Jim Makichuk
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I only meant the DSLR’s, I’ve shot with Canon HD’s and Sony & Panasonic. Favor the Panasonic, started in the DV models, but I wanted to test this system on a particular interview.
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Unfortunately I don’t have a camera that shoots longer, I heard the Panasonic does, but I wanted a Canon so I’ll deal with it. Thanks for the Magic Lantern thing. All canons are like that as are other DSL cameras… same restrictions, seems to be a tariff thing.
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One more try… I didn’t use any transitions but left a tiny space at head of timeline and then video — result was that little space went grey but after that video was fine. One question; would this happen if I didn’t start at timeline head but maybe a few seconds ahead?
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Sorry Dave… export self contained.
I’m wondering if I messed up the codecs somewhere, I think I did 6 different versions and one was digitally breaking up at QT clip… another wasn’t acceptable to Youtube. It’s all a big mess, I managed to get a straight clip with no transitions and that played ultimately.
I’m going to continue testing and hope it isn’t something that’s going to happen all the time.
thanks for your help anyways… I appreciate it.
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I exported as Quicktime movie w/ProRes 422 LT, the QT file that came out was perfect and when I upload to Youtube the fade in/fade out effect for video audio fade in/out also becomes a grey clip with no image.
Video came from Nikon at 720 and preset was ProRes 1080 and DVCPRO HD 1080p30, I’ve been out of editing for almost a year and no doubt have forgotten alot.
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The clip has an 82 year old man singing 3 minutes of opera. Usually censorship comes maybe a day or even a week later if youtube figures it’s “illegal”. Also the grey clips are only in the text and fade in/out not in the opera video. I am going to make a version with the clip only, no text nor fade in/out.
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These little docs keep me off the streets, never make any money from them but they’re a lot of fun… I miss the old CP-16 camera but my favorite was the Arri 16 BL, a beautiful film camera.
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I go back to 16mm news filming, and 400 feet lasted about 18 minutes or so, had to load a lotta mags. I worked alot on camera, mostly 16mm and finally changed to screenwriting. Less carrying stuff.
But when I discovered FCP3 years ago I got back in for little docs in between movies and enjoyed DV just for that.
I’m doing a doc on a WW11 guy who was in Pacific campaign and wanted to use DSLR’s just to see how it works vs $3000 cameras, and yes, most of the shooting is on the run as is another doc about a sax player with a disease.
But now that I can get longer video I like to not interrupt the interviewee with distractions… It took me two years to even use cards rather than cassettes!! At any rate, thanks for all the advice, it’s really helpful.
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I think you’re right, chris suggested the G3 a few post above and I checked it out. I’ve rented Sony HD’s and Panasonic also which are great but I can’t swing for a $5000 camera. I like the idea of dslr lenses though. I might drop by Samy’s here in LA, they stock almost everything and try it out.
Only question about G3 is audio? DSLR’s tend to not have great audio and are used with recorders like Zoom and Tascom as camera audio not great. Although being able to record for 40-50 minutes without stopping solves the audio problem by using recorder.
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Thanks all of you, lots of suggestions. Looks like I’ll just give it a try experimenting first and then either shoot with the 60d or just rent a Sony HD camera and not have to play with the Canon.
I think I made a mistake with the DSLR’s, bad audio and the clip issue, I should have tried before I bought.