Brian Mills
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The proceedure I described is for the camera chips, NOT the LCD screen. I noticed the dead pixels upon connecting to a 46″ LCD screen. I did the proceedure as mentioned (twice) and it worked like a charm.
Brian Mills
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In 24P mode, hold down menu, User 3, and focus assist buttons at the same time for a few moments. A service menu pops up and there a menu item called “pixel comp”. Hit “execute” and the camera will do the rest. You may need to do it a couple of times consecutively to fix the the problem. I did this myself a week ago and it worked like a charm.
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Deja Vu! I just had a client experience IDENTICAL to this one! They wanted to know how much a 2 minute video would cost. Period. I had to tell them that it all depends on what you want to see inside of those 2 minutes: one location or ten? One talent or twenty? Cranes? Dollies? It could all be yours…if you pay for it. Their eyes glazed over and again they demanded a simple base price. I walked.
Moral of the story, if they want you to come up with an AL INCLUSIVE price, you have to make an ALL INCLUSIVE quote. Include contengencies. It will be really high. But then your a## is covered when they ask for all of these things, and, most importantly, YOU GET PAID for your troubles.
I once (and never since) agreed to a nebulous, all-inclusive quote without spelling out the specifics, and by the time the dust settled, I had produced/shot/ edited a 3 day out-of-town shoot and pocketed $100! Needless to day, the client was THRILLED with the final product, I, on the otherhand, was not a happy camper.
BTW, if they don’t agree to the high-yet-realistic quote and they won’t spell out a VERY SPECIFIC guideline of what they want, RUN AWAY. You are better off without them!
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That’s too bad. But thanks for responding, guys.
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Notice Jan did not confirm or deny 24P/30P on the HPC2000. I guess we’ll have to wait for NAB. But, as I stated when I started this post, I am waiting to see which HD camera will provide the best feature set for what I call “mid level HD” (between HDV and Varicam – where I think A LOT of us independent professioanls really fall). Jan, if you’re reading and can let us know about the progressive frames (or lack thereof) on the HPC2000, that would be super 🙂
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Yeah, I too noticed the absence of variable frame rates and cinegamma on the AJ-HPC2000. Which, if it doesn’t offer, will tip the scale towards the Sony, IMHO.
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You know, Dan, that is what I feel like saying!!!
But let’s get back to Worst Case Scenario:
Mike:
I checked out Unisay’s website, and their Subtitler program says you have to render your project to 720×486 in order to properly place the CC text on Line 21. But here’s the rub; if I’m going out MiniDV to 720×480 anyway, does that mean the CC info will be lost? Does anyone know if 720×480 MiniDV can properly carry the Line 21 CC track? Is there a way to avoid the obnoxious render time to render out my 30 minute show from 480 to 486 lines!
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Thanks Mike, those criteria ceratinly DO apply to me, and I thought is was obnoxious that a cable station require such a complcated process for a local real estate infomercial! However, if they do require me to go CC, I can put this on regular MiniDV with the proper CC text file, right?
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Wayne:
You mentioned exporting your final show via Aja or Kona card, but if I bought MacCaption, I couldn’t create a final MiniDV master with the caption track on Line 21? Is DV even capable of this? I am a one-man operation doing a weekly real estate show and master to MiniDV to transfer to Beta, do I have to invest in all the hardware to go to a big tape format in-house?
Brian Mills
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Thank you for the reference, Debe, and I have already emailed a rate request. How about if I try to do it in-house? Does anyone have any ballpark numbers at the cost of plugins/time involved so I can weigh my options? I found one plugin called MacCaption that costs $4000! Has anyone tried it or has other sugestions? Thanks.
Brian Mills
Videographer