Re: How do they do that?

Maverick wrote on 10/6/2003, 3:00 PM

The person or object in the forground is moving at normal speed but the background cars/people, etc. are speeding.

Any ideas if that can be acheived in V4?

Thanks

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Chienworks wrote on 10/6/2003, 3:18 PM

Blue-screening and chroma-key would probably be the most straightforward approach.

If you wanna go really simple, have the actor walk very very very very slowly while taping him in front of a normal scene, then speed up the playback ;)

Jsnkc wrote on 10/6/2003, 3:31 PM

Yeah, they videotape the person in front of the green screen then they film just the background without the person. Then they take the person, chroma key them into the background then you have 2 seperate "layers" one with the person and one with the background. You can then speed up or slow down either one of them to get the desired effect you want.

Maverick wrote on 10/6/2003, 3:44 PM

Mmm

I was expecting it to be more complicated than that.

Thanks

GaryKleiner wrote on 10/6/2003, 3:54 PM

>I was expecting it to be more complicated than that<

Well you COULD add a few steps and tape it all upside-down, then verically flip it in post :-)

Gary

Jsnkc wrote on 10/6/2003, 4:29 PM

Or shoot it all in black and white and try to add color later :) That will waste a few months.

holo wrote on 10/7/2003, 5:08 PM

or do it on a Commodore 64 computer :)

May take a while to render !

SatanJr wrote on 10/7/2003, 5:46 PM

I think it is more complicated than the green screen method. The actor walking super slow would be much better looking.

The lighting would be all screwed up if you did the green screen method.

Chienworks wrote on 10/7/2003, 6:00 PM

That's why you have to pay careful attention to the lighting while shooting the actor. You have to simulate the lighting that would have been there if the actor was in the background environment. Now that makes it a lot harder.