Thursday 10 February 2011

Cropping Shots

Due to one of my camera operating mistakes, there was one shot in which Jessica was sitting in the corner. At the time we were so fixed on getting the lighter drop right that we didn't notice. However, by looking at Final Cut Express HD I managed to crop the shot.


 Here I used 'Motion' above the preview of the video and I simply clicked 'Crop' and I kept moving the picture left and right and then using 'Scale' to make the picture fit. 

This is the result of cropping the shot.


After scaling it, it looks perfect as Jessica is no longer in the picture.




However, the main problem that we faced was that by cropping and scaling the shot, the lighter does not fall centrally so as a result, this method cannot be used. Also, due to scaling, most of the quality is lost. We have decided as a group that we will re-record the lighter dropping as we want the 0.T.S to be perfect.
At least the cropping was better than the original...



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