greetings,
My three-year project shot in war zones in Africa is done, and I'm coming back home to edit. I've certainly done some looking around, and so am not asking to be babied. Just wondering if you could share my excitement, and could chime in with pointers, tips, lessons learned etc...
Info: most everything shot on Mamiya RZProII and a Phase One P45 with Capture 6. Almost all shot on green screen with studio lighting. With some I'm placing images roughly (keeping the screen, and showing the whole setup), while a lot of portraits will have to be straight pulled off the green/blue screen). There's three separate bodies of work - and the amount of work ahead is making my knees shake.
Would like to buy all gear used ( Mac Pro tower), but might splurge on the $2k NEC monitor.
First step would be to set up my editing gear, then work on the original files, and get some sample prints done, then a few tests at the actual size (4 feet height and going wide up to 8ft length)
All my final edits right now are on hi-res jpegs, and since I believe I have to switch over the whole workflow to Capture 7, I'm probably at the stage where I have to make all the right choices right now.
More excitement than actual editing/printing knowledge - so any help would be appreciated.
1. is it correct that I will benefit from working in Capture 7? Does one work from the TIFs already imported previously, or do I re-import from the original files straight off the cards I copied?
2. What generally is the state the files should be in for a final print?
Would P45 files reach my desired dimensions without upressing too much?
will be in NYC, so any tips on printing labs would be great.
the rest I imagine will be Ebay and B&H..
thanks again n advance, for any bits of guidance, and will keep doing my homework..
PS:
there's a film too, so any gear I buy will be used for Final Cut editing after..
My three-year project shot in war zones in Africa is done, and I'm coming back home to edit. I've certainly done some looking around, and so am not asking to be babied. Just wondering if you could share my excitement, and could chime in with pointers, tips, lessons learned etc...
Info: most everything shot on Mamiya RZProII and a Phase One P45 with Capture 6. Almost all shot on green screen with studio lighting. With some I'm placing images roughly (keeping the screen, and showing the whole setup), while a lot of portraits will have to be straight pulled off the green/blue screen). There's three separate bodies of work - and the amount of work ahead is making my knees shake.
Would like to buy all gear used ( Mac Pro tower), but might splurge on the $2k NEC monitor.
First step would be to set up my editing gear, then work on the original files, and get some sample prints done, then a few tests at the actual size (4 feet height and going wide up to 8ft length)
All my final edits right now are on hi-res jpegs, and since I believe I have to switch over the whole workflow to Capture 7, I'm probably at the stage where I have to make all the right choices right now.
More excitement than actual editing/printing knowledge - so any help would be appreciated.
1. is it correct that I will benefit from working in Capture 7? Does one work from the TIFs already imported previously, or do I re-import from the original files straight off the cards I copied?
2. What generally is the state the files should be in for a final print?
Would P45 files reach my desired dimensions without upressing too much?
will be in NYC, so any tips on printing labs would be great.
the rest I imagine will be Ebay and B&H..
thanks again n advance, for any bits of guidance, and will keep doing my homework..
PS:
there's a film too, so any gear I buy will be used for Final Cut editing after..