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Many of you thought I am being paranoid????
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I’d like to read the link but it says its not available anymore…
Freelancer Designer Virginia
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Tim, I went to the link you posted, and when I saw it was an unchanging locked-down wide shot of a guy with shotgun audio that sounded like it came out of a bucket, I stopped watching it about 30 seconds in. Which is ironic, considering his message and our topic here.
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Great point. The white paper that you can get from the link at that page is more entertaining than the video. The video almost seems like an afterthought. (Sound familiar?)
It does further demonstrate that what is perceived as “good enough” often prevails. I still shudder when I see things that sound like that and are lit like that (i.e., not lit), but that ship sailed long ago. (And YouTube was the bottle that christened its voyage.)
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Milton: The link was for a Flip seminar Ragan is running, must be down, but he’s a proponent of Web 2.0 communications, see:
HERE’S MY UPDATE: Today is late Wednesday afternoon and I just completed (barely) shooting 3 days for a giant international IT consulting firm that had simultaneous large conferences in Chicago/Paris/India. Each site had a pro crew and by early afternoon we had to select best takes and upload at the Westin to Paris so the footage would be edited overnight and shown the following morning at each of the 3 sites. Well, mid Tuesday AT&T shut down (or perhaps we crashed it?) the Westin’s internet capability because we exceeded their capacity and the place went bonkers! Imagine an IT symposium with no internet!!!! We had bene given a dedicated ethernet vlan line of 4MB but still choked it. Solution: I had my media wrangler/editor rush to his alma mater and upload on their T1 line.
The moral of the story is: I came within a hair’s breath of using the client’s Flip camera (although I have never touched one!), double recording the audio on my Panasonic HPX300 P2 camera, and sending the audio separately as a wav or MP3, which probably could have been emailed or taken to Starbucks or Kinkos for an upload, and then synced at the French editors. We were extremely close to doing that! And although I have been a DP for 33 years I am not sure my footage would look any better than a Flip because I had to shoot in the DV codec to keep the file size down, then in FCP export convert into PAL (ugh), upload to Paris, they edited and converted BACK to NTSC (another ugh), and show on hallway plasmas at the hotels and convention centers.
So…It may be useful to have a Flip in one’s toolkit? I suppose soon they will have an audio mini jack input? Or record audio separately like the old film days.
Ned Miller
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Feel your pain, man. I was switching a multicamera symposium webcast when the “anointed” carrier lost their connection. Again, at an IT event. Some perverse gremlin at work?
We carried on while lots of IT craziness went on around us. (At least we had archives.)
The patch they bodged together involved using (sharing) the hotel’s T-1. Worked OK…until the next break, when every attendee started checking mail and messages.
It’s nice when it works, it’s something very different when it doesn’t.
Maybe instead of a Flip – if it’s meant to be in a DV codec – I’d keep an old PD-170 around. At least it has real (XLR) audio connectivity.
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