[Greg Ball]

My question is can we shoot in PAL? I guess your answer is yes. Correct?

[Greg Ball]

Thanks everyone. The interview was shot last week. We got through about 4 pages. The client is considering another day of shooting. That’s what prompted this thread.

To Mark’s suggestion about index cards, it’s a great idea, however there are about 300 questions in total. The client has very little budget, so he couldnt spring for a day of pre-production from my end. Our crew traveled 3 hours and stayed overnight in a local hotel. So there was not a budget for us to wait around for him to nap. The interview surround the subject’s expertise. It required top notch questions and answers. it wasn’t emotional, it was factual.

This interview will be combined with other interviews to form the documentary. So the viewers can’t hear my questions.

The reshoot is what I’m concerned with. The client still wants all of the questions asked. I just don’t think it’s possible. That’s why I’m asking for suggestions.

[Greg Ball]

Thanks Todd. Yep, I’ve done lots of interviews that really turn into conversations.

The Ernst Stuhlinger interview you described is exactly the scenario I was up against.

The guy we’re interviewing obviously couldn’t hear my questions. But wouldn’t say so. I was trying to speak quite loudly. I think he was relying partially on reading my lips. So when I had a long multi sentenced question, he couldn’t read my lips becuase I was looking down at the question. He couldn’t paraphrase my questions into his answer. The guy is a genius otherwise.

I got the fact that he couldn’t hear…but honestly I’ve counted about 200 questions with multiple questions within those questions. So we’re talking about 4-500 questions. I would think that even with answering 5-10 questions an hour, we’d be looking at 3-5 full days of interview

[Greg Ball]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks. No that was 3 hours just for the interview, excluding set-up time. No they wanted EVERY question asked and answered. The interviewee is also hard of hearing. I’ve asked the client to proritize and he went from 12 pages to 10 pages. Many questions are about there or 4 sentences. It’s just crazy to think tat a hard of hearing 98 year old expert can answer this many questions.

[Greg Ball]

Sure. Use Compressor or MPEG Sreamclip and create a 1280 X 720 file.

[Greg Ball]

Thanks Everyone! Great advice. You guys rock!

[Greg Ball]

Perhaps you guys are mis-understanding.

Walter of course we’ll use licensed music -I’m just trying to figure out if I should play it in the background while they go through the routines. I have someone speaking through the video and this could cause continuity issues.

Andrew -Have you done this before? How has it worked?

Steve-There’s no “partnering” we’ve been hired to shoot this. We’re using 2 cameras one on a jib. But I think I would need to shoot cut-aways too. I have three 35 minute exercise videos to shoot in a 10 hour day. So without killing anyone would be be best to shoot cutaways of each video afterwards?

[Greg Ball]

That’s it!! Thanks Roger.

[Greg Ball]

Hi Mark,

I tried it….It didn’t work

[Greg Ball]

Thanks Matt,

Unfortunately my client is in another state so I would have to program it and ship it to them.

How do you get the video from a NLE system like FCP onto an SD card? Does this also take a .h264 file from a USB?