insertion clips

Got together with director Carlos Cruz and editor Rodrigo Zozaya over the weekend and finally got from them 25 gigs worth of material to be inserted and tracked onto the different marked televisions in the shot. A specific shot was specifically set aside for "the money shot" but the rest is basically coming down to sifting through thousands of frames of the band playing to see what clips fit the different shots.

It begins

all frames concerning any VFX work have now been separated into 9 different shots. Each shot is no less than 50 frames and no more than 200. I will begin tracking and exporting the tracking info on apple Shake this week to prepare for the television image replacement that will take place as soon as i receive the clips from our editor. My work is cut out from here on out.

Cue Audio...

The song for the video, "Enemigo" is available on the band's Myspace profile.

VFX Stills

These are a couple of frames to show the televisions with the markers that need to be tracked and the black screens replaced with video clips of the band rocking out.

Picture Lock - Frames delivered to VFX dept.

Finally after a long 2 weeks with no news, i finally met with video director Carlos Cruz, Editor Rodrigo Zozaya, Producer Jaime Tapias to talk about the final cut of the video and have the frames delivered in Targa format to star working on the tracks and stabilization.

After reviewing all 4,500 frames i determined there were at least 9 shots that would need compositing and tracking. Though most of th shots consist of televisions being tracked and video composited on top (video of the band playing) the director was still uncertain about the video they want on the actual televisions, so we determined the best option would be to start tracking the t.v's and saving the tracking data to later apply to the matchmove node (in shake) to track in the video later.

Some still frames of the FX shots will be uploaded as soon as Bloggr works out some bugs with their image upload script.