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Anyone into Chromakey and Video editing/filming

Discussion in 'Sports' started by afrokid13, Oct 10, 2009.

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  1. afrokid13

    afrokid13 Well-Known Member

    I like chroma keying with my green screen( which currently is pissing me off and I need help with it)

    I like using after effects to add special effects and reverse videos. ;D

    and just editing my skate videos and stuff
     
    afrokid13, Oct 10, 2009
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I do it semi professionally.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 11, 2009
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  3. afrokid13

    afrokid13 Well-Known Member

    whats that supposed to mean?

    well I do it for fun. lol. But that's probably a job I would want when I grow up.
     
    afrokid13, Oct 11, 2009
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  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I mean I make money from doing it, and I do it for other people, but its not my full time job.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 11, 2009
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  5. dragneon007

    dragneon007 Well-Known Member

    How much do you get paid? and where do you go to do this because I'm kinda interested in looking into it, and at the moment I wasn't thinking about it till you said you get paid. lol
     
    dragneon007, Oct 11, 2009
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  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    usually about £5 per copy. I used to video the summer concerts at the school my mum works in, but then her class got a new teacher and they've not done any concerts since (shame, since the kids enjoyed them).
     
    Loonylion, Oct 11, 2009
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  7. afrokid13

    afrokid13 Well-Known Member

    Im making a movie for the History Day project. Since we have a girl in our group that can ride horses im thinking about doing it on sarah rosetta walkman. I wonder if i can apply my green screen to that...
     
    afrokid13, Oct 15, 2009
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  8. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    don't use chromakey for the hell of it, only where it contributes to the message within the footage.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 15, 2009
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  9. afrokid13

    afrokid13 Well-Known Member

    yeah now that I think about it I don't need the green screen. Just muzzle flashes and some nice clean editing and sound effects.
     
    afrokid13, Oct 16, 2009
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  10. karlsanada10

    karlsanada10 Well-Known Member

    I made 3-5 videos...

    I love it, but I have a somehow slow computer with low graphic card so the quality is not that good.

    Currently making: Tribute for Tracy Mcgrady...
     
    karlsanada10, Oct 25, 2009
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  11. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    graphics card has very little to do with it.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 25, 2009
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  12. karlsanada10

    karlsanada10 Well-Known Member

    ^What should I do? and everytime I convert .wmv into .wmv(HD) it lags every second.
     
    karlsanada10, Oct 26, 2009
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  13. afrokid13

    afrokid13 Well-Known Member

    surprisingly graphics cards make a huge impact. Adobe After Effects doubled in speed when I upgraded from radeon 8500 tp geforce 6200
     
    afrokid13, Oct 27, 2009
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  14. karlsanada10

    karlsanada10 Well-Known Member

    ^I just need to wait for my laptop to come... And after I get it, I can make HD videos.
     
    karlsanada10, Oct 27, 2009
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  15. Natewlie

    Natewlie A bag of tricks

    That's making the program faster, not the actual video. Converting to a good quality video =/= needing a good graphics card. Given the context that karls has given, Loony is correct.

    Is it really necessary to make a wmv to a wmv(HD)? It's still the same format and quality. In that case all it'd be doing is upscaling the video, which wouldn't make that much a difference.
     
    Natewlie, Oct 27, 2009
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  16. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    upscaling will considerably hurt the quality.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 27, 2009
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  17. karlsanada10

    karlsanada10 Well-Known Member

    ^Then how to improve a video's quality?
     
    karlsanada10, Oct 28, 2009
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  18. Natewlie

    Natewlie A bag of tricks

    If the original video is of bad quality, there's nothing you can do. Just make/get a better quality video.
     
    Natewlie, Oct 28, 2009
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  19. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    As natewlie said, you can't make something from nothing. if the quality is not there initially, it will never be there and there is nothing you can do about it. This is why we video editors work with uncompressed video, to preserve as much quality as possible right up until the last minute (the final render stage loses the most quality).
     
    Loonylion, Oct 28, 2009
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  20. Mcoupe69

    Mcoupe69 Guest

    I have been editing with Avid and Adobe Premiere for quite some time

    I was going to school for editing for about a year but I realized that as an occupation it would not work out for me. I have really bad ADHD which is not very noticeable nowadays but it still shows in my everyday activities. When I edit (mostly skateboarding footage/ some amvs etc etc) I can usually only keep myself focused on it for 15-20 minutes at a time.. so if i was ever working on a part for a skatevid or an AMV they would always take like a month-2 months to actually finish..
     
    Mcoupe69, Oct 28, 2009
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