Peter Ralph
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thanks Doug – got a couple from helpful bovines that will work great
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I’m 100% with Matte on this one – even if you are in the city his solution is cost-effective in my book. I use an eartec system – in my mind even that is a much better deal than renting.
Here in Colorado there are no rental houses outside Denver. If I want to rent a set-up for a gig in Aspen it can involve a 5 hour hour drive to pick up the equipment, fedex charge to send it back, and 2-3 days rental.
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that is very neat Matte – Radio shack (and others) also make cordless phones where you can add satellites to the main base unit – I wonder if you could use those?
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yes the color finesse/FCP interface is a little quirky (i never got it to run smoothly) but you can create reference images to color match scenes – its a very well implemented feature, as is the curves panel
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no there is no waiver.
in fact even if you are incorporated not having liability insurance may encourage a court to “lift the corporate veil” and put your personal assets up for grabs. The new bankruptcy laws mean that unless your personal assets exceed $1m there is no practicable way to protect anything you own from a lawsuit.
Yes your liability insurance should cover you for the acts of any employees. Any (non-director) employees must also be covered by workmans comp. Workmans comp is for employees only – it does not cover independent contractors.
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You cannot afford enough insurance to cover yourself 100%.
Go with 1-2 million and incorporate so that if the worst happens your personal assets are protected.
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how are you monitoring picture and sound?
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yes more light will help but so will setting the gain at 0.
turn down the sharpness setting – default on the GL1 is way too high
a very light gaussian blur in post also helps
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not just the posts you need to clean the entire mating surface. a pencil eraser rubbed very carefully over the surface might help , if you feel confident about not introduing any residue into the camera
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thanks for the replies and emails. I think the problem is just with my install of WMP. Flash is definitely my medium of choice, but for various reasons this one had to go WMP. Actually if I have total freedom I would use QT and the H264 codec – it seems to have the jump on everything for right now.