Hi Gary: The more important question should be If you should use the footage, not how to use the lower quality footage.
Unless the composition and shooting is above the quality of your other footage, you may want to re-think using it. This is an editing decision that impacts ALL of your footage. My experience is that those who shoot with outmoded cameras generally don't have the experience that those who shoot with modern cameras do. This isn't always the case. A couple ways to use the footage and make it look better might be to create a picture in a picture, or a 4 panel display with one pane at a time animated. This will give you 4 times the native resolution of the handycam and make his footage look somewhat better. An alternative might be to distress his footage to make it look black and white with some aging effects applied to make it look nostalgic. Finally, consider using it as a "security camera" point of view with a Black and white/high contrast filter to differentiate it from your A and B roll. Hope this helps, but I still suggest not using the footage. Robin Edwards San Francisco --- In [email protected], "Gary" <frn...@...> wrote: > > I've searched through the Adobe Forums for an answer to this problem and > haven't been able to find a clear answer. Hopefully someone here can help. > > > > I've been shooting some live events with Sony DV cams which gives me a > 704x480 size and a Sony Handycam which outputs to 720x480. Doing a multi-cam > mix in CS3 hasn't been a problem until now. For a concert I was hired to do, > we added a 4th cameraman who was using an older Sony Handycam Video 8. When > I got his footage, it was 352x480. > > > > My question is, how can I incorporate that footage into my project without > his video looking out of place or with black bars on the top or sides that > will make that footage look out of place? > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
