Adjul Gardner
February 21st, 2015, 09:34 AM
Still working with that old VHS footage and am wondering what my options are.
About half the shots are timestamped:
http://www.teachingdrum.org/adjul/VHSTimestamp.jpg
The other half aren't. In my sneak preview, I just vertically-cropped the timestamps out. They are right in the shot, and cropping them out removed a lot of good picture from the frame, to the point where you're just seeing disembodied heads.
The timestamps have the potential to be distracting because it makes jumpcuts stick out more, and makes it more clear - if someone were paying attention - exactly how big of a jump I made.
First question: What was this guy thinking (I didn't film it)? Was the cam operator a total amateur, or were these things removable at some point?
My main question, what can I do? Here's what I see:
-Crop vertically and cut my losses
-Blur it out (so it's unreadable)
-Put some other sort of thing over it (don't really know what)
-Alternate between cropping/zooming and leaving the timestamp in so in jumpcutted shots you don't see the timestamp except for in one shot (so there's no reference to compare to in all the other shots)
-Leave them in and trust the the audience will look past it, or that it gives some sort of "authentic" edge to it.
The project is my own personal thing, and I'm not answering to any customer, so it's my choice.
Adjul
About half the shots are timestamped:
http://www.teachingdrum.org/adjul/VHSTimestamp.jpg
The other half aren't. In my sneak preview, I just vertically-cropped the timestamps out. They are right in the shot, and cropping them out removed a lot of good picture from the frame, to the point where you're just seeing disembodied heads.
The timestamps have the potential to be distracting because it makes jumpcuts stick out more, and makes it more clear - if someone were paying attention - exactly how big of a jump I made.
First question: What was this guy thinking (I didn't film it)? Was the cam operator a total amateur, or were these things removable at some point?
My main question, what can I do? Here's what I see:
-Crop vertically and cut my losses
-Blur it out (so it's unreadable)
-Put some other sort of thing over it (don't really know what)
-Alternate between cropping/zooming and leaving the timestamp in so in jumpcutted shots you don't see the timestamp except for in one shot (so there's no reference to compare to in all the other shots)
-Leave them in and trust the the audience will look past it, or that it gives some sort of "authentic" edge to it.
The project is my own personal thing, and I'm not answering to any customer, so it's my choice.
Adjul