Dustin Muncy
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Thank you everyone who has been able to to give me some feedback about my shoot and the best opportunities to go about it.
To Nick – I completely agree. Being on the video side, I can handle a wireless lav here and there and basic audio to my camera. I told the company (it’s a marketing company that hired me to shoot these videos for a client) that there would be no way that I could run a mixer AND concentrate on shooting video. Needless to say since they weren’t willing to spend any more money they adapted what they were going to shoot so that the interviews and people we are following will be done individually so as not to worry about complex mic set ups. Granted, from this thread and some research I have been doing, I know in the future to make sure clients budget for an audio guy when set ups become more complex.
This is part of the learning curve I suppose since I only graduated last year. Thank you.
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Thank for you for the information and advice. Unfortunately, I never followed how audio was hooked up on other productions I have worked on. So in your experience and opinion, what would be the best way to go about hooking up a wireless system so that I could run three wireless lav mics?
Do I need to find a specialized system that is capable of handling that? Do I need three separate receivers for three separate transmitters and run those to a mixer? Any information is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Yes I do understand that (I found that out awhile ago when freaking about a project and the graphics); however, most of the videos that I make are being viewed over the internet and/or just over a computer. I just feel for some reason I am not getting the most crisp and clean graphics that I can get. Especially when it comes to just putting some simple motion text on the screen.
Watching other videos on the web i.e. company promotional videos or what not. The graphics and text seem to pop more and look clean.
I just want to make sure I am getting the most out of my software, and want to make sure there isn’t something that I am missing.
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Thank you very much for the advice. I don’t have too much experience with Compressor, which is why I avoid it most of the time. But better late than never to learn how to use it better. So I will work on that. Thanks John.
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I apologize for the confusion. My sequence was initially anamorphic, but then I had switched it to see if using the 23.98 setting would work, and I posted that by mistake when I was responding.
When I brought in the footage initially my sequence was DV NTSC – Anamorphic. On my DVX I shot with the 4:3 Letterbox (in my previous post I just meant that the Letterbox option was selected). Should I be using the anamorphic setting on the DVX? I was thinking about trying it, but there seemed to be a different workflow that I wasn’t familiar with so I haven’t tried it yet.
I apologize again for the confusion. Thank you for helping me and the information.
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I have black bars on the top and bottom. I also shot just regular letterbox off the DVX.
All my clip settings are 720×480 at 29.97fps. The compressor says DV/DVCPRO-NTSC and all of them have anamorphic checked.
As for the sequence, it’s DV50 NTSC 48kHz – 23.98
I’ve been trying to figure out the best capture setting for my DVX when it comes to 24p and 24pa, and I keep getting conflicting information I feel like. So I thought it might just have been something I did wrong within the capturing process.
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Thank you very much for the advice Mark. You’re advice was informative, thorough, and blunt which is all someone relatively new to the field can ask for. Finally making some money in this field after four long years of school is rewarding, and I can honestly say I will take all your information and advice into consideration in making my decision for this and future jobs.
I believe that they will be paying for a place for me to stay there since most of the people will be there monitoring the event, so most likely no long drives after working all day. Thanks for taking that into consideration as well. Your advice was invaluable. Thanks!
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Thank you for the great advice. That was a lot more than I had anticipated. The only other questions that I would have is what kind of factor should my experience and/or the market for video production in my city play in coming up with a rate? I feel that in some major markets (i.e. LA, Chicago, New York) such services charge a higher rate.
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Life does start getting better when you convert to ProRes. Thank you very much Dave and David for your help and advice.
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Thank you for the information. The thing is that I am freelancing for this company, so they will be taking it with them and presenting it at a banquet in Las Vegas. I asked them if they knew anything about the projector and such; however, they said that they do not know. After talking with them, it seems that they will be going through a Macbook Pro, and hooking that up to a projector. Therefore, I suppose that they will need to make sure that the projector has a VGA connection so it can hook up? It’s a 16×9 video, so I’m also assuming (at this point) that all the projectors are capable of 4×3 and 16×9. Any other input is greatly appreciated. I’m right out of college doing this work, so I just want to make sure they have a good video and presentation 🙂 Thanks again.