Maria
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Thank you Dave. Just to answer a few questions (and yes, btw, I’m stuck between the film and video worlds, have been shooting DV for a long time, but just editing for a few years, and this is my first time working with footage from the DVX100B):
3,5 and 6 are letterboxed but they still seem stretched vertically a bit.
The suggestion to dump an anamorphic sequence into a non-anamorphic sequence worked perfectly. I am wondering if this is a non-ideal solution resolution-wise.
And in Attempt #6, those ratios were defaulted in the program when I selected “Current Size”. I’m very curious where that came from too. Any takers?
Many thanks to everyone who responded.
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Thank you all for resonding. I tried the letterboxing solution and that certainly works – I don’t have a widescreen TV, but I can at least check what it does on my standard TV.
I’m on iDVD 5.0.1.
It’s true that the footage is not true anamorphic on a DVX100B without an anamorphic adapter. Squeeze mode is a cheat, which is mainly an improvement over letterbox mode for widescreen TV’s. I’m pretty sure that the letterbox is actually better for regular TV viewing, resolution-wise.
But I don’t think the aspect RATIO should look that different. I’m seeing the correct aspect ratio in both my viewer and canvas within FCP (4.5, btw) – it’s just a different widescreen when I export the file to Quicktime to iDVD. I’m must trying to get a handle on what to expect out of the post end, so that I can make wiser decisions while shooting.
thank you!!!
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I just tested a few filteres to use on the Sony HVR FX1 with Mini35 adapter. The usual Black Pro Mists didn’t really grab me, but I really liked what the Low-Con filters did (sometimes even up to a 1 or 2), the Gold Diffusion FX on certain complexions and the low-numbered fog filters. Worth checking out.
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I suppose it’s a bit silly to reply to one’s own thread, but I just stumbled across a very nice, concise explanation that helped me a lot.
https://www.outside-hollywood.com/2005/11/an-introduction-to-video-scopes/
Just in case anyone searches these posts for this exact information in the future.
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Just some quick thoughts:
A friend and I are documentarians and we have a wedding video business that we pay very little attention to, but we offer a cinema verite approach. We just shoot as if we were at any regular documentary shoot and make it very natural. So, we avoid the whole cheesy interview thing unless someone asks us to do it. Basically, don’t feel constrained to make a typical wedding video – your friend is asking you because of the things you do, so bring your aesthetic and your usual sense of judgment into it.
Two cameras are also helpful because there’s a healthy period of time before the ceremony that the bride and groom are often separated. If they are, it’s nice to spend time with both of them, though if they are separated beforehand (not always the case in our modern times) you would probably go with the bride. But if a good editor is working with it, you can get totally decent coverage with one camera.
And take the personality of the couple into consideration. Not every wedding is ‘bride, bride, bride’. If they’re a fun couple you’ll want to get great coverage of both of them. That will give them a video with more of the personality of them and of the day.
Also, remember that your main customers here are the parents. Talk to them a bit to get a sense of your atmosphere.
Important moments after the ceremony: the bride/father dance, the groom/mother dance – might be nice (with either two cameras or one) to get a bit of the son/daughter asking and a bit of the father/mother anticipating; the first dance as a couple; the cake; and then just get coverage of a couple of the songs later. The bouquet and boutonneire toss; the departure. Get some coverage of the people who are there because these are the people the bride and groom and their families have invited and they’ll want to see them in the video.
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Thank you, Chuck and David.
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Thank you Jerry – that’s what I gathered, but I figured where I’m not doing work that requires very faithful similarity to other monitors or to strict broadcast standards, I might get away without them. I appreciate the advice.
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I’m sure everyone’s seen this by now, but just in case anyone’s still looking:
G-Technology now has a 3-port Firewire 800 PCI-Express Adapter I’m getting it for the G5 so I don’t have to run the drive and the deck off the same single bus. It has 2 high-speed external FW 800 ports and one 6-pin 400.
https://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-RAID.cfm#Acc – at the top of the Accessories list.
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Thank you very much!
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That sounds like very sound advice. Thank you very much. A quick question in return. I have someone else advising me that if I’m running FCP 100% off memory cache that the program is never calling on the home drive, and so there’s no reason to NOT put media files on that drive too. Does that sound like a reasonable statement? If so, is it best to partition?
Many thanks.