George Socka
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2 points:
put an external monitor on the camera rather than the canon EVF.
set to manual focus, but don’t even think of playing with the focus ring. Use the push-focus button frequently – but unless you have a huge depth of stage, and a wide open lens, you shouldn’t have to focus a lot. If its an xl2, then you will find noise is not that bad, some say better than anything sony makes under 10K
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DV = DVcam 100 %
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2 points:
No consumer that can afford wedding video will be buying anything with a phosphor based CRT – I am not sure that Best Buy still even carries any.
What you see on a 9 inch monitor will in no way prepare you for what your customers will see on a 42 inch LCD. THAT is what they will judge you on. For instance, titles that take up 1/4 of the screen and look good at 9 inches look HUGE on a 42 incher. What looks in focus at 9 inches may look truly fuzzy at 42. Low quality DVD compression that can’t be seen at 9 inches looks gross at 32. And your customers are now buying 57 inches and more! And a consumer LCD TV is made out of the same stuff as your computer LCD.
Problem is hoping / ensuring that what you see on YOUR 42 inch plasma will look close enough top what they will see.
The same goes for corporate work. When did you last see a tube TV in a board room?
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depending on who your local telephone provider is, get ADSL / DSL The “A” means upload is slower than download, but 3 megabits per second is very realistic – twice a 1.5 megabits per second of a standard T1. And way cheaper.
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Doesn’t Encore cost extra?
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Problem with a timeline streched over 2 monitors is that the gap is ALWAYS just where you want to work. And if you press K while the timeline is playing, the CTI jumps to the middle – which is where the @#$#@#$ gap is. Very annoying. I have taken to making the timeline fit on just one monitor, and the rest of the windows on the other, but that defeats the purpose of having a wide workspace in the first place.
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Try Apple MPEG 4. Works for me.
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Try deleting preview files.
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Not sure what others are actually finding with YouTube, but you can do exactly what you want. YouTube recommends a 320×240 video. That is one quarter of a full DV frame. Which means you can use one quarter of the image to fill a full frame (say a person’s eye) and then “zoom” out to the full, actual frame ( the face) which will in reality be scaled down to 50%. Your image will be totally clear. No artefacts at all in the “zoomed in” size since the video is not actually scaled up, and scaling down in PPro works quite well. Pan as required.
Use a custom, Video for Windows setting, chose 320×240, 1 PAR and rock and roll. Export as a mp4 QT movie, playing with quality as required to get a file just under 100 mb – mono sound save a whole lot. Stay away from WMF unless you cant get QT to create a file less than 100 mb.
Since YouTube recompresses what you send them anyway, you don’t care about, and cant control, bandwidth at all – just the 100 mb maximum file size. What you send as 7 minute, 100 mb QT file comes back as about 20 mb flv file.
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Took a minute to figure out what the heck he was talking about