Video Editing Forums: Digital Director - Just for fun

Tips for watermarking video

Stripe — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:11:37 GMT

Just wondering if anyone has ideas for watermarking a video to ensure it doesn't get downloaded by a client before they approve it?

I have been working on a project for about 300 hours, that's a fair deal of effort. The video has to be approved by the band. They could easily say no thank you, and download that video from youtube and I would be the mug.

I wouldn't normally believe in doing this kind of thing, but would feel aggrieved if it were to happen. The band have shown certain tendencies for me to think it might!

I had thought of placing my logo onto the approval video, and also to animate it a little, so that it couldn't be reverse engineered, (the band are a little unusual, and it wouldn't be unheard of for them to block out the watermark and still use the video as a performance backdrop).

Is there a simple solution that anyone knows of?

iPhone AD Parody~

jjajo0529 — Sun, 19 May 2013 07:43:54 GMT

That UCC means, 'What goes around comes around.' especially for sexual violence.

Republic of Korea(South) Goverment focus on preventing 4 'Social Evils'.

The importance of SOUND in movies.

worddigger — Sun, 19 May 2013 07:06:45 GMT

Last week I was playing with the Hitfilm 2 Ultimate compositing engine that came with the Vegas Pro Suite upgrade. In the process of learning the software I replicated two different effects as shown in one of Hitfilm's tutorials. It required a combination of masking and point motion tracking, along with keying and color corrections. After successfully making the visual effects, I wondered what it be like to do a soundtrack for the short scene. I was lucky and located the sound effects and Foley necessary to mix the SFX tracks, and bought what I thought would be the appropriate music track to set the mood. After doing this, I saw the result would make a nice demonstration promo for my Post-Production hobby website. So here is a trailer I made. The first half shows the green-screen shoot of the scene, the second half is the same scene after post production. This exercise proves the truism that the sound track is at least 51% of the movie, IMHO.
:popcorn:

Andromedae - Directed By Papion

Papion — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:05:11 GMT

The mythological Princess Andromeda
is a constellation of the northern celestial hemisphere.
The genitive, used to form names of stars, is Andromedae.

Select 1080 to Watch in Hd.
DOn�t forget to subscribe my Youtube Channel.
Thank YOu.

Non guitar playing

chrisblanden — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:01:48 GMT

Did this, inspired by a couple of things I've seen and thought. It's just a test but came out okay I think. Have got plenty more planned but not sure if there is enough time to do them!!!!
Chris Blanden - Rondo alla Turca - YouTube

easiest music video editing software

ipodmovies — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:05:23 GMT

hey

im looking for a simple music video editing software
i had a software but i forgot what it was

here is a vgideo i shot with that software
Jamal Hard In The Paint Parody - YouTube

Slide Show, snapshot/video compilation (basic questions)

C Story — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:25:56 GMT

Hi, very new to both this forum, and video production. I have created/rendered/produced a score of very amateur videos. Having nether the quality of gear, nor skill to create more than an amateur video, I have made these as a learning device. My ability to better my tools, (hardware, software), is limited greatly by the budget I have to work with. On the other hand, I figure there is little to limit what learning I might afford myself other than my personal drive, and my ability to find the answers that will educate me. I preface the questions I want to ask here with this, because I worry that this may not be the right place for a beginner as green as I to ask for help? If that is the case, I would appreciate an answer to that question, and would greatly appreciate being pointed in the right direction to answer my other very beginner questions. That said, I will waste no more time and get to it. Thank you.

I have gotten a little carried away with my current project. I am trying to make a short compilation, (just under 4 minutes), of both short video clips, and still images. I am trying to build this video composite on/around a prerecorded audio narrative. (A poem I have written as a birthday wish/e-card.)

This is my first attempt to build a slide show, and I knew absolutly nothing about how to do it when I started. The only thing I know beyond that at this point, is, that I am not doing it right. After many hours of adjusting the segments in both position, and duration, the video matches the audio segment for segment pretty well, but the over all result is,,,well, ugly.

I have some ideas of what I am doing wrong, but thought asking those who know what their doing made better sense than trying to fix it by trial and error. For all I know it may be a bad idea to ever mix motion video with stills? It may also be the lack of using transition in places? Or, perhaps it is the lack of consistency of segment length? (I have aimed for 2.5 - 3.5 sec. segments, but because some of the segments have text, I have pushed the duration to 5+ sec.in places.) Or, it may be a combination of all of these things, or something else?

I feel these are stupid questions, or at least the questions of someone who is very stupid about what he is doing, and admittedly I am. As I said at the start, these questions are so basic, this may not be the best place to seek the answers, - I do not want to waste anyone's time, but any help/advice any one might offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Best software for compressing video and audio?

MeltdownZA — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:39:10 GMT

If you try WinRAR, WinZip or 7Zip, none of these programs can compress video and audio files much at all.
For instance a 20MB file only gets compressed to like 19.5MB on max compression.

Note : I am talking only about lossless compression here, I am aware video/audio can be compressed into smaller file sizes at a lower quality.

What software out there is used to compress audio/video files into a compacted archive that compresses around the 50-60% mark?

Thanks

Broadcast requirements help

Stripe — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:11:38 GMT

I may need a broadcast guru for this, but I want to enter competitions on a site, and these are the requirements of the footage output/quality. It's a lot of double dutch for me, and I fear my Sony NEX VG20 stands no chance of meeting these requirements.

But at least someone may save me a lot of headache trying to figure that out, so if anyone can see where I am a non-starter here, can you please point it out for me? :pray:

Codecs: Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) [preferred], Avid DNxHD or DVCPro HD
Scaling: Content may NOT be upscaled from SD
Frame size & rate: 1920x1080 (Progressive) [23.98, 29.97 or 25], or 1920x1080 (Interlaced) [29.97 or 25], or 1280x720 (Progressive Only) [23.98 or 29.97]
Color space: ITU-R BT.709
Audio: Stereo LPCM in either Big Endian or Little Endian, 16-bit or 24-bit, at 48kHz (Audio levels should remain constant at -6db as much as possible. Please prevent audio levels going below -12db.)

1. All text must be TITLESAFE regardless if it is for online use only or not. (See below for details)

2. �Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)� is NOT �Apple ProRes 422�, if ProRes, must supply (HQ)
3. H.264, MPEG2 and MPEG4 are NOT supported file codecs.
4. Audio must be in STEREO. If both the L and R audio are identical, it is TWO CHANNEL MONO and will fail. (See below for details)
5. Audio as 44.1k is NOT supported; it must be 48k. AAC is NOT supported, it must be LPCM,
6. When delivering 5.1 AUDIO, the channels must be clearly named and labeled (either on the tape or the filenames).
7. 4:1 CADENCE is a failure point for Long Form content. (See below for details)
8. Content cannot be PILLARBOXED.
9. Audio and video must be properly SYNCED on all video content.
10. FIELD DOMINANCE issues resulting from reversing the wrong field (upper/lower) first.

My video- No. 73 Best of the Tributes Mas-up clips!!

ianharding — Wed, 08 May 2013 23:27:08 GMT

Hi, all

This is a mash-up video of the Best of clips of No. 73, based on the original 1980's Children's British TV Show,
that starred Neil Buchanan from (Art Attack)! The clips are from the 3 new episodes i made some time ago!!

some nice editing and clips also some music!! :)

Why are my videos on youtube different sizes???

porkypara — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:12:28 GMT

This one is a lot smaller screen size WELSH WARRIORS BOXING:Lewis Rees v Leon Findley ,4th May 2013 - YouTube

Than this one Boxer Gary Buckland,s trainer Borg speaks out,fight call off,ring is damaged by crowd in Argentina - YouTube

I put them on only a few days apart and did everything the same I think.

Any ideas

camera choice

jdrp — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:02:35 GMT

i've posted this in 'general' because it might be a camcorder OR a DSLR..
what is the cheapest camera which will give me 480 at 16:9 and 60fps ?

Youtube video maker looking to have better video editting program

peel — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:44:42 GMT

Hi there,
I make youtube vlogs and short funny skits like channels like Jenna Marbles or nigahiga. My channel is youtube.com/willyoulaugh if you want a look.

I have been doing this for about 2 + years now and have used Windows movie maker the entire time. Ive looked into other free ones but they dont look nice. I am a master of windows movie maker because of its simplicity but Id like to expand into better programs that have special effects or just more features. I spend most of my time just putting together footage and trimming out unnecessary parts which takes forever on movie maker.
My budget: under $100
I want: simplicity. I dont want to spend too much time learning too many features or for it to be too complicated.
System: Windows. Don't have Mac so unfortunately iMovie is out of the question :( [It looked kind of complicated and different from movie maker. Spent about 20 minutes trying to figure it out at the library but couldn't despite people saying it was simple ]

How ace is this :)

Midnight Blue — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:51:01 GMT

I found this on Vimeo and wanted to share it with you guys. I think it's a great little film. :)

Thanks to Midnight blue

enc — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:06:35 GMT

we collaborated on a film i entered into a couple of comps. i sent him a rough cut and he wrote and narrated some nice words for it .

it won ...

Bolton movie makers (my video club) Pareo trophy award
Preston Millennium competition 2013 ( BBC radio lancashire audio trophy)
Bolton movie makers (best of year award)
Bolton Movie Makers annual dinner (best of night)
Burnley film festival 2013 (best use of sound/audio)

Next year the Baftas :lol: