Aw, I'm glad, making this made me very sleepy and tired. haha.

:-)
boop boop

aww thanks Ben! it was quite a tedious task to individually colour correct each of those photos in photoshop and such but worth it.

Obviously, I'm a n00b at this, but could you have arranged things in iMovie and then imported that movie file to FCP to do the color correction?

Oh. I looks like you used Photo Motion. As I have no idea what that app can do, you can ignore my comment above.

No, you are absolutely correct. Initially I would put them in imovie export a quicktime MOV and then bring it into FCP to adjust speeds..however...for some reason doing that makes the quality look like babyvomit. ALSO...FCP is not conducive to photomotion because all of my photos are labled 1-1000+...each in separate folders...HOWEVER when Final Cut pro presents them in the bin.instead of numbering:

1
2
3
4
and so on and so forth

the numbering system is

1
100
101
102
blah blah blah then
2
200

etc

so essentially all the numbers are mixed up.

It's really irritating and I had to drop them in frame by frame....iMovie did this as well...and it usually doesn't...i think after I reach a certain number, it just doesn't know what to do with them anymore.

My rationale for colour correcting in photoshop and lightroom is that i have way more control over the image rather than if I were to use color correction in fcp, which essentially has like 3 buttons and dials..as opposed to the hundreds on photoshop.

That way, every single image is good enough to stand on its own as a photograph.

You obviously know what you are talking about.

Next time, you could use the "Add to File Names.scpt" applescript in /Library/Scripts/Finder Scripts to add 0's to things to bring them all up to the same number of digits (0001, 0012, 0183, 1839, etc). If you want to do this, message me for some of the tricks you have to do.

haha wow that makes so much sense...i need to learn how to do that. applescript? did you just sneeze in a different language? what's that...hahah oh wow..i didnt know those were there..teach me your ways professor. wow that could've saved me hours of pain and crying...hahah

I'll email you some details.

It's like I have a window into the genius brains of vimeo in this thread.

hahaha Jon, hardly, well maybe Professor Millett...he's full of words of wisdom...after all, he is my life coach. :-) too kind.

Ha! I was just going to tell Jon that you (Karen) are the wise one and that I just manage to get by and not get thrown out of vimeo for my attempts at creativity.

aww photomotion is fun just take a bunch of photos and import them into a timeline, and adjust their timing then huzzah! Photomotion! hee hee

The blanket is full of dreams and lovelies! and sleepies

yeah..well..the whole deal is to learn the technique where it all takes u a second!
i mean...u drop the pictures...and Shazzam!-theyre all lined up, at the correct timing [lets say every picture=3 or 4 frames i guess], and u just add the music.
dropping it frame by frame would be horrific!

about the color correction. youre right...CC'ing each and every frame will give u more control, but you might create dis-continuity [is there sucha word? :] in the film, if some pictures [of the same "scene"] will be different in color\contrast..etc.

Just have a look at Magic Bullet Looks plugin.
Might be a little better than the normal FCP's "babyvomit" :] , and u could save some serious time...lets say..for drinking more Blue Moon Beer :]

Well the thing is I spend a lot of time on one photo of each scene and i make a preset, so essentially i can select all the photos and apply that preset and tweak each one when needed. The frame by frame thing was because my numbering system was vomit but as ben millett stated above I could've loaded a script. Now I know better and my workflow will be smoother.

Hahah I have Magic Bullet Looks...

I still prefer Lightroom for photographs though...god forbid I apply "Berlin" or "Film Damage" over the entire thing..hahah.

Actually for some reason I enjoy colour correcting with just the basic 3 way colour correction of FCP over all the plugins...I think when you know how to do something in relation to the bare minimum, you can cater that to your skill level. However for more important projects, I like to use Color. The babyvomit is in relation to the compression of rapid sequential images more than the colour.

Man how bout drink blue moons then edit. Haha college and editing was essentially a bottle of wine and Avid for hours.

i salute u for using Avid. :] i would never step near that software....im too used to Premiere :\
Avid seems too complicated.
Well...yeah...workflow is a tough nut to crack. but i guess everyone got his own personal method of working...i know i wish i could learn these softwares somewhere [Premiere\AE\Photoshop] ... then maybe i wouldnt have to trial & error for hours...and maybe my worflow would then be much shorter\smoother...and my final "product" would look better. :\

anyways...bout encoding...its kinda weird...since im pretty sure that videos that are made out of still images-will look the sharpest in any good encoding method. [according to what i see...photo slide shows & cartoons look the best-online...]

haha I actually found Avid to be easier to use than when I started learning Final Cut Pro or when I first used Premiere. Mostly i like the fun colour keyboard.

For some reason when I do photomotion and i upload to vimeo it looks not as awesome but I think that's pretty common with videos with lots of rapid motion...or something.

like this other photomotion i did

vimeo.com/842630

Poured into my MOUTH!!!!


hahah just kidding.

oh snap im gonna see you soonish and im so excited im gonna explode

I did like the way if fizzled on the ground though--it just made me want it in my tummy!


omg i'm so excited too; I'm going to buy a new pair of sneakers just for the occasion!

haha stevie the dino will forgive me for spraying him with silly string....

...i hope...

poor guy

im bad.
haha

Yup :-) thanks Ted. Actually photomotion is kind of a pain in the butt to work with in FCP...but i stuck it out..haha

Hahaha...i've been blah still having video camera problems and have been antsy to make something.

haha thanks for your kind words paul.

You're welcome. I really need to get out and put something together. I keep making excuses why I shouldn't get out and put a film together. lol

I'll buffer you..

what does that even mean?

for some reason whenever i do photomotion on vimeo it looks like babyvomit compared to the original file, I think its because the frames are moving too fast or something...

Ronco
set it and forget it

buff it out.

Keep it in your pants, Abad.

I try to make one thing in the very least, a week...it's kinda hard though. Thanks eric. How's summer stuff going did u start working ont hat film already?

so i went out and made one.

summer has been slow. they keep pushing the start date back and i am having to find little jobs and such to make money make money money...

the 90s were great.

brown bubble piss? ew christopher, ew.

haha

hhaha

Thanks so much stepheniebauer. hee hee

beep boop boop

man i need to buckle down and practice


I will bring you a mustache..i will try to remember. oh man

TWO WEEKS

oh my god

time is going by so fast.

lots of them :D

This brought mustaches and wiggly eyes to my face hahaah.

Aw thanks Jon. How's your summer going?

When I submitted my comment, Jon Salazar's appeared above mine ^^^

Look how similar it is!

You and Jon must be the same person!!!!

hahaa Buck brings love to my hearts and smiles to my faces always
!!!

<3

Hee hee thanks so much brian. this creativity is synonymous to boredom

aww i know! Simplicity makes me smile.

aww heee hee..thanks dahling! Ooo i know! It's coming up soon I'm excited.
smooch smooch

xoxox

<3

haha thanks Ayz. I can't let my lack of resources stop me from creating or else I'll die. haha. beep beep I'm getting so antsy for your vids!!!! :-)

What I find hilarious is that I make more videos when I dont have a video camera then when i did. I'm just trying to compensate for something. Haha. Haha I like commenting to your comments just because it looks like you're wearing a blue dress and a black tie...hahaha Don't ever change your avatar!

actually you can, but I like it. hahah beep beep boop!

lmao.

best. reply-comment. ever.

I agree with Ayz :) Karen, you rock.

Those kids are from Wisseau's room....

hahaha

Eeeeggghhh

But Johnny's my best friend.

After a while I forgot I was totally hot for your bod.

hahahaha

Haha i know right. Oh Marc Bolan.

ROAARRRR!!!! Too bad I dont have a big T-rex doll..i always have brontosauruses. my trex stuffed toys are way smaller in size. I want a life sized one

haha

Mustaches and wiggle eyes need love.

haha

You're welcome, thanks for watching! (my video)
haha

I can honestly say the same for you to Lloyd, they are really beautiful. :-)

haha good thing you're awesome all the time!

aww thanks darling friend. :-)

i love pinwheels a lot

and popsicles.

i also like destroying my cameras by shooting the sun.

does that actually destroy them?

I hope not but the images do look pretty digitally messed up.

haha welcome to my world.

awwww bad days suck...good thing there's friends to turn a blah day into a YEAY! day! hope your week goes beautifully.

haha I feel that way too, I feel that Vimeo encourages me to upload something new every week, but even that is really difficult to keep up with, to constantly produce new and different and interesting things.


Most of my videos were created out in and around my house, for fun.

aww thanks for watching it

Aww thanks Aaron...luckily for all of us my real stop motion stuff is way better than this sloppy photomotion stuff...maybe one day I'll be more serious and make some more real life stop motion that isn't so sloppy.

:-)

sloppy or not I think your motivation shines through which is the real magic

aww thanks buddy for your kind encouraging words.

thank you kindly :-)

That's awfully considerate of you to say. I really appreciate you and everyone taking the time to watch a lot of the pretty angsty repressed stuff I've been producing lately.

You make me smile for being so kind. Thank you

Thank you so much Julie :-)

hahaha oh man i remember that. so silly


p.s. i love the bumble avatar.

aww thanks a lot Jostein. hahaha I rewatched it, I didn't notice the cat before, but I can totally see it :-)

Is cool. Thanks buddy. I still use the bolex, for sure. :-) But I tend to spend more time planning for that instead of just up and shooting something.

haahaha thanks sean...this is what happens when you don't have a working video camera...you have to be creative in other ways.

Aww thanks so much linda you're a gem!