Light painting stop motion

Similar to the video we watched in class, love the light painting
http://petapixel.com/2013/10/28/light-goes-amazing-stop-motion-light-painting-animation-darren-pearson/

Class Stop Motion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nr2jWJ3xd4

Video Notes

Ch 1 - Taking a tour of the FCP X Interface

·       Final Cut Projects and Final Cut Events folders need to be named EXACTLY right for Final Cut to be able to see them

·       Event Library is essentially a repository where you store and organize all of your media,

o   video, audio, still images, graphics, etc

·       To go to the beginning of a sequence, you press the Home button, or Function+Left Arrow on a laptop and to go to the end of the sequence, press the End button or Function+Right Arrow on a laptop,

Ch 2 - Creating and organizing events from scratch

·       the key to good media management is not only proper organization but also CONSTANT AWARENESS of all your media decisions

·       If you have organized your media in folders outside of Final Cut, then the structure will be maintained when you bring that footage into the software.

Ch 3 - Playing and Marking Clips in preparation for editing

·       JKL is a three-button play tool, whereby J plays in reverse, L plays forward, and K pauses.

·       To play in Slow Motion, hold down K and shift back and forth (L or J)

·       To save a sound clip, press f and favorite section

·       when you want to mark an In, which is where edited shot is going to start, press the I key.

·       when you want to mark an Out point, which is where edited shot to end, press the O key.

Ch 3 - Understanding different types of editing tools.

• if you position your playhead at the end and grab a portion of a shot and press W, it is inserted at the end

·       the Append Edit with the keyboard shortcut of E (or the button). No matter where the playhead is, if you grab a shot and press the E key, it always goes to the end, regardless of where the playhead is.

·       shift Z expands your project

• Overwrite Edit, with the keyboard shortcut of D.
• Overwrite Edit is used to essentially they write over a shot or a portion of a shot.
• you mark the portion of the shot in the Event library that you would like to overwrite.

Video for Photographers

Video For Photographers: Shooting with a DSLR
CH 1

Understanding resolution for video

·       Resolution has nothing to do with megapixels

·       Photography can change resolution at will

·       Video has two resolutions: 1080 HD, and 720 HD

·       1920x1080 pixels = 2 megapixels

·       1280x720 pixels = 1 megapixel

Choosing a video frame rate

·       Simple= 30 frames per second (traditional)

·       True film look= 24 frames per second

·       For sports, to smooth motions= 60 frames per second

 

CH 3

Understanding the challenge of shutter speed

·       Frame rate divide by 30 (for 30 frames per second) your slowest shutter speed would be 1/30

·       This would mean 1 second of video with no gaps

·       normally for video, you will be choosing a shutter speed between 1/30th and 1/90th of a second.

·       Some say ideal shutter speed is 2 times the frame rate. That would mean if you are shooting 30 frames per second, you would choose 1/60th of a second for the shutter speed

           

Getting the right exposure

·       Use scale at bottom of camera to show under/over exposed scale

·       Use histogram to check for proper exposure

·       Zoom lenses are not very fast, but lets in lots of light

·       Get better exposure by: setting your ISO, using a neutral density filter, and looking into maybe using fast prime lenses