Bill Davis
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Having shot with a tungsten fresnel kit for 20 years, the control is great.
What’s NOT so great, is the immensely wasteful power draw compared to modern LED instruments and the single color (3200K) output.
Modern fresnels with LED sources are being designed to fix those issues. Currently they’re not as cheap, but I just wouldn’t invest in tungsten anymore. (In fact I sold all mine, 2 years ago. Heck, just the weight of the stingers you need to schlepp with them for power – and the inefficient draw the tungsten lamps need to operate makes it WAY harder than it should be to setup and light even a small area any more.
Look forward, IMO. Don’t look back at last centuries solutions.
My 2 cents.
YMMV.
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Amen! Todd’s is (as usual) one of the finest you’ll find posted on the Cow.
The ONLY way to solve problems in a field as complex as lighting is to hire the brains that have been doing it for a long time. The solutions hung in one studio’s grid will reflect how the designer and gaffer of THAT grid approached the to solutions to the problems of that environment. Take the same rig and transport it to a different studio with different dimensions and for use in different styles of shooting, and the solution might not solve the problems nearly as well.
A good shooting space designer will take into account what you’ll be shooting with (Cameras available) what you’ll actually be shooting (e.g. shooting CARS are WAY different than talking heads at a table!) – the space you have – and the experience levels and budgets of the DPs and Clients you’ll be serving.
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Probably not what you’re thinking about specifically, but for many years in the 1990s I did VO work for an east coast company that would produce generic commercials that covered specific retail categories.
I believe they had a couple of dozen “lines” of commercials like this. (Mens and women clothing, jewelry stores, Home Furnishings, etc.)
I did dozens upon dozens of Mens Clothing store customization VO tags for them over quite a few years. The local retailer would use the packaged spot and simply affix their location brand info on a graphic custom end slate with my VO to make it seem like a spot for a local firm.
They had sales teams across the country, so the viewers in Nashville were seeing the same spot as the viewers in Denver, but for different local firms.
That was pretty common in the early days of TV when quality production was costly.
FWIW.
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I just think it’s fair to say that there wouldn’t have BEEN a Premiere to revise and refine if Randy hadn’t written the original.
Somewhere after version 2 – the BRAND took on it’s corporate personhood (Romney-speak) and that’s still it’s identity today.
That either matters to building a brand or it does not. If it does, and the resources that Premiere 1-4 generated hadn’t been available to foster what has become today’s Premier – then the landscape would be different.
That’s all I’m trying to point out.
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Your depth of field is razor thin.
Try F8 or even F5.6 and the problem should go away.
You’ll have to adjust your key light or reduce ISO to get the right exposure – but an aperture that wide open will give you nothing but grief on a live subject.
My 2 cents.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Sorry, wandered a bit from the OP. Rise against the Adobe Machine!!!!”
The “machine” is fine. I have friends who work in the machine and I have no quarrel with them or even their products.
I have a single point of contention.
That issue where they think it’s OK to hold MY prior work hostage via their rental model.
If they made Premiere Pro work like Lightroom or Photoshop did originally where I could own a copy of the program that I used to create my assets – even one “frozen in time” at the state where I used it to create what I’d created – I’d have nothing left to bitch about.
Until then…
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Or did the mileage vary on your model?”
Mine was two-tone and MUCH prettier.
Then again, it was a “hand me down” from my sister, so there’s that.
; )
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Six years and I still use CAPS when I should use italics for emphasis.
My bad.
My story is that I learned typing on a Smith Corona typewriter and CAPS was all we poor fools had for emphasis.
My VERY bad.
SORRY.
(Sigh)
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The former.
If the company commissions the work and pays for it it’s theirs, period.
I get that. Totally.
This was different. My work for my client being shown in a context that implied it was somebody else’s effort.But that’s just “work” – people taking credit for the work others have actually done happens all the time.
I’ve sat in a hundred meetings where the manager who NEVER ONCE set foot on the shoot or at the edit and didn’t contribute a single usefully note along the way suddenly starts using the phrase “hope you enjoyed OUR video…. ” or worse “MY video lowered costs by…” completely ignoring the 3 staffers in the room that spent 100 hours over 10 days in the suite with me sweating bullets to get it right.
I expect that. Completely.
But this isnt just “work” in my opinion.
It’s intellectual creation. Building on others work sure, but crafting something that hasn’t existed before. On Premiere 1.0 and through a large part of 2.0 it was just Randy. Creating an NLE program from scratch. I heard Mr Ubillos tell the creation story in person. No real client, no real company sponsorship worth noting – just an idea and the desire to make something useful. A personal passion project that he had no assurances anyone would ever have any use for. When he showed it to Adobe, he hoped they might be interested, but the way he told us it was far from sure they cared at all.
Everything else that Premiere is today started from that. Maybe that’s not worth mention in the world of Adobe as it sits today. But it’s still the truth at least as I understand it.
Whether it makes it into the company celebration or not.
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Doubling down here, but this just pisses me off.
I just can’t imagine how I’d feel if (in a community of CONTENT CREATORS, no Less) – I’d created something that generated an industry – and on the 25th anniversary of said creation – I found myself essentially ERASED from the corporate history.
I make small, shitty corporate videos. Yet I STILL remember how pissed I was decades ago when I saw somebody at NAB in a discussion I witnessed, claiming that a piece of work I had created – was THEIR work, not mine.
I can’t fathom how I’d feel if instead of a stupid one-off video – it was a huge worldwide commercial force.
Wow.
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