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Feedback on some editing

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BenWhit
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What's up, guys.

I'm just wondering if you guys could give me a little feedback on my first real edit of the year. i've started to fiddle with color correction, and i think it looks good, but i want to know what others think!

tips on the skiing are cool too.

Feb 8 2012 11:03PM
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I.B
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Ehhhh.

Way to much color corection.

BUT good to see that kid wearing a mouth gaurd. I always wear one.
Feb 8 2012 11:06PM
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BenWhit
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haha i got a concussion recently, so i wear one just incase.

i've never messed with color correction before. it was really sunny that day, but i didn't want the video to cool washed out. i kind of like the way it came out, just has a funky feel to it, but i like it.
Feb 8 2012 11:32PM
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I.B
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Just keep working on it. You'll get it.

Yeah, i knocked out my 4 front teeth last year, so i always wear one.
Feb 9 2012 12:07AM
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BenWhit
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yeah and i've bit through my lip/tongue from time to time. bad news bears
Feb 9 2012 12:16AM
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JStrathern
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Holy colors, and a little too much slow mo. But besides that I enjoyed it, especially because it's WV.
Feb 9 2012 12:39PM
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bobbyups
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too much slow mooooo
Feb 9 2012 1:05PM
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BenWhit
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i used the slo mo because we really didn't have that much footage and the beat to the song is super slow.

i appreciate the feedback guys.
Feb 9 2012 1:07PM
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MLeone
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Your slow mo wasn't very smooth, and i'd watch your whites, the snow was green and blueish at times..
Feb 9 2012 3:48PM
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BenWhit
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how do i make it more smooth? i'm new at editing, and the only way i know how to do slo-mo is changing the velocity of the track.
Feb 9 2012 4:00PM
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juicedrummer11
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hahaha im guilty of this before. but yeah colors were a bit too much for me. remember less is more with color correcting. if you can just barely shift the colors one way or another to give a different feel without it being super obvious in some cases its a good job. but just keep working at it and you'll get it, i still am figuring out better methods.

for the slow mo, you should be shooting at 60fps if you want to get smooth natural slow motion. then it depends on what editing software you have. the best way is to conform the 60fps into 24 or 30 fps in most cases. sometimes if you edit in a 60fps timeline like i think eheath does, you can just change the speed of the clip down a little bit without getting too choppy. then just export that 60fps timeline as 24 or 30fps depending on what you like better
Feb 9 2012 7:27PM
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caleb_lun
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yeah you should conform the clips to 24 for the best and most smooth slow mo, without using twixtor. For colour correction you should watch Abe Kislevits tutorial, it gives you a pretty simply yet in depth look into balancing the blacks and whites and giving the video more definition.


Heres a link to the tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ArAsATd8M



Plus dude video is pretty sick, to me the skiing was great, a lot better than me. Good work keep it up
Apr 4 2012 9:30PM
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McFellon
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As far as CC goes, you did a nice job with white/black levels; the snow wasn't overexposed and nothing was hitting complete black. However, you might want to lay off the saturation a bit. The primary purpose of color correcting is to get shots back to what we would naturally see with the eye. Anything beyond that is personal preference and depends on the look you're going for with your edit. It's really easy to get carried away, especially at first.
The slowmo looks good (I thought it looked smooth), I assume you were shooting in r3 which is 60fps (the shadow looked very GoPro-y). You just might want to not use the effect for every shot, especially since it was a lot of the same features and similar tricks throughout the edit. Nobody wants to see an overly repetitive edit, but where you think that line is is up to you.
Apr 4 2012 9:46PM
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mBall
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If you edited in Vegas (Sounds like you did) check out the help thread. It explains all the project settings you should be using. And as said before, you should be shooting in 60p.

Apr 5 2012 12:09AM
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dispatchQ_main
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Can't tell if serious?
Apr 5 2012 6:00PM
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McFellon
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Yeah I just watched it again, I was wrong about the blacks, but the whites are still good.
Apr 6 2012 5:58PM
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MLeone
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I REALYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY hope you're joking, sometimes the snow was blue and green
Apr 6 2012 8:26PM
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Charles.
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only slomo cool parts, aka we dont need to see them getting onto the rail, flailing, or possibly even grinding in slo mo. Unless you have a really unique shot/are going with a slomo theme. get a faster more involved pace going. we dont need to see them approaching a rail from as far away as you have alot of shots. snow should be white.
Apr 8 2012 4:57PM
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