Episode 11 - Human Cloning and Camera Technique

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In this episode we show how to duplicate your actor and break down some basic camera set-ups.

Cloning can be very easy if you keep a few things in mind while you’re shooting. Be careful of shadows, don’t move your camera (unless you plan on motion tracking), and shoot where the light won’t shift.??First...lock your camera on a tripod and have your actor play out the scene in all the positions you need. Again, be sure not to move the camera at all! Any shift will ruin the effect. Next...bring your footage into your editing suite or effect software; placing one clip on top of the other; then just mask your actor out of the clip on top, add some feathering, and you should have a pretty good effect.

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Great episodes, I did a cloning effect for a film a while ago, I used 3 techniques:
Split screen:

Which surprisingly worked really well.

Face replacement:

An idea I came up with and failed dismally.

Double:

Which work as well as I thought it would.

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Another case of me wishing I had seen filmriot a long time ago, the video I made is over 2 years old.
If anyone is wondering, you will never get to see that video I made with the evil twin, trust me it's bad.
Also there is a continuity error that the two peoples glasses disappear.

I just remembered I've been using the split screen cloning effect even longer than that, one of my very first videos I only had two actors.
It was a fantasy film and one of the scenes was at a funeral, it was the same two actors over and over again with different masks on.
We couldn't even afford a coffin so used an Amazon box wrapped in cloth, at the time we thought it was so high budget, ahh, those were the days.

Enough nostalgia, great episode like I said, the explanation of all the diffrent types of shots were really good and WTF was "Warning!" that was a bit of a non-sequitur, verry funny.
You guys have to look at the automatically genirated transcript here: http://revision3.com/filmriot/cloning maybe it's because you talk so fast but none of it makes any sense.

[oliverblank]

Another really cheap way to do a dolly shot is go to a second hand store and find a cheep wheel chair. I got one for 4 bucks. You can either set up the tripod in the wheelchair, secure it as you see fit and be VERY CAREFUL, or have the cameraman, with a tripod or monopod for stability, sitting in the chair, while someone else pushes it. You can get a reasonably good dolly in closed areas, or other places you can't easily get a car, like hallways and rooftops.
It also makes for a nice piece of furniture. Mine is the desk chair I'm sitting in RIGHT NOW.
Unfortunately, I have little use for dollies, I do a lot of faux documentary style work, and, while precarious, it generally works best for the effect, to just have the camera man walk around following the actors.

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Originally Posted by oliverblank

Another really cheap way to do a dolly shot is go to a second hand store and find a cheep wheel chair. I got one for 4 bucks. You can either set up the tripod in the wheelchair, secure it as you see fit and be VERY CAREFUL, or have the cameraman, with a tripod or monopod for stability, sitting in the chair, while someone else pushes it. You can get a reasonably good dolly in closed areas, or other places you can't easily get a car, like hallways and rooftops.
It also makes for a nice piece of furniture. Mine is the desk chair I'm sitting in RIGHT NOW.

Yea, I've never seen a wheel-chair cheap but there are 3 in the school medical room so if I'm shooting something there I'm allowed to nab one.
Basically anything with wheels can be turned into a dolly, although somethings need more work than others.
Although whatever you used be prepared to dub all your audio, especially if you used a car because you won't be able hear a thing.

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My wheelchair is also relatively quiet. Most of the trouble I've had with it can be masked by dubbing in background noises.

[mrpopular]

Another Great Episode.

Question to anyone out there on the interwebs. I have Motion 2 & FCP, but in FCP i only get 8 point mask which isn't enough for in depth masking. In motion 2 You can mask all you want, til you blue in the face. But I can't find a spot to add a keyframe so that in the next frame I can move the points around the subject? So if anyone has Motion and has some insight, Plz Clue Me In.

[xfuuey]

hilarious episode. i honestly have never given two shits about film editing, but you guys make it interesting & fun. it actually makes me wana mess around with that stuff in my free time. thanks for a great show. keep it up

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Originally Posted by MrPopular

Another Great Episode.

Question to anyone out there on the interwebs. I have Motion 2 & FCP, but in FCP i only get 8 point mask which isn't enough for in depth masking. In motion 2 You can mask all you want, til you blue in the face. But I can't find a spot to add a keyframe so that in the next frame I can move the points around the subject? So if anyone has Motion and has some insight, Plz Clue Me In.

Same problem here, I can only mask up to 16 points
The only way I can find to do it, is apply the masking effect once and do half the image then apply it again and do the other half and then again to get the details.
Takes a LONG time, that's why I prefer greenscreening.
Depending on the shot you should be fine with 8 points, for cloning I normally only use 4 or just straight crop of the image.

I think you guys are more suited to high energy comedy, like in episode 1. Still a good episode tho.

[masterevilace]

This episode was amazing. Best show on Rev3, at the moment.
It's not only tutorials, but the way you guys present them. These comedy sketches are hilarious and really pull you into the effects