Alan Lloyd
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Andrew – people have told you what you need to do. Learn how to use scopes to verify your signal quality, contact the TV station, find a good online editor to handle the release reel – all these are good, solid, worthwhile suggestions.
Tom’s comment that you are in over your head may seem harsh, but it is the truth. You don’t have the experience to get from here to there, and you won’t get it until you realize you need it. Find someone who knows how to get you what you want and pay them what they’re worth. Ask questions, but let them do their work.
Your alternatives really are learn, hire, or fail. Television is a pretty unforgiving business. May not be pleasant, but that’s the reality of it. How you feel about that reality is a concern only to you, not to the TV business.
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Get color and diffusion gels, blackwrap, and spring clothespins – all of these are your friends.
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Premiere Pro loads .wmv files directly.
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Put the clip in the timeline and export it, uncompressed.
Problem solved.
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My clumsy phrasing…
Silk and spun are both my friends.
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Lighting shops – your local rental house will almost always also sell “expendables” as part of their operation.
As for lamps, bluntly, using those you linked to in two fixtures on a green screen the size you’re describing is not going to yield satisfactory results. And diffusing them is not going to help much. Four fixtures would give you a much better chance of evening things out. Mark’s horizontal placement of long-tube fluoros is even better.
The most important part of greenscreen work is getting the background evenly lit. Next comes controlling bounce or “spill”. (Rim light with a touch of magenta helps.)
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I’d also suggest looking into white “silk” (directional) diffusion – the stuff with the fibers in it. Orient the fibers at right angles to the direction you want the beam to spread. Result: A smooth, wide beam. Costs the same as frost, which everyone also needs..
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I don’t think I’d want a tripod head that released both axes with a single touch. That could lead to trouble. Not camera-falling-off-the-head trouble like some Sachtlers, rather, movement control trouble. I like individual pan and tilt locks – and hate, absolutely hate, the Manfrotto lock-as-pan-or-tilt-axis design. It’s a horrible idea, mechanically.
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Mine – XP Pro, SP3, FF 3.0.7*, Dell Vostro 1500/Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM.
* The usual plugins – nothing strange.
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Current Firefox – 3.0.7 according to the info screen.