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Finally put some time into a video - Early Morning @pcmr

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eheath
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Hey guys, I finally found some time to put towards an edit, got to shoot with ware early at pc one morning and decided to put together a little video from it. Was very challenged with the shadow I created on my motion tracked title, but in the end was stoked with what I created, would love some critiques/comments/hate thanks guys!


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uni-corn
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Just the right amount of slow-mo at just the right moments. Nailed it.
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jkauffman22
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I've only watched it on mobile so far but I loved it. I can see where some people are hating on it about landings but I personally didn't care there weren't any landings. The sound was great (can't wait to listen with good speakers) and I loved the shadow on the motion tracked title. Nice work!
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Gknow
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How tough was it to get the shadow over the title?
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eheath
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Couple guys at my work know there away around AE better than I and gave me a few tips, ended up just making a mask, feathering it and then doing an alpha matte to the text and keyframing the movement. I spent a couple hours fucking around but in the end it only took 15-20 mins to get the shadow the way I wanted it.
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EastShoreDrive
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Is it bad that I'm more intrigued by the shadow than anything else? The time you put into doing that was worth it. The hate on this on the video page is completely unwarranted.
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EastShoreDrive
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It was the first thing I noticed when watching it last night for the first time before anyone mentioned it. Har har har.
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CrotchKiller
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Too much slow-mo for my tast, but I liked a lot of the shots
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mvf
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Yeah a bit too much slomo for me too, but it actually almost worked in this one.
Again, woulda been stoked if you shot a bottom angle a couple times but I guess that wasn't a possibility.

Shadow on the title doesn't seem too hard...

Nice work overall.
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eheath
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You're right, as soon as I figured it out, it's not that hard. As for the font, it's futura bold, not arial. That being said, fonts have never been my strong point.
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msg
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text is always tricky. nice vid
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RockNRollNghtClb
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just wish you couldve got more footage
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NMMedia
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Really liked it, the slow motion was sick, but without overdoing it

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Ehh...
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In the 3 split camera angle shot with John it bothered me personally a little bit to see that he was carrying a go pro or a pole a certain way and then in the last shot it just magically disappeared.

Obviously the average person will not picking on things like this. It was just something to me.
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Ehh...
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Also with the "explosive speed and slow mo ramping" How were you able to create that effect? Did it come down to splitting a frame and doing it multiple times with a gradual increase? or in AF?
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raymondcabral
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That was so sick... and that shadow on the title was pretty sweet to be honest. Good job sir
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eheath
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I just ramped in preimere, I shot at 240 so it was easy to get a dramatic difference. As for the triple angle on the box, definitely could've cut that for sure I just like the Hitchcock zoom I did but it was pretty subtle.
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Ehh...
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I see. How far down did you go with speed on the slow mo? But I agree the effect is sick I was just one minor detail that I saw. But once again it was minor and the more angles the better. As always good work keep it flowing! I assume it was shot on an FS100?
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eheath
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Well 240 you can go down to about 10-15% (usually did 15-20). I shot with a fs700, the 100 only shoots 60p.
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Ehh...
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Understood. Keep the edits a-flowing!
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j-cal
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Wait you ramped in premier??? How did you cut it up and set the increments? Also how did you do it with the overcraked 240 fps footage? Did you start with the clip at 240 then change the speed to fast when needed? Or did you set the clip to 1,000 % then ramp down in speed? I know this does not matter to much but when dealing with ramped audio its has been an issue for me. Because when i bring the real time speed of the 240 clip into after effects to ramp it does not work so well.
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eheath
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If you go under your effect controls, under motion and opacity is time remapping. If you expand it, you get a graph. Set keyframes and you can ease in/ease out aka ramp.


What I did for most shots was speed them up to 800% using cmnd+J then when you go into time remapping, it defaults at "100%" because thats how the graphs work. From there I would slow down to 15 or 20 % then the max you can do in your time remapping is "1000%" so its good to get the file to 800% first then you can speed it up past real time speed (ie if you left the clip at 100% in your timeline, you could only increase the speed to 1000% which is only like 20% faster than real time).

Did i explain that well enough? I cant tell
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j-cal
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Makes sens for sure. But isn't 1,000 real time? Because 240 divided by 24 is 10? Is 240 10 %?
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eheath
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I recorded to 30p not 24 because it's my tv stations camera and we shoot everything 30 so I just didn't change it but I think you are correct about that math
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Ehh...
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I have never done speed ramping this way. Holy shit I feel like a neanderthal compared to this method. Thank you so much!
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.qzyxya
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Really liked it but one piece of criticism I can think of is that the shadow on the text looks far too soft to be realistic. Props for figuring out how to do it in the first place, but given that you can clearly see the edges on the skiers shadow on the snow, it doesn't make much sense for it to be all blurred on the text.

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terraclot
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bcuz you is bruh!!!
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Ehh...
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Get out... now...
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El_Barto.
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cool. Fuck is still my favorite edit
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ThaLorax
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I enjoyed that.
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Bhroscoe
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How did you keep the audio in sync with premiere while ramping? I thought the only way to do that was in ae?
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eheath
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Well first of all, I used the same audio clip for every jump shot because when you record 240 you don't record audio.

That being said, I just chop it up into different segments at different speeds and patch it in where it sounds best.
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