George Socka
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This was a good camera 4 – 5 years ago when I baught it. by modern standards it is marginal ( still use mine tho )
No auto focus
No LCD screen
Heavy, short life NP1 batteries
Expensive (compared to LANC) zoom/focus controller option
Requires tripod plate – make sure it is included in used purchase
No way to skip to end of last shot
but:
It has real zoom, focus
2 Real mic inputs with good sound ( compared to 5000 )
Great picture (still) even with cheap lens, better with Canon IF that was offered
Real switches – haven’t looked at the menus in years
BNC connectors
real lens
I will hang onto mine for another year or two – until HVX200 drops in price or mid priced hard drive camera comes out
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Can’t argue with $130 vs $100 vs $150 – whatever the market will bear. However, how long would you tell your customers it will take to put 6 or so chapter marks between songs into a 45 minute program that you are not editing since it is their program, using Premiere? And then encoding to DVD? If its measured in multiple 10 hour days and customers in your market accept that, then I really do need a better market.
In any case, the original poster needs a number as a starting point – he does not appear to have the experience to know just how many mouse-clicks that might take, or how long between mouse-clicks. All too often seasoned pros say “take your rate and multiply by the hours it will take” but the beginner wants to know how many hours it will take. And to some extent what his market will bear in rates. Then he can take longer because he is learning, or he wants to work at a relaxed pace, or he wants to contribute to a cause.
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The 45 minute thing will take 5-6 hours – 1 hour to whatch what they have, 1 hour to capture and fiddle with the bookmarks, 1-2 hours to create the menu, 1 hour to talk about it with them, and 1-2 hours to encode / burn / test the dvd.
The 7 minute thing will just as long ( maybe longer) since you will be cutting up the 45 minutes into chunks that sound nice together and will spend more time talking about your edit decisions and going back and changing them. Maybe posting a few on-line rough cuts. But you will already have the original video captured and will know what it contains, since you have just spent 5 hours watching it for part A
12 hours at $100 is $1500. At $150 is $2000.
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If your source is analogue – say vhs, Beta, hi8 then you need some way to get that in. And you said you want to capture from anywhere. IEEE1394 only captures from DV type sources. For the rest you need a capture card.
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Most important is a big and heavy (even if ugly) shooting boat. That not only keeps the spray away, but solves the boat motion problem. Stay low in the boat to reduce the effect of pitching and yawing. Best on the water shoot I ever did was from the back of an 80 – 100 ft tugboat. Big sailboats not under sail are good too – the keel keeps them level. No tripod. Even on something as stable as a tug, the tripod transmitted small vibrations. Maybe a cine-saddle type thing.
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Mark – who sells the canon software? Can’t find it at the usual suspects up here in Toronto
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Great. How did you finally get it all pulled together – resolve the conflict of too many chiefs?
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Even the free MyDVD that comes with many DVD burners will do a looping DVD – no menu, just first play the movie. The export to DVD in PPRO as well. DVD players are also inexpensive – no need to worry about leaving a PC in the booth to get stolen. And if it dies, get another at Walmart for $29.99 A DVD player will play into anything with a video in, A PC needs a TV/Display that has VGA or DVI in. No tube TV does that. Last but not least, if the booth is busy, a DVD takes no time or skill to turn on. A PC needs someone to turn it on, select the player. make it full screen, make it go out through the external connection. Select the repeat option. Not move the mouse or touch the keyboard. Each of which can and will go wrong and wreck the pesentation.
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And I would add, dont let others goad you into screwing up. No matter how wrong they are.
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I have done this, but as an independent producer. And there is never enough time or budget. If you need 12 minutes, lay out a 12 minute timeline. Start filling it with stuff you have. First as a story board ( in Word if nothing else ) then on the timeline of your favourite editing program. Put in stills with music. Lots of fancy moves and transitions. Replace with the bits that others expect as it comes in – but if they don’t deliver, then you still have something. You can’t afford to deliver 12 minutes of blank screen. And, if it is as bad as it sounds, don’t go asking for approvals at this late stage in the game. Create the best you know how to do, and let the chips fall where they may. At least you will have something on screen.
On the other hand, here is little value in whining about how badly you are being treated – government employee or not. What is this thing you call paid vacation? Comp time? I only wish I had that. IMNSHO, if you talk to the rest of your peers, whose cooperation you need to succeed, in the same tone you are using here with those from whom you hope to get free consulting advice, then you most certainly will fail. And others will take pleasure in seeing that. It appears little wonder that you are getting no cooperation or respect. As we say in hockey, suck it up. Give you head a shake before you create a self fulfilling prophecy.