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BROSEIDON
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Don't hate, I got a gopro, only made one edit before that was meant to be a joke. Just trying to learn the ways. I'm ready to be critiqued hard and chances are I won't know what you're talking about so explanations would be greatly appreciated and karma will be awarded. I'm using final cut pro btw.

Thanks!


Oct 24 2011 10:40PM
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POW-WOW
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Alright work on steady filming though. Makes me want to longboard and whatever happened at 1:00 ish was sweet.
Oct 24 2011 11:36PM
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123+ski
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just from looking at it quickly, it would help if you didn't point the camera straight into the sun. it makes the footage look really washed out, because the camera can't "see" such big differences in light. I will try to finish some of my hw and then actually go in detail for you
Oct 24 2011 11:38PM
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erikK
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Don't shoot in 960p mode, do hold the camera steadier.
The reason 960p is bad is because the aspect ratio of the video isn't 16:9, that's why the sides of the video on youtube are black. If you didn't shoot in 960p, then make sure when you render you're rendering to a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Oct 24 2011 11:42PM
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123+ski
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that defeats the purpose of 960 tho. It is fine to use 960 if you know why you are using it. The main reason you use 960 isn't the resolution, its the added vertical height. This makes it desirable for filming in helmet cam style, I know they often use motocross as an example on the site
Oct 25 2011 12:37AM
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erikK
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Yeah but it leaves you with 4:3 which is just stupid IMO
Oct 25 2011 12:45AM
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BROSEIDON
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Thanks for the pointers!

More tips!
Oct 25 2011 6:06AM
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nice matt!
Oct 25 2011 3:43PM
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BROSEIDON
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My friend told me to shoot in that, parts of it (when the kid in the blue was sliding) were in 1080p and I like that a lot more, especially because there isn't the black on the sides.

Thanks joey!
Oct 25 2011 4:12PM
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WillStart
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yeah but it's super easy to stretch and scale it to give you a 16:9 image that doesn't look too bad
Oct 25 2011 4:59PM
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BROSEIDON
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I'm completely new to this, how do I do that?
Oct 25 2011 5:07PM
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all-i-do-is=ski
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you can crop the extra 240 pixels out with mpeg streamclip but that kinda defeats the purpose of filming in 960. It's good if you just want it to match the rest of your video.

abek has a nice workflow for gopro's http://www.uscsnowsports.org/FCP_Tutorial.pdf
Oct 25 2011 6:22PM
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BROSEIDON
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That will be really helpful. I bookmarked it, thanks! +k
Oct 25 2011 7:11PM
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WillStart
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once again, you can just stretch and scale. this only really works well if it's pov footage (so that you can't really tell it's stretched), and then scale it only a little so you don't lose a whole lot of vertical view.
Oct 25 2011 9:22PM
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BROSEIDON
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Definitely trying this next time, thanks!
Oct 26 2011 2:34PM
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andstuff
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It defeats the purpose because that is the incorrect way of doing it. The whole point of 960 is that it gives you space to adjust it in post, not crop it blindly during transcoding.

You import it into your NLE at its native dimensions (960). Make it fill the frame, and adjust it vertically to your liking. As long as your sequence is in 16:9, and the clip fills the frame horizontally, it will automatically cut off the excess space.
Oct 26 2011 2:48PM
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BROSEIDON
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I'll try that next time, if i use 960 again haha

bump!
Oct 26 2011 10:32PM
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