Lots of slow-mo. Lots of hyperlapse. Lots of GoPro. Lots of drone. Not a bad colour piece.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6ozeaudijU[/youtube]
Category: Video
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h.264 encoding settings for optimal quality
Jason Patterson has a useful guide to the optimal h.264 video codec settings for use with x264 and other h.264 encoders.
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Swinburne’s knowing campaign
Interesting pivot on the “think forward” campaign from Swinburne a few years ago — “Knowing”.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9AF1rOS-LI[/youtube]
I’m not really sure what they’re trying to do with the longer staff interview piece “You’ll know” — it seems a waste of some good talent — why smoosh six stories into one almost 12 min piece?
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Burning in captions
Producing pretty-ish closed (or “burnt in”) captions can be a pain, but the DCSubToAE script for After Effects does a fairly good job of syncing up YouTube generated SRT subtitles with the original clip. So the process is:
- Upload video to YouTube and sync transcription.
- Download SRT caption file.
- Run DCSSubToAE script and point it to the SRT file. (Remember to choose the SRT format in the format dropdown, or nothing will happen!)
- Tweak text formatting to taste.
- Import AE sequence into Premiere Pro and overlay onto master sequence.
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UWS TVC “Unlimited” campaign
New series of TVC’s for The University of Western Sydney or “Western Sydney University” featuring graduate stories. Very high production values, looks like lots of dollars here.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buA3tsGnp2s[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIT_1Hms3L8[/youtube]
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Upping production quality on brand journalism
DSLR Newsshooter interviews Thomas Hole, a DP who worked with Cartier and T Brand Studio (New York Times) to produce a profile piece about the adventurer Alastair Humphreys. Very high production values were used.
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/133824081[/vimeo]
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Reelsteady image stabilisation plugin for After Effects
Reelsteady is a new plugin for After Effects that stabilises hand-held video, apparently to a higher quality than the go-to Warp Stabiliser.
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Memories of Tokyo
A nice travel experience piece by Miguel Santana. Nice sound mix.
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Emotional content in video to hook viewers
ReelSEO has a useful guest-published post about how the big brands have always used emotion and logic to draw in and engage viewers. Like the Stillmotion “speak to the heart, to move the mind.”