DI Finishing for Act of Valor
The biggest challenge we faced in the DI finishing process for Act of Valor, was preparing for three different aspect ratios for our deliverable, without sacrificing resolution. All of our footage… Read more »
Category Archives: Workflow Ideas
Visual Effects on Act of Valor
At Bandito Brothers, we have always prided ourselves in being authentic and real. This is one of the values that led Scott and Mouse to cast real Navy SEALS for… Read more »
Shooting 4K for HD Delivery
So this year at NAB, we continue to see more 4K acquisition tools being developed, but nearly all content is distributed and viewed by its audience at 1080p or below,… Read more »
Editing Act of Valor
When we first started out, we had no idea how much footage we would be shooting for the movie, because the 5D lends itself to a different type of shooting style than… Read more »
Shooting Act of Valor
We shot the movie on a wide variety of locations, over about a year. Scott and Mouse originally intended to utilize the 5D’s unique capabilities to capture the intensity of… Read more »
Preparing for Act of Valor
When we first started preparing to shoot Act of Valor, over four years ago, we had to decide what cameras to use. Up to that point all of our work… Read more »
Stereoscopic Finishing Process
To provide us with vision, our brain combines the two separate images from both of our eyes to create the perception of depth. Stereoscopy imitates that to create an artificial sense of… Read more »
Editorial in 3D
In theory, stereoscopic media content can be edited exactly the same as 2D content is, when an offline-online workflow is used. This allows the editor to edit one stream in 2D,… Read more »
Editing DSLR Footage in Avid
Avid Media Composer works on a very different paradigm than either Premiere or Final Cut. This makes the application more stable than its competitors on larger projects with lots of… Read more »
Managing Footage in Tapeless Workflows
File organization has been an important aspect of media management ever since the advent of tapeless workflows. Prior to that point, any frame of footage could be identified by, and… Read more »
