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sin city?

I agree with JakusB on "Yay for one man crews!" My entry also was a one man crew and I always appreciate it when I see them cause I know just how much work it can be. I try to get away from that knowing how much of pain it is. But when you lose your crew at the last moment then the creative juices start flowing and you can come up with something really interesting. That's why I like one man crews cause they are a challenge! Good post! I had a hard time figuring out what 'rose petal' could actually be. In my original script I had it turn out to be something like the necrenomicon but having no crew left me to write something quickly and leaving 'rose petal' more open ended. You came up with a cool idea. In my mind I was thinking "Run Frodo! Run!" like when he puts on the ring and vanishes. Hehe. Good job!

That's 3 for the 'one man crew' video (aside from the punch/trunk, that is), most definitely adds some complications, but also takes a lot of the stress out of things like scheduling. Glad to see you back, fungus.

Almost voted for you guys. The story is the most important element, and I liked where this was headed. But I liked Bohemian Film Commune's a little better (the Rose Petal still isn't fully revealed).

Production values are second, but it always helps. Regardless, you did a good job on this. I couldn't tell, were you playing the part of both characters?

"I'll be frank: I had no intention of entering, except when it was nine hours away and there were no videos up, and I really didn't want the chapter to need an extension"

Hey Frank, I totally was thinking the same thing. When my original plan fell through I was just sitting there on Saturday admitting my defeat. I wasn't going to submit anything either but I had a little itch in my brain that was driving me crazy. I ended up having to do something or I would have went insane. I basically wrote it while I was taping it on the fly and going through the terror of it all because I too wanted to see something up there. I then got sick Sunday and spent the day laying around but I had it render which took a while. When it was done I submitted and saw nobody had post anything and then I was sad cause it felt bare. But then... a short moment later... the community pulled through and there was all sorts of goodies to see. Hi... I'm Justin and I'm addicted to making videos. That is my story.

why the weird aspect ratio?

If I can take a guess FungusRidden I would say your default web-size setting is why it happened. An image that is 853x480 is 16:9, assuming it is NTSC, and 320x240 is 4:3 so I'm thinking it filled in the space with black bars to make up for the ratio difference. A 16:9 ratio with similar size would look more like 320x180. Just my guess there. Might want to play around with it next time. It took me 3 submissions just to get the quality right for how rootclip encodes the files.

4:3 then letterbox? I don't understand. A 4:3 image will always be a 4:3 image unless you stretch it or zoom in which will lose quality. Why would you do that? Letterboxing is just the 16:9 image fitting into a 4:3 set. You would get a gutterbox just like this image. Hmmm... yes your last vid is a gutterbox looking back at it. Look at Chapter 3 winner and notice how that is not a gutterbox. That image is great. It was rendered to account for rootclips player which looks nice. Dunno... just my thoughts.

Good job! I'm really impressed by what you could do all on your own - and it's really cool that you did it so quickly when you were afraid noone was going to enter :)

Pretty cool action scenes, too - I like the jump with the roll! Nice camera work, me thinks.

Storywise, the invisible twist was cool! I really miss Angie though - I understand why she's not there given you can't be both man and woman ;) But I really miss her still.. was looking forward to seeing another interpretation of her!

Good luck :)

A mask is what I am saying. So you mask out the portion you want... that leaves you with a smaller image. Now you can blow up the image to match the set or you can leave the image small which is why you would get a postage stamp. I would avoid cropping because to bring the cropped image back to the original dimensions you will have a degraded image. In video there really isn't a reason to not shoot again if the image was 'accidentally' framed wrong. With video you can instantly watch what you have then shoot again until you know what you have. It isn't film where you don't know what you have until dallies come in. Then you have to make the creative decision to shoot again at the cost of $$$ or crop at the cost of a degraded image. However I think film doesn't really lose quality as much as video does blowing up the image to resize back to original dimensions.

if you shoot at 4:3 and mask to 16:9 you wouldn't have to enlarge anything. There is your picture, formatted in 4:3 with a letterbox to 16:9. If you cropped it down, again, you wouldn't lose any quality or size, you'd end up at the size you intended to end up at. Not to try and negate all your points, but I can think of countless reasons not to re shoot. You ultimately have what you have once you sit down to edit, and must make it into the best you can make it into. It is not often you can go back and pull together everyone, use the location again, etc. Its even less often that I'm rewinding/fast forwarding/reviewing my shots as I go on the set.

for example, I shot this one at 16:9 then added a letterbox to get 2.35:1 aspect. Didn't lose anything, its sitting inside of a 4:3 player, just black on top and bottom.

@BohemianFilmCommune - Right that is a little different than what I am getting at. So if you adjusted your aspect to 2.35:1 which is anamorphic I believe. So you have made your actual image size in the player to be 568x242 which is going off what I know the player dimensions are. So that leaves you with a thicker letterbox. Now with the case I am getting at is the reason for the postage stamps we are seeing. Just trying to help out cause JakusB has postage stamps and it might prevent him from getting that if it is understood what is happening. Hehe but I think there is a forum for discussions like this so I will leave it at that. Good luck peeps.

I hate to continue this bogarting of your movie discussion thread! I don't shoot in 4:3, but in 16:9, but same general idea, I add the letterbox after and shift the picture to best fit the composition. Then I export at 568x320(16x9) and let the player add the rest of the letterbox. You'll only get the side bars of the letterbox if your uploaded video is smaller in width than 568, otherwise, just the top and bottom letterbox. Do you have Quicktime Pro? That would solve all your problems!

Yes FungusRidden - I went to Pittsburgh Filmmakers film school. I have been out of practice since 2003 but I'm getting back into the swing of things. I think it is important to be technical really. Not everybody can be creative but everybody creative can be technical. It's only beneficial. If somebody shoots a 16:9 image and matts it to 4:3 then they are going to get the results shown. I don't know why anybody would do that because that is unusual practice. BFC you have touched on what I am trying to tell em. If you shoot 4:3 then crop to 16:9 and if they export their video to a 4:3 THEN encode again to 568x320 they will also get the postage stamp when they upload. I think this is what they are doing. Looking at all their profiles and equipment used they are 720x480 cameras and maybe its what happened.

@JakusB - H.264 is a codec and does not have anything to do with the dimensions. I don't know if you just do this as a hobby but if you would like to become a great filmmaker someday my advise would be to become as technical as you possibly can. Sure the quality of story, cinematography, and editing are important however a filmmaker should be concerned about how it is presented to the audience as well because after all that is part of the experience. You wouldn't want to sell yourself short. It is almost like saying an artist doesn't really care about what kind of brush, quality of paint, or canvas he/she uses. Or if the gallery had bad lighting. It's all part of the overall picture. Just my opinion.

ironic that we have this long discussion here while the forum gets all dusty :) I'm starting a thread or' yonder, follow me lads!

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