Video Gear: Technical Tips

Course details

Make your video productions run a little smoother with these tips and useful tools. This installment of Video Gear explains how to simplify some of the more technically challenging aspects of video production. Rich Harrington and Robbie Carman show how to capture and develop high-frame-rate, slow-motion, and green-screen footage; calibrate your display for better color management; mount storage disks; and stay powered up on the go. Plus, learn how to recover files from a corrupted disk or media card with the help of utilities like Picture Rescue and Data Rescue.

Learning objectives
Shooting high-frame-rate footage
Post-processing high-frame-rate footage
Using third-party effects for slow motion
Calibrating a display
Mounting a disk
Recovering media
Creating LUTs
Shooting green-screen footage
Charging batteries on the go

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

1. High Frame Rate Shoot Out - Production

02 - High frame rate shootout
03 - Footage at 60 frames per second
04 - Footage at 120 frames per second
05 - Footage at 240 frames per second

2. Post-Processing High-Frame-Rate Footage

06 - Processing high-frame-rate footage
07 - Using After Effects to slow down high-frame-rate footage
08 - Slowing down high-frame-rate footage with time warping

3. Advanced Slow Motion with Third Party Effects

09 - Using Twixtor to slow footage down
10 - Using Digital Anarchy to remove flicker from high-frame-rate footage

4. Calibrating a Computer Display Manually, Part 1

11 - The importance of calibrating displays
12 - Calibrating displays on a PC
13 - Calibrating displays on a Mac

5. Calibrating a Computer Display Using Hardware, Part 2

14 - Choosing a meter
15 - Calibrate with X-Rite i1Profiler
16 - Calibrating advice

6. Mounting Disk and Recovering Files

17 - Mounting a disk and recovering files
18 - Recovering media
19 - Mounting a disk image

7. How Can I Create a Lookup Table

20 - What Is a lookup table (LUT)
21 - Using Adobe Hue
22 - Applying or modifying a LUT
23 - Manipulating LUTs with Lattice
24 - Putting LUTs to use on set

8. How Do I Shoot Green Screen on a Budget

25 - Shooting green screen on a budget
26 - Why shoot green screen
27 - Lighting two things
28 - A budget green screen
29 - Using a professional green-screen backdrop
30 - Gear overview

9. How Do I Improve the Quality of My Green-Screen Shoots

31 - Improving the quality of green-screen shots
32 - Using a hard cyc green-screen backdrop
33 - Studio lighting for green-screen projects
34 - Testing the backdrop with a monitor
35 - Testing the backdrop onset
36 - Shooting in portrait mode
37 - Gear overview

10. How Can I Make Post-Production Easier for Greenscreen Projects

38 - Improving the quality of green-screen shots
39 - Choosing the right acquisition format
40 - Capturing uncompressed video on set

11. What Makes Good Green-Screen Footage

41 - Evaluating the keying footage from a Canon camera
42 - Evaluating the keying footage from a Panasonic Lumix GH4
43 - Evaluating the keying footage from a Sony a7S
44 - Blending a key with the background with Light Wrap by Red Giant
45 - Blending a key with the background with Lighwrap by Digital Anarchy

12. Making Killer Backgrounds for Green Screen

46 - Making killer backgrounds for green screen
47 - Shooting defocused still plates
48 - Shooting defocused video plates
49 - Defocusing backgrounds in Photoshop CC
50 - Shoot plates with a light field camera
51 - Post-processing a light field camera
52 - Gear overview

13. Charging Batteries on the Go

53 - Charging on the go
54 - Starting out fully charged
55 - Using an inverter
56 - Using a solar charger
57 - Using a battery pack
58 - Strategies to extend battery life