It's been ages since my last post, but I felt now was a good time to report my own failures to this blog. Afterall, it's been a goal of mine to outline several experiments (whether they be successful or not...) here, and it's about time I do so. Anyway, I'm in the middle of a student film of mine; post production has already begun and unfortunately, while shooting the thing I realized a couple of errors:
- - I shot about 20 mins of footage as interlaced 60i (Of all people to do this, I fuck up of course...)
- - After those 20 mins, I switch the camera to a 24p mode (Not 24Pa, stupidly enough)
- - After another 10 mins or footage, I realize that I left the camera's 24p mode with 1/24th shutter... So now a good deal of footage ends up with MOTION BLUR EVERYWHERE!
Please, learn this lesson, fellow film students: Always shoot one format, otherwise you'll just give yourself a headache. How so? Well I wanted the whole thing to be 24fps, so I ended up deinterlacing the first 20 minutes, then motion compensating it (AVISynth - MVTools) to 24p. The result is somewhat artifacted, but it's better than having two mismatched framerates...
At this point, I have a separate file for the 20mins of converted footage, while another 10 or so mins remain a somewhat blurry mess.
On top of this, there are a few shots I did not consider achieving while on set, and editors know exactly what a shortage of shots can lead to. ("FUCK, I CAN'T CUT TO ANYTHING"), and the sound is a bit shitty at times. They say each problem is just a creative challenge...
Bullshit.
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