Brent Dunn
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You might also try breaking the footage down to 2 hr. or less blocks for DVD or 4 hr or less for DVD DL to limit the compression of trying to squeeze everything to a DVD.
Or to save yourself a lot of work. Spend $100 for a VHS to DVD recorder from your local electronics dealer, Best Buy, Walmart, etc.
My wife makes extra money just doing VHS to DVD transfers. We charge per VHS with a 2 hr. limit for each DVD. Easy Squeezy, especially if all your doing is transferring and not editing.Red Giant offers a software for “UP Rezzing” which is supposed to give your better transfer rate. I’ve never used it. Magic Bullet Instant HD.
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Thanks for the article. I didn’t pay attention to the Compact Flash since there wasn’t a photo and it was mixed among the SD cards, I missed that. But, some people use the Nano Flash recorder on top of their cameras, so it might be useful to them.
It is recommended a minimum of class 6 SD cards, so having a minimum does give a starting point. I’m currently using class 6, as that was the fastest available at the time I made the purchase. Like always, something faster and cheaper is always on the horizon.
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Just saw this 64 Gig Class 10 SD Card. Looks interesting, but not sure I want that much media on one card.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139183
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ha ha, funny. Now that song is stuck in my head.
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I was thinking about the foam. I did try this before with mixed results, 2 ” foam. I may try the Memory Foam Pillows or foam bean bag pillows they sell for 10 bucks at Walgreens.
SxS media saved me, but I had this power interruption on an SD card and lost everything on the Restore Media. This was pre-firmware-upgrade, which might also have something to do with it.
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Well, we all know they can do firmware upgrades to give us ProRes recording, or other format choices. But, they can’t make money off of firmware upgrades.
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Sorry to hear about the GoPro. I don’t expect to many shots from it, but it would add interesting pov’s. I don’t even mine the shaky vibrating shots since it adds action and excitement to the shot. Maybe the drummer would let me strap on a helmet cam : )
I’m not worried about sound in the camera since we had a ProTools setup with the sound man recording all the audio mix for post.
I even have a bean bag setup. Good idea. I’ll try that instead, less hassle and time building.
This was a fun shoot. I hope I’ll be able to get more gigs shooting concerts. It helps that they are a great band and I like their music.
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My other concern having a camera so close to a 10 foot wall of speakers, were the magnetic fields and how they might affect the camera. Have you ever heard of cards being wiped out from being close to something like this?
I was thinking of building a spring box to sit a low profile tripod on for a Drummer POV shot. I was hoping the springs would absorb the thumping of the drums.
I also want to clamp a GoPro inside a drum head..call me crazy.
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Don:
That’s interesting info about the bit rate dropping after use. I wonder why this happens?
I went el-cheapo with the adapters and SD cards, but was bitten twice with lost data (pre-firmware upgrade). Once due to operator error letting the non sony battery without on screen notification, go dead. Once due to firmware issues reading the sd cards.
I finally shelled out the $800 for the sony SxS. Even though I would love to have the additional safety of an external recorder for redundant capture, it’s just out of my budget, especially when I shoot multicamera shoots…..6 for this one.
I would gladly buy more Sony SxS, if they would just get real and start dropping their prices.
In other news, I had a mixture of cameras on this shoot. The EX-1 performed better than the other cameras for image quality and crispness. It was a night outdoor concert with lots of lights flashing.
A bit of insider tips; Don’t use a tripod on a wooden stage. I was doing some test shots with the warm up bands and discovered my lens looked like a bumble bee, vibrating, we had to stay handheld for the stage shots and also had a glidecam. I also had a problem with one camera in front of the stage that was too close to the speaker stack having the same problem. We had another cam on a dolly track in front of the stage more toward the middle with no problems.
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I’m nervous enough using 32. I’m still old school, since I don’t use a recorder on my camera as well as the media cards, I prefer using a smaller card in case of failure.
Hopefully that’ll mean Sony will drop their pricing on the 32….wishful thinking.
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with Final Cut StudioHP i7 Quad laptop
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