Ernie Santella
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Am I missing something? Old Macs and SCSI??? Seriously? OMG, There is a need for tape drive hardware. Somebody really needs to make a simple, affordable external box with eSata or FW800 that does this.
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I’m all for adding a forum for this topic.
So, what recommendations do you guys have for a small shop? I’ve looked at some of these products mentioned but they are way too large and expensive for me. Any low cost options for archiving?
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Not sure on the 2700, but is there a physical volume control on the Viewfinder? Some cameras have that. I remember a long time ago, I was having a level mismatch on channels of my old camera and I forgot that there was a Vol control on the front of the viewfinder for quick adjustment while shooting.
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I run eSata drives which are very fast (much faster than FW800) Two large 5-drive Raids at home and a small, portable 2-drive eSata Raid with my laptop for location editing. Has been working great for me. Also running ‘Softraid.com’ software. The eSata drives are cheap and work great for HD work.
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Here’s a great tutorial that might help. Great info on Bit Rate and Audio settings.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/compressor2_custom_presets.html
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If you’re out in the dirt shooting heavy equipment, you don’t want to be dealing with primes and a cine lens system. You really need a good zoom. With machines moving fast towards and away from you, you will want to be able to keep nice framing. I call that a ‘framing zoom’ where the machine is moving towards you and you are zooming out to keep the machine the same size. You don’t even know your zooming at all.
Primes are great to work with for cine depth-of-field, but they won’t be your friend on a project like this outside. Plus, the dirt/dust is horrible in the environments you will be in.
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Caterpillar is one of my biggest clients. I shoot heavy equipment all the time. If I was told that by my client, I would mix it up. Use both slow and fast frame-rates for effect and set the base frame-rate for the majority of the project at 24fps or 30fps.
24fps (with half-shutter) will give you more of a cine feel, but has blur that can be a bit distracting for clean detail on everything (especially product shots) I would recommend 30fps (with half-shutter) to give a nice cine feel, but not too much blur.
Other things to do are Undercrank (6-8 fps) for some great motion shots. Yes, they will be really blurry, but they also give a great illusion of speed and be used nicely mixed in for effect.Overcranking at 60fps will give you some extra frames for some nice slo-mo of closeups of tires. Also try using the shutter at even higher rates (1/1000 sec) to get some really nice detail.
Good Luck!
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+1 on IShowU. I use it all the time. Works great.
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Did you try contacting Convergence directly? They are a pretty small company, I’m sure they will respond to you.
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I found the 10bit upgrade in one of the forums. It was a post by Mike Schell, the Convergence guy. I will try to find it.
UPDATE: Found the link…