[Gary Huff]

[Mark Suszko] “The big thing that I’ve been dealing with the past couple years is, lav orientation. Nobody knows audio better than the BBC. So when I started seeing them hang lavs on presenters “upside-down” to the way we’d always done it here, I looked into why, and it made a lot of sense that this guarantees your plosives and random breaths don’t pop the mic. “

I noticed this too, and just started doing this as well. It didn’t make any difference in the sound quality (I use COS-11D), and while I can’t say that it eliminated and plosives or breaths, I didn’t notice any on my first run through with it (14 hours of content).

Like Todd, I too cannot stand to [i]see[/i] lavs on video, though worse than seeing a lav, are the cheap jobs where the lav cable itself is running down the front of the shirt. That is an absolute no-no. For me, I lav when I have to capture audio and a shotgun on a stand is not useable (i.e. talent movement). In my latest shoot, I used a lav because it involved reading from a book, with a lot of head movement up and down between camera and book, and I wanted to avoid the sound difference in this circumstances. I hide the lav under the shirt for that one (though pointed upward, I don’t know how I feel about a lav pointed down through fabric yet).

[Gary Huff]

[Jeff Kirkland] “My Blackmagic camera is populating those entries correctly.”

Unfortunately, I just checked my C300 Mark II footage in FCPX and it does not fill in the “Shooting Rate” field.

[Gary Huff]

[Blaise Douros] ” But again: the benefits are intangible, and it seems like Mark is partially answering his own question when he opens by pointing out that the professionals at the absolute top end of our profession still choose to use film. They’re not doing that because it’s easier, because as we all know, it ain’t! “

Of course not, it’s all because of an emotional attachment to it…nostalgia.

[Gary Huff]

I wouldn’t spend the money to buy a lens, just position the camera where it needs to be. Definitely purchase the FilmicPro app.

[Gary Huff]

[Blaise Douros] “As long as you have the budget, it adds that “je ne sais quois” to the look. “

Which no one can differentiate in blind tests from digitally captured content.

[Blaise Douros] “It’s a great long-term storage medium.”

If you spend boatloads of money to ensure it’s in a properly-controlled storage, sure. The same can be said for any medium.

[Gary Huff]

[David Cherniack] “Personally, I couldn’t care less”

Thank you for still posting regardless.

[Gary Huff]

[Warren Eig] ”
I just wish X2Pro would translate through automation on the sound files instead of stripping them out. It also brings audio that is turned off/ disabled, even though I check ignore it (don’t include). This makes more work for the mixer. I’d imagine this is a bug.”

Weird, because I’m dealing with X2Pro on an opposite issue. If the editor disconnects the audio from the video, X2Pro won’t include that disconnected audio even though it is properly roled.

[Gary Huff]

Then trust your eyes and not what people claim on the Internet.

[Gary Huff]

[ryan elder] “Sometimes I can see a difference in softness and sometimes I can’t and make it depends on how far away the actor is maybe?”

It’s because sometimes you’re in focus and sometimes you’re not.

[Gary Huff]

That’s what testing is for. Test more, post less.