Comments on: What REAL talent, a disposable video camera and Blender will get you… http://blog.rfquerin.org/2009/02/12/what-real-talent-a-disposable-video-camera-and-blender-will-get-you/ If clever quips are my business, business is bad. Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:42:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robin Sing-Cunningham http://blog.rfquerin.org/2009/02/12/what-real-talent-a-disposable-video-camera-and-blender-will-get-you/comment-page-1/#comment-23317 Robin Sing-Cunningham Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:10:31 +0000 http://blog.rfquerin.org/?p=923#comment-23317 I am all for great new software, and thank you for sharing this post. I just loved this music video. What fun it must have been, I'm dying to create a video of my own, not music, but a short film. I enjoy reading all I can on creation of videos and I get so much out of them. I do hate rendering videos, but I'm learning, and having success. I am all for great new software, and thank you for sharing this post. I just loved this music video. What fun it must have been, I’m dying to create a video of my own, not music, but a short film. I enjoy reading all I can on creation of videos and I get so much out of them. I do hate rendering videos, but I’m learning, and having success.

]]> By: Really basic Blender video editing: Part 2 | Renaissance Man http://blog.rfquerin.org/2009/02/12/what-real-talent-a-disposable-video-camera-and-blender-will-get-you/comment-page-1/#comment-9847 Really basic Blender video editing: Part 2 | Renaissance Man Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:22:06 +0000 http://blog.rfquerin.org/?p=923#comment-9847 [...] as you might have seen in this post, unlike me, Troy knows what the hell he's doing with Blender. Two good things have come of this, [...] […] as you might have seen in this post, unlike me, Troy knows what the hell he’s doing with Blender. Two good things have come of this, […]

]]> By: Earl http://blog.rfquerin.org/2009/02/12/what-real-talent-a-disposable-video-camera-and-blender-will-get-you/comment-page-1/#comment-9789 Earl Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:34:59 +0000 http://blog.rfquerin.org/?p=923#comment-9789 @Troy: Wow, amazing job on that music video. Really enjoyed it. Richard, thanks for putting the link here or I wouldn't have found it and I'm glad I did. @Troy: Wow, amazing job on that music video. Really enjoyed it.

Richard, thanks for putting the link here or I wouldn’t have found it and I’m glad I did.

]]> By: Troy James Sobotka http://blog.rfquerin.org/2009/02/12/what-real-talent-a-disposable-video-camera-and-blender-will-get-you/comment-page-1/#comment-9785 Troy James Sobotka Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:21:54 +0000 http://blog.rfquerin.org/?p=923#comment-9785 It always scares me when I see my name pop up online. You can expect that I was doubly petrified when I saw it as the subject of a blog post from one of the folks that got me dabbling back into Blender. To the outside readers, Richard and I used to duel our arch nemesis FreeTime together. I wore a lime green set of leotards back then, he wore a lovely fuchsia cape. Alas, that was another time... After watching Richard's entry screencast on Blender, I decided I'd attempt a short project from beginning to end with it. Needless to say, I poked around R's Flip section and started to think back to an amazing little piece I saw done on the Fischer Price PXL2000. That was enough inspiration to give it a kick. Hope you like it... and I am uh... gobsmacked that someone actually filled up their personal blog space with a reference to some of my dribbling. I am quite honored. @JakeT: Blender suffers from not having a single hand position / vi-like "never remove your hands from the keyboard" keystroke editing approach that appears in both of the higher end NLEs (being Avid and FCP). That said, it is tremendously powerful. I'll try to briefly reference a few reasons: 1) You can operate on series of stills of infinite per-channel bit depth. Being also a nodal compositor, Blender wins here with a workflow that is similar to the higher end production workflows. 2) You can quickly generate proxies. Yes, you can edit full HD footage on a netbook once your proxies are rendered. 3) OpenEXR and other industry standard image formats allow you to get your sequences into a deep bitdepth and lossless format. No degradation. Do your offlines with low grade proxies and build your online / conform from the originals. 4) Nodal compositor built in. Wow. Not worth getting into here, but Google Shake and Nuke if you don't know the value and abilities of a nodal compositor. All in all, it's an amazing piece of software that is growing more and more powerful every second. Thanks go to all of the comments and emails... It always scares me when I see my name pop up online.

You can expect that I was doubly petrified when I saw it as the subject of a blog post from one of the folks that got me dabbling back into Blender. To the outside readers, Richard and I used to duel our arch nemesis FreeTime together. I wore a lime green set of leotards back then, he wore a lovely fuchsia cape. Alas, that was another time…

After watching Richard’s entry screencast on Blender, I decided I’d attempt a short project from beginning to end with it.

Needless to say, I poked around R’s Flip section and started to think back to an amazing little piece I saw done on the Fischer Price PXL2000. That was enough inspiration to give it a kick.

Hope you like it… and I am uh… gobsmacked that someone actually filled up their personal blog space with a reference to some of my dribbling. I am quite honored.

@JakeT:
Blender suffers from not having a single hand position / vi-like “never remove your hands from the keyboard” keystroke editing approach that appears in both of the higher end NLEs (being Avid and FCP).

That said, it is tremendously powerful. I’ll try to briefly reference a few reasons:
1) You can operate on series of stills of infinite per-channel bit depth. Being also a nodal compositor, Blender wins here with a workflow that is similar to the higher end production workflows.
2) You can quickly generate proxies. Yes, you can edit full HD footage on a netbook once your proxies are rendered.
3) OpenEXR and other industry standard image formats allow you to get your sequences into a deep bitdepth and lossless format. No degradation. Do your offlines with low grade proxies and build your online / conform from the originals.
4) Nodal compositor built in. Wow. Not worth getting into here, but Google Shake and Nuke if you don’t know the value and abilities of a nodal compositor.

All in all, it’s an amazing piece of software that is growing more and more powerful every second.

Thanks go to all of the comments and emails…

]]> By: JakeT http://blog.rfquerin.org/2009/02/12/what-real-talent-a-disposable-video-camera-and-blender-will-get-you/comment-page-1/#comment-9779 JakeT Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:06:46 +0000 http://blog.rfquerin.org/?p=923#comment-9779 Hmm...I'm going to have to give Blender a go for video editing--I just recommended to a non-techie friend the other day not to use Linux yet, because he was wanting to do a little bit of home video editing. I'll have to give it a try. Hmm…I’m going to have to give Blender a go for video editing — I just recommended to a non-techie friend the other day not to use Linux yet, because he was wanting to do a little bit of home video editing.

I’ll have to give it a try.

]]> By: heathenx http://blog.rfquerin.org/2009/02/12/what-real-talent-a-disposable-video-camera-and-blender-will-get-you/comment-page-1/#comment-9776 heathenx Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:18:55 +0000 http://blog.rfquerin.org/?p=923#comment-9776 W O W ! Nicely done. One of the things that I thought was interesting was the "flicker" effect that Troy used that kind of gave it a subtle grunge feel for just a second or two. Somewhat apropos to NIN music. ;) W O W ! Nicely done. One of the things that I thought was interesting was the “flicker” effect that Troy used that kind of gave it a subtle grunge feel for just a second or two. Somewhat apropos to NIN music. ;)

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