &amp; find them very helpful &amp; informative.  Look forward to seeing what everyone has to say &amp; hope some of you can help when I may need it</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-camera-to-use#post-74891 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:45:21 +0000 EarlC 74891@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>If you're into action, sports, extreme events, then I'd take a look at the GoPro Hero 2, it has its limitations but if you do a bit of research here and on Google, you'll see some awesome stuff being produced by enthusiasts.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-enhance-and-preserve-old-video-on-vhs#post-74890 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:42:40 +0000 EarlC 74890@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Trushar, I'm personally not so sure that converting VHS sources to HD is a good choice/decision. I think you're taking on a LOT more aggravation and trouble by doing so. I personally convert my VHS resources to DVD after first making .mov files of them after importing. Many people for whom I've converted VHS resources have home entertainment systems with VHS and/or DVD players that uprez them with a decent result on their big screen TVs. I personally think that attempting to go from a basic VHS resolution or quality then digitally manipulating the files by ANY means or method in order to render it a HD file is often going to result in a lesser quality rather than greater quality video.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-hdr-560-settings-for-shooting-indoor-green-screen-shoots#post-74889 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:22:36 +0000 mark baron 74889@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have the new Sony HDR 560 CV </p> <p>I am trying to shoot a dark subject indoors with a green screen background. I have to back light for no shadows. No matter how much light I put on the subject (a puppet) it looks dark. I have plenty of lighting. Should i be bouncing the light of off white boards, or umbrellas or direct is OK. I thought these cameras are so good in low light. This isn't even low light.</p> <p>I'm using auto settings. Could that be messing me up. Should I go into<br /> Manuel settings and is there a preset  for indoors and is using a green<br /> screen adding more issues. I know there is information on the instruction<br /> Manuel, but nothing about using a green screen backdrop that has to be<br /> lit to avoid shadows when the subject is moving. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-enhance-and-preserve-old-video-on-vhs#post-74888 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:44:21 +0000 trushar30 74888@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thank you very much Jaimie, Eric and Don. I just purchased Adobe Premier Production.. It's in the mail.. waiting for it.</p> <p> </p> <p>Jaimie, I did not know what RT.x2 was, I looked it up, and found a great capture device, the devices that I have tried are from Bestbuy with RCA-to-USB connections. This would improve the capture quality a lot. I will buy one(&lt;strong style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"&gt;Matrox MXO2 Mini, or similar) and try it.</p> <p>Once it arrives, I will try to edit each VHS one by one and save it as mp4 or mpeg2 in HD format.</p> <p> </p> <p>Thanks again!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-do-i-apply-effects-on-sony-vegas#post-74887 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 rs170a 74887@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>If you want to apply the same FX to multiple clips, copy the first one, click the next one, right-click and select "Paste Event Attributes". This works if you select multiple clips as well.</p> <p>Mike</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/windows-live-movie-maker#post-74886 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:35:04 +0000 igotthat 74886@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Tasana, Thanks alot im going to get the trial and see how it goes. I definitely want more than whats in movie maker, it just came on my new comp so i was messing around with it, not impressed and im totally new to editing. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-do-i-apply-effects-on-sony-vegas#post-74885 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:18:30 +0000 doublehamm 74885@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>You can create plug-in strings, and go to each clip and add.  This allows multiple effects to be copied to any clip or track.</p> <p> </p> <p>You can also add effects to the TRACK and it will affect all clips on that track.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-in-converting-mp4-to-frames#post-74884 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:49:25 +0000 steve 74884@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thank you very much.</p> <p>I am still puzzled.</p> <p>Would you please post an example premier file for me using any short mp4 files or whatever? I'd appreciate it.</p> <p>Cheers!</p> <p>Steve</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-do-i-apply-effects-on-sony-vegas#post-74883 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:43:31 +0000 trophy 74883@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hi guys im editing with sony vegas pro 11 and its tedious adding effects to one video at a time. Is there anyway whereby effects  to a clip can be copy &amp; pasted onto the nest clip without having to manually apply FX all over again.</p> <p>Also im editing a music video and i want to add an effect whereby the singer takes off her head can anyone help with advice pls</p> <p>Thanks</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-in-converting-mp4-to-frames#post-74882 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:27:59 +0000 Mike Wilhelm 74882@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>What you want to look for in your export settings is "image sequence." In Premiere, bring up the export window by hitting ctrl+m or cmd+m on mac, change the format to an image format like TIFF, PNG, or JPEG, then check "Export as Sequence" in the video tab. Click export and you're on your way!</p> <p>EDIT: I forgot to mention, if you're unfamiliar with Premiere, you need to place your video clip on the timeline and trim it down to size before exporting.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-in-converting-mp4-to-frames#post-74881 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:48:31 +0000 steve 74881@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello World,</p> <p>Can any one help me in converting mpeg4 video to frames.</p> <p>I am trying to use them as a background image of my animated 3 D obj.</p> <p>I'd appreciate it if any one can post an example file for me since I have no idea in using Adobe Premier or final Cut Pro.</p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Steve</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-enhance-and-preserve-old-video-on-vhs#post-74880 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:30:20 +0000 Don 74880@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I did this using a cheap $8.00 garage sale sony camcorder.</p> <p>The sony digital 8 trv with vcr passthrough function and firewire... I played the tapes in a regular vcr, sent the video into the camcorder with the camcorders rca/svideo jacks... then passed through to my mac by firewire, used imovie to clean up the video quality then sent to idvd... a very time consuming process...  with hundreds of videos... you can expect 2-4 hours of playback, and dvd burning for each hour of footage.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/cant-drag-video-files-from-card-reader-to-hard-drive-in-final-cut-pro-7#post-74879 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:17:37 +0000 James D Albright 74879@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I can't get Final Cut Studio 7 to allow me to drag my video files from a card reader to the hard drive with out using Log and Transfer, which forces me to import them uncompressed in Apple Pro Res 422. Is it the version I am using? If so is there an upgrade with out going to Final Cut Pro X that I should purchase? Thank you.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-camera-to-use#post-74878 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:17:24 +0000 Ryan 74878@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have been making videos since I was 10, I am now 17, and i've been using cameras such as the Flip Ultra HD, Bloggie, Bloggie Touch, and most recently the Bloggie Live.</p> <p>Soon I plan on spending around $500 on a camera, but i'd like to know what the best camera for me would be.</p> <p>I'll be attending Tribeca Flashpoint of Chicago in the fall, and i'd like to make as many videos as i can before i start school to have the most practice i could possibly have.</p> <p>Here's an example of my work with the Bloggie Touch, i'm now wanting to take everything to the next level.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpgLdO7TycQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpgLdO7TycQ</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-hdr-ax2000#post-74877 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:08:05 +0000 James D Albright 74877@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>When I shoot a sunrise on the Sony HDR AX2000 set on Manual, Infinity, HD FX30, F11, -18dB, set to N2, at various shutter speeds, Outdoor preset, the video comes out very grainy looking. I don't know how to set up the camera using the N2 filter for a sunrise shooting and not get grainy results. Does anyone know how to correct this? Thank you. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-enhance-and-preserve-old-video-on-vhs#post-74876 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:20:59 +0000 EarlC 74876@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>If the content has commercial value and you want to repurpose it for sales the ONLY available route is some aspect of the FIRST of Jaimie's approaches.</p> <p>If the ONLY intent is to preserve for yourself and perhaps SHARE here or there, then the second approach makes much more sense ... acquire a VHS-to-DVD recordable deck and make direct copies with no editing or enhancement.</p> <p>The middle of the road, if there is one, would be to acquire some kind of processor unit that would allow you to pass through the VHS en route to the editor or recorder and boost the color or signal strength somewhat. With these "proc-amp" units however, usually, LESS is more and a light touch will give better results than overdoing it. There's a definite law of diminishing returns with heavy-handed processing.</p>