Video Gear: Technical Tips

Make your video productions run smoother with these tips and useful tools for shooting high-frame-rate and green-screen footage, recovering files from corrupted disks, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. High Frame Rate Shoot Out: Production

• High frame rate shootout
• Footage at 60 frames per second
• Footage at 120 frames per second
• Footage at 240 frames per second

2. Post-Processing High-Frame-Rate Footage

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

3. Advanced Slow Motion with Third Party Effects

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

4. Calibrating a Computer Display Manually, Part 1

• The importance of calibrating displays
• Calibrating displays on a PC
• Calibrating displays on a Mac

5. Calibrating a Computer Display Using Hardware, Part 2

• Choosing a meter
• Calibrate with X-Rite i1Profiler
• Calibrating advice

6. Mounting Disk and Recovering Files

• Mounting a disk and recovering files
• Recovering media
• Mounting a disk image

7. How Can I Create a Lookup Table?

• What Is a lookup table (LUT)?
• Using Adobe Hue
• Applying or modifying a LUT
• Manipulating LUTs with Lattice
• Putting LUTs to use on set

8. How Do I Shoot Green Screen on a Budget?

• Shooting green screen on a budget
• Why shoot green screen?
• Lighting two things
• A budget green screen
• Using a professional green-screen backdrop
• Gear overview

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

• Improving the quality of green-screen shots
• Using a hard cyc green-screen backdrop
• Studio lighting for green-screen projects
• Testing the backdrop with a monitor
• Testing the backdrop onset
• Shooting in portrait mode
• Gear overview

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

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

11. What Makes Good Green-Screen Footage?

• Evaluating the keying footage from a Canon camera
• Evaluating the keying footage from a Panasonic Lumix GH4
• Evaluating the keying footage from a Sony a7S
• Blending a key with the background with Light Wrap by Red Giant
• Blending a key with the background with Lighwrap by Digital Anarchy

12. Making Killer Backgrounds for Green Screen

• Making killer backgrounds for green screen
• Shooting defocused still plates
• Shooting defocused video plates
• Defocusing backgrounds in Photoshop CC
• Shoot plates with a light field camera
• Post-processing a light field camera
• Gear overview

13. Charging Batteries on the Go

• Charging on the go
• Starting out fully charged
• Using an inverter
• Using a solar charger
• Using a battery pack
• Strategies to extend battery life