D. scott Dobbie
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The reason I’d swap out the lights is that If you’re not using the Chimera, you get better focusing versatility with a Fresnel. The Par just ends up looking like a work light without it.
Another feature I forgot to mention, and why I’m starting with the D5 Kit, is you can put 300w bulbs in the 650w lights. So now, for an awesome price you’ve got 2 150’s and 2 300’s, or a 300 and a 650, or 2 650’s. And, except for the 150’s, you can toss the Chimera in front of any of them – giving you a regular light or a fill. My second kit would be the D1.
5-day shipping all the way out to L.A. is only about $55.
-Scott
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Really like the ARRI Softbank Series D kits – specifically for digital shooting. B&H or Samy’s will get you really good pricing. 5 different configurations with 3 or 4 lights for well in your price range. My suggestion would be to pay a little more to swap out the 650 Par, used mostly with the included Chimera, for a 650 Fresnel. More versatile. If the dealer doesn’t know how to do it, call Ron Sill with ARRI sales in Burbank (818-841-7070) and he’ll call your dealer to tell him how to handle it.
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It sounds like he is using 2 cameras – a DVX100 that is going to be up in the stands (don’t know if it’s locked down with a wide angle adapter or handled by a camera op), and the HVX200, that will shoot everything slo-mo, which I think has to be HD, right?
Guessing it’ll all down-convert to SD, which can now nicely be laid out and done in one sequence in Final Cut Studio 2.
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Appreciate the attempt, however, these are 8 GB cards, not 16 GB. And they’re not copying from (through) the camera. They’re being removed from the camera and being placed directly into the PCMCIA slot in the side of a PowerBook G4. The abnormally lengthy transfer time is not a standard occurrence – it’s sporadic. Happened to me a couple times, but seems to be happening to the other individual more frequently.
Congrat’s on getting those 16 GB cards, though… 😉
-Scott
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I’ve got a PowerBook G4 (1.5 GHz) with 2 GB RAM and can usually DL an 8 GB card in 6 1/2 min. via the PCMCIA slot.
Odd, but there was one occasion that it took about 20 minutes to DL one card (been using them since last August when they first came out). There was nothing different that I was doing.
I didn’t think of it at the time, but open the Activity Monitor to see if there’s another program that’s draining your resources. Perhaps there’s a virus checker that’s going into overdrive.
Have you tried restarting the computer during those times to see if that “knocks some sense into it?”
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Have you tried deleting them in the camera? Or using the camera to reformat? How many cards are you having the problem with? Did it just start or did you just buy the camera?
I don’t use Windows or the P2 viewer so can’t comment on usage there (got a PowerMac G4 with the PCMCIA slot). The “lock” switch on the card would’ve been my first guess.
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The big thing you’re forgetting is that, IIRC, the Japanese versions have all the info in Japanese. This goes beyond the normal documentation that you could just buy the English version of. For example, the owner’s manual. In some cases the printing on the camera and the digital menus are all Japanese.
If that possibility doesn’t bother you, fine.
-S.
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Heard that first 20 years ago. A DP I knew used it for “stop.” Mostly when giving direction. Such as, “move a little more to the left. A little more. A little more. Whoof!”
He was based in Utah, FWIW.
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Wow – you must’ve had a string of bad luck following you. The LaCie’s are some of the top-rated drives (MacWorld, etc.). You’re the only one I’ve seen reporting such disastrous results.
But yes, I should establish a RAID anyway just for safety.
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I’m fine just using my 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 (OS 10.4.9). I’ve got 4 LaCie drives (2-250GB Triple Interface and 2-500GB Quads) daisy-chained. I spread my files between them to avoid having one drive handle the full load: Drive 1 has the Capture Scratch, Drive 2 has the Project File, Drive 3 has the “Extra Application Content,” etc.
-Scott