Grant Gomm
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Depending on what I’m shooting or what look I’m going for, I’ll adjust the shutter up or down of course. But in most cases I stay somewhere between 180 and 220. I find I end up with rather clean results. I suppose you could go quite low – not too sure how far, i’ve never gone too low, but you’ll get sharper images. Just remember the lower you go, the more you’ll have to open the iris, and you’ll also get more of a strobing effect with faster motion.
-Grant Gomm
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I’ve also noticed that having motion blur on can REALLY slow things down. Lights, reflections, stuff like that also slows it down quite a bit.
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Sure you can. On the left hand side of the timeline, where you see the track labels (V1, V2, V3, etc… & A1, A2, A3, etc…), you’ll also see a button labeled v1 (note it’s lowercase) on the video tracks, and a1, a2, a3 etc… on the audio tracks. You can move these buttons up and down to select where you want video or audio from the viewer to end up. You can also simply click them to either allow (when for example the v1 button is touching the V1 label) or prohibit (when they are not touching) that track from receiving the corresponding track in the viewer when you place that clip in the timeline.
I hope that makes sense, and I’m sorry I don’t know the official terms for what they’re called, but that’s how you do it.
Best,
-Grant Gomm
http://www.grantgomm.comEDIT: This works on FCP 7 and below, but I have no clue about FCPX if that’s what you’re using.
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Oh fantastic. That’s great advice. I knew about the waveform monitor, but had no idea about checking spill by killing the subject lighting. I think I’m also just going to shoot with my HVX. It keeps things more simple.
I really appreciate all of your help with this. Thanks.
-Grant Gomm
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Yeah, I know how important controlling lighting and exposure is for sure. That’s why I’m letting someone with much experience handle the lighting. But aside from lighting and exposure, you believe that it won’t make too much of a difference which camera shoots it? Are there any physical factors that make a difference in terms of which camera, such as how much of the screen and talent will be in the shot?
I was just thinking also that the larger imager plus some descent lenses on the AF100 could be a plus over 3 CCDs. This video is super important to my client, and I just want to make sure I do it right (within budget, lol)… Thanks for your advice.
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Thanks for the info Guy, I appreciate it. Do you happen to know how the AVCHD codec holds up against the DVCPROHD codec? I can’t seem to find any info on which would pull a cleaner key. Seems hard for me to figure out because of a few things… HVX has a better codec I feel – less compression – and I won’t be able to output to an off camera recorder (although that would help me quickly make my decision) for the AF100. It’s just straight in-camera AVCHD vs DVCPROHD, but with other considerations such as imager size and lenses. Any other thoughts would be super helpful. Thanks.
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Well that is a good point. I never really did get past basic editing with Avid, so maybe I spoke too soon. I do plan on moving in the Avid direction for many of the reasons above, but what’s the best way to learn Avid so that I don’t edit in “second gear”? I mean, are there typical pitfalls prone to FCP users that are easily avoidable? Or is it just a matter of slugging through it?
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[Neil Goodman] “I dont why everyone says Avid has such a high learning curve ? If you can grasp the concept of 3 point editing, which is basically “Editing 101” than your basically good to go. “
I have to agree. I’ve only used FCP since I started editing in 2003 until FCPX came out. I then downloaded the Avid trial and followed some of their tutorials, and while I found some differences, it didn’t feel like that much of a stretch from FCP. Admittedly I don’t know Avid that well, but I did quite like it and I was able to work well with it. I’m really interested in seeing MC 6.
-Grant Gomm
http://www.blacklionproductions.com