Jason Jenkins
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Have you guys checked out the SmallHD EVF?
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Fusion™ F2TBR; a Raid0, 500MB/per second array that’s only slightly bigger than two CD cases? That’s crazy cool. Is that puppy bus-powered too? Just slip it into your laptop case with your Macbook Pro and you’re good to go.
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Hi Drew,
This year I’m shooting a series of physician interviews in a total of eight different conference rooms, ranging from closet-size to larger (thank goodness). I don’t know what I’m going to get until I show up. I’m a one-man-band setting up all my own equipment. I have an hour to set up everything including camera and audio.
Here is an image from the last shoot I did.
I’m using four lights; all daylight balanced. I always kill the overhead fluorescents. Key light is a Flolight 6 bank fluorescent. I find with the sensitivity of the Panasonic GH2 that I’m shooting with, I only use 2 banks. Fill light is a Flolight 500 LED with minus green gel and diffusion. Back/rim light is another 500 LED unfiltered. To add an interesting gradient to the blank wall, I used my Coollights CDM 150 fresnel close to the wall and raked it down at about 45 degrees, using the barndoors to adjust the shadow. All the fixtures are low wattage and I never have any power troubles.
Every room is different, though. One conference “closet” had a skylight, a window and white walls. I don’t carry material for blocking out windows, (which is one reason I use the daylight balanced fixtures), so I added some light to the background to give it a cleaner ‘clinical’ look and used the window w/ blinds as dimmable fill. (It was a cloudy day with nice soft light coming in).
If I were buying lights today, I would get everything from Coollights.biz. IMO, their quality is a little better than Flolights and their customer service is way better.
Audio is another factor. These rooms are usually pretty echoey. I use a directional shotgun mic on a boom, which sounds decent. I’d like to take my audio up a notch by hanging some sound blankets. I do need to take into account my 1 hour setup time, though, so I can’t go too crazy.
My client was originally going to shoot these interviews themselves with a flipcam, but decided they wanted a nicer look. They have been delighted with the shoots we have done so far. Since I am shooting on a Panny GH2, I mentioned that I could take nice photos. They jumped on that and now I tack on an additional charge for headshots with virtually no extra effort. Not bad for a $900 camera!
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Flowmotion Media
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Shawn, that link is to an old CS5 article, not a CS5.5 review.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Wow! This will really be a boon to mobile editing.
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Flowmotion Media
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[David Roth Weiss] “[Jason Jenkins] “I just bought the Master Collection CS5 on April 1st!”
Turncoat! No more FCP help for you anymore… :)”
Haha! I’ve had one version or another of the Adobe suite longer than I’ve had Final Cut Studio. I can’t do without Photoshop, After Effects and Illustrator. Premiere Pro is pretty nice too. Options are always good!
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Flowmotion Media
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I just bought the Master Collection CS5 on April 1st! It would be nice to get a free upgrade to CS5.5.
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Check out this thread for some ideas: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/54/859897
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Flowmotion Media
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One app to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!