Colour Correction - Cutaways

Now i have dome the interview colour correction its time to start the cutaways. Here is an example of how i have done the cutaways. Here is what it looked like before

I then ajusted the colour wheels to these settings

to create these tones within the footage

Colour Correction - Interview

Now I have completed my sequence I thought that the first place i should start with colour correction is the interview and so i did. Here is what the footage looked like first

I then ajusted the colour charts to these settings

which then gave me this warm and cool looking shot

Colour Correction Tips

After having the demonstration on how to colour correct I asked if there was any more tips and they were...

• Clear mid tones
  
• High Light & Dark
• lower is better
• little with colour
• be warm and cool
• whites just under 100%
• up a little with saturation
  

Intro Screens

After retrieving the files for the intro screens after having problems with the font attached to the email, i have created my screens. The first being the universal one that all of use use and the second being the question that we were issued. I did have problems with these at first because i forgot to flatten the PSD before saving. This meant that when i imported the file into FCP the color overlay that was on the logo was not seen and we saw the original colours of the logo therefor i went back and flattened the document then re inported it which ment it came out as you see it above.

Solution To Cutaways

After the problems that we have had this week over the cutaways this week there has been a number of suggestions on how we are going to know who is using what over the holidays so the were two ideas proposed. The first that we all put screen grabs on the surver and create a contact sheet and see how many people are using the same clip. That only worked to a certain degree because not everyone was in class. Then the second plan was to create a blog where we can post the screen grabs over the holiday and dodge using each others cutaways.

More Cutaways

After reslising we needed more cutaways the has been more filming going on by everyone today so that we can boost the libary. But once again there may be problems because we are coming up to the holiday and how are we going to know over the holiday who is using what, therefor as a class we need to plan something.

Intro & lowerthirds

Now I have my sequence compleated there is the task of sorting out the introduction and lowerthirds with the info on it.

first I created the intro with a black PSD at 720x576 and placed it at the start of my sequence for one second and had half a second fade out. Then there was the task of creating the lowerthirds, we wanted it to be universal so we created the black bar and cropped it top 70 and bottom 10, and then we all used the same font(Arial) at the same size(36/40 pps) and the text needed a drop shadow. Therefor we had a universal look like this ...

Cutaway Train Wreck

After doing a class crit we all realized the there was a large amount of repetition of the same cutaway from the library. Therefore we thought that we needed more cutaways because wen we started we thought that there would be so many we didn't even think this would happen. Therefor next week will be another cutaway shooting sessions but there are problems with this. when we are in on a wensday it is a quiet campus and the same for firday so there will be very little people around.

Defeating "ERM" In question

I found that my subject "ERM" a lot and she said this most in my last question so first I created the sequence of the interview and then decided to to a stream of four cutways because where I have used the razor tool the jumps in the sequence are obvious. Therefore in the last cutaway I cross dissolved on my last piece of the question and podcast so I had a reasionable amount of footage at the end.

Manual Cross Dissolve

As I have found out with a lot of my cutaways there is not enough time handles for a cross dissolve to be applied. Therefore as a guideline I used the line that is just above halfway on each row of the timeline, used the pen tool and lowered the opacity on the previous clip and raised the next clip. hence creating a cross dissolve.

Audio Problem

With my subject she didn't speak that loud and even with a boom mike it was still quiet so i found myself adjusting the audio volume in FCP because without the adjustment the subject couldn't be herd.

Video File Formats

Now that I have captured my interview I feel that I should look into the video file formats that are available out there. These include ....

• AVCHD - A high-definition digital video format that can be record in 1080i and 720p, while still maintain a average small file size. AVCHD files are based on the codec from the MPEG4 format. AVCHD files is also a format that can be burned to Blu-ray Discs, and played in compatible devices, such as Blu-ray Disc players and the Sony PlayStation3.

• AVI (Audio/Video Interleaved) - A file format for storing and playing back movie clips with sound on Windows-based PCs. An AVI file is organized so that it alternates chunks of audio and video data. AVI is a container format, meaning that it specifies how the data will be arranged, but is not a form of audio or video compression. The way in which AVI is created is when DV clips are imported from a digital camcorder to a PC (These clips are often known as "DV-AVIs" because they contain full-quality digital video content.)

• DV (Digital Video) - is the format used by most digital camcorders, usually on Mini DV cassettes. When transfering from a cassette to a computer, a DV clip requires around 1 GB of storage per 5 minutes of video. When transfured to the computer clips are usually stored as QuickTime or AVI files. With the con that is file size there is pro about resolution. DV creates a clean image with up to and including 520 lines of resolution

• DivX - was developed by DivX, Inc. this format is used to compress large amounts of video content into small file size and still keep a good image quality when played back. DivX is based on MPEG4, and is a popular choice for sending video files over the Internet.

• MPEG - stands for Moving Picture Experts Group. This is a committee that sets international standards for the digital encoding of movies and sound. There is a number of audio/video formats which have this group's name. Also there is high popularity of there use on the Internet :

1. MPEG1 - This format is mostly used in digital cameras and camcorders to capture small video clips. This format is also the compression format used to create Video CDs,as well as commonly used for posting clips on the Internet. The MP3 audio format is part of the MPEG1 codec.
2. MPEG2 - Used with Commercially produced DVD movies, home-recorded DVD discs, and most digital satellite TV broadcasts to deliver their high-quality picture. The picture quality is a rival the DV format. Because MPEG2 removes a larger portion of the original video signal than DV it becomes more difficult to edit. The MPEG2 codec uses selected amounts of compression to be applied, this is how home DVD recorders and hard disk video recorders can have a wide range of recording speeds. MPEG2 is considered a container format.
3. MPEG4 - A flexible MPEG container format used for both streaming and downloadable Web content. Also in developing times it is becoming the video format employed by a growing number of camcorders and cameras.

• QuickTime - Is the file format for storing and playing back movies with sound. Though developed and supported by Apple, Inc. This is a flexible format that isn't limited to Macintosh operating systems — it's also used in Windows systems and other types of computing platforms. In Windows, QuickTime files have the ".MOV" filename extension.

• RealMedia - A very popular formats for streaming content on the Internet, RealMedia has the RealAudio codec for sound clips and RealVideo codec for movies. RealAudio and RealVideo files are given the common RealMedia ".RM" file extension. RealMedia is a container format that's then heavily compressed for streaming over dial-up Internet connections.
  

• WMV (Windows Media Video) - Windows Media Video is used for streaming and downloading content over the Internet. Microsoft's Windows Media Player, an application included with Windows Vista operating systems.

After finding this information out and knowing that we are using M4V format which is for ipods, if we were only to be broadcasting over the internet we could use several options like DivX, MPEG1, RealMedia and WMV. The problem with using a WMV is that say you had a user that had a Mac, they would then have to download further software to play the file.

RSS Definition

For me to understand podcasting first i must understand the definition

Main Entry:	RSS
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	any of various XML file formats suitable for disseminating real-time information via subscription on the Internet
Example:	RSS has become a popular technology for bloggers and podcasters to distribute their content.
Etymology:	Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication
Usage:	computing

Further infomation about RSS is that is a series of web feeds that are used for frequent publications in media such as blog, news headlines, audio, and video. An RSS document has a number of names such as "feed", "web feed",or "channel". Within this document there is full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.

Podcasting Definition

For me to understand podcasting first i must understand the definition

Main Entry:					podcast
Part of Speech:					n
Definition:					a Web-based audio broadcast via an RSS feed, accessed by subscription over the Internet
Example:					There is a podcast directory of offerings.
Etymology:					2004; iPod + broadcast
Usage:					computing

from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/podcast

Therefore the name podcast has com from the combination of broadcast and ipod in the year 2004

After further research I have found that they way in which the subscription works is that software with podcatcher characteristics such as iTunes or Winamp access the files with a simple download or streaming. Therefore this means that software such as iTunes can analyse a podcast subscription identify and retrieve new files from a series that the user has subscribed to when they are made available. this is done by acessing a web feed (RSS) that has a list of all the files currently associated with that podcast.