Brad Bromelmeier
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Well I just got back from the show. I didn’t get a chance to read your replies beforehand. I ended up just auto WB’ing when there weren’t any colored lights on. It pulled a pretty good WB and I just kept that setting the whole show. Seemed to be okay. Thanks for the responses.
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Matthias, sorry to pile on here, but I hope one of the courses you are taking at college is English. It’ll go hand in hand with your solid technical skills towards making you a successful professional. Good luck!
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You can use the headphone out jack into your sound card to record your wav files. I use Nuendo, but I’m sure you could find much cheaper programs. That software that comes with the MD player is horrible.
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I tend to go with the less is more approach. I’m editing a ceremony I recently filmed, and it was an outdoor shot of the bride coming down a white hot direct sunlight staircase into a shady nook where the rest of the ceremony unfolded. I trusted the zebra’s and ended up over-compensating resulting in a very dark shot of her coming down the stairs. I decided to apply a black and white filter which looks much better than the actual color shot, but still seems like it comes out of nowhere.
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Well, For anyone reading this thread I thought I’d share my experience. Overall it went well. I went with the manual record level (I had the wireless lav mic on the groom and plugged the output of the Nady into the mini disc mic input). The resulting sound was much better than we got from the cams. There was two waterfalls running and the cams sounded like they were at the foot of Niagra Falls. The mini picked up only the voices at a good level. The one “gotcha” came when I was plugging the headphones back into the mini (after monitoring the cam level for a bit). It has this remote control gadget in the center of the cord with tiny little buttons. Well the button I accidentaly touched was the stop button. I lost about ten seconds of the vows when I was scrambling to get back in manual record mode (it puts you back to auto if the recording stops). Moral of the story: next time use headphones with no remote control in the middle! As for capturing into the pc, it’s really pointless having usb, they’re so afraid of music being stolen that you can’t extract the data from the mini disc. You have to do an analog capture using a Radio Shack mini plug to rca cord.
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I was shooting a dance show in a very large auditorium (lighting was very dark too most of the time) from the back row. I didn’t fare well when attempting to shoot with manual focus. First of all you had to be zoomed almost all the way out to get a medium shot (all the way for close-ups that weren’t that close-up) Alot of time lasped before getting perfect focus (read alot of unusable footage) couple that with the wide stage and the fast paced action and I gave up and went back to auto focus. But the push auto sounds like it might be a happy medium.