Lance Bachelder
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Agree with Noah – gotta go with separate sound and sync it later – pain – doing it now on our 7D feature. We hired a pro sound crew with the best sound gear available – sound is so important, especially on indie films where you’re gonna get scrutinized for every decision you make. We did buy a Zoom H4n for some run and gun stuff and in-the-car audio and it is an amazing tool for the money – really pristine.
Don’t forget to use a slate on EVERY take!
Lance Bachelder
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Good luck with your feature! We just shot a feature with 2 7D’s and loved using them. Keep us posted on the progress!
Lance Bachelder
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Thanks!
Lance Bachelder
Southern California -
Thanks for mentioning the Videoguys tip – that’s where I bought Neoscene for my Mac. Arey ou using V9 on Windows 7? 64 bit version?
Lance Bachelder
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Joseph you do not need to use an external transcoder if you are cutting with Vegas. Like I said earlier and Neil wrote- you can use the the raw Quicktimes out of the Canon in Vegas. Vegas however is not real Quicktime friendly – you’re never going to get consistent true realtime playback, even off a fast RAID array.
If you must convert there is a easy way to batch clips in Vegas to a Sony friendly codec. If you place each raw clip on a single timeline end to end in Vegas, double-clicking them and adding a REGION around each clip as you add them (just press R key) you can then use the Batch function in the scripting menu to encode the regions into any folder using any codec you desire (or have loaded on your system). I would suggest XDCAM 35 or 50 Mbps at full quality flavors as they run in native real-time in Vegas with no issues. Sounds confusing at first but it’s very easy and allows you to encode a bunch of selects at once.
Lance Bachelder
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If you’re editing the 7D footage right from the camera in Vegas and you’re happy with the performance then there is really no need to transcode. You’ll be doing that anyway when you complete your show and render to a finished product.
If you’d like to transcode to a great codec for editing I would recommend buying Neoscene from Cineform. Neoscene will properly transcode your 7D footage into the best available codec I’ve seen for cutting on the PC. Works in Vegas and Premiere Pro equally well and is far better than ProRES or any other compressed codec. They also have a OSX version of Neoscene that works well.
Lance Bachelder
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Do you live near a pro photo store like a Samy’s? You could always bring your camera in and ask to try a lens out. Just curious if it’s the lens or a defective 7D?
Lance Bachelder
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Is white balance on auto? Have you tried zooming with a pro lens like 70-200L? The 18-200 is a consumer lens so I would look there first. There may be another internal setting on. Haven’t seen this with any lens but I don’t do a lot of zooming during a take.
Lance Bachelder
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Is white balance on auto? Have you tried zooming with a pro lens like 70-200L? The 18-200 is a consumer lens so I would look there first. There may be another internal setting on. Haven’t seen this with any lens but I don’t do a lot of zooming during a take.
Lance Bachelder
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We used 4 of the SanDisk Extreme 60MB/sec 16GB UDMA cards on our last shoot and we never had an issue in 4 weeks of shooting. Nice to have the faster cards when it’s time to offload too.
Lance Bachelder
Southern California