I bought a fairly inexpensive fog machine to make the mist, that way if I need to film it again I won't have to worry about tracking dry ice down again. So far I like how the footage looks and am in the process of bringing everything into Nuke.
I did have some problems getting my raw footage from the camera to the computer. I was unable to play the raw footage - I had to open it in After Effects and render it in order to make it viewable. This was very time consuming because I didn't want to compress the videos since this is my raw footage, but rendering it took forever. I'm still trying to find a way to reduce the file size of the new videos. Below are images of my raw footage and my first stab at using the IBK tool on the druid circle rocks.
Tracy,
ReplyDeletePerhaps you've already discovered this about the raw footage download. Though I have yet to use the card reader, myself, I've heard that FinalCutPro has the ability to easily manage the recorded raw data into .mp4 files.
As for the green screen shots:
1) Based on the stills you show here: The footage of the female talent looks well shot
2) Unfortunately, the stones -shot during class- appear a stop or two overexposed. The camera operator apparently didn't adjust the iris correctly. That said, you can probably still "correct" it in Nuke.
3) You mentioned that you used the IBK keyer to handle this particular footage. That keyer is really good for picking up the subtle shadows.
The way you currently have the composite, the lack of shadows, onto the grass, makes the stones appear untethered, floating.
4) The fog imagery may be problematic to cleanly composite, as it presently stands. Typically, when you shoot against black for smoke/atmospherics, you use dead-black felt w/ as few contours or wrinkles as possible, AND you have that black distanced from the fog and out of the light.
5) Glad to see that things are moving productively forward.
Ted