Port 4: Opralea (Test 2 and other stuff)

Right, so the first test didn't go to plan, but the next stage of action went to my brains almost instantaneously.

The far far easier way to do this (quite possibly) is to take high quality stills which show the whole pipe and then zoom in and track across it in post.

On a 'we've not got much else to do at this very moment in time' situation, Andy Parker, Nathan Hill and I milled around for 30 minutes or so taking pipe photo's of the highest quality. The highest quality being RAW in this case, which led to a problem I kind of knew I was letting myself in for:

Trying to open the bloody thing! It won't. Even my Photoshop CS4 doesn't even get on with it, so I need some kind of plug in for it. Still I managed to get a screen grab of it on the preview window for you to admire:

Th' yar! Pipes in the fast lane baby!

(at least it will be when I'm done with it)

The problem then spreads on to how I'm going work with it within Final Cut Pro and After Effects.

I contacted Colin Mottram (Lenzflare & Teaches Craft Sessions) to get his advice on it and seeing as Andy Parker's film 'Nocturne' was completely comprised from photo's, he should be able to advise me too.

With regards to After Effects, John Rosie (Maclagen Men and Lecturer) said it would be good to speak to Ross from his office. I've seen some of the work he's done on After Effects and he knows his stuff alright.

In addition to all these malarkies, my sister (who has sound design very much in her ball park) has checked out these very pages and had this to mention:

'Bang on about how you applied EQ'

I'm sure I'll be 'banging' on about plenty of stuff EQ related. I finished a 14 page Pro Tools research document I've been working on for

a fair while now and Richard Allan at the media centre is happy to have it as a training document on the macs in the edit suites. Here's a peek at half of a random page:

Whilst on the subject of sound, what I'm looking to do is something along the lines of what Tal Rosner did in his film 'Without you'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74DXPV4R6wo&feature=related

Bertie (Roberta Spain) has done a great job of getting me some great research material and I'll be going more into that shortly.

Finally, thanks to Laura Fletcher for this piece of knowledge/advice:

Ciao for now peeps. Thanks and keep the suggestions and support

coming :)

Tim Oh