Petit compte rendu vidéo de la participation du service iCAP au salon IP3S (Internet et Pédagogie des Sciences de la Santé et du Sport) qui a eu lieu le 12 et 13 novembre à l’Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2.
Ça a été l’occasion pour moi de tester le nouveau PowerShot SX210 IS, successeur du SX200 IS, et la nouvelle Creatice Suite 5.
Un compact idéal pour la vidéo
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Du côté du PowerShot, le SX210 reprend les points forts de SX200 à savoir toute la partie vidéo :
- un super objectif (pour un compact)
- l’enregistrement des vidéos en HD 720p
- accès facile au paramètre manuel de mise au point, exposition, balance des blancs etc.
J’ai noté les améliorations suivantes par rapport au modèle précédent :
- une meilleur stabilisation de l’image
- une prise de son stéréo
- la possibilité de zoomer et dé-zoomer pendant la prise de vue vidéo
- un auto-focus pendant la prise de vue
Par contre quelque défauts du SX200 persistent toujours comme la présence de grain dès que l’environnement est moins lumineux (mais çà reste raisonnable).
En bref, il ne remplacera jamais un bon caméscope, mais la qualité de ses vidéos est largement satisfaisante pour un compact discret qui passera sans aucun doute inaperçu (très pratique pour réaliser des petites vidéos du genre reportage ou making of).
Premiere, After Effects, Media Encoder : le workflow idéale
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Du côté de la CS5 je vais surtout faire l’éloge du trio Premiere, After Effects, Media Encoder.
La version CS5 de ces 3 softs est beaucoup plu stable et réactive que sous CS4.
Fini les plantages en lançant les rendus directement depuis première !
Pour ce projet ma démarche a été la suivante :
- sélection des rush, montage, synchronisation avec le son sous Premiere
- tracking et titrage sous After Effects
- importation des composition After Effects directement dans les séquences Premiere
- rendu depuis Premiere via Media Encoder
Sinon, je n’ai pas eu le temps de tester plus en profondeur. Les nouvelles fonctionnalités ce sera pour une autre fois
[OLD VERSION] (Software) I grudgingly puesrachd Elements 9 because I wanted to use some of the photoshop brushes and files that I could not use with my old favorite program Paint Shop Pro 8. I had held out as long as I could, but finally, my stubbornness was holding me back from getting things done. I tried Gimp, but I just did not like the interface. It was buggy as heck. I’ve used the professional versions of Photoshop, and I knew that this version of Elements 9 was sort of in sync with the Pro version. So, I would feel familiar when moving up from Elements to (InDesign or CS5 or whatever it is right now). Now that I am using Elements, I wish switched over from Jasc PSP to Adobe Elements years ago. They both have layers, but wow, what you can do in Element’s layers is mind boggling. There is the misconception out there, I think, that photoshop Elements is just a photo organizer or just for people touching up their family photos. This is absolutely incorrect. The program is a full on graphic editing program. I’ve only been working with it for a week or so, but as far as I can tell, I could build an entire website, slice it up, and optimize it for the web, just with Adobe Elements 9 alone. I really puesrachd this for the Premiere 9 Video Editing Program, and figured I might as well make the switch over to Elements 9 while I’m at it, so I puesrachd the bundle. Strangely enough, I’ve been enjoying the graphics program so much, I haven’t even started a video project yet with Premiere Elements! I do have some feedback though, on the subject, that is important for others. After installing Premiere Elements 9, I tried to open the program and open up a project and immediately started getting errors about my Nvidia Graphics Driver. I had the latest drivers, but still spent hours troubleshooting and updating drivers, dealing with Adobe support. In the end, the problems seems to have been that my computer hardware was not enough to run the program. I was running Windows XP, Nvidia GE Force 6150le on board graphics card, I think my computer only had 1 GB of Ram altogether. It wasn’t a huge deal to me, because I suspected that my computer was going to get maxed out soon, especially now that I was getting into video editing. So, I was in the mindset that I was going to be needing to upgrade the computer soon and this experience gave me some guidelines on what I needed for video work: a graphics card with at least 1 GB ram of it’s own and at least 4 .. preferrably 8 or 12 GB ram for the computer memory. I did some homework and found a good site called videoguy dot com (I think) who gives some very clear guidelines for a good workhorse setup. I added up what it would cost for me to upgrade my current HP computer with a better video card, and max out the ram to 4GB, and then I would have to add a better power source for the fan to keep it cool. I was better off retiring the old computer to lighter duty, and getting a computer that could handle the job for years to come. So, when I installed the Premiere Elements on the Windows 7 computer and opened a new project, it flew open without a hitch, ready to go! Unfortunately, I am so engrossed in my Photoshop Elements graphics projects, I have no interest in doing any videos right now! One last comment about Elements I did spend $25 on a month at Lynda dot com so that I could work through the awesome tutorials there. (I love Lynda dot com) If I hadn’t done that, I might have felt lost. I also have found many amazing tutorials on youTube just by searching for Photoshop Elements 9 and you can see all the powerful things you never imagined you could do with this great piece of software. To sum it up: For under $100 this software is an awesome deal. I think the the Elements program will work on any decent computer. It’s worth the time it takes to learn all the powerful tools built into it. Premiere Elements: if your are bored with the built-in Windows Movie Maker, like I was, then moving up to a more feature rich video editor might also mean moving up to a more powerful computer. Video editing, is a memory hungry process. Adobe should be a little more up front about the hardware requirements, maybe. But, you are going to be miserable, if you have just enough to make do. I had a little time to play with the titles and captions and a few other tools and those things alone are enough to make me glad I spent the money on this software. I’m very happy with this purchase. And I feel like when I spoke to support at Adobe, they were extremely helpful and honest with me. A good experience. I’m glad I bought this.