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The simplest way to capture 3 cameras of 10 hours footage each
Hi Guys
In the next few months, i have been asked to shoot an instructional workshop over 2 days. The end result will be a volume set of 4 or 5 DVDs.
To keep costs down, i am borrowing 3 canon XH-A1 cameras.
Going from the experience 6 years ago, when i did it with 2 cameras, i am expecting roughly 10 hours of footage from each camera. Thats alot of digitising.
Can anyone suggest a method of capture that will allow me to do it Live in the field and use the tapes as back ups.
I am undecided as to what post production equipment to use, whether it be a new macbook pro 17″ or dual Quad Mac pro (money has been set aside for this purchase) The production will not involve complex effects, rather, simple cuts to different cameras and a few picture in pictures. The most advanced will be overlaying of lower thirds. I don’t anticipate doing this thing often and a laptop is preffered, if it can handle it.
If anyone could suggest a method with this camera, or if you think i should hire newer cameras that allowed for a simpler method of capture, then i am all ears.
Thanks
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4 Replies
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Use a Firestore
Use OnLocation from Adobe
Use auto import with iMovieRichard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork
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[Richard Harrington] “Use a Firestore
Use OnLocation from Adobe
Use auto import with iMovie
“Firestore – YES
OnLocation – Never tried it I have no clue if it will capture video into a FCP friendly format
iMove – NO – it does not record to a FCP friendly editing format, you will have to do lots of renderingYou can capture directly to FCP, but that will require having 3 separate computers one for each camera.
The two best solutions I see are to rent some fire store drives and record directly to those then copy the footage to your media drive and edit, or feed all three cameras into a live video switcher, connect a deck to the output of the video switcher, and do the whole thing live. Yes renting a live video switcher may cost some money, but it sure is a lot cheeper and easier then the cost of editing 10 hours of footage from 3 cameras.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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The thing is, it needs to be edited in post and there will be a few stuff ups, which does not lend itself to going the Live switching route.
Im trying to do a search in my country, Australia, for firestore rentals, and they seem to be as rare as hens teeth.
Thanks for the suggestions
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Rent the switcher, switch multiple cams live to tape or hard drive, while rolling saftey iso tapes in the cameras, best of both worlds. On your timeline you can rapidly razoe out the dead parts, and any bad moves you made durign the switch only take a little loading-in of the clean iso footage from that specific spot to fix. You’re running everything witht he same time code so finding those repair plug sections will be easy and fast, but you won;t waste so much digitizing time and drive space.
You will save 80 percent of the time over waiting to fake a live switch in post.
Strewth, this is the only sane way to go, mate.
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