Doug Graham
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Most don’t equate price with the number of tapes shot. Instead, price may be based on hours of coverage (how long you are on the clock, not how long you ran the camera), and how many cameras you used to cover the event, especially if those cameras come with operators.
For example:
Base price, ceremony and reception, one camera, six hours: $1200
Additional camera at ceremony: $500
Overtime (four hours at $100/hr): $400
Total: $2100There are lots of other things that can be additional add-ons, such as pre-ceremony coverage, photo montages, highlights/recap segment, or a Love Story segment.
Or you can just set one price for everything. “I charge a flat $x,xxx. For that, you get me and my assistant for the whole day.”
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You gotta have a projector. If you can find one with variable speed, all the better. It’s nice if your camcorder has a “clear scan” shutter tweak setting, too.
Both these items are used to reduce the strobing effect that you can get when 24 fps film is recorded by a 29.97 fps camera. (You might try 24 fps if your camcorder supports it; I haven’t heard from anyone who’s tried this, though).
The simplest setup is to have the camcorder and projector side by side. Project the film image on a clean white sheet of paper (letter size is fine; you don’t need to blow the picture up big).
A much better way involves the use of a telecine. Hollywood’s are VERY expensive, but there’s a fellow in Texas who makes a series of affordable ones: try https://www.moviestuff.tv/8mm_telecine.html
Once the film’s been transferred to DV tape (or dumped straight to disk using your camera’s pass-through feature), you can edit, enhance, add music and narration, and author to DVD just like any other video.
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First of all, let’s clarify whether you are talking about 8mm videotape, or Super8 movie film.
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Yeah, my bad. I knew something seemed wrong about “Title Motion”, but I just couldn’t come up with what it was.
“Graffiti” is what I meant to say.
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I almost never use Vegas’ text generator…it’s cumbersome and the text generated isn’t very high quality.
Boris Title Motion comes bundled with Vegas; try that. Or you may have another character generator like Title Deko. If you don’t like those programs, you can always create titles in Photoshop.
In any of these programs, simply save your work as a still graphic image (.jpg, .tga, or .png) and import into Vegas.
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You must have the Magic Touch for system building, Gary. My 2.53 GHz PIV doesn’t do nearly that well.
Can you publish exact component specs for your dual core Athlon screamer?
Motherboard, RAM, processor, HDDs, video card? Key BIOS and OS settings?Regards,
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Here’s another one:
https://www.signvideo.com/xlr-pro_xlr_adapter-audio-mixer.htm
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Yes.
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I’m t’other way ’round. I use either manual or auto, but not the presets.
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jmofs may have been referring to the new HP technology which allows a drive to burn the data on one side, then a label on the other. HP’s ads say “Burn. Flip. Burn”. Problems with this are the labels are monochrome, and the burning takes a long time.
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Doug Graham