Del Holford
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How about checking two and UPS or FedEx the others to your contact in the city you’ll be shooting in? You should know a couple days in advance when you confirm your shoot so you could 2nd day or overnight the batteries. Your client, who is lucky to have you, probably wouldn’t mind receiving them at their location.
Del
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Thanks Mark
In these days of “unlimited storage” our systems are uncompressed and limited to 1 hour 10 min. for HD and about 3 hours available for SD on the other system. Thanks for that question as I’m sure it makes a difference in workflow. In HD we have 750 Gb and I think at least 2 Tb are needed to really function fully. That should have been included in the post.Del
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Mark
Please ignore the request. I think I found the solution.Del
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My edit system allows me to use either interlaced or progressive on the timeline so often the background footage is interlaced and the key is progressive. On moving type, this sometimes eliminates jitter that makes the words blurry. I also import graphic files (usually tif format) as progressive so when I do moves on the picture the video stays sharp. Since CCIR 601 (standard definition) video is interlaced, my projects are set up and eventually output as interlaced. HTH
Del
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Charlotte Public Television
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I edited “Ralna English: From My Heart” for PBS distribution (in a mere 70 hours one week). Ralna is a wonderful person and her producer was also great – organized and knew what she wanted. The folks in Arlington are enough to drive anyone crazy. They make cottage industries out of former PBS engineers starting their own companies to do tech evaluations for PBS. If anyone can decipher whatever it is they’re saying in the Red Book and technical spec documents this week give me a call. Oh, forget that, it will change next week. And DIALNORM. Digital audio is supposed to go from -96 to 0 (nominally at 48K/24bit). So what’s with tone at -20 and DIALNORM at -24 for HD? Give me a break! And why didn’t they eliminate D1 from their acceptable list of VTRs?
I feel your pain Bob and I can’t answer for those with superior intellect in Arlington. I just make sure my signals for SD are what I learned when I was operating the TR-70C: that cameras match, that black levels aren’t crushed and white levels are hard clipped at 105. The color correctors built into smoke and fire are awesome and we actually use the waveform monitors in the edit suites.
We at Charlotte Public Television (the town that brought you UNC’s win to put them in the final four and neighbor to Davidson in the north county) have a good relationship with the folks in Columbia, SC, so we do ask the occasional favor and I got to finish/conform a beautiful HD program on “Mansions and Chapels of the Low Country” in exchange for their signal strength van to do field measurements for our HD signal. Just because we’re PBS members doesn’t mean we understand all the edicts coming down from on high (Arlington being slightly more elevated than the swamps of DC). I mean plain old HD Cam for delivery rather than D5 HD?
On the other hand, if you find yourself with a reel of 2″ quad tape and need a place to play it, the fine folks at SCETV in Columbia, SC can play it for you. The folks at Charlotte’s CBS affiliate, WBTV, have used our BVU to dub news archives to DVC Pro, so if you need help playing an old 3/4″ tape we’ll help you. Maybe even Bob. :-}
Del
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Just to stir the pot a little, South Carolina ETV still has at least one and possibly two of every format for broadcast. I’m not sure the VO-2850 would be considered broadcast but we have a working BVU-800 in our racks (VT13). SCETV still has working quad machines! They occasionally make dubs for us (just across the line in NC) and I’ve put other PBS members on to them. The reason they have the machines is because the state legislature requires they be able to play everything in their archive library, and that goes back a ways. It’s been rumored they’ve had to machine some of their own replacement parts.
On the delivery side, I think full resolution Quick Time movies (like a 720×486 pixel commercial) are beginning to make an entry. As the technology continues to improve digital delivery on DVD-ROM or perhaps BluRay ROM or whatever improves those technologies will be one option for deliverables. I pulled a 720×486 QT off a website per their instructions and I was able to import that into smoke and finish a promo/spot for air from that. Looked a lot better than BetaSP, although I’m sure SCETV will keep one of those for years to come as well.
🙂Del
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My rule of thumb for editing is 1 minute of video for every page of script. Oops, that won’t work for you. If you are just editing the song from 3 isolated cameras it would probably take 2 – 4 hours, provided you had matching time codes on each tape and an editing system with the ability to line up all cameras on the timeline. Then you cut out what you don’t want, leaving you the cut you do want. Any other mode than this will take a lot longer. Adding effects costs about 15 min. per effect.
Other opinions may vary. HTH
Del
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They only think its the oldest because they haven’t found the earlier animations by the same artist and his cousin yet.
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(Pretty cool!)Del
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that’s a tough one…
I’m sure you don’t have money to burn but an indy producer just got back from southern Sudan and the footage he shot (outdoors) is better looking the the DV from the HVX 200 the “pro” shooter had. I’m sure if they could have used the P2 cards that wouldn’t be the case, but it tells you what consumer HDV camcorders are able to do. His Canon HV20 shoots 1920×1080 on a single chip. MSRP is $999. What I’m saying, I guess, is that it may be time to start researching digital replacements for that analog camera. I know you could google and find someone to replace the drum assembly for less than Sony, but would that be money well spent or should you begin to move fully into the digital domain? The Sony EX-1 is getting good reviews as is the JVC JY-HD250, which now shoots full 1080. Best of luck in you search….Del
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Excuse me if I say this is a strange question.
If the end result is to digitize from the BVW-400 to the NLE (through the DAC2 I guess?) and you are getting good results from the UVW-1800, why would you want to add an extra step and accept lower quality? While BetaSP is analog, you are doing the right thing by using the component video into your NLE. Composite would be the worst case. Going to the mini-DV format creates a possible plethora of problems and for what return? If you are looking for converters to replace the discontinued DAC2, I’d look at AJA’s HD10AVA.
Del
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Charlotte Public Television
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