Lotaluv - Offline 02
So I finally had a chance to get back to the "Lotaluv" edit. I am now done with the offline 02. Basically it's a complete edit in it's rough format. I was having a few problems with the end shot as on location we were under lots of pressure to get out before we got arrested. It's one of those "fix it in post" moments. I included some grabs below to show what i am working with. Of course it is a completely rough draft attempt, but as a proof of concept I think it shows that it is possible to pull it off. To make it work, I have to Rotoscope (manually outline frame by frame the characters) which allows me to extract them and place them in a different shot.
For the final version of course I will have to spend a lot more time doing it and make it as precise as possible, but for this test I did some power Rotoscoping.
Check out some behind the scenes action from the second location in Mong Kok.
I have been using this great little free app for Mac called Time Tracker to log the time spent on this project. Some may remember I first converted all the footage at medium resolution using RedRushes. The first round took me about 3 hours. Last night I started converting to Hi-Rez the same clips. Although I fell asleep and wasn't able to log the completion time, I predicted it was about a 4 to 1 ratio in terms of the time spent going to med-rez vs. hi-rez. I think I am pretty close to the mark as can see it took 13 hours about. Fun stuff really and no doubt all of you are titillated at this.
So then enough of this nerd talk, I grabbed a few untreated med-rez screen caps from the edit. What a bunch of characters!
This is where I am at with the edit at the end of the offline02.
