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Shooting defocused still plates
- Now, Rich, generally speaking, when I see blurry footage, I say, "Somebody screwed up." That's not good, but in this case shooting a background plate, oftentimes having some level of blur or out-of-focusness to that background plate is a good thing. - Yeah, and we can do this digitally after the fact. I will show you how to use a tool like Photoshop and its blur gallery to enhance this, but I like to get it right in camera so it looks a bit more optical. You see here, we've got a bunch of different plates. Some of these are stills. Normally I'd shoot raw, but I decided to risk it and just go for .jpg, and we've also got some movies. Let's start by talking about the stills. So, couple things here. I like to put a stand-in in some cases, and so this allows me to judge, and what we have here is the calibration target. We've used this in past episodes, and it gives me something clear to focus on. Now, by setting the depth of field a little bit shallow in the camera, this stuff back here…
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Making killer backgrounds for greenscreen46s
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Shooting defocused still plates3m 5s
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Shooting defocused video plates2m 56s
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Defocusing backgrounds in Photoshop CC5m 12s
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Shoot plates with a light field camera3m 23s
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Post-processing a light field camera6m 41s
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Gear overview4m 15s
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Canon camera5m 34s
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Panasonic Lumix GH43m 7s
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Sony a7S5m 29s
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Blending a key with the background with Light Wrap by Red Giant5m 58s
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Blending a key with the background with Lighwrap by Digital Anarcht3m 39s
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Improving the quality of greenscreen shots40s
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Using a hard cyc greenscreen backdrop2m 51s
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Studio lighting for greenscreen projects3m
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Testing the backdrop with a monitor2m 23s
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Testing the backdrop onset3m 15s
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Shooting in portrait mode2m 29s
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Gear overview6m 59s
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Creating affordable textured backdrop with lights32s
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It’s all about creating patterns1m 19s
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Creating a hand-cut gobo2m 35s
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Using a pattern backdrop1m 48s
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Creating a gobo with a transparency projector2m 1s
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Using a projector to create custom backdrops2m 55s
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The challenges of powering the GoPro HERO42m 56s
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Battery options for the GoPro HERO44m 15s
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Which battery runs the longest in the GoPro HERO4?4m 42s
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Which GoPro HERO4 battery charges the fastest?5m 6s
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The form factor and price of GoPro HERO4 batteries4m 46s
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The winning battery2m 47s
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