{"id":190,"date":"2008-07-28T22:05:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T05:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2008-08-13T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T16:39:23","slug":"tonight-i-render","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/tonight-i-render\/","title":{"rendered":"… tonight, I render …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have finished the first complete cut of the music video for the song “Combat” off of my forthcoming album “Bits”. I did all the real work on the film in After Effects CS3. The video is in HD – 720p (1280 x 720 square pixels 24 fps). <\/p>\n

Eventually, I’ll have to render three versions of the film.<\/p>\n

1) An HD version (1280 x 720 – square pixels)
\n2) A widescreen DVD version (720 x 480 – 1.2 aspect ratio pixels)
\n3) A web version (480 x 270 – square pixels)<\/p>\n

I can’t just render the big one and scale it down. The problem is in the structure of the grain I’m overlaying on the footage. If I scale the movie down, the grain gets scaled down as well (and disappears), so I need to create three version of the film, each with an appropriate scale of grain. <\/p>\n

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The grain may look exaggerated in the picture above, but once the film is set in motion, it has a completely different feel. It changes from frame to frame, based on the footage that it is being added too.<\/p>\n

Why does it matter? Well … when I started making movies in the old days, I shot primarily on Super 8 film cameras. Video didn’t really do it for me and the (affordable) computers just weren’t up to task. Film was pretty kick ass and I loved the soothing effect the grain had on my subconscious.<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve all but given up of Super 8 and gone digital, I’ve found that I need that grain there. Video noise just doesn’t cut it for me. It looks gross. AE CS3 has a flexible grain generator that has allowed me to design a grain that is suitable for the movie. Cool.<\/p>\n

So let’s hit the render button and start the process of getting my movie out there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have finished the first complete cut of the music video for the song “Combat” off of my forthcoming album “Bits”. I did all the real work on the film in After Effects CS3. The video is in HD – …<\/p>\n

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