[Jason Brown]

[Terry Barnum] “They start the camera recording, take their position and you drive the interview via FaceTime audio/phone call audio, muting when needed?”

No. Your interview is audio only on another device.

It works better if they can have a second person (spouse, etc) change from facetime to camera so they don’t change their positioning.

Their camera holds the media – you can transfer it after the call. This works well when you control the relationship with the on-camera talent. If they are doing you a favor…it’s a bit of an ask because you need them to basically do your job.

There is another solution called “open reel” by a company called Crews Control. We used them last year, but just didn’t use the tool enough to re-up the contract. It’s a live interview at low streaming quality, recording is done locally and then uploaded once you are done recording – it’s slick, but only works internationally in a limited number of countries.

[Jason Brown]

I’ve been facetiming on an iPhone – set the shot, fix the lighting…plug in a small rode mic into the cam and then end facetime call – go to camera and record. You can’t monitor the recording…but you can set another phone nearby and keep yourself on mute to ask questions and do the interview. Not perfect, but works in a pinch with tech likely already in place.

[Jason Brown]

I don’t know how to fix, but the colon vs semicolon is the most obvious difference. This usually indicates drop frame vs non-drop frame.

From my basic understanding, it means that the numbers change inconsistently in drop frame to match real time up with clock time. I believe it’s 1 frame every minute except every 10 minutes when no frames are dropped…

First google search:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/newsLetter/Frame-or-Non-Drop-Frame.jsp

[Jason Brown]

How do you “ride levels”? Like automation gain in AVID?

[Jason Brown]

I got it.

I was hoping for a clever automation, but I went ahead and did in FCPX manually. I just played in 3x speed and set a marker every-time hand exited frame. Then I set a keyboard shortcut for “next marker” that was one key different from “add edit” then just repeated the keystroke 300 times (went ahead and played some music so I could keep rhythm ☺) – select all, set the duration to 1 frame and it worked.

Thanks.

[Jason Brown]

That’s not what I need. I can manually do this, but I’m looking for a way to automate it.

I have a stack of coins several hundred and we rolled video with removal of each coin one by one with a clean frame in between each removal. What i want is to grab a frame of each coin where the removal action is not in frame. I can use still frames.

My thought is to press play – set a marker each time I have a clean frame and then automate a build of a comp grabbing still frames at each marker. Seems like a script that would exist or could easily be written. It’s about 300 frames.

[Jason Brown]

camera is perfectly locked

[Jason Brown]

That’s amazing! I’m going to buy this on my next edit. I have a feeling I’m going to love this tool!

[Jason Brown]

I’ve not found a way. I’ve given apple feedback dozens of times about this exact need. I’d also love a way to export this data into a spreadsheet format to share edit notes or import into another timeline and drop markers. There is so much potential power here…would love to take advantage of it.

[Jason Brown]

Craig…I’ve always had an appreciation for the intricacy’s of video compression. However, I feel like the changes we’ve seen is a necessary part of progress…kind of like auto maintenance. The masses don’t want to work on their own cars…they want them to work. In my opinion, that’s where video compression has gone to – give me a high, medium and low quality…I’ll use the one that works the best.

I have to say that over the years it’s been fun learning from you. Thanks for being a leader on this forum and in our industry.