Kinda fun wedding last weekend, a two models, lots of liquor & fun, heres a fun little bonus chaper I did for them.

Shot with one Sony Z1 in 1080 downcoverted to SD, glidecam 4000 cut in AL7.2/BorisRed4.1:

www.yourdigitaldreams.com/preview/supermodel.wmv

 

A nice clip and you can see that it is people that not are afraid of the cam, gives you nice shots.

Also the mediafile encoding was nice, did you do it directly out of Liquid or did you use another app, it wasn´t windows media encoder I believe.

Very nice. A fun clip that matches the couple very well.

Thank you. The encoding was done from an uncompressed SD, AL7 timeline, I think it gets way better results that encoder9 even with 9 using dual pass. But if you play with the profiles sometimes you can get them pretty close. Its hard when there are many camera flashes in the video to me.

 Thought I would post becasue it was fun, and shows to me how much I love cutting weddings in liquid did that video in 1.5 hours with my templates in place and footee logged. Here is the highlights from the wedding about 5 min but nice if interested:

Wow!  That was impressive work.

Thanks Tom, Dave & Roger. Your input is a good benchmark for me.

Really nice job!! 

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  The encoding was done from an uncompressed SD, AL7 timeline, I think it gets way better results that encoder9 even with 9 using dual pass. But if you play with the profiles sometimes you can get them pretty close. Its hard when there are many camera flashes in the video to me.

I have said for a long time that Liquid does excellent mediafile encoding, this was an excellent example.

Mediaencoder 9 does not make dual pass encoding for the video, it says in the created files properties that the audio should be 2-pass encoded, I doubt that.

The new windows mediaencoder however, does 2 pass encoding, it will cost you some money if you want to use all the options in it, well wortht those money I think, I remade a hd file from an old project earlier created from Liquid, got 25 % of speed and size and almost the same quality,

 

Nice work man! Just curious how you did the "halo" effect when the couple entered the room?

Thanks, this was done with BorisRed plugged into Liquid's timeline, when I add the Boris Filter and open it, creates two video tracks, I added a 30 percent transparancy to the top layer and then used a BBC Reverse Alpha channel sweep to the Luma channel on the bottom layer and presto it creates a nice sweeping soft glow to the talents border, prob sounds harder then it is to do.

Im sure this sort of thing can be done in Liquid itself, i just stopped trying to use liquid to do everything awhile ago now just for cutting and some effects of course but not all.

 Cheers its Friday:)

Thanks. I don't use Boris, but understand the concept. What I don't understand is how the bottom layer can detect the borders of  edges, like the heads. Didn't you have to create some kind of matte?

What I left out was that the bottom layer is an BBC Reverse alpha channel spotlight that sweeps the screen, so the spotlight only shines on bottom layers alpha and with the top layer semi transparent, this gives off the effect of the spotlight being behind the talent giving off the glow you see, if you look close on the outdoor shots when I use that effect you can see the spotlight on the lake in the background. Basically this is created through a BBC Boris plugin to Red that intales plugs into liquid.

Hope this helps understand.

Hmm. I have to chew that one over. Not quite understanding...Are you saying that you focused the spotlight on the heads?

Nice

Nice video! I thought the camera work was especially tight. Very nice video.

Nice video and very nice effects.

They are not cheesy, so, it is nice to watch.

 

I loved the shotgun sound effects,it fits perfectly!

Awesome work

very nice ! why do you use B&W ?- I can see the aethsetic apsect of it - but how do you decide which shots to do B&W and which in color ?

 

That's excellent work, snappy & modern but classy, a pleasure to watch.  I like the snapshot effect.  I know this has been covered before, maybe on the old forum, but how do you achieve the flash style transition?  I tried using a luminance key on my two clips over a white clip but it didn't look so great.