1st MUSIC VIDEO ON RED CAM

[prime zero]

This is the first music video my company has done on the Red cam. We did a mixture of location shots and green screen. The camera pulls great keys and I'm overall very happy with the footage. We shot another video with the camera last week and I will post that one as soon as it's done. Can't wait for our camera to get here only a few more weeks to go! take a look at the video and let me know what you guys think.

http://blip.tv/file/1053921?filename=Primezero-Presidential144.mov

 

[Jeff Mustaman]

I didn't like it that much.. although.. isn't really my kind of style. But there are some good looking shots in there.

The green screen stuff looked really flat, maybe to much CC, or to much light from the front? In what program did you guys pulled the key?

 

[prime zero]

we used primatte 4 to pull the keys

 

[Harva Raj]

i like the 'MTV' look. what is your post workflow and what type of lens did you use?

 

[prime zero]

Our post work flow was a little messy for the first time. I ran several tests to decide what would give us the best looking final output. I decided that red cine rendered the best looking footage, but no audio from there was a problem. So I captured everything through the final cut log and transfer to do the first cut. Then I was going to use crimson to get the cut into red cine. Thats where my problems started. I could never get the crimson workflow to work for me. The layered frames on top of each other always caused problems on the export. So I ended up having to pull all the clips I used by hand in final cut and render them in red cine. Then I re linked all those files to the timeline and exported to color to pump up specific colors in the shots. We used a set of ARRI Zeiss primes, they were older so I think they were MK2's, I'm not sure though.

 

[Emiliano Ranzani]

Not my kind of music, but the images are good imho. Especially the live ones.

 

[William Wedig]

Our post work flow was a little messy for the first time. I ran several tests to decide what would give us the best looking final output. I decided that red cine rendered the best looking footage, but no audio from there was a problem. So I captured everything through the final cut log and transfer to do the first cut. Then I was going to use crimson to get the cut into red cine. Thats where my problems started. I could never get the crimson workflow to work for me. The layered frames on top of each other always caused problems on the export. So I ended up having to pull all the clips I used by hand in final cut and render them in red cine. Then I re linked all those files to the timeline and exported to color to pump up specific colors in the shots. We used a set of ARRI Zeiss primes, they were older so I think they were MK2's, I'm not sure though.

On your conform, did you try laying everything down to video track 1, removing attributes and then running it through crimson? I was going to insert edit them forcing the audio to split to give me markers where that happened so you can recreate it post-RedCine. That was my plan for how to conform after doing simple temp FX and multitrack video stuff and was wondering if it would work that way.

Then after you run it through Crimson, pull back into FCP and recreate those FX. Also, how does that then run through Color? Do you have to render out those specific mulitracked shots and then pull them back in for it work with Color?

 

[prime zero]

You can have more than one layer in color. The clips just show up on multiple tracks in color.

 

[Snow R. Shai]

Proxies

Proxies

I would recommend TO USE the proxies for all 1-2 layers edit with no FX.
It's the fastest way to start editing right away, WITHOUT any conversions.
BUT, if you have multilayered sequences, stuffed with FX and filters,
Your best bet is to use other workflows - FCP will get tired working with so many proxies...

It all depends per project.

Prime, nice hip hop, colorful video.