Archive for December 2009
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Custom Boris Transition- White Flash
0 Comments | Posted by redarrowRyan in Avid, Boris Red, Tutorial
In today’s blog, I provide a Video Tutorial with instructions on how to build a custom “Overexposed White Flash” transition using the Avid and Boris Red.
Recently one of our clients brought us onto a project that was being shot on the Red One camera. Since we had no existing workflow designed for Red, we had to come up with a solution.
Being this is largely uncharted territory for many people, we thought we should share our findings and, perhaps, get some feedback from other peoples’ experiences. (more…)
I love HD television. I would guess that 90% of the recordings on my Tivo are HD, and if I’m watching live TV I always scan the HD listings first. Unfortunately, there are still many instances on the HD channels where you see shoddily upconverted or simply misformated 4:3 video (I believe RedArrowRyan will be having a blog post in the near future on his particular frustration with The Today Show). There are occasions, though, where you see some new and brilliant techniques that take a completely different approach to this issue, a couple of which recently reminded me of a lesson from one of my favorite movies of the past 10 years: the 2003 documentary, The Five Obstructions. (more…)
So I visit the Avid.com message boards every day and one of the questions I see most often has to do with using HD footage in an SD project without scaling the footage down and losing quality. Many people asking this question are coming from other NLE’s that allow the user to keep the HD footage at 1920×1080 inside their 720×486 project and “Pan and Scan” around the footage while keeping the quality high. But one of the downfalls of Avid is that once you bring the HD footage into an SD project it’s automatically scaled down. Thus you can’t zoom in without it looking blurry.
Well, we all know that Avid isn’t going to change this anytime soon, but there is a work around. I came up with this method a few years ago and I have used it with several times. Now, I warn you, it is a workaround and can get a bit tedious, but it will work.
