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  1. shortboy

    Premiere Pro is stretching the footage for some reason.

    If you're too caught up in worrying about why the footage is stretched, then just manually scale the width/height in the effects settings. Premiere has a weird way of interpreting non-native ratios. From a quick research 1280.544 is 2.35:1
  2. shortboy

    cinematography Question about shooting wedding videos with a DSLR.

    Bwuahaha. The main reasons I come to indietalk lately are for Sweetie, WalterB, AcousticAI, directorik, and indietalk posts in H44 threads. You guys all make my day.
  3. shortboy

    cinematography Question about shooting wedding videos with a DSLR.

    It's almost impossible to do a good wedding video with a single cam. You'd have to know the Ceremony on the back of your hand in order to pull it off. Even then it's still pretty hard. DSLR's, in particular, are good for highlight videos instead of full ceremonies due to a memory cards write...
  4. shortboy

    Tripod with wheels that goes straight without a track?

    Regardless, you're still going to suffer from hitting cracks. Even the most minor of cracks is enough to make a considerable shake on camera.
  5. shortboy

    Those breakthrough moments

    When my cousin and I were simultaneously editing our 72 Hour Film Project short, we were still trying to come up with a title/hero name akin to a Power Ranger for the actual film. We kept throwing words around along with our writers but couldn't come up with one. Sometime during editing the...
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    archived-videos How is this make up tutorial video I shot and directed?

    Where you ended after the zoom was fine. It was the sudden zoom that threw it off. Especially since the shots after were static so it came off as inconsistent. I probably would done the same in terms of changing the temp in the camera itself but grading in post I wouldn't do. Maybe a little...
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    archived-videos How is this make up tutorial video I shot and directed?

    I would've had a longer shot of the accessories in a set. The sudden whip zooms were a bit jarring so I would've had it just a static shot. Don't color grade. Make-up is about color and grading the footage would give the viewer a false sense of color. The lighting is a little bit too hot...
  8. shortboy

    Trying to make this documentary project more interesting...

    If there's one thing to take away it's that you did it. That's already a step in the right direction. There are so many things that you can be told, but it's ultimately up to you to decide what to do.
  9. shortboy

    editing I have a question about using keyframes in Premiere Pro.

    Yes. All things need time to breath. Spreading out the keyframe will accomplish that.
  10. shortboy

    editing I have a question about using keyframes in Premiere Pro.

    I wouldn't do it at all. I don't know what comes after so I can't give you that answer. Also. I just noticed you wanted it to be gradual. Extend the picture out, move the keyframes further out to the right, and then scrub the picture back.
  11. shortboy

    editing I have a question about using keyframes in Premiere Pro.

    You have multiple keyframes next to each other. Remove the picture and start from scratch. Or just remove the problematic keyframes. This is what you're going for. It's honestly an ugly zoom to begin with. But hey... that's what you want.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zn5WeLfcyc
  12. shortboy

    Trying to make this documentary project more interesting...

    Your first post has a story already written in itself. The fact that you believe that you find making a documentary about another student/each other uninteresting is interesting. As already said, it's about finding out who you are. We can give your classmate a whole list of things that can be...
  13. shortboy

    editing I have a question about using keyframes in Premiere Pro.

    Extend the picture back out. You very likely have a lingering keyframe that's forcing it to move back to the unwanted position. If anything, just remove the picture and start from scratch. What I normally do is go to any frame in the picture, keyframe both position and scale, go a few frames...
  14. shortboy

    Can a villain truly be nasty?

    Villain's can definitely be nasty There's a Korean film called "The Chaser" that's based on a true story where the guy is utterly insane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaser_%28film%29 It's just the mere thought that someone actually committed such crimes that makes is scary.
  15. shortboy

    archived-videos STORAGE - A short horror movie we made with absolutely no budget

    I know something was gonna be freaky when I find myself having to turn down the volume just to lessen the impact of the scare haha. Parts of it reminded me of the oculus and El Orfanato. Which isn't bad because anything horror with kids usually tends to be freaky. And you successfully did that.
  16. shortboy

    Do these guns look real enough?

    If all you're willing to pay for is a $20 gun then all you're gonna get is a plastic body. Again, metal bodies are more expensive http://www.airsoftstation.com/gas-airsoft-pistols/ But I have to stress, it's not the guns that are problematic. You just have to make us believe that the plastic...
  17. shortboy

    Do these guns look real enough?

    Keep the gun. Just have a more cost efficient way of showing it. Go to 10:40 https://youtu.be/y8iK1YaBHDw?t=10m40s Our main gun fight, the leads had metal blowback airsoft guns. All the thugs had the cheaper plastic guns. Meaning you can get away with plastic. It's all about how the actor acts...
  18. shortboy

    Do these guns look real enough?

    Let's just chalk it up to us being the crazy ones. Honestly, a lot of us WANT to see something from you, H44. It's frustrating for us that for all we tell you, nothing has come up yet.
  19. shortboy

    Do these guns look real enough?

    Do you want to know why people don't show certain parts? It's because THEY DON'T HAVE THE EQUIPMENT FOR IT! That's where creativity comes into play. You don't have to give all the pieces of the puzzle. The audience will piece it together. It's called making things implied.
  20. shortboy

    Do these guns look real enough?

    As El Director said, that's NOT how you put a bullet in a gun. Bullet's go into the magazine and then placed into the gun itself. With the slide already pushed back is how you see the bullet going into the chamber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3NRyP7uFI0#t=32
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