Tim...

Good work...enjoyed it!  uhh...one question...is it legal?  The only reason I ask is that I didn't see any credits...and you mention your church being short on funds for a decent camera.  Remember even if the project has an awesome purpose....it is not exempt from obtaining the proper licensing....  Of course one can attempt to justify the unauthorized use...like Mel made plenty off the movie...so using his pictures shouldn't matter...etc..  The list goes on and on...and I've listened to several individuals from my own church who try to justify using non-licensed material....  But in the end we must do what is right and obtain the licensing or create our own original media from scratch...(it's easier to pay the fees, well most of the time anyway)

Again very good work (imho)...

-kenny

LewS:

Dean,

Very cute...both the video and the detective. Explain how you did the red background stills to motion shots. Very clever use of one of Liquid's almost hidden tools if you did it the way I think you did.

 

Thanks Lew.

I don't think I unearthed anything within Liquid to acheive the red background & stills to motion.

Here's brief description of my method:

I took a snapshot of the desired frame from the video clip (seconds) loaded this still into Photoshop Elements and removed the background saved as Targa with transparency and imported back into Liquid.

I shorted the orginal still by a second and adjusted the colours and added a CPU blur and filled the remaining space 1 sec with the original still and added a dissolve between the two to give the red/blurred to proper colours and continued the video.

I then added The alpha channel still above the entire length (3 seconds) above the backgrouund to leave my daughter in colour while the background changes.

What's the hidden Liquid technique Lew?

Dean

smyers63:

Dean,

You had me laughing out loud with that!!  I loved it.  Not only was it a great take-off from the old cop show but it reminded me of the days when I watched it.  I always loved the theme music from that show (along with Mannix, Mission: Impossible, and a few others).

Where did you get the music?

Thanks Scott,

The Streets of San Francisco, takes me back too, along with Hawaii 5-0, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, Cannon, Ironside and Mission Impossible. I'm not sure Mannix made it to the UK.

I couldn't remember the titles exactly but found a still of the "The Streets of San Francisco" titles and seemed to remember the titles being predominately red.

It's not the original theme, but Henry Mancini's take on it and it can be found on this album.

http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/copshowthemes.htm

Dean

I would love to play along, unfortunately my work usually ends up in After Effects after having gone through Liquid. I have a few spots online that were editing using Liquid Blue (same software as Avid Liquid, but less features, more inputs). The one I will post is in french. It is a corporate on-air promotion that I did for our new station launch. It won best on-air martketing for north amercia at last years Promax awards. I use Liquid Blue at work, but pretty much all of my material is DV. I wish that I had Avid Liquid, as it is the same editor, just way more features. All graphics except the white background and 3d end anime were completed by me in Liquid then treated and effected in After Effects 6.5. ALL video was captured in DV through Liquid. Magic Bullet and other effects where used to create the film look.

If you want to see some of my other work, check out the broadcast reel in my portfolio...most of that work was also done in Liquid.

Mark

http://www.productionslick.com/en/corporate.htm  click on the view corporate video on the web page

Scott, I like it !!!! that's really A-more !!

robbiebee:

Scroogie - Very addictive footage - I could see it being used very successfully in a commercial of some sort [at least in the style of some of the ones we see in the UK] or as part of a "soothing" loop played in a waiting room. I loved it.

thanks Robbiebee, actually it was filmed in 8mm and the overall quality is not good enough for public screening even if it was awarded 2 weeks ago in an international video contest.

Dean Murray:

LewS:

Dean,

Very cute...both the video and the detective. Explain how you did the red background stills to motion shots. Very clever use of one of Liquid's almost hidden tools if you did it the way I think you did.

 

Thanks Lew.

I don't think I unearthed anything within Liquid to acheive the red background & stills to motion.

Here's brief description of my method:

I took a snapshot of the desired frame from the video clip (seconds) loaded this still into Photoshop Elements and removed the background saved as Targa with transparency and imported back into Liquid.

I shorted the orginal still by a second and adjusted the colours and added a CPU blur and filled the remaining space 1 sec with the original still and added a dissolve between the two to give the red/blurred to proper colours and continued the video.

I then added The alpha channel still above the entire length (3 seconds) above the backgrouund to leave my daughter in colour while the background changes.

What's the hidden Liquid technique Lew?

Dean

Look at the lasso tool in the classic keying editor. Put the same video on two tracks as a freeze frame. Trace around your kid on the top track to create a mask, invert the mask with the checkbox, and exit, using the base color corrector on the lower track video remove blue and green. You can dissolve in and out of the freeze frame videos.The lasso tool in the classic keying editor is a great tool that I suspect not many liquid users know about.

LewS:

Look at the lasso tool in the classic keying editor. Put the same video on two tracks as a freeze frame. Trace around your kid on the top track to create a mask, invert the mask with the checkbox, and exit, using the base color corrector on the lower track video remove blue and green. You can dissolve in and out of the freeze frame videos.The lasso tool in the classic keying editor is a great tool that I suspect not many liquid users know about.

I'll check that feature out, it could possibly save a bit of time when this type of effect is required again.

Thanks for the tip,

Dean

James Jones:

Dean....I thuroughly enjoyed your piece. You should post it in the General Discussion forum so everyone can see it. I must say, it does help to have cute talent...lol. Good job

JJ

General Discussion Demo Reel Thread

Thanks James,

I'll post the link later. May look cute, but like most kids, when she starts, she's not so cute!

Dean

SLafuse:

http://www.delafuseebelgians.com/menu2.wmv

Thanks Sharon. I enjoyed the photos of the dogs.

packman0072000:

ok here is my horse yes i realize alot of the camera work is verry shakey i had to use film that other folks had shot while this horse was travling around the country and i was stuck at home minding the farm i think i really need to go back and rework it a bit more  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8569861131230689319

I liked this a great deal. I do not think the camera work was all that shaky. In fact given the motion of the horses it was not really noticeable. Excellent shots of the horses. Great use of special effects. The only thing I would change is the psychadelic purple text at the end. I love horses (and animals in general) and appreciate you posting this.

scroogie:

 

well, this short was filmed 9 years ago and edited only last month. It is a one-take so Liquid has been used in non-invasive way: a bit of slomo, a drop of color correction and a little more.

Apologies for the compression required by the hosting server but I have no other way to share it with you guys.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7111245574836643514&q=incontri&pr=goog-sl

Sauro, As always I loved it. There's just something about videos of a realm that most of us don't get to see. Thanks for sharing this.