Alan Lloyd
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Have you un-clicked “scale to frame size” in your project preferences?
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DVCAM and miniDV are the same procession of 1’s and 0’s. The difference is in the tape speed.
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I’m sure you’re also aware, Mark, of Sears’ tactic of crowding out other customers at their suppliers, to the point where they were the only client, and then using that leverage as a bludgeon.
On the other hand, long, long ago (in the 1970’s) I was working at Douglas Film Industries, on Kinzie St., just north of DT Chicago, and some of the very best stuff that ever came through our facility was from the Sears internal studios.
Life ain’t simple.
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I’ve had occasion to “break in” a couple new sound people.
The thing I found really effective was to give them the boom and mixer, have them put the headphones on, and then walk around while talking to them, having them follow me while listening carefully to what they were picking up. It also forces them to be aware of their surroundings and their personal safety, as I did this in parks, with uneven ground, trees, and the Mississippi River nearby.
I’d tell them what to listen for, from extraneous ambient sound to “cable slap” inside the boom, and also continually remind them of not tripping over anything – while randomly changing speed and direction as I walked.
It worked.
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You can ramp your audio track speed down on the timeline in Premiere Pro.
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Didn’t really have the monitor option, it was mostly pure ENG-style stuff.
One thing I did notice is that the corners of the frame in the finder would show me more flicker.
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Some years back, I did some PAL shooting here (for an overseas network) and adjusted the in-camera shutter rate to eliminate flicker from fluoros. Now, this was with a very nice PAL DigiBeta, which had that capability in its menu.
And yes, newer cameras almost all have those capabilities. If there’s anything in the scene that flickers in your viewfinder, adjust for it.
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Nice.
There’s also a different way of looking at this – my old friend Stu made something kinda neat:
https://prolost.com/blog/2011/1/14/the-shot-you-can-make-gallery.html
Oh, and yes, on trips back to Chicago I’ve always wondered about Fifth Third Bank. Maybe they came up with it after their third fifth?
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If the motion of what’s needing blurring is smooth, you can use the interpolation between keyframes to make the movements for you. You’ll need to set all four points again, but only once per move.
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The file is in “indexed” color mode, and as the comment above says, needs to be in RGB mode.
Go to the “Image” pulldown menu, then “image mode, then “RGB color” and that will make the layer accessible.