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Sharpen out of focus footage
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. replied to Oscar Petersson's topic in Post Production
Here, try this. https://topazlabs.com/sharpen-ai/ It is not for movies. You will have to scan your film into jpeg or tiff files and bulk load it and mass processes. That was what I did in Lightroom. I don't know if Topaz works like Lightroom. You will have to figure it out. In any case, free trial, so not much to lose. If you have no film and it is just video, then maybe they make similar software for that. As a cinematograher, unless you are of the cinéma vérité school or a war doc shooter, you are not supposed to create out of foucs footage. Cinematographers are anal, tripod shooters for the most part. They are akin to large format still photogs...another anal varity of shooters. Their game is perfection, not out of focus. OK, we all screw up. But sometimes we just gotta suck it and move on to the next project. -
I guess it worth the $300 considering the +/- 20 scans it makes before it breaks. 20 divided by $300 = $15 a scan. It gives you a decent $15 scan...I guess. And you may be luckier than me and get 40 or 50 scans out of it. If you are going to look at the footage on your phone in the smallest of sizes, then maybe it is acceptable. I would not like to sign my name to the output of the Wolverine. It is painful to see. I'm not a pixel pepper. I don't have to have 5K, but the image quality should not be painful to watch. You can't enjoy the movie. All you see is how bad it looks.
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Where do you get your generic sound from?
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. replied to Daniel D. Teoli Jr.'s topic in General Discussion
Thanks. I got a number of tiles off of Freesound, so am good for now. Only thing is Freesound seems to be down a lot from my very short time there. Maybe they were just having a bad day. Someone else I told about it said the same thing. so must not be just me. -
Where do you get your generic sound from?
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. replied to Daniel D. Teoli Jr.'s topic in General Discussion
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Someone asked me on another forum what an underground film is when I mentioned it. Well, I'm no expert and it is hard to define exactly. But to me it is something non-mainstream, uncensored, not made for the sake of $ and made for the sake of art and or expression. And when I say not made for the sake of $, sure you can make underground films to make $. But true underground films are not bound by demands of making $..they put art and expression first. In the beatnik era, the 'mimeo revolution' allowed for underground publications to be made on a low budget in someone's basement in Greenwich Village. That may be where the term underground was first used in art, film and printing. But really it started much earlier than that...it was just not termed underground. I'm an underground social documentary still photographer. You can look at my photos and posts and get an idea of what being underground means. I got into the underground film end of things through managing a photo archive. One day the still photo archive branched out into small gauge films. It is a case of the proverbial one thing leads to another. Or as Gary Winogrand once said: "the more I do... the more I do." Both NSFW https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/ https://danieldteolijrarchivalcollection.wordpress.com/ I was looking at my tablet relaxing at night scrolling through the fat girls of Instagram looking for attention. That spawned a number of social documentary videos off my tablet / computer screen to document them. Here is one that struck me as something interesting in our #metoo era to document. No matter how much the gals complain about men...goddamn they crave attention...don't they. (BTW...when you are underground you can do or say anything you like. You are already snubbed by the mainstream, so it is no loss to your career or sales. If someone would boycott you, you would welcome the attention. You are only bound by man-made laws and natural laws. And that is the freedom of expression being underground can give you. Martin Scorsese is a good example of how being beholden to $$ can ruin something. He was forced to desaturate the red blood at the end of Taxi Driver to meet demands of making $$. Now decades later the original red blood footage has never surfaced and only the embarrassing brownish, desaturated blood remains.) Full Title of video: 'A social documentary study of a girl on Instagram showing off her jiggly ass in the #metoo era for men and lesbian separatists to ogle over as America destroys itself in a soft civil war.' Politically Correct Statement: Lesbian separatists and third-wave feminists object to the use of the term 'girl' for any female after she has reached the age of menstruation.
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Where do you get your generic sound from?
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. replied to Daniel D. Teoli Jr.'s topic in General Discussion
Thanks for the replies. Will check out Freesound.org Don't know much about sound. What is some basic DAW software to get to process sound? I tried recording a projector running with a mini digital recorder but it does not sound that good. There is lots of art in sound. Not as easy as you think to get it right. You never give sound much thought, it is just there. Maybe I need a microphone and not just use the built in mic. -
I was looking for projector sound, like 10+ minutes worth.
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What basic software can be used to remove sound from video or to add sound to video?
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Feedback for my first short film, please :)
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. replied to Kaya Palusinska's topic in Please Critique My Work
Nice work! Love the lighting and the whole look. Dragged a little for me I speed up the last half. Only thing I would change is for the mom's boob to flop out when she is under the bed. I see you got a big team on it. I was going to say you got talent. But will have to say your team has talent. -
Here is an old timer on film and projection. (22 min) You should make a section on the forum where we can put films or snips of films not looking for critique...just to share. These 'projection' films are pretty rare from what I can tell. Although I've only been around 16mm for a few years I've looked through over 10,000 reels of 16mm and many thousand reels of 8mm and have never seen any of the actual films on these subjects. Only digital copies.
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How motion pictures move and talk Just barley getting going with small gauge films. Learning the ropes with video processing, making titles, conversions, etc. Still need to learn about color and contrast grading and sound. Actually know next to nothing about it. But I do have about half a million feet of small gauge films that are fantastic. Many, many hundred films in the archive.(The vinegar is strong!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQA-aJ5lG-A&feature=youtu.be Sadly, about 60% - 70% are underground films and YT or Vimeo wont go for them. But I still have hopes about broadcasting online. Some of them the commercial scanners wont do. But I can bypass them, so that is not a prime concern. And I don't have the $$ to pay for commercial scans anyway. This is a film I adopted from a disc that someone else digitized eons ago. I have about 7 films on projectors and 16mm films. I've never seen any of them come to market to buy actual 16mm reels. Glad to be able to get the material any way I can. If a reel come to market, hopefully I can buy it and get a better version.
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For archiving some old footage off a DVD is either as good for the job? The only thing I will be doing to the material is adding a title and turning into MP4. I may color grade possibly. Thanks
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Yes, 16mm 5 blade on ebay $700 +/-. Shoot with a video cam off the screen. If you have old shrunk film in bad shape, with broken sprockets, etc then you need sprocketless scanner. I keep buying lotto tickets for big time scanner, but no cooperation from lotto. Here is one example of poor man's transfer.
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Why does MP4 get bigger after conversion?
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. replied to Daniel D. Teoli Jr.'s topic in Post Production
OK, thanks, will study it up. Still trying to learn the ropes. With still photos I always work in TIFF and then when done I may convert to jpeg. -
Something is better than nothing. Still works, so am happy about that. Thanks for the forum!
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I had a film on a DVD I converted to MP4 with Movavi. It came out as 156mb. I imported the 156mb file to Movie Maker and added a title. When I export as MP4 the 156mb ends up as a 634mb file. Why?? Title is only a few mb and is not the issue. I am working with plain MP4, nothing HD. Thanks
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Some of the printed material in my archive stinks like hell. The 'green' printers use vegetable based soy ink and it goes rancid. The printed material smells rancid. Crude oil based ink does not.
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You don't see many people using this cam nowadays Manhattan Marriage Bureau - December 2018 (Candid)
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Here is a little movie I made on the 'Girls of Instagram.' Really, it should be called the 'Thick Girls of Instagram.' (That is what the kids call the chubb dubs...THICK.) At night I will watch a little TV to relax and fire up my tablet to see what the fat girls of IG are doing. Good relaxation for the ADD mind. I wrote to a few of the girls to make some respectful suggestions to improve their photography and thanked them for their photos. The few ranting replies I got from them were terrible. Jesus, what nasty dispositions the girls have nowadays...just despicable. You would think they are man-hating lesbian separatists. So I gave up giving any advice. (BTW, if you want to improve your candid photography shoot your TV screen while watching TV. Great practice for timing and for learning to 'be at one' with your cam.) Last night I gave the IG thicks a look while watching TV and thought, some of these girls should be archived. So I took out a little Sony P&S and made a video of my tablet. A trend with some of the girls nowadays is to get injections in their butt to give it a 'shelf' look. Kinda adult content...but you can't get too adult with IG ...funny, with all this #METOO stuff, the girls require lots of attention. Some of the IG girls look to have lives that revolve around taking selfies and seeing how many likes they can get for their big butts.
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Color calibration and different viewing platforms
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. replied to Justin Oakley's topic in General Discussion
You have to color grade for different venues. Same with prints. Some papers requires different files for printing. Also a file for the monitor / internet viewing may be different from the print file. Here is an example of what I'm talking about with prints. https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/papers-and-printers-matter/ Just make a custom grading for YT. -
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I got an old film from the 70s. A lot of the film was in short pieces. They were marked with tape and coded like this... What does this mean? Just a temp edit? Why is 14/16 together and not in order of 14 /15 / 16? Film is about firemen of that era.
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Rivas Splicer vs Guillotine Splicer?
Daniel D. Teoli Jr. replied to Jon Taala's topic in Post Production
Lets see a photo of it.