This a presumably modern video made for an old song… I wonder how they did this? I am assuming it was done in after effects with some kind of “old film” filter / LUT applied on top of it? How you think they did it? The tunnel effect at 25 seconds in particularly intrigues me…. They could have used just any kind of 3D app, but I wonder if it wasn’t something in After Effects. One way they could have done would be to make a light grey and black striped surface at the top of a Photoshop file and then colored stripes on the bottom half of the image- then apply a cylinder effect in After Effects. But they had the camera move like it was a round donut, and then the tunnel does an “S Turn” after a point. Can this be done in after effects?
My attempt to duplicate the shot with a grey and black striped Photoshop image with the After Effects “CC Cylinder” effect applied to it. I made it a 3D object and had the 3D camera move through it:
I still haven’t figured out how to make a curved tunnel in after effects.
Is there anything of interest in the so-called “secret files” about the President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) assassination?
President Donald Trump said he would release all the files in his first term, then “THEY” asked him not to do so. Suspicious?
Then Trump said he’d release everything in his SECOND term, and so far… he hasn’t?
Why won’t Trump release the files? What is in them that needs to be kept secret?
Was the Warren Commission hiding something? Something that might indicate a second shooter or that Lee Oswald was working for a government security agency?!?!?
Was the Church Committee hiding something?
What did the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations have to hide? What were they afraid of?
What material(s) did the Assassination Records Review Board decide not to release to the public and Why?
Welcome to the first episode of On the Trail of Delusion, a podcast that separates reality from fiction in the JFK assassination. Our guest is Robert Reynolds who is an expert on the JFK assassination files. You can visit his terrific website at http://www.jfkarc.info
I’ve been enjoying a YouTube show about the history of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. It seems to be made by two 2 very knowledgeable SNL superfans. There doesn’t seem to be ANYTHING these don’t know about their favorite show.
Everything You NEED to Know About SNL
We’ve all met the type. There isn’t much superfans of something can’t tell you from memory about shows like STAR TREK or whatever else…
Its interesting and engaging and VERY well put together.
SO well put together that it has sparked a benign low level conspiracy theory in my head.
The show is so well produced, has high quality 4K footage from SNL’s earliest days. At first I thought that they were such devoted fans that they had every episode on VHS or DVD and that they “ripped” the source material and edited into their show. And that may be the truth. BUT, they seem to have footage from episodes ( that I don’t think) was ever released on home video. And you can’t “rip” material from a professional streaming service, can you? I can’t think of how somebody could “rip” materal off of something like PEACOCK. But where there’s a will there might be a way… And if that was the case, wouldn’t PEACOCK send them a cease and desist?
Using copyrighted material on YouTube is a confusing, slippery slope. If I owned the rights to SNL’s reruns and found out somebody had made an elaborate love letter to my property, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. But that’s me, we’ve all heard of copyright attorneys coming after content creators with a hammer. Maybe because they HAVE to? If they let something slip past, it weakens their claim to ownership? (“Why are you coming after ME when you didn’t go after them??”).
Every episode of this YouTube show ends with saying “SNL’s reruns are viewable on Peacock.”
I didn’t know that. I have PEACOCK and didn.t know they were streaming the earliest SNL episodes. So I clicked on Peacock and started perusing the crude ( in every sense of the word) early episodes. Some of it was better than I remember, some it has not aged well.
I spend more time on YouTube these days than regular TV or even streaming. I assume a lot of us do. I wouldn’t have known to click on PEACOCK to see SNL re-runs if not for this YouTube show made by these superfans.
BUT! a lightbulb went off over my head!
Have I been tricked? Was that YouTube show made by Superfans a ruse? A hidden commercial made BY Peacock itself???
How else would those guys get such extremely high quality footage from episodes that ( I don’t think) were ever released on home video?
The camera and sound quality are both top notch. As good as anything on regular professional TV- let alone YouTube. Their opening and closing graphics were also of professional caliber. Not that some YouTubers don’t put their heart and soul into making pro grade content, many do. But this is a cut above.
Does anyone know if “Everything You NEED to Know About SNL” is being produced by PEACOCK itself or if it really is made by fans who happen to be damn good at what they do? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRqyVjTQ_fE
“An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live” : Author interview (2003)
I have always assumed I should be shooting and editing in 4K (3840 by 2160). I also did my Photoshop and After Effects work in 3840 by 2160. I did this even for projects that I knew were only going to YouTube/Vimeo/Facebook video.
I recently had to do some projects that the client shot themselves on 1280 by 720.. I upscaled it to 4k and added lots of B Roll and graphics ( that were made at 4K dimensions) over the video. When watched the finished projects on YouTube a few weeks later, the 1280 by 720 parts looked terribly stretched out.
But I also knew that when I download stock shots off of YouTube, they are in 1280 by 720. Even scaled up to 4K the footage looked… ok. Not great but just OK.
When I download old shots off my OWN YouTube channel, footage I created myself in 4k and uploaded in 4K (but somehow lost it) they are in 1280 by 720.
Does YouTube turn all footage uploaded to it, even 4K footage into 1280 by 720?
As an experiment, for one of the projects I was crafting from the 1280 by 720 footage, I kept everything in its original 1280 by 720 dimensions, The motion graphics and B Roll, that were created in true 4k? I downscaled them to 1280 by 720. I exported them as 1280 by 720 to YouTube. The export and uploading times were much faster than 4K projects.
THIS is the show edited and exported in 1280 by 720:
When I looked at this project on YouTube a week after uploading and it looked fine. No signifigant difference in picture quality.
And I don’t mean just watching it on my phone or laptop. I watched it in the YouTube app on my 4k big screen TV. And it looked the same as my 4K projects. The projects that had 1280 by 720 footage stretched up to 4K looked bad, but the episode that was kept in 1280 looked ok.
Am I wasting my time rendering projects in my full 4K, if YouTube is just going to scale it down to 1280?
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