David Taylor
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Hmmm, a mixer seems like a bit of overkill for just two simple inputs. I had a 24 channel sound board in my edit suite when I worked for a production house, that was overkill too, hardly ever used most of the inputs. I’ve thought maybe a receiver with a RF remote might work.
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I say a tutorial somewhere that also showed how to add a light flash effect to the shooter. i.e. the light from the flash of the barrel casting on the shooter.
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Maybe a better way of saying it is, I have a layer in my PS canvas, such as a logo, that’s smaller than the canvas. For example the canvas is 640×480 and my logo is 345×220. I would like to crop the canvas to the size of the logo. Other than attempting to do this manually and possibly leaving space around the logo or clipping part of it, is there a way to select the logo and crop to selection?
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Thanks Mike! I use the align to artboard all the time in Illustrator, seems odd it would not be included in PS, is it in CS3?
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In my 10 years at a broadcast station, it always amazed me that the one person with the responsibility of making sure that commercials air and the signal was on the air was generally the lowest paid person there.
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I thought I’d take some time to follow up on the results of my experiences with this request in hopes that it will help anyone else with similar needs and also go to better this forum with some critiquing of the responses I got from my question. Please take this as constructive criticism and not a flame on anyone who responded to my original post.
First off, I’m not a faithful reader of any of these forums, I usually only come here when I’m looking for answers or advice. That said, I was very disappointed in the results of this request last year. I was basically looking for some advice on possible low end camera models to accomplish a specific task. Instead, what I got was questioning of my motives and attention to production values. This was very frustrating, I’ve worked in broadcast television for over 15 years (albeit on a small market level), and I was well aware of all the production pitfalls of the project. What I really wanted was someone to say, hey camera XYZ from ZYX has a great picture, is easy to use and is only $800. Not a single camera model was proposed.
So, without any direction from this forum, I visited B&H’s website and just did a search sorting by price. I came across the Panasonic PV-GS300. A consumer 3-chip camera for around $600! I purchased the kit which came with an extra warranty, extra battery, camera bag and tripod. I also purchased a Sennheiser EK-100 wireless lav system. All delivered for under $1200.
When I received the camera, I set everything up and did a few test shoots. I took my digital still camera and produced a step by step illustrated guide on how everything should be connected. I took this and the equipment to the car dealership and gave the manager a quick run through of how everything worked, which took less than 15 minutes. Then I returned home and waited to see what I’d get.
About a month later I received the first batch of testimonials with fairly good results! Most of the shots were even creatively framed with autos or signage to one side. (Interestingly, this was really the only problem I ran into with the whole system, the auto focus function, of course, focuses on what’s in the center and when the subject is framed over to one side they go a little soft. Of course this could easily be remedied by turning off the auto focus function but that’s something I didn’t want to tackle right out of the gate.)
Personally, I had a good experience with the project and I feel the result is better “than just good enough.”
See for yourself and feel free to respond to this thread, I’d love to hear what others think about this project after seeing the final result.
https://www.spotpreview.com/coastal/nissan0611.wmx
https://www.spotpreview.com/coastal/chevy0611.wmx
(note: Jimmie Johnson, of course, was not shot by the dealership 🙂 )
One other note, this concept was originally produced and, I assume, proposed by a high dollar ad agency in Chicago. I had nothing to do with the creative except to duplicate the idea for the client.
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Thanks for your responses, I guess I should have covered more in my first post. I was actually looking for equipment product ideas, i.e. the sony mini dv cam etc.
I appreciate the advice but I’m well aware of the drawbacks to letting amateurs do the shooting. Certainly audio will be the first thing to address and I made that clear to the client. Even an inexpensive lav is better than even the best built-in shotgun. Anyway, even the worst video can be squeezed down in a box and the “video recorder viewfinder” effect applied to it. This client is a good two and a half hours drive and if they shoot their own and mail it over to me, I’m happy!So, any ideas about which, if any low end cameras will work better than others? Low end wireless Mic? Azden? How about the sony cams that record onto DVD?
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Thanks, that did the trick! Haven’t had a chance to try it, but was wondering if this plugin would work with similar problems I encountered with the render lightning effect.
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Does anyone know if Apple’s Motion has a decent water effect? I’ve got it but haven’t loaded it yet.