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  • Retracted.
    You already got responses in earlier posts.

  • Did you read the post immediately BEFORE yours in this forum?

    😉

    https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/59/856610

    Canon HV20

  • Bouncing Account needs new email address

    November 8, 2007 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Upside-down lavs

    [gizmo1160] “We had to resort to PZM mics as backup mics but finally used ECM 77 mics drilled into the news desk surrounded with a little foam rubber as packing.
    And a big note on the lip of the desk that only the talent see and the audience doesn’t it goes something like ” PUT YOUR *#!!%* MIC ON …ITS YOU THAT LOOKS STUPID!!!” I hope this explains why mics may be placed upside down on the news reader .. more for looks than sound.

    My favorite happened during a live news update at an indy TV station, years ago.

    The talent came running quickly to the set, sat down, the camera op told her to clip on her mic, and then a fast countdown to live air.

    The audio was WAY off-mic and echoey.

    We went to the spot break after 30 seconds and I popped on the studio PA and asked if she, in fact, had put on her mic.

    Her reply? (it will live with me forever.)

    It’s on. It’s on my BOOT (she was wearing high-top boots).

    I naturally asked WHY…

    “It’s ugly and I had no place to clip it on my blouse,” she said.

    Yup. Stuff happens.

  • Pick any one you’d like.
    Any home video DV camcorder will work just fine.
    There is no quality difference in the transfer because you are just ingesting a digital file of numbers from the tape via FireWire.

    I have a half-dozen small camcorders that I use for this.

    Paid under $150 for each of them, from local pawn shops.

    If one fails (none have to date) I can just toss it and grab another.

  • Bouncing Account needs new email address

    November 7, 2007 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Upside-down lavs

    Some reasons:

    Less chance of popping with breath.

    Less sybilant sound.

    Trams and similar work great with the screen facing the clothing.

  • Bouncing Account needs new email address

    November 7, 2007 at 5:07 pm in reply to: Fading out a mask

    Put the clip (or section of it) that you are dissolving TO… on a video track above the ones with the mask and title.

    Dissolve in (keyframe or effect) the upper clip, thereby covering the lower clips and effects.

  • Quick and dirty way to try a render and see if that helps is to add a “do-nothing” filter (a filter that’s effect doesn’t show) to the clip and render it.

  • [pSquared] “something I did monkey-ing around seems to have “

    We call the monkey, “Jack.”

    -Barbossa

  • Its not the DSR and FW that would be the weak link here.
    They would simply pass the digital signal.
    (Assuming you are working in DV.)

    The significant limitation would be in the type and quality of the video monitor.

  • Bouncing Account needs new email address

    November 1, 2007 at 11:18 pm in reply to: multi-cam on boat shoot

    [cegelfand]
    “Hey,

    If you have specific audio questions in the future, you might also try a new forum… It’s a forum designed for film and audio professionals to solve all sorts of audio issues. Your questions and answers help others with similar issues.

    So what’s the COW?

    Chopped liver?

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