On today's Q & Erik, we answer your questions regarding compositing to achieve the effects in "Bloody Omaha" We also try to troubleshoot some camera problems.

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[Music Playing] Welcome back to Q and Erik, feels pretty good. Get back in this duds and back answering all of your questions. Devon 23 was watching Street Fighter: The Later Years, Part Five and saw a guy that kind a looks like Justin and wanted to know if that was really him. The answer is yes. Justin gave a beautiful performance as security guard number two. Here is a quick clip. [Clip Playing] I am sure his parents are very proud. If you do not know by now we love answering video questions so here is a couple from you guys. Male 1: Hi Indy Mogul, a few weeks ago you had a video done by some graphic designers on Bloody Omaha. That has some really cool effects on that where they had three guys do the invasion of the Omaha beach. [Trailer] Male1: I thought that was really cool so I went out and I filmed—well just myself just to see how it worked and I put it on Final Cut Pro and I thought it was just a matter of doing transparency levels. Well I did the transparency levels but now I have an army of ghost. How you would do that effect? Erik: That Bloody Omaha thing is pretty sweet huh? Yes! Okay, here is your problem, if you are going to shoot on location you need to make sure each soldier does not occupy the same space at the same time because you are going to have mask out each layers basically stack them up on top of each other. For more information on exactly how to do this watch Steve Weekend Extra on Cloning. It is a great tutorial and it is the same technique. Now if you do want to have a couple soldiers in the same space, maybe one in front of the other and then you could see the other one behind that person, you are going to have to use a green screen and you can really get really creative like David and integrate it into your shot. But basically the opacity thing, is not going to work you have to use a like a four point garbage mask or use the crafting tool in your editing software. Cool? Are we cool? We cool, Doug? Am I cool enough to use the Doug. No apparently not. [Trailer] Erik: Next video question. Male 2: Hey, Indy Mogul, I really need some help. I am intrigued with the artificial camera and look fine but when I export them from Final Cut Pro, when the camera moves or a person runs across the screen, the edges become really fuzzy and blurry and if you know the solution to that. Thanks Erik: Now I am not sure if your video question was shot on the same camera you are talking about, I did know it is a little bit of blurriness but if you are shooting in HD, a problem I noticed that I have had a lot is interlacing problems. And so look closely at your video, the video you are talking, about the problem and see if that blurriness are actualy little lines. If that is the case then it is an interlacing problem and it is as simple as applying a filter in your editing program. If it is not interlacing try messing around with the shutter speed, if you can mess with it maybe there is a movie mode that needs to be turned on or off. There is a really lot of different things that can cause blurriness hopefully that answers your question and fixes it if not get back to us let, us know. We are here to help. Alright, let us wrap up the show with a couple of quick announcements. First off our first President of Mogul Ville election went awesome. We got a bunch of great campaign videos and bunch of new forum members and a great turn out in the voting. Bridger was the winner, congratulations. If you have not checked it out yet go see his special section of the forums where he is the master and commander and starting soon we are going to have this little approval messages at the end of every Q and Erik and remember in three months we are going to do it all over again. Go democracy. Also do not forget if you want to join Indy Mobile and get super cool text messages just text the word Indy to 30644. I also want to give a special shout out to Wesley Scoggenzer. Wes Scog on the forums for all those people who know him. He is doing great job on the blog. He does additional how to’s, he is in admin, he is doing great work, you should go check out his stuff. Thank you, Wes. Alright, we will be back next week answering more of your questions, send them in, cut it.