Alex Huber
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Yikes….. OSHA, anyone?
I wouldn’t mind using a foamcore cookie or snoot or flag or cutter or whatever on a temporary set that was lit for one day or one scene or one show… but I don’t think I would use any for a permanent installation like that unless I was using Kinos or something that gave off no heat. It’s a miracle there wasn’t a fire there… and as luck usually has it, it would probably have been at the moment the stage was clear of crew on a break, giving it time to get good and raging in the ceiling before anyone noticed.
Just my two cents,
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LMAO @ “Wedding Silver”.
Great one, Nigel
Alex
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I thought AccuScenes were 1080 lines….
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Might be mistaken, wouldn’t be the first time.
Alex
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Looks great man. Considering the LED-based one from Lite Panels costs three thousand bucks I’m betting you came in a lot cheaper than that.
Are you building these?? If not, might contact you off board if you don’t mind to get some tips for do-it-yourselfers.
Alex
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Well… fortunately all of our suites (except for a Canopus SD suite) are Aja based and have Kona or Xena cards… I guess we could go the HDV route… although I certainly perfer capturing via HD-SDI.
I know you can get a converter that converts HDMI to HD-SDI for only about $600 bucks or so… but I get nervous when we keep adding pieces to the puzzle and it looks like video is routed everywhere including through the Hooterville phone company.
I thought about your suggestion of making a “prop”… wouldn’t be hard as we make a lot of prop pieces. It would probably be easier (and more realistic) to scrounge around here and see if I can find an old dead beta or digiBeta deck that I could gut.
A “real” deck sure would be a nicer solution… sigh.
Alex
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[Don Greening] “This way you’re not wearing out the tape transport on your aquisition camera”
Yep, Don… that is exactly what I want to avoid doing. I’ll look further at the HV10 and HV20. I don’t know the specs yet, but I doubt those little consumer cameras have pro ins and outs…. do they? I imagine they have HDMI, but doubt they have HD-SDI ports.
Aside from all the technical reasons to prefer a real deck, there is an aesthetic one: when clients are in the suite during editing sessions and see you feeding tape out of a little cheap camera instead of a nice deck in the rack, you just look sort of, well, low rent.
Does anyone know if ANY vendor has a deck on the horizon that will play Canon’s 24f HD?
Thanks,
Alex