Craig Alan
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If your project is going to be shot indoors, you could explain to your boss that $400-$600 cams do not capture well in indoor light. A light kit can cost more than a decent cam.
If you are stuck with a $400 cam, look for one with a mic input. Even then, you might not get headphone monitoring or any controls. AGC can be ok, but use an external mic. Wired hand-held mikes give the most quality for the price. To be honest, with $600, it might be better to find a videographer that will shoot for you and then just edit the project. Or maybe for $600 you can rent some gear for the day. I don’t know what his expectations are but my guess is he’ll be disappointed with the results at that price point.
Do you have a link for the $400 shoot? What was the location? Indoors?
Short documentary style shorts that may go to DVD and local broadcast: pd170 with camera bag: about $2600
Since you want to keep the investment low, I
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Yes. But you’d be better off getting small Canon mini-cam to use as a deck. Why wear out your xl and plug and unplug every time you need to capture. My experience with the Canon, however, is that it takes great pics if you light correctly. For available light which you might well be stuck with for a lot of weddings and churches — you might consider the Sony pd170. It’s also SD and does a great job in low light. Very forgiving cam. brand new at b&h for around your price point.
OSX 10.4.7; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 4.5, 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.
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did you trash it by accident? if so don’t do anything that might overwrite the trashed files.
OSX 10.4.7; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 4.5, 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.
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do a spotlight search. try repair permissions. try disk warrior.
OSX 10.4.7; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 4.5, 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.
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Thanks
I’m pretty sure it was fully seated. It took a bit of effort to get it out and it had been installed for quite some time. I’ve only had one panic since removing it and that was while playing a rather long video in Imovie. I got a panic screen type message but the video was playing in the b.g. repeating the same audio frame over and over. I’m pretty sure Imovie is not real stable with long sequences so hopefully the panics were caused by the board.
OSX 10.4.7; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 4.5, 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.
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The board lists for under $300 and I’ve seen sites that claim $250. The sony has a 2 year warranty. the jvc has a 1 year. the jvc has 750 lines of horizontal resolution the sony has 600. I’ve had good luck calling JVC for support. The Sony might be a higher quality unit, don’t know.
OSX 10.4.7; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 4.5, 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.
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Hi,
At the video class which I teach, we have a dual G5 os x 10.4.x. We had the production suite FCP 4.5. It does not work with the current QuickTime, which I need to be compatible with the Imovie program I have installed on the student computers. So I will be updating the suite on the G5. Given this, what version of the suite do you guys recommend? I would like to also install a matching version on my dual 1 gig G4 at home. However, I will probably be updating this machine in the near future. I am waiting for the next line of pro machines to come out and then wait for feed back on those. So if the G4 just can
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https://books.jvcservice.com/booklist.asp?Model=TM-H150CG/E
download the instruction manual for this 15″ JVC broadcast monitor and see if it meets your needs. Well under a $1000.
$465 at bhphoto
OSX 10.4.7; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 4.5, 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.
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I use both the xl2 and the pd170. The pd170 is great for low/available light and is a very very capable run and gun cam. For interviews get yourself external mikes. I like the XL2 audio controls way better than the pd170. But I use an external mixer now that more or less does away with this difference. Handheld mikes are cheap and offer great quality. Good cordless sets will set you back about $600 a piece but can be used after making the transition to HD. The xl2 might future proof better in that it is 16:9 native. Will your HD projector be able to project 16:9 and 4:3? The PD170 is a steal at $2500 right now. But both companies have transition cams as well that shoot both SD and HDV. Something tells me HDV will be phased out too. I think as storage gets cheaper and more reliable, tape will be phased out and highly compressed formats like HDV will be phased out. Personally I think technology is evolving so fast that it is best to buy what you need now and worry about the future when it comes.
OSX 10.4.7; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 4.5, 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.
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Cut, paste, etc works in finder when renaming file names. Click on a file, click again, and the name is highlighted. Once in this state, you can select portions of the name and use cut and paste functions to rename it. Works great if you want to rename a whole group of related files or copy a portion of one file name to another.
OSX 10.4.7; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 4.5, 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000/pd170; write professionally for a variety of media;teach video production in L.A.