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@IronFilm thank you! ?

when I said I was gonna make a youtube miniseries and asked for advice, a bunch of people on here said Uhhh... maybe you should start with something shorter... and ***they were RIGHT*** i ended up making a 4 min film – WAY WAY SMARTER IN EVERY WAY. glad i did. just throwing it out there that being said, the more commercial your project is, the more you need to worry about shit like this. my short is, at best, proof of concept that i can make films – im not trying to directly profit from it in any way financially. of course i have releases, but what are you going to sue me for, 30% of $0? good luck with that my point @salim is that IF YOU MIGHT EVER SELL THIS FILM FOR MONEY, TO ANYONE, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, YOU NEED RELEASES ON EVERYTHING. that is the professional answer the fear of course being that some a-hole sues you in the future, after your project becomes profitable. if thats a non-issue, then who cares. but you have to make that determination finally, there is the concept in all of this that people should understand the release theyre signing. if they dont its actually worthless in court – not that that comes up, but its like a cop reading you your miranda rights, You have the right to remain silent, etc, and then asking, DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IVE TOLD YOU? a conversation like that means a lot more to me than a piece of paper. when it comes to hardcore IP issues, have a talk with ppl, and get them to sign something. if its an actor or location release for an indie short, dont trip too hard, but at least make the actors sign a standard release

If netflix is commissioning you to make a show, and you want to use a camera thats not on their list, im sure you can just tell them. i would id be like "Id rather shoot with Camera X because A, B, C". what are they gonna say, "no"? also, what is the theoretical camera that people want to shoot with that isnt on their list? potato is there

did u guys see this

I'm standing at the edge of the pool... ?

Sure... it was a rhetorical question, just thinking philosophically lol

has it ever happened in history that someone made a good film that ppl liked that didnt get picked up strictly because of the camera it was shot on? im guessing no

is this like... on the table? is that possible??? ?

Exactly. This is great news~! Who knows what those guys can do with it...! ?

In all seriousness, I cant stand the high crop factor cams. Its a fookin hybrid camera, for stills AND video. give me a break!

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aww thank you so much guys!! @KnightsFan I'm trying to separate the main character from a static shot where the camera doesnt move... The photoshop idea is a good one – i did that with another shot, worked great~! @Hans Punk ahh, an occlusion layer~! let me look that up lol, thank you!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Guys, I'm trying to roto two four second clips for my short and it's been so hard~! What the heck is going on?! Am I doing stuff all wrong?? Tell me what you think: All instances where I need to roto are removing people from a background. The camera is not moving at all. One clip does have a fairly problematic background, as far as hues that blend with the actor's face. I get that. But even with the other clip I feel like I'm having way too much trouble. I've been trying to get this done in AE with the Roto brush + roto refine edge tool, and I also tried in Mocha AE. With the roto brush, the selections arent accurate, and it takes a ton of refining with the option key, and THEN it doesnt track well at all. I was doing SOoo much work frame by frame that I was like Heck, I'll try Mocha. So in mocha, I did the whole thing twice – first time I added way too many points and I was like Oh thats why its not tracking well. So I did it again, and... SAME result... the "tracking" aspect of the software is working, just really poorly~! (???) Roto is something I dont have experience with, but Im not a dummy and I can follow a tutorial?? What's going on here? Are my expectations just out of wack? How do you guys do roto? I'm so frustrated because if I'd just literally gone frame by frame with my wacom in photoshop this would be done by now!!! Any suggestions/insight would be much appreciated Sadly, K

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@KnightsFan that is great info, thank you so much!!!

ahhh, thank you guys! @ all: i actually have a timeline in resolve that is 98% colored and complete, but i need to do some things in AE: some compositing that involves roto, and some retiming. i *could* do that stuff in fusion, but id have to download the new resolve (im running 14 right now), and thats more than id like to get into if possible. my computer is also reaching its playback limitations in resolve at the moment. im good with just doing my composite shots in AE, and bringing them back into resolve to render the whole thing thank you all for underscoring that an additional unnecessary rendering step is a bad idea!

hi

Hi guys! my 5d3 raw ML short is coming along, and my plan is to take the graded resolve edit into after effects for finishing, some compositing and touch up 1) does that sound ok? (lol) 2) whats the best practice for export? 3) anything i should know? i have no previous experience with the above 4) THANK Uuuuuuu

this thread is AHmazing

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im shooting my next film on potato

i find that to be a soothing sound lol ?

in the same vein looool http://thebookofjasper.tumblr.com/post/158767094535/pethairgoth-i-recorded-jasper-eating-his-frosty

stuff seems ok to me... maybe post a link so we can compare?