George Socka
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The paraphrased common expression is “Garbage in = Garbage out”. Not that DV is garbage, but no amount of saving the file in uncompressed format is going to make the quality any better. It will be the editor’s system that will determine what intermediate format if any will be used, not the shooter’s. And if he edits in a DV based system like native P Pro, then of course the edits may suffer from recompression. Or maybe not. By leaving the captured footage in its native DV format, the shooter harms the footage the least. He said someone else is doing the editing. Raw DV will take the least space on a DVD since that is how he wants to get the file to the next guy. Assuming he is indeed shooting DV. Now, if he is using a Vari Cam, then that is another matter entirely.
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Three computers running DV Rack ( Adobe On Location now ) In another thread somewhere someone had gotten DV rack to capture 2 DV streams at the same time using 2 unique FW cards.
If you are shooting DV, then no other codec will ever produce a better picture than raw DV
Or search for DVIO and try running that 3 times – using 3 FW cards.
Or Newtek VT5 which does this on paper – never actually touched one though.
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As the saying goes, DV in equals DV out ( to paraphrase ). No point in using uncompressed since it won’t get any better – just bigger. Editing is their issue it seems. If they are on Windows, MS DV is great. 18 minutes on a DVD. A Mac may have fits though. Send them a 2 second sample if possible.
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On the barn doors that I have (Ianero), there are little clips attached to one ( maybe two) of the doors. But, as Mark pointed out, they get a bit warm after an hour, so they are best used if you attach the diffusion before the light get too hot.
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Get the barn doors and clip as many layers of tough-spun as required, letting hang in front of the light. With the barn doors fully open , you get about 2 feet of light surface. Just don’t point the light up and let the tough-spun fall against the barn door screen. Tough-spun is not THAT tough after all.
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The whole Enron movie appears to have beem made from captured streams. Looks even worse when blown up for the big screen.
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Ron, I value your efforts and the Cow and maybe take it for granted. It is a daily must-read of 5 – 6 threads. Time on site of at least 20 minutes. Click on an ad at once or twice a week. Throw in my CAN$0.02 a couple of times a week.
What more can I say?
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Antagonist never, questioner of authority, always. Dumbstruck and dismayed by what goes on in the IP world, certainly.
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You are too kind Ron. But digging up a month old post to “retaliate” for a current post seems a bit bizarre to me as well. We live in interesting times indeed.
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“child” “idiot” and “stupid” all in one post. Wow. I am floored