Curt Schulz
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The 5D can only shoot 16:9. After you get picture lock you can create a new sequence that is the ratio your director wants. Depending on how it is framed when it is shot, you will most likely have to go through and adjust each shot to fit within the new aspect ratio.
Cheers,
CurtCurt Schulz
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I agree completely with this. If you are editing for a living, hiring professional voice talent really makes the difference in your productions. Pros do the VO with less takes (usually one or two) and make everything sound more polished for clients. On the other hand, if you are short on cash and are working on personal short films, a person with a cool voice and a really good mic and pre-amps can also work really well. I recently did a temp VO track with a client reading the script and her comment on hearing the recording was “I sound like I’m on the radio!” In this instance, the mic setup gave her “regular” voice more bravado.
Curt Schulz
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For short web content the Canon 5D or 7D work great and give a great cinema look. They aren’t the best for broadcast, but that’s not your market. You will have to invest in a good independent sound recorder though as sound is not a DSLR’s strong suit. I recommend a Tascam DR-100 and a Sennheiser ME66 Shotgun. My favorite lens is the Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di-II VC LD Aspherical (IF) Lens that runs about $650.
Good luck,
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I went through what you are going through and this is what I ended up with:
– Studio Projects C1 ($250) – great VO mic
– TC Electronic Desktop Konnekt 6 – ($200) – use for pre-amps into your computer. This model has a good pre-amp to get the most out of the mic and has XLR inputs/outputs
– Short XLR cable and Pop Screen
– C- Stand (s) and heavy moving blankets – to create a “tent” around talent to isolate sound. I have done this in the past and it has worked surprisingly well. It doesn’t look “pro” but it gets the job done cheaply.
Good luck,
CurtCurt Schulz
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H.264 will not play on many Windows Media Players. If you want it to play universally I would encode in MPEG-1. It’s an ancient and bulky format, but It’s the only format that works with all versions of WMP and QT that I know of (MPEG-2 does not work either). I use Visual Hub and do a two pass encoding in MPEG-1 as Compressor offers no options—files look decent, but color accuracy is not great. I usually do both a QT H.264 folder and a MPEG folder on a data DVD. Give the viewer options so they don’t throw your reel in the trash when it doesn’t work! Good luck.
-Curt
Curt Schulz
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When you say disk image do you mean a disk image through Disk Utility? Or do you mean create a folder and copy and paste the folders DCIM and MISC? The later is what I do with Log and Transfer currently. Look forward to the tutorial Shane.
-Curt
Curt Schulz
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Didn’t work for me. Put them in a group and dragged them over to new 720p project. Assets remain larger than canvas at 1080 resolution…but thanks for trying anyway.
-Curt
Curt Schulz
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I have actually made a make-shift tent of moving blankets around a computer workstation once and recorded V.O. with great success. So much for professionalism but the sound was great:)
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Thanks for the advice. I’ve had friends that use ProTools and it seems daunting—but this was many years ago and maybe the LE version is easier to learn? I am a video editor and my plan was use the Mbox directly with the Final Cut Pro Voice Over option… Would I get better results using the Mbox and ProTools? How steep is the learning curve?
Thanks again JC!Curt Schulz
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I’ve got the same problem… It is some sort of glitch and force quitting and trashing prefs is not the sort of solution I was looking for here, especially since you can’t save your project this way. Hope apple fixes this soon.
Curt Schulz
MBP 2.53 4GB Ram/Mac OS 10.5.8/FCP7