What is your fastest turn around time on a vegas project?

MarkFoley wrote on 11/19/2004, 4:55 AM
Last weekend for my real job, I had to videotape a new pre-paint/paint process at Kelly USA (Boeing Facility at San Antionio). I spent two days capturing about 10 hours worth of footage.

Today while I was still scrubbing the footage to prepare a rough edit, we got a call from our parent organization needing a quick video of the new process for a briefing....

A few parameters I had to work with---it had to be under 6MB so it could be e-mailed....and I had 30 minutes to complete it to include rendering time and finding music for background!

So the editing is not as tight as I would have liked nor did I have any time to color correct or bascially no time to do anything! LOL

The aircraft being painted is a KC-135 Tanker from the Hawaii Air National Gaurd...this 44 year-old workhorse/plane is probably older than some of you out here....LOL
Here is the final product...total edit time 25 min LOL

http://www.playstream.com/theater.aspx?path=/foleyproductions&file=short_vid.wmv&w=320&h=240

Comments

Orcatek wrote on 11/19/2004, 5:43 AM
Wow - 30 minutes including render time. That really put a limit on what you could do. Even my short 4-6 minute stuff usually takes 20-30 minutes to render and my machine is pretty good. What was your render time for this?


MarkFoley wrote on 11/19/2004, 6:06 AM
I was able to reder to wm9 in about 10 minutes. I intenionally kept transisitions to a minimum to buy some render time...since I had such a short time to turn around this project.
GmElliott wrote on 11/19/2004, 6:06 AM
Even my short 4-6 minute stuff usually takes 20-30 minutes to render and my machine is pretty good. What was your render time for this?

???? ...what are you doing to your footage? Very basic footage w/o color correction or filtering in general renders out from original AVI to MPG2 faster than real-time. An hour of DV footage will take about 40-45 minutes to render out to MPG2.
GmElliott wrote on 11/19/2004, 6:07 AM
btw, I couldn't view it here at work- got a "Blocked Site" page. Apparently the proxy in Trenton, NJ doesn't think your page is "work related" lol
MarkFoley wrote on 11/19/2004, 6:23 AM
Glen,
It is the same here at work... :-)
Orcatek wrote on 11/19/2004, 8:01 AM
Sometimes some 3D, chromakey, 10-15 audio tracks 5.1, velocity envelopes, etc to windows media 9, 5.1, 1 Meg with some quality parms tweaked up a bit.

Here's an example of something I did for fun:
http://www.orcatekproductions.com/Z4Dreams1.wmv (warning 21 MB)

Still learning Vegas, but having a great time with it.
johnmeyer wrote on 11/19/2004, 9:40 AM
How did you keep the paint off your camera?

Very nice. You obviously took your time shooting it, which helps immensely. Only 3-4 hand held shots in the bunch. Everything well-composed. The only tough thing would be selecting the clips from that much footage. You have to know your footage pretty well (helps when you shoot it all) because with thirty minutes, you certainly cannot scrub ten hours of video.
MarkFoley wrote on 11/19/2004, 9:48 AM
I was far enough out of the direct airflow of the paint facility so all overspray was directed away from me. And yes I guess I might know the footage/material as I'm the technical writer for all paint-related instructions for the Air Force :-)
busterkeaton wrote on 11/19/2004, 9:55 AM
I love the shots of the overhead lights reflecting off the wet paint.

Arks wrote on 11/19/2004, 1:00 PM
very nice montage. What camera were you using for this?
MarkFoley wrote on 11/19/2004, 1:29 PM
XL1s
beerandchips wrote on 11/19/2004, 1:38 PM
Once had to pull a rabbit out of my as*. Hurt like hell, but I did it.
jaegersing wrote on 11/19/2004, 6:46 PM
Very effective video. Now where can I buy some of that paint?

Richard Hunter