David Jones
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Seems like this is the norm now, everyone wants to shoot a music video with… tight budget, very very limited budget or no budget.
If you can’t afford a grip truck & HMI light pkg.
Then large overhead butterfly silks & reflectors, and don’t shoot at mid-day. -
Documenting an event, such as a wedding reception, where the end product will not be broadcast
is different than syncing video to a cut of music that will hit air.
You should be just fine. -
I don’t know how to put this, other than just saying…
Use the tools that your budget allows for!If your budget won’t support a super 16 shoot,
then use the tools the budget will support,
Or have the client increase the budget. -
[Wayne K.] “For instance, I’m working on a feature-length documentary with literally thousands of shots – from countless sources, and on many of them, I’ve got some very wild gradings. It would take me literally weeks to go through each shot and bring it into spec. “
That is what separates the boys from the men, so to speak.
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With hard drives as inexpensive as they are now,
I’d just buy a newer bigger faster one. -
The first thing you need to do when using a light meter with a video camera
is calibrate the meter’s ISO number to match the the camera you are using.
This can be done by flat lighting an 18 percent gray card, and then shoot the card with your camera.
Look at what the camera shows for an F-stop, for example F5.6 shooting at 1/60th of a second.
Set the light meter for the same frame reading that you are shooting with your camera,
and then take a reading with the meter.
Change the ISO number until the F-stop showing on the light meter matches the F-stop of the camera.
This will give you the ISO number for that video camera, for example ISO 320,
and will allow you to calibrate the the metering system of the camera and the light meter together.I hope this helps.
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I think you might want to bone up a little more on the process.
All the tool you need are within your grasp. -
Or since you are still editing your documentary, just cut it together
and worry about finishing plugins at the last stage. -
Have you read the manual?
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How do you price your other work?
Do you charge by the hour, how many hours will it take?
How much do you need to pay the electric bill and feed the family?