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Good thing there’s dumb people to provide humor
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reminds of of toyota drivers.
“soooo, when your cruise software hickuped and your car accelerated, what did you do?”
“weeeeehhh, I called my husband cuz I thought I was gonna die!”
“you made a phone call instead of taking your car out of gear?”
“wha?”
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Me: “And what format would you like me to deliver the final product to you
Customer: VCRuh
Me: Do you mean VHS tape?
Customer: No, VCRuh
Me: I don’t know what that means, do you want a tape that plays on a VCR??
Customer: I want it on VCRuh!!
Me: DVD?
Customer: NO….VCRuh!!Mick Haensler
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Client comes calling with tape some plant guys shot on a consumer DV camera after determining we were too expensive to shoot it…a decade ago probably…4:3 SD days.
One of my staff videographer/editors sitting in the chair, fires up the tape…
Editor: “Um…this is all shot sideways…vertical.”
Client: “It looked right when he was shooting it, I was standing right there.”
Editor: “You were looking at a monitor?”
Client: “Yes…on the camcorder…”
Editor: “OK, but was the camcorder on its side?”
Client: (a bit indignant)”Well of course, as you can see the machine is very vertical…it was either very small or cut off if we shot it horizontally…haven’t you ever shot a portrait?”
Editor: “Well, yes…I understand, but the image needs to be rotated and we’ll either have to have black bars left and right as we shrink it down, or we’ll cut it off to fill the screen from left to right…we have the same limitations as you saw when you were looking at the shot…”
Client: (now more indignant) “You mean to tell me that with all this stuff in this edit suite that you charge this much for, that you can’t just make this work? What exactly do you guys get paid for?”
Editor (now exasperated)”I’m sorry, you’re right…(grabs the 14″ Sony program monitor I just bought and flops it on its side)…”just let all your potential customers know they have to tip their televisions on their side to watch the video.”
…I am trying to moderate the situation and I am pursing my lips so hard to keep from laughing that I probably wouldn’t have offended the customer any more if I’d just guffawed out loud…
TimK,
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Very funny. We’ve had that very thing happen twice. And, they all think that it fixes itself automatically. The last guy that brought this to was a film school student, and his stuff was 16×9 HDV. Kinda make you wonder…
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD .Ask me how to Market Yourself using Send Out Cards
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[Mick Haensler] “Me: DVD?
Customer: NO….VCRuh!!”We shoot everything in VCRuh. HD VCRuh at that.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD .Ask me how to Market Yourself using Send Out Cards
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Tim, you didn’t ask them how they made italics fonts in their word processing, did you?:-) This one of yours makes me glad to have a keyboard skin here!
“Oh, you wanted to RECORD that?”
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Steve and Tim, I can almost understand some folks shooting sideways like this; it is done sometimes for electronic signage stuff and for museum installations, places where a dedicated screen WOULD be rotated to the right aspect. Obviously when you rotate that image to fit a conventional 4:3 or 16:9, you’ll have to shrink it or crop it. But I remember reading about a pro who shot this way specifically to maximize his resolution for a green screen shoot of pearl divers. I don’t remember now if it was a COW article or some other magazine, just that it seemed like a lot of extra bother to get a little bit more resolution at the time.
Then again, I like the weird stuff.:-)
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I got a little point-and-shoot Panasonic Lumix for Christmas. It’s a still camera that shoots HD video. It’s perfect for around-the-house and at-the-park family stuff. A couple of times I have found myself shooting vertically and I have to remind myself that I’m shooting video, not snapping photos. I’ve never done that with an actual video camera, but I can see how it might happen to an inexperienced person in a photography mindset.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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This is likely to get worse before it gets better.
I just had a non-broadcast project where the research team went out and bought new iPod Nano’s with video and used them to record simple on-camera impressions of store tours.
The video I got had not only regular, but vertical AND flipped 180 degree video on it.
On ingest into FCP, the footage would look fine when it was still frames on the timeline or as a picon, but the moment you played the footage it would FLIP OVER and play upside down.
Took me hours to get things corrected and eventually find the new controls in FCP recently put there in order to deal with this.
BTW, if you face this Flipped Out Nano Video issue You find an article I wrote about the detailed problem and solution on my web site here:
https://web.me.com/davisbill/Site/Welcome.html
In the ARTICLES tab.Everything old is new again!
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Weeellllllllll……..
I’ve just had a guy tell me that his soundtrack won’t breach copyright because it was recorded in the Vatican in the mid 1600’s.
I wonder if the audio engineer was also infallible?
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