Paul Campbell
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Yeah, I was thinking that the arm might be really nice to have for more control and smoother motion. Thanks very much for all the feedback. Tremendously helpful. Paul
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Ok, so I’ll just leave the follow focus for now. One more question Steve, and I’ll quit bugging you. I’m certainly going to want some type of head on top of the monopod. Should I be thinking tripod head that gives full range of motion on all axes, or maybe just a swivel/tilt head that only moves up/down? I know with monopods you get your left-right panning by swiveling the actual monopod, but it seems like having the ability to move the camera all around while leaving the monopod static is the way to go.
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Thanks, Steve. I’m checking out the Manfrotto Compact Aluminum version now. I see what you mean about these monopods. You can still achieve a decent amount of motion with them. I guess my next question would be if you think putting a tripod head on the monopod would be a good addition, perhaps along with a follow-focus rig as well. I’d still like to be able to steer the camera as much as possible while pulling focus at the same time.
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Dammit to hell. It was there staring me in the friggin face the whole time. Like I said, simple question, simple answer. Really, I don’t know how much more like a hand that hand tool could’ve looked. Ugh. Thanks for this.
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Disregard!!! My workspace colors are all close shades of black, and I just couldn’t see those bars. Now it’s time to figure out how to change the contrast a little. Thanks again.
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Thanks, Steve. Unfortunately, I don’t have any scrolls on my PM. I’d be perfectly content using them if I had them 🙂
There’s got to be some setting that I just don’t have switched on to see these scrollbars, but I can’t find it for the life of me.
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I used incorrect terminology in my post. It’s the Program Monitor where I’m looking to move around while zoomed, not Editing Window as I stated.
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Thanks, Tommy. I’ll look into the Lilliput. What size are you using? If it really weighs that little, I’ll rig up an adapter to hang it off to the side of the camera.
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Thanks, Aaron. I was planning on making flaps for the iPad if indeed this idea came to fruition, but alas it wasn’t meant to be. No worries, plenty of options out there. Stay cool.
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Blaise, thanks so much for this great info. It’s an education I won’t forget (hopefully). I think I’m finally starting to get it. The reason my DSLR uses H264 natively is to squeeze as much footage onto that little SD card as possible. I expect if it recorded uncompressed you’d only be able to fit maybe 10 minutes of footage onto a 36GB card 🙂
I’ve been an audio guy for quite a while, so I’m going to just go ahead and compare what you said about transcoding H264 – ProRes to converting an mp3 to wav. You can’t reclaim any of the original data prior to the compression, and all the transcoding is doing is making the file size a lot bigger than it needs to be. Cool man, I can handle that action.
Time to find a new conversion app that has ProRes LT! Maybe there’s a newer Streamclip, we’ll see. Better yet, maybe it’s time to ditch FCP6 and move to Premiere.