Michael Sacci
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Well you can but you need to stop thinking like you are shooting a video camera. Other then a couple of quick shoots at the beginning there is no (or very little zooming. They are using prime lenses and you better have fast lenses to shoot inside weddings where you have no control over the lighting. Also most of the camera movement is a steadicam.
The thing is you cannot shoot like video, you have to shoot like film, camera moves and zooms are used to reframe for the most part. You can do a little zoom but not like a video camera, for one thing you don’t have the zoom range, video have 10-20x zooms, DSLR quality zooms are normally no more than 3x.
[Sohrab Sandhu] “If they can do it why can’t I ? “
No reason at all, but get ready to spend some bucks on gearing up a DSLR to make it work. The cheapest thing is the camera, but to make it work you have to spend the $$. NOt trying to say you cannot do it but to make sure you are looking in the right places. Like I said, there are no zooms faster than f2.8 and each will set you back at least a grand or two.There are several companies that are doing this level of weddings, they are awesome, and they are getting a good fee, there weddings start at $6000.
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DVCProHD is a “thin” raster codec, 920×720 but plays back in most things as 1280×720. So if you are changing the codec for viewing you need to make sure you make the video full raster, 1280×720 on export. But since you haven’t given any export settings I can only guess.
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Toast is not know for quality, it is not a true authoring or encoding program. But that bitrate is way too high, it will not play. Max should not go over 7.5Mbps and only if you are encoding your audio as ac3.
By the screen capture it looks like you are on a Mac, so I would recommend DVDSP to author and Compressor to encode. If you don’t have FCS but have Adobe Encore you can give that a try, and use Media Encoder to compress the video and audio.
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In Log and Transfer prefs, make sure Remove Duplicate or Pull down is checked. Then look at the clips info, the frame rate should be 23.98, the sequence setting should also be 23.98.
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[Ryan Orr] “4) With a few of these new HDSLRs, quick lenses are not as critical. The ISOs can help a lot with darker scenes…but yeah, go with lenses that are as quick as your budget lets you.”
I would disagree with this, since shallow DoF is what a lot of people are after, the faster the lens the better it is for this.Sohrab, as you can see that there is no zoom lens that is faster than 2.8, and you pay major buck for them. Take heed to getting lenses with IS, which combined with fast means really big bucks.
Now the real question is do you really want to be using a DSLR, if you are looking for run and gun event stuff, video cameras still rule.
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Well it is much harder to upconvert the SD to HD and get good results. There are filters that help but you are looking at long render times. If you are not mastering to HD I would downconvert the HD to match the SD. Everything needs to be the same, codec, size and frame rate.
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for my sill camera time lapse I’m normally shooting a frame every 2-5 seconds. Then if I want it faster I can easily do that in FCP (or whatever editing software).
The question is how long do you what your movie to be, how long will you record each day?
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SDI gives you more options. If you are getting footage from DBeta or BetaSP you don’t want to make that DV, you are throwing away a lot of color. DVCAM and DV doesn’t have that color info to begin with so you are not hurting anything if that is all you have to stay in DV. But while you don’t gain anything with regards to the DV footage when it is captured as Uncompressed or ProRes with 4:2:2 color space, it will hold up better throughout the editing process, graphics and text will be smoother, color correcting can be pushed a little further. So it is not a good – bad situation, but maybe a good – better one.
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[Michael Gissing] “or a full authoring job for a commercial DVD.”
DVDSP is fully capable of authoring commercial DVDs. While it may take the long way around block if you know what you are doing you can make it do whatever you need.
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Careful removing and replacing the camera, if the camera is not in the exact position you get a jarring change in the video. So remove the P2 cards but not the camera.
Time-lapse looks great if you speed it up so it is better to have longer (slower) time-lapse then you need.
[Michael Cumella] “I plan on setting the camera to shoot one frame every minute.”
That will give you 25 secs of final video on a 10 hour day at 24fps or 10 seconds of video if you use 60fps. How long to you want the final movie to be, how many hours a day are you recording. Personally I would shoot more frames per second, a lot more frames.