Who is competing with RED?

[tj williams]

Hi Jaime.

But of course, it'll just be easier and way faster to just go on location, put the camera on a fluid-head tripod, and pan the sucker instead of just doing a static shot.

Can I get free airplane tickets too?? then I could go back.

Actually with care a lot more foreground than you may think. We had a wide shot on a recent jazz concert. The guy was inexperienced and stayed too wide too much. We shot HD but the product was released SD On several shots we pushed in quite nicely, over the heads of audience fg which looks like a crane in over their heads.

 

[Jim Arthurs]

I agree pan n scan looks mostly "weird" reframing a 4K image in cuts won't and smaller movements can be done well, the pan n scan guys are just too cheap and unimaginative to doe it well JMHO...

One of the new abilities of the 3D motion tracking software SynthEyes is the ability to do true nodal pan/tilt with keystone correction on an existing shot... basically overcoming the "slide across the still" feel of a traditional pan&scan technique.

This is not a turnkey "push a single button" solution, but does go to show the amount of research into this area...

http://www.ssontech.com/content/stabwht.htm

Regards,

 

[Bruce Allen]

I totally agree that the best way is to cut out the foreground and do it in multiplane.

I must admit, I know of a lot of trailers with straight 2D zooms, etc done on shots though... if it's subtle you don't notice it that much, especially if there is already a track in and you are just accentuating it.

By the way, have you guys ever tried sticking optics distortion on top of your slides / zooms? I find it helps quite a lot sometimes... gives you a bit more of that wrap-around turning / tracking feeling.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

 

[Jim Arthurs]

Well, the theory behind the SynthEyes technique, and the way I do it in a 3D package, is to project the footage on a virtual dome, then "re-photograph" it with a camera from nodal position with the tighter focal length's pan/tilt.

If the camera is in motion you can then do other interesting things like "re-targeting" the virtual camera to other interesting points in the shot and have a very realistic feel to the motion.

 

[tj williams]

Eventually I just need my SLR and you post guys will be able to restore the rustle in the bushes and make the 3D animals enter on cue!

 

[Bruce Allen]

Damn, TJ, you found out!

Or we could just shoot the animals at the zoo and I will use a matte painting and some stock footage to make it look like they are in their natural habitat instead If we can somehow chuck a green screen into the critters' pens, we would be golden.

Actually, the broadcast guys sitting next to me today were working on something with a ton of roto-ed panthers, dolphins, etc. Again, no green screen! Someone seriously needs to paint some big dolphin pools green and shoot some 4k dolphin greenscreen stock

I am just kidding. I hate zoos. I'm from SA, what did you expect?

Happy weekend!

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com