[Brodd Nesset]

You may be right about head wear. I worried about it too, and in fact this was the first project where I used DV-rack softwere and I recorded direct to disk with it. There’s nearly 8 hours of footage from this competition, and now I don’t have to spend a whole day capturing and logging. Using DV rack I started and stopped clips for every participant and gave them useful names right there. Only need some trimming before right to the timeline in Premiere. Do I recommend this software? Do I recommend this software??? This is only one feature however, there’s a monitor, audio recorder, scopes etc. I still recorded to tape however; always nice to have backup. In fact this is the first time I’ve done dual everything (recorded sound to disk separately as well), and of course: it’s proably the first time nothing at all has failed on me even the slightest bit.
The TRV 900 is the only DV camera I’ve had (I have rented a couple of others on occasion; nice to have a similar look on all clips), so I can say it has served me well… Probably starting to outgrow it as a filmmaker I’ve sometimes wished for a more precise focus and such stuff, but that would require a much bigger camera, not to mention investment. There’s also something for really knowing your camera – I can handle it blindfolded now, and adjustments are really fast in the field.

[Brodd Nesset]

Thanks a lot guys! Although it doesn’t solve the problem as such, I can give a good explanation to my client – if she ever comments on it. This explains very well why I do not experience this problem when shooting outdoors, and thankfully I don’t have to spend bucks on nothing by delivering it to a service shop. By the way, the TRV 900 is the ‘twin’ of PD 100 of course, not PD 150. The ‘morale’ in this story must be to insist on proper video lighting. I requested it, but did not insist on it, and this is the punishment for the videoshop on a shoestring. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!