Mark Petereit
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By the way, if you’re interested, I’ve posted a high-def video of Sunday’s service. This was all recorded to tape on our lone 110U, dumped into Final Cut Pro where I did a bare minimum of post work (fade in, fade out, EQ’d the audio just a bit) and compressed it down for upload to Vimeo.
Lighting is a huge issue for us. We just haven’t had the time or money to do our lighting right yet. I have to run the iris wide open the whole time. After hearing nothing but badmouthing of the JVC’s low-light operation, I’m actually quite impressed with the result. I downloaded a low-light scene recipe from a DV forum and it seems to have helped quite a bit.
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We have decided to push ahead with the 700’s since they don’t need a studio kit (they come with all the connections we need right on the camera.) It’s going to be a gradual process.
One of my camera volunteers is a former field news cameraman. We’re going to buy one 700 and let him roam with it during services, recording straight to SDHC card. I’ll pull his footage into Final Cut Pro after the service and combine it with the footage from our main tripod-mounted camera (110U). We’ll run this way for a while and see how well that flow works for us. We’ll add cameras as the budget allows, and eventually add a live switcher. Probably a Panasonic AV-HS400A.
Are you on churchmedia.net? I have found their forums to be EXTREMELY helpful. Pose your scenario to the folks there and I’m sure you’ll get a ton of helpful advice.
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LMAO! Thank you, Mr. Weiss.
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Just one more thing to think about. I plan on wiping out a spare external drive and using it to create disk images of all my install disks. According to Torrey Loomis at Silverado, it cuts install time of FCP3 from 4 hours to about 24 minutes.
Yeah, it probably takes as long (or longer) to create the images, but it’ll pay off if I ever have to reinstall. And it never hurts to have a backup of your install disks.
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[Eugene Reynolds] “could you detail how to do a clean ground up install of the OS without losing plugins and other apps? ”
[David Roth Weiss] “A legitimate question Eugene, and I’m sure the answer is going to sound painful, but honestly, a ground-up installation means that you should also reinstall all apps and all plugins from the ground-up as well. Just bite the bullet, and you’ll be happy you did. Remember, you can always boot to your clone if there’s something you really need while you’re in transition.”
If I buy the FCP3 upgrade package, are the included disks full install disks? In other words, if I pull my old boot drive completely and replace it with a new Velociraptor drive, do a clean install of Snow Leopard, will I be able to do a clean install of FCP3? Or is the installer going to want to see FCP2 on my boot drive before it upgrades me to FCP3?
Mark Petereit
Volunteer Media Whoopin’ Boy
Family Worship Center
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Yes, I’ve always heard that you get best results if your RAM is kept in even values (8GB or 10GB — not 9GB)
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Don, did you ever find one? I’m running component-out to a shoe-mounted Carrion A monitor that I absolutely ADORE. I’d love to be able to run a cable out the EVF plug for power and signal to the Carrion, but have absolutely no idea where to source the plug (or even get a pinout of the EVF plug.)
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I have this problem from time to time with my JVC GY-HD110U. Over time, the firewire port on the JVC has loosened up and sometimes doesn’t hold. Same symptoms that you describe. Everything seems fine, but nothing works. I shut down both the camera and Mac, reseat both cable ends, turn camera on first, then Mac and it usually works.
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Have your PC friend download the QuickTime player. Free from the Apple site. Then he can play .mov files.