Alan Lloyd
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I’d also suggest Rosco or Lee white silk diffusion – the directional “spread” will help even out the light falling across the members of the choir. (Orient the fibers vertically – but you knew that!)
Any decent lighting supply shop will have sheets of it, or sell you bulk off the roll.
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You mean just buying a Steinway isn’t going to turn me into a concert pianist?
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amen, Mark – I’ve been working on a client about this – they are kind of getting it, while still more into selling features over benefits and telling people what they need instead of asking them what they need. They fix those two, they’ll be in great shape.
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The “brick” TX units that are meant for the end of a stick mic have XLR ins. Either dial your level way down or put a pad inline on a short XLR jumper and you’re there.
I’ve done this.
The only other advice I can give it this: Test, test, test.
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Track 1 was the “center” track, and thus the main track, because of its protection from the above-mentioned possible edge damage. Track 2 was the backup (if you are going double mono).
Tracks 3 & 4 – if you’re on a BVV/BVW SP machine, are recorded as part of the picture info. Their audio quality is much better, yet they’re not accessible if you run into PVV/PVW machines.
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I’ve known Stu for many, many years – well before The Orphanage, in fact. They don’t come much better in any walk of life. When I read his ProLost post last month I was stunned by his honesty, and I could feel the loss and heaviness in his heart in the words he wrote.
I wish Stu and all his Orphans well, it’s a crazy,, messy world out there right now.
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Long, long ago, I was doing some ID graphics for a website. The “intermediate” client (my connection) thought things looked strange. I had her bring her laptop over, and we grabbed a screenshot of the ultimate client’s web page and loaded it into Photoshop. What looked “very blue” to her (and kind of blue to me, I admit) on her laptop read as a pure 128-128-128 gray when eyedroppered.
Most laptop screens are somewhat better now, the problem is they are incredibly inconsistent screen-to-screen from one LCD to another.
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Import as HDV, output as HDV (uncompressed if you have disk space), then shrink to SD if you need the DV file.
As to the choppy video, there’s many possibilities. System configuration?
Stuff off a disk should come across as a file, not a capture.
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Many .wmv files are less than full video resolution, depending on the source. Scaling it up will not help, and may make it look worse.
As for artifacts and color, that depends on the original file. In all likelihood, it’s not going to improve on the original, as you’re trying to stretch less information across more space and time.
I wish you luck – you’re going to be having some frustration, I’ll wager.
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Lillian – it’s not an effect, you’re scaling it from 1440 x 1080 down to 720 x 480. Takes rendering, to be sure.
You’re outputting DV (NTSC) widescreen, shooting HDV? Can you shoot widescreen DV on your HDV camera? Or, can you set your camera’s 1394 output to transfer SD DV widescreen out digitally? This might give you what you’re looking for without the time and hassle of scaling everything in PPro, while preserving the higher res shots on your original recording. (I know most Sony HDV cameras will do this – you didn’t mention what camera you’re using.)