Martin Curtis
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Everything Mike wrote is spot on.
My own experiences:
- talk to the OR nurse ASAP because you DON’T want to get in their way
- say “hi” to the anaesthetist. for some reason those guys are really jumpy about “are you recording audio?”.
- we use different colours here. our gowns are light green. the super-sterile-do-not-touch stuff is dark green. do not touch it.
- I talked to our Infection Control Practitioners and they didn’t care about my cameras
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If you need an SWF front end, I use JW Player. Some of the kids these days like FlowPlayer, it being free for commercial use and all (but branded with their logo).
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Security systems are known to use odd codecs. Ask if theirs came with a disc. It will probably have a player on it. If it does, it will almost certainly be PC only.
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Can you post a short clip with the problem described?
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Pity. I think I first saw this feature in iMovie 4 or 3.
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I missed all that. Did he say something? All I could see was Leanne’s lapel mic and hear AkkaDakka. Mesmerising, they were.
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[greg ouellette] “i have background music playing, i must have it too low for computer speakers.”
I was listening to it through a horrible Dell PC mono speaker, so it’s not surprising I missed it.[greg ouellette] “noted on captioning. would you deliver two versions: w/ and w/o? captioning or just put it out to client?”
It depends how it’s being delivered. Since you have web delivery, all you need is a video file and a caption file. Use a player that has the capability of delivering captions at the click of a button. See YouTube for details. At the moment, the easy way out is via a Flash Player front end, but I believe Timed Text is making inroads into HTML5 territory.
[greg ouellette] ” i am also planning on learning more on microphones for interior work.”
You and me both. I shot a doctor reading a piece to camera in a small room on-site and the audio was horribly echoey, even with a lav. Fortunately, so was the delivery so we scrapped that piece entirely and are heading back to the drawing board (if she’s reading this, she’s a lovely lady but not everyone is cut out to deliver lines convincingly to camera). -
2 things just came to mind: I thought some background music would be nice under the VO, and it might be nice for it to be captioned. Putting it on YouTube makes captioning easier, but you still have to make the timed text file.
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Looks good, though you can always spot non-actors 🙂
The sound recorded in the doctor’s office was a bit echoey
FWIW, I work for government and my boss charges my services (me + camera(s) + 2 wireless mics + FCP + DVD duplicator) out at A$200 per finished minute. I only work for internal business units and the videos are destined for patients. I know that “per finished minute” isn’t always an acceptable metric in this game, but it works for us. The $200 pfm (compared to about ~$1500 pfm the local professionals charge for multiple shooters, lights, sound guy etc for a truly polished product) is basically to scare people away from using us if they don’t have a plan, a goal and some funding but designed to be low enough that the truly committed ones can afford to do it. Occasionally the money gets me new toys.
We instruct people that they are to supply the script after it has been approved by the funder, arrange for actors (and pay if necessary) organise locations (though we can help with generic locations). And bring the lunch.
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I wonder if it’s possible for the forum to display “anonymous” for a poster’s name (if they so desire it) unless the viewer is logged in. That way we could prevent our names being attached to certain posts when the search engines come to visit, but still be completely visible to members.