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    Fake Rain: Why is this so difficult?

    in Visual Effects Cinematography

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    So this is a pretty low budget short I'm working on. In the past I've manipulated rain using two garden hoses with a sprinkler ring attachment on both, and it worked great. My only challenge with this particular shot is the fact that my exterior angle is too far from any faucet or hose. So, I'm stuck with making my water supply portable. Since I'm shooting a low angle looking up, can I simply have scattered drops only a few feet in front of the lens? If so, how does one get the most realistic looking droplets. My watering can filtered through a mesh screen idea made the drops looks perfectly round (and thus did not look like consistent rain).

     

    There are good plugins for After Effects to add rain in post - can't remember what they are called. I have done shots with fake rain on set and cut it in with CG rain and you can't tell the difference.

    Green Screen Generator

    in Camera Assistant / DIT & Gear

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    I do some work that involved shooting at TV monitors (LCD or Plasma) who have images placed in them in post. A common solution has been gaff in the corners of the screen to use as tracking points or, at times, cutting green paper out to fill the screen and then have it keyed out later.

     

    In an idea world I see a device that generates nothing but a green screen. It would be a big as a computer thumb drive, run off a battery, have a HDMI, s-video, or composite RCA, to plug right into the TV.

     

    Does this exist?

     

    Another solution would be to have a DVD with an hour of Green burned to it and it could be played through the TV.

     

    I'd use either a DVD with a green menu with no buttons - and that is all thats on it - no need for an hour of footage.

     

    Or a laptop connected to a TV with a green desktop on the TV and nothing else.

    HDCAM vs. HDCAM SR with the 7D

    in Post Production

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    master at HDCAM SR or if the H.264 footage is already so compressed that it wouldn't make a difference.

     

    Sorry if this is covering what you already know. Just thought I'd share my 7D workflow - as I've been shooting with the 5 & now 7D for about a year now.

     

    I hold onto the H.264 as a backup - but never edit with it as its clunky.

     

    I transcode (through batch lists) all the footage into Apple ProRes 422. It's great for editing and the image quality is virtually loseless.

     

    I use MPEG Streamclip (free) for all transcoding.

     

    Hope that helps.

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