Alex Huber
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Oh for cripessake… I was all set to apply for this gig. But DAMMIT, I can’t find my deviled egg tray.
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Heya…
Looks good!
I thought you had nice composition, nice flow to everything. Your color and filtration to everything looks good, and very appropriate to the subject matter.
Only a couple of things bothered me a little. One was I thought there was too much hand-held. It’s ok when the camera itself is moving (faking a dolly or truck shot), but there were some static handheld shots that were just a little jiggly for my taste. When the circumstances allow I would definitely use a tripod if at all possible.
Secondly I thought most of the transitions were much too fast for my taste. Fortunately they were just plain cross dissolves (right choice!), but they looked to be maybe 12-15 frames or so long. I would think that longer dissolves (at least 30 frames, maybe even longer) would fit in with the slow lyrical pace and dreamy mood of the rest of the piece.
Good job!
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Ummmm…no.
There is no such “display” button on top of the XL1.
The only way to turn off the on-screen display on the XL1 is with the remote.
I think you must be thinking of one of the newers cameras such as the XL-H1, which DOES have such a button.
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BetaSP = 2 tracks, 1 (left) and 2 (right)
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Yikes… that is soooooo illegal on soooooo many different levels that it’s not even funny.
They need to consult an entertainment attoney — and no, not their in-house attorney or some random lawyer in the phone book… needs to be an entertainment attorney.
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Well first just a little bit of symantics — you say you want to film welding. Do you indeed want to film welding, or do you want to videotape welding?
I normally wouldn’t ask, but even though this is the cinematography forum, 99% of the questions in here are videography and people throw the word film around all the time even though they mean tape. I honestly can’t remember the last cinematography question.
But yes, I would think you can most certainly film welding and probably get pretty good results. In fact I am pretty sure you will get better results than if you tried to videotape it. I have videotaped welding before but have always been afraid I would burn a sensor even though people apparently do it all the time.
If you want to go the film route use slow film of course (something like 5201), pile on ND filters (maybe a couple of .9’s) and meter it. I wouldn’t hazzard a guess as to exposure, but welding is damn bright of course, expect to iris down plenty. A variable shutter camera would help, I can forsee having to narrow the shutter some even with your highest f-stop. You might even have to overcrank some, too (maybe 48fps?). Hard part will be metering. I’d suggest a really good spot meter, but then again how do you look through it without burning your eyes? Maybe an incident meter would work. You might bracket several exposures to be sure to get a good take. And a camera with a VA would be super helpful so you don’t have to look through the finder during the actual take and risk a burn.
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You show looks pretty good, nice production values.
However, I think your best chance for airing (or finding a sponsor) would be a local television station that is very predominately “Dawg heavy,” for airing on a game day prior to a big game.
And NOT to sound negative (because I think you have a good product), but I will throw out the biggest challenge —
Your copy on the web page says this is the “unique culture of Georgia tailgating.” That sounds like good ad copy, and it is — but unfortunately I don’t know that it is true. Unless there is something going on there that I don’t know about, I don’t think it is unique. You’ll find the same thing at campuses all over the country. Just in your neck of the woods (south) the same exact thing happens at GTech, Alabama, Auburn, Vandy, Vols, etc. and the list goes on. Therefore I think you need to concentrate on “narrowcasting” and finding the exact audience for your product — and your audience is going to be Georgia fans, and pretty much no one else. I mean, you wouldn’t give a hoot about watching a show about Alabama tailgaiting over in Tuscaloosa would you? Probably not, so you need to find the best outlet to snag the viewers that you would like to reach — and ergo, those most likely to pay you to air the product that you worked very hard on.
Hope it sells!
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All well and good… but the origianal poster was asking about a timecode stopwatch, not calculator.
I guess that would work if one’s timecode calculator happened to have a stopwatch function… and some might I guess, but neither of the two that I have (different brands) do.
I’m not sure if an actual timecode STOPWATCH exists. Hope it does, that would be kinda neat to have.
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Sorry, but no…
Don’t want to be a downer but that doesn’t work.
What mount converters like the Optex do is let you replace the lens on your video camera with a real PL mount cinema lens, which most likely will be a much better lens than the stock glass which comes on the camera.
They are a great way to utilize high quality professional lenses on a consumer or prosumer camera.
However they do NOT reproduce a cinema camera’s depth of field. In fact they do nothing to affect depth of field whatsoever, it will be exactly the same as before. You will probably get better picture compared to a cheap stock video lens, but the depth of field for any given f-stop setting will be EXACTLY the same. As was pointed out earlier in the thread depth of field is a function of the size of the sensor and just changing to a PL mount doesn’t do anything to change that.
To emulate 35mm depth of field you need a depth of field lens adapter like the P&S Technik or one of the cheaper ones (Movietube, Letus35, Brevis35, Redrock micro, etc).
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Sorry that I do not have any advice so I should keep my mouth shut but I will butt in anyway. I never post in this forum as my realm of expertise is cinematography but I do lurk here as I’m an Aja customer. I have to say that I must side with the original poster here. I do not sense that he is whining, he is obviously just frustrated with a problem that none of his vendors will claim. We have all been there. I too am both a Xena and Kona user and can say YUP there have been definite hardware and software issues with them in the past that Aja was slow to admit or fix. It happens. And frankly if I had experienced (and found a solution to) his problem myself he told me more than enough about his setup to have offered advice. I post in several forums and when I don’t have a solution for someone I pretty much keep my mouth shut rather than admonish them for asking, because after all they asked for help, not attitude and a superiority complex. I’m sure like all of us the poster is a experienced respected professional and comes to these forums to be treated as such, not to be belittled like a child when asking for help.
Butt-in complete, butting out now
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