[Ed Dooley]

The only reason to go 10bit is if you’re going to be adding lots of graphics, which will look better
at 10bit. Otherwise you’re not gaining anything at all. The quality of video isn’t enhanced simply by
turning it into 10bit video, it’s still DV.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Thanks Jan, that *does* clarify things.
Ed, who doesn’t upgrade in the middle of a project, or hold up a project waiting for the next *best* thing 🙂

[Ed Dooley]

Jan,
What? You guys obviously have a deal with Focus. So you say “be careful” when someone else
has a product that advertises the same function. Does Panasonic agree/admit that it does the same thing?
Or does Panasonic say “be careful, this product doesn’t do what it advertises”?
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I don’t understand his problem. Video can be imported into Flash to be embedded or linked. It’s done
all the time. You can import regular MOVs, AVIs, DV, or MPEGs. On Windows
machines you can also use WMVs if Direct X9 or later is installed. All of these are rectangular pixels! I’ve done
a bunch of QTs from FCP to FLVs without the jaggies or blurriness (UC 8bit 720×486 D1 rectangular pixels).
It’s no different than when you compress a video from a QT out of FCP or any other editor to a MOV, WMV, or MPEG.
They all start as rectangular pixels. For example, in Squeeze, the default for compressing video to FLVs is
Maintain Aspect Ratio. Maybe I’m missing something.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Bob,
Definitely buy the memory elsewhere, Apple’s is way too expensive. Check out Crucial, as Jeff said, they seem to
have the best reputation, or one of the best. If you’re working with DV, one media drive should be fine,
but for Beta, are you doing 8bit uncompressed? If so, you won’t get by with a single drive, a raid is
necessary. Jeff already recommended something for that, but I’ll add that there are various internal
mounting options for additional drives (ProMax has one, I think Wiebetech too), as well as a bunch of external options for SATA drives. Newegg.com
is a good source for drives.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

When you install it on both (which you’re not allowed to do) and they’re connected to a network, it will close the program
if you try to have FCP open on both at the same time. If you *happen* to have it on both
machines, and you don’t register it with Apple, and you don’t have it open on both when
connected, you get a message every 5 times you open the program, asking you to register it
(at least, that’s what I’ve read).
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

And for a quick fix with one constant frequency you can use the 3 band EQ. Isolate the offending frequency
by scrolling the freq bar up and down while the audio is playing and
set it to -20db. If it’s mostly on one frequency, it shouldn’t hurt the overall audio. I just did it with a noisy lav,
the buzz was at 8,940. I kept the band narrow and lowered that freq to -20, and it was a quick fix right in FCP.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

A guy in town is a shooter for 60 minutes. He gets called to all over the country with little notice, and travels
with 21 pieces of luggage *every* trip. Ouch! I’m not sure, but I’m guessing my Miller System 30 sticks alone weigh
as much as a HVX200 *and* sticks.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I did a shoot back in May with a DVX100, the first small camera shoot I’ve done. For a couple of days I had big camera envy, all the
other crews at this event (the Beach Soccer World Cup) had big rigs. But after a couple of days I noticed that the other crews in the
hotel bar in the evening were drinking as much for the pain relief as for the pleasure. My crew on the other hand, were feeling fine.

Having said that, I have to say, that although it’s true that getting the story told is the important thing, regardless of equipment,
some of my clients are very impressed when we show up with the big cameras, and have never said anything about cameras when
they see a little one. When we’re doing a corporate video, and the client is impressed by our big iron, then that translates into more
projects (assuming the final product is good). I travel a lot, and the best thing that the HVX will do for me (other than its price) is
give me a good image without a broken back. I just returned from a 2 week trip with a whole lot of flying, and we paid $200 for
excess baggage on one leg of a flight! Shannon, Ireland to Glasgow Scotland, $200. That added up to over $1,000 for the whole trip.
A lighter tripod, a lighter camera, a new small LCD monitor, all reduce the strain quite a bit. So, we’re not getting rid of our big
cameras anytime soon. If a client is impressed by them, it’s more dollars in my pocket. We had a little joke project here, thinking
of a way to make a big fake camera shell that any little camera could snap into. 🙂
Anyone remember the guy who built a camera out of wood, and put a tin can on the front for a lens, and hand wrote PRESS on index
cards that they hung around their necks? They got through all kinds of airport security.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Check this out, it’s a bit dated, but still very helpful.
Ed

https://codecs.onerivermedia.com/