I'm not saying it is wrong, I just saying that I'd like to know more about that workflow and maybe a solution that work for some in his configuration would be too painfull for someone else.
Many other factors than just feeling "at home" are IMO to be considered and one seems to me: is is workable for a single person?
I would also like to stay in familiar land, I would really love to avoid more learning, long hours to master this or that software, but...is it really possible? and more importantly, is it really profitable?
We know photoshop.
We may get into heavier programs but I doubt it, I'll just outsource it, depending on budget.
Just finished a video where the last 4 seconds is a 40ish beautiful woman turns her head and looks up slightly above camera. Great shot, except when she looks up and smiles here eyes get a unattractive bags under them and she pulls a vein on here camera right side of her head.
The client was willing to live with it, (which means they didn't want to spend any more money . . . I guess) I wasn't willing to live with it, which means it had to be done.
So we retouched it out, (though you don't have to do every frame, just every other frame). It looks great, the client wasn't even aware of how much a change it made until I showed the before and after, now they are, but once again we know photoshop.
It took us about 4 hours, it will take my contracted retoucher about 1 or 2 hours and next time that will be our direction.
Anyway, don't think Hollywood, or any decent size budget doesn't take a long time in post. I was sitting next to a women at Sony one day that works in effects. She and her team did a 10 second shot of a famous actor supposedly climbing a cliff. Really simple type of shot, except you don't put a 12 million dollar actor on a cliff. It took her team (with unlimited equipment and software) 30 days for that shot. It required stunt doubles, live action, green screen, cg, stills on location, tracking software, etc. etc. etc.
But that was for a $200 million dollar movie (including the advertising), which makes 30 days for a few seconds sound cheap and nobody is asking me yet to do a $200 million dollar movie, (though I'll take it if it ever happens).
My point is our team can spend 4 months learning a software, or spend 2 hours fixing a face, let our retoucher do it for a grand, or send it out for 3 grand and let someone else do it on some kind of dedicated motion software.
Doesn't matter to me as long as it's good, it's profitable and I keep working.
We do what we do to learn, but we do what we do to get it done.
There are more than 1 way to skin a cat, (not that anyone should skin a cat), though for anyone adding motion, get ready to spend some money cause it ain't cheap.
Today we just bought a portable digital tech station that runs two powerbooks for the RED and for stills, with fans, raid 0's, readers, interfaces for headsets, worklights, fw 800, usb, ethernet etc and it costs over 20 grand, but it's worth it because it will save us about 1 hour per set up and process dailies on the fly.
IMO
BC