On the seventh floor, Minghu Cultural Image Processing Center.

In Studio No. 1, which is called the "Image Special Effects Department" within Minghu Culture, Li Qian has been there for two hours.

And there is actually only one thing he does, and that is: acceptance!

After returning to China for so many days, although he also had to participate in He Runqing's concert, there was also the final exam of the film academy in June, and then he had to talk with Huaxia TV and Shuntian TV again and again for the sake of variety shows, but the rest of the time, he was still squeezed out as much as possible, and devoted himself to the post-editing.

Finally, at the beginning of July, he basically completed all the editing work of this TV series.

Next, after the final cut version of the video special effects has been processed from beginning to end, some small details will be fine-tuned in combination with the specific situation, and then the opening and ending credits and subtitles will be added, and the audio track will be sorted out again, and the production of this TV series can be completely announced.

In fact, the subtitles or something, it's relatively simple, and the later stage of this play is doing special effects while cutting, so when he completely finished editing, in fact, the special effects have been almost two-thirds completed.

The most important thing is that several major technical difficulties have been overcome, and the next work is actually just to add rendering to the places where the picture has not yet been rendered, and the difficulty of the work is already very low.

So, if nothing else, the final and complete completion of this TV series will probably be at the end of July.

The staff accompanied him, Li Qian pulled the progress bar by himself, and watched the clip just now, especially the part where Fahai's robe rotated in the sky, and the red bricks sprinkled on the ground and automatically built a brick wall to block the flood, he pressed pause every one or two seconds of playing, and then enlarged the image, carefully looking at the junction between the brick wall and the flood.

Then, when this time was over, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, nodded with a smile, turned his head to Lu Ming, the director of the image processing center, and said, "Not bad, to this extent, it is really quite delicate." ”

Lu Ming smiled proudly when he heard this: "Don't talk about the level of TV playback, even if it is made into the highest specification DVD format, let the audience buy it back and watch it on the latest technology plasma TV, our resolution, also ensure that there is no graininess!"

After a pause, he said again: "Although it is not as high as "Titanic", we are definitely the best in China!"

Li Qian smiled and nodded when he heard this, and then continued to look back.

Compared with the Titanic, which can't see a little fake at all, and everything is as it is in front of you, it should be said that the effect made by the special effects artists of Minghu Culture must be slightly inferior, but as Lu Ming said, in the current country, this is definitely the top level, and even if it is put in Hollywood, although it is not easy to compare with the best two special effects companies, it is also qualified to gain a foothold and take on some TV-level, or scattered work that is not too demanding in the movie.

Frankly speaking, this is the best degree that Li Qian could have expected before.

You must know that in the current domestic film and television industry, let alone TV series, even movies with higher requirements for picture standards, the so-called "special effects" made in China, in fact, there are many things that just stay in the later stage to erase Weiya on the screen, or a certain hero has made a contribution, adding some red light to him or something - really, this level of special effects, in the eyes of people who have experienced the kind of picture bombardment of Hollywood special effects movies after more than ten years, it is simply LOW explosion!

However, the reason why we stay at this step is not that China really does not have the technical level at all, but because many film companies, directors and producers do not pay much attention to special effects from the bottom of their hearts.

Only a small number of commercial film directors have a clear understanding of special effects, but their power is limited, and it is unlikely that they will be involved in film and television companies and production companies to spend money to set up special effects companies, so the films they shoot are often taken to the United States, Japan and other places to do post-production special effects, and even some directors who have relatively high requirements for the picture simply go abroad to do printing - Li Qian, When Cao Zhan and Yu Bojun sat down and chatted together, they all felt that the domestic film market had fallen off a cliff since the beginning of 98 years, and it was still shrinking collectively until this year, which had a lot to do with the lack of attention paid by these domestic production companies and film and television companies to hardware, including story hardware and technical hardware.

To put it simply, the audience is no longer a frog at the bottom of the well, everyone has seen other people's foreign films, especially how sophisticated the production of Hollywood blockbusters is, so the good time when you used to make money online with a random martial arts film has passed.

Therefore, so far in this year's summer file, there has been a situation that makes domestic filmmakers blush - you say that the film market is not good, "Titanic" was full at the beginning, and it has been almost a month since it was released, and there are still as high as forty percent in many places, and the attendance rate can even reach seventy percent on weekends, and on the contrary, there is no shortage of big directors and "big productions" of domestic films released at the same time , but always face the situation of extremely low attendance, and if you happen to go to see it on a weekday, you may even meet a person who charters the venue!

For the filmmakers who have unanimously sung the decline of the domestic film market before, this is simply an extremely loud slap in the face!

Of course, even if the "Titanic" with outstanding results is also included, this year's summer file is still not performing well, compared with the data after last year's miserable decline, this year may not fall sharply, but that is only because it has reached the bottom, and there is a popular "Titanic" to save the market.

On the whole, this year's domestic film market is even worse than last year.

Recently, Cao Zhan went to participate in several small-scale film salons, in fact, a group of old friends sat together drinking and chatting about movies, and according to the information he fed back, it seems that there are quite a lot of filmmakers in China, in the face of such a tragic failure, finally began to calm down and reflect on some things - for example, the article written by Cao Zhan about the hardware upgrade of domestic films that Li Qian saw when he first crossed over began to be taken out at the recent small-scale salons organized by some film insiders.

And according to Cao Zhan, there was a time when a vice president of a large domestic production company specifically mentioned the issue of special effects.

These situations are fed back, really, Li Qian is very happy in his heart.

For example, the famous domestic director Liu Chengzhang spent a huge amount of money to open a special effects studio, when it was only 94 years, his studio opened, and he invested almost all his net worth at that time, which is said to be more than 13 million. But as a result, the highest level, he can't do it, he needs that level, even his own films, he still has to go to the United States to do it, and the low-level ones, he asks for too expensive - the picture of the TV series, I don't ask for it so fine, you can help me erase those ropes!

Therefore, the result of high or low is that his studio has been facing a shortage of work since its establishment. In Li Qian's view, this situation is the most typical one that only has ambition, and there is no sufficient market for him to release production capacity.

If you don't start enough, you will either lay off employees or cut your salary. In short, it can't keep people.

And if you can't keep people, you won't be able to take on high-level jobs. Moreover, the lack of work will also lead to the inability of your skills to gradually improve without being able to overcome difficulties again and again.

And what's even more fatal is that the output of his own movies is very limited, so even he has no confidence in his studio, but after the studio opened, his ambitions are getting bigger and bigger, and two years later, he opened his own film studio, which finally led to a falling out with the company, which directly led to the loss of a big customer in his special effects studio.

So, until now, that studio has been operating in a dismal manner. It is said that only in 96, when Liu Chengzhang's films were a big hit, and the spring breeze was proud, so he spent a sum of money to update some of the equipment for the special effects studio, and then, in 98, his film was tragically Waterloo, and the studio could only hold on half-dead.

There have been repeated rumors in the industry that his studio is about to run out.

Of course, now that the film market has collapsed, domestic filmmakers, authorities and production companies have begun to reflect, it is unbelievable that as one of the few special effects studios in China with a certain amount of technical strength, his studio has gradually begun to be taken seriously, and it is said that many production companies are very interested in his studio.

Come to think of it, if he wants to take the opportunity to get rid of it, even if he loses a little, he can't lose too much, so it should be a good time.

For Li Qian, the failure experience of his studio has brought Li Qian a very important wake-up call - since it has been opened, and he clearly understands how important special effects are in the future film and TV series market, then at the moment, not only must we continue to do it, but also strive to do it better and better!

So, the most important thing is to make sure that the studio always has a job to do!

And even if they can't take the work outside for the time being, then they will have higher requirements for their own work, so that they can constantly improve the overall technical level under the condition of overcoming difficulties again and again.

In short, the special effects studio must not be allowed to follow Liu Chengzhang's old path!

Therefore, "The Legend of the New White Lady" is just the beginning.

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Li Qian continued to watch the film, and when he encountered important special effects, he slowed down, carefully picking and watching them little by little, and when he encountered the usual plots, as well as those small special effects that he had already watched many times and was sure that there would be no problem, he would watch them normally, and even directly dragged the progress bar and jumped to watch - by now, he has already reviewed the sixteenth episode.

This TV series was originally scheduled for thirty-two episodes, but after it was filmed, it was cut again and again, although it had been clearly drawn before, but it was really the turn to move the knife, and many of the shots that were shot before were reluctant to cut off, and they always had to go through repeated ruthlessness, repeatedly reminding themselves that they must give the highest priority to ensuring the smoothness and precision of the story, and finally cut them ruthlessly. And now, the final cut version of the final version is still forty episodes long, and each episode is fifty-five minutes long!

Plus the opening and ending credits, this is a proper episode of an hour!

Editor Da Liu repeatedly suggested that he should cut an episode of 40 to 45 minutes, but Li Qianzhi thought about it again and again, and felt that the storytelling rhythm of one hour and one episode was the most attractive. It not only guarantees a great progress in the story of this episode, but also leaves enough suspense and anticipation for the following stories. Therefore, in the end, he decided to complete the final cut according to forty episodes.

After watching this episode, Li Qian nodded with satisfaction and stretched.

Lu Ming, the person in charge of the special effects side who accompanied him to watch the film, snapped his fingers and asked people to change the film, and said with a smile: "Tired, right?"

Li Qian smiled and said, "No matter how tired you are, you're happy! Awesome! It's really good!"

In the face of the special effects studio, he has always been unstingy with his praise and praise.

What's more, even with his critical eyes, he has to admit that they are indeed really remarkable to be able to achieve this level - it would be a bit exaggerated to say that they are comparable to the movie-level special effects of later generations, but really, just looking at it with the naked eye, I feel that even if Li Qian is blowing soil to find cracks, it is basically impossible to see the fake.

Bai Suzhen has made a move, and a little white light will still rise on her fingers, but it is no longer a simple white light like the version in Li Qian's mind, and even the palm of her hand is covered, in fact, to put it bluntly, that is, the frame rate of the piece with special effects has been greatly reduced, and the clarity has been sacrificed for the special effects. In short, it's fake at first glance.

But now, after the processing of this batch of special effects staff, such a picture has become a more delicate little crystal clear light that appears on her fingertips, in that light, even if it is an ordinary black and white TV with a poor playback level, you can clearly see Bai Suzhen's fingers, and you can see that her fingers themselves are glowing!

Based on this, needless to say, the special effects of the original version of the seckill are not necessarily comparable to the special effects made by many domestic movies at present!

As for the special effects of the White Snake's cultivation and transformation into a human form, it is even more - well, just that special effect, all the staff here in the studio have been busy for a month and a half! If you calculate the amount of money spent, it will probably cost about five million or so for that section! So, you can imagine how exquisite it is!

At present, not to mention domestic, it is some medium-cost commercial films in Hollywood, which is probably at this level.

In the past two days, after watching more than a dozen episodes in one go, Li Qian is more confident the more he watches.

For the story, plot, and character creation of this TV series, of course, Li Qian was originally full of confidence, and its music was also done by himself, and he was also very confident, but in the picture, Jin Han was responsible for completing the first half of the process, which was completed beautifully, and now, the special effects studio is almost halfway completed, and it is also very beautiful.

Therefore, such a TV series, from the well-known Legend of the White Snake, has a wonderful story, vivid characters, distinctive features, and the picture is so beautiful, almost up to the level of a movie, if it is not popular, is there any reason?

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The staff took out the production master belt of the next episode and put it on Li Qian, but before he could start watching, Li Qian heard movement at the door, and then, someone knocked on the door, Lu Ming opened his mouth first and said "Please come in", the door opened, but it was Xie Mingyuan who came in.

When he saw Li Qian, he first smiled and said, "You are really here, I also went to the ninth floor to look for you, I heard that you were not here, I knew that you must have come here." After finishing speaking, he nodded at Lu Ming.

Li Qian asked, "Something?"

Xie Mingyuan asked in turn: "You...... Busy?"

Li Qian laughed when he heard this, and said to Lu Ming: "It seems that there is really something!" While speaking, he thought about it, simply stood up, stretched his waist again, and said: "Then get here first, I happen to be tired, I will try to come over to watch two more episodes in the afternoon." ”

Lu Ming nodded happily, "Cheng!"

Then, Li Qian turned his head to look at Xie Mingyuan, "That's ...... Shall we come to my office and talk?"

Xie Mingyuan nodded and said, "Okay." ”

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I don't know what to say, the big guy's monthly pass is too powerful!

There must be a second chapter today!

And then...... What? Some people actually say that I'm helping to promote the game "No.Defeat.Biography.Say"? Do you think people like me who don't play games will help promote the game? Do you think I'm going to be this kind of person?

Yes.

That's the kind of person I am.

The key people said that they support genuine reading, and they will send 10 million starting coins to book lovers. I'm not sure if I can send Durex yet, and I don't think it's possible, but it's enough to just give away the starting coin, right?

It is said that on July 22nd, there will be a lot of internal testing, and there will be a lot of benefits, so everyone will try it and see if they can make some starting coins or something, and it won't cost much anyway.

Moreover, my wife has been playing this game lately, and this is not a lie.

Well, the second update, I'll try to deliver it before 12 o'clock! )