Randall3
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I think you have it backwards. The 850 deck doesn’t do DVCPRO100 for some reason.
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I think the H60 is the euro version of the H50 – anyway, I had the same problem, remove the head and there are some set screws that need tightening between the ball and the head. Get some new sticks and you’re good to go (with more lighting money) Hope that helps.
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The Lowell kit is great for the money but you may want two kits to light that 8 foot wide green screen AND the floor AND your talent, or at least add a couple more lights for the screen to your one kit.
I use the Libec H50 Tripod Kit (Japan’s top camera support maker) – MSE and Zotz Digital carry them. About $400 less and totally comparable IMO.
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I noticed you’ve given the lighting kit a low priority. That’s a big mistake unless you already have good kit. Lighting will make the picture pop much more than any camera. Assuming you don’t have a kit- I would chuck the Varizoom thingie and double-up on the lighting budget. You’ll thank me some day ;-)….
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For a bug – here’s what I do:
1 Create a new image canvas in Photoshop to the exact frame size of your video and with a transparent background.
2 Create or place you logo where you want it and to the size you want it.
3 Save as a png-24 with transparency.
4 Bring into Vegas – adjust amount of transparency to your liking.
5 (You may have to right-click on your image in Vegas timeline and set the alpha to straight or multiply)
6 There’s your bug! -
Hah! Seriously though, we have one set at home and use our XBox almost exclusively for a DVD play – complete with remote – works just fine.
The XBox 360 is going to put a lot of WMV-HD players in a LOT of homes.
What puzzles me is why Microsoft has not come out with WMV-HD authoring program for menu building.
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The new XBox 360 will play WMVHD files off DVDs as well.
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‘What I would have liked to do is to have a conversation about what pixel shifting is in ideological level and how it’s done in practice.’
I know – knowledge is a virtuous pursuit. I apologise if I seemed short with you. But what, or more importantly, why things are done in practice is going to run anyone into that frustrating brick wall I spoke of earlier. For example, Steve Mullens, who does a lot of technical reviews on the web, was told by Canon that they would NOT tell him how their new H1 camera obtains their 24f (faus 24p). Brick wall.
Your imput AFTER the HVX-200 is released will either help to explain the marvel of why it works so well, or to explain its shortcomings as you see them. In the end, the picture will be the story, yes?
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Doesn’t the Fostec have an optional module for reading timecode from the camera?
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‘I see a lot of language difficulties here.’
Graeme, I see it as more of a engineering difficulty. If we were discussing the vaccine for Bird Flu – openess would be morally the correct thing to do. But we’re not. Panasonic, or any other camera manufacturer, is under no moral obligation to tell us all the factors discovered through their research to explain a design decision. What we think is rational, is not; because we don’t know all those factors of how a reflected photon is manipulated to get the best possible picture at a reasonable amount of money. Those factors are secrets and not known company wide – in any company manufacturing anything. Quests for information will sooner or later hit a brick wall. Granted, brick walls are a frustrating obstacle.