Alan Lloyd
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I’d add some white silk as well. Nice to have the “directional” option for diffusion. (The beam spreads out on a right angle from the “texture” of the silk diffusion.)
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To add a bit here: Preset is often fine. When it is not, the zebra setting in your camera is your friend. If it can be set to 70-80 IRE, that is. That’s where you want highlights on the nose and cheekbones of caucasians. Too hot an exposure level and you don’t know what you’re balancing to at all.
And the very best results are got with a waveform monitor. Flatten out the magnified trace and you’re there.
Oh, and if you have an adjustable setting for it, black balance too.
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You were right in telling them not to stop recording.
I’ve done multicamera iso stuff many times and that method just works. Line up the flash or clap or whatever and everything is in sync.
They may not have encountered this before.
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There are 7200 RPM laptop-sized drives available, though they are not common. And of course, they cost more.
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Bounce cards are nice. Foamcore is cheap. Clips and clamps are affordable.
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Can you not export the PPT deck as a multi-page PDF, pull it into Photoshop, and convert the images to 720 x 540 JPEG files, which will have the proper aspect when you import them into PPro and click “scale to frame size”? (And then possibly expand them to 102% in the scale part of the motion menu?)
That just works. As for the Camtasia screen grabs, what file format are you saving them out of Camtasia as to start? The less compression there, the better. And again, “scale to frame size” is your friend.
I’ve done a lot of these. What I’m describing works. Whatever you do, export the PPT larger and scale it down, not smaller from a screen grab and scale it up.
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I have used TriCasters in quite a few different settings, and recorded both to tape and hard drive. When recording to hard drive, do not use MPEG. Use AVI. It just works. MPEG is not meant to be edited, it’s a delivery format – and that is the source of much of your difficulty.
Your problems may not disappear but they will be smaller and less frequent. Seriously. The TriCaster is a nice piece of gear, but like anything, it’s better at some things than others.
A wrench can be used as a hammer, but not the other way round.
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…where one little negative thing, even in the midst of strong positives, swayed your opinion.
Something I’ve seen in many instances, and it always makes people look bad: Typos. If you’re writing something, and it’s a business communication, take the time to check and correct spelling. Especially people’s names. Almost nothing else will make someone look quite as bad.
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I have met George. He’s a good guy. Knows the used market like few others.
Tried Avid XPress DV long ago, PPro user now. (I’m just…not…a…mac…person.)
Their stuff is great when it works, and yes, quite costly. As others have noted, it’s when anyone else tries to move into hardware tied top the software that the costs begin to rocket upward.
And as a truly odd side question, are they the same people that used to make very good midlevel stereo speakers in MA?
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Relative to the “Ken Burns” effect, you might also look at placing photos over a (subtly) moving, tastefully soft “paint” background if they are not filling the entire frame.
Keyframing will do that subtle movement for you in almost any editing application out there.
Remember, subtlety – if it’s calling too much attention to itself it’s distracting from your content.