[Randall Raymond]

Create a small partition on your main drive – say 10gig or so – and tell windows to put your page file there (‘D:’ drive) that will help keep fragmentation down and speed things up.

Also make sure to set the size of the page file – 10gig in this example – if you let windows set the size – that will slow things down as it first determines how much room it has to write its temp files.

[Randall Raymond]

T-8’s can be:

Cool White
Warm White
Day Light

Each with a particular color temp. With real differences.

Butchers learned that putting cool white lamps in their cases caused the meat to look grey and rotten. With warm white lamps, the meat looks red and fresh.

Each will require a different gel over an incandescent light to match and to color balance a camera. If the T8s are mixed – you’ve got problems.

[Randall Raymond]

‘Question – does the background have to be colour corrected to the same as the other lights? or does it not matter?’

YES! And that’s the key to the whole thing looking natural.

[Randall Raymond]

With that budget and the nature of the shoot, I would suggest white balancing to the existing overhead fixtures and gel whatever cheap quartz light fixtures you can pick-up at Home Depot. So call Rosco and give them the info and then buy a couple sheets of the gel number they recommend. (It’s best to give them the actual number off the tubes overhead)

I don’t know what others will recommend – but with your travel plans, whatever you buy, you can’t afford decent shipping cases as well.

[Randall Raymond]

I recently built a similar system. I would recommend the top of the line Intel ‘BX’ board. The extra 80 bucks for the better board will allow you to pop in a Quad-core chip in the future – this board has been absolutely stable so far… I’m running the e6600 chip for now btw.

[Randall Raymond]

I wish BlackMagic or AJA would come out with a box like this for Vegas – perhaps converting to the Cineform codec

[Randall Raymond]

Rather than tear your hair out – why not print your spot to DV tape and let the station deal with it. That’s how I deliver to Comcast. (It would take them 30 seconds to transfer it.)

[Randall Raymond]

You have to set your gif matte to ‘none.’ Sounds like you have the matte set to black or white.

[Randall Raymond]

All web video encodes are progresssive. You do not need to de-interlace interlaced video before going to encode for web-video – the codec will do that for you. The web-codecs will not deal well with the methods used for de-interlacing – i.e. creating an ‘artificial progressive.’ Of course, if you start with progressive footage that problem is eliminated.

[Randall Raymond]

Also. I’m pretty sure that you have to select capture for HDV from out of the Vegas program and not from capture that pops up upon turning on a camera or deck.