John Lenihan
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My recommendation is to never shoot for money with a camera you have never used.
If I were you, I would try out the camera you own today at a game so you can review how it behaves. Try various settings, and verbalize what you are doing while shooting so that you can identify each sub experiment when you get back home.
I see you have an hdv camera which I believe is tape based. I would never ever recommend a tape camera to anyone anymore, pro or amatuer.
If you are able to get the nx5 and can take both to the same game, not for profit, then you can shoot first half with one camera and second half with second camera.
It takes getting used to a given cameras strengths and weaknesses before you get really excellent results under all the various conditions you will have. Such as sun setting behind the goal, rain, snow, sunshine, fog, night lights, etc.
John
John Lenihan
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Tom,
I can say that I use the NX5 for soccer and get great results.
If you shoot like me, you will too.Regarding the shallow depth of field, that is a function that you control. If you shoot in the day time and want lots of depth of field, then manually set the aperture to a something somewhere in the 6 to 9 range. Or even f11. Of course, with any camera, the more you zoom, the shallower the depth of field. If you shoot under the lights, you will need a little more light and may have to open your aperture a little more.
Personally, I set my speed to 1/250 for good still and slowmo and let my aperture be automatic.
John
John Lenihan
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Tom,
I have nx5u and I shoot a lot of soccer with it and it works great.
However, I shoot in a very practiced manner when I shoot these games. There may be some things that you could change to decrease the hunting of any camera that you have.
1. I shoot from the mid field line unless it is a multicam shoot.
1b. I do not fast zoom in or out.
2. I do not loose view of the ground when the ball goes into the sky.
3. In fact, if the ball goes high out of my view, I zoom out slowly and follow the horizontal movement of the ball, but let the ball stay out of frame. When it comes back in frame, I am already reasonable zoomed in to pick up the receiving player.
4. When go to a corner kick, I have the zoom such that I just move the camera horizontally toward the goal when it is kicked.John
John Lenihan
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I have been looking for the same thing. I don’t have any answer for me, but I will share some of my thoughts. I have sony nx5u cameras.
What I created last year and have been using is an nx5u mounted on a pan tilt mechanism. The pan tilt mechanism is mounted on a dj speaker type tripod.
Then I have a cable consisting of cat 6 for control and RG59 coax for the sdi. I multiplexed the Lanc connection through some of the unused cat 6 wires.
I created a control board and mounted it on an unused tripod which I put in the back of the church. I route the 100 foot wire on the floor.
I mounted an Ikan sdi monitor on it. I mounted lanc controller on it. I mounted controls for the Pan tilt head on it.
So, I sit in the back and can do a pan tilt, zoom, auto focus, manual focus etc.
It works quite nicely. However, I was looking for making more of them, or smaller, so that it is not so obvious.
What I discovered is that sony just came out with a new model line of ptz cameras, SRG 300
Here’s a link to the product brochure: https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/assetDownloadController/SRG%20Brochure_final.pdf?path=Asset%20Hierarchy$Professional$sel-47425SEL-asset-407970.pdf&id=StepID$SEL-asset-407970$original&dimension=originalYou can control it using the sony controller device. Or, there is a company that has made tablet pc software to control it.
You can use a atomos ninja to monitor and record if you want.
At this point, the ptz plus external recorder is the same price as another nx5u, so I started thinking it is not worth changing.
John
John Lenihan
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Hate to tell you, but I don’t think there is a magic wand that will fix it.
Time to send it in to Sony Repair.
John
John Lenihan
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If it does the same thing when you play the clip in the camera, then send it to sony for warranty repair.
John
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This belongs in the sony vegas forum.
However, the answer is this.
1. Import each media
2. click on media one and in the right side tell the end action to play the second media. continue for each media
3. On the left side, click on the first media and right click and say play first. That will skip the menu.John
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Video cameras and dslr have different names for the same thing.
My observation is that iso 100 on a dslr corresponds to 0db gain on a video camera.
Then, each time you double the iso, it is equivalent to a 3db gain in the video camera.
iso gain db
50 -3
100 0
200 3
400 6
800 9
1600 12
3200 15
6400 18
12800 21John
John
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Thanks for updating our information Ezra. I hope your shoot went well.
It looks like my test was not comprehensive.
John
John Lenihan
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I guess I am asking for the egg to be removed.:)
People view the initial smoke and say ooh ah.
Once it dissipates like it picture 3 and 4, they don’t think there is any fog anymore because their eyes have adjusted. But when they watch the video, they think my camera is malfunctioning.
I can pull other screen grabs, I am not sure what you mean by a shot of the pillars? Do you mean a tight shot of the pillars without smoke?
JohnJohn Lenihan
LeniCam Video Productions
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