Rennie Klymyk
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Keep in mind the reason for all this is – the shape of the crt tube has to have strength as it is a vacume inside and so manufacturers have to make em with round corners. The 1st B&W tubes were the worst and eventually we had flat screens. The bezel that helps hold the tube in position on normal tv’s has to clamp onto the tube so we get the cropping where it contacts the round corners of the tube. Also the manufacturer has to determine where to end the phousphors on the front of the tubes. So this and the design of the bezel determines how much of the picture gets cropped on different manufacturer’s tv’s.
Video projectors and lcd’s show the whole picture so this is becomming a non-issue. Pro monitors (crt) have underscan so we get the whole picture. -
Don’t forget Digital Juice. These are handy resources of customizable effects, quick and ready for your graphics.
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Hi Tim, sorry for the delay, I was out. Check this link below for a whole pile of them. I have a minty one I’ll sell for $500.00 including shipping if you are interested. I have 2 of them and I am renovating and re-arranging equipment so I only have one in use which is doing the job. The rest of the gear is all analog or sdi so I think I can get by adding a hub instead of the second unit if I need to when I set everything back up. 2 of them could get interesting though as you can connect them if I remember correctly.
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I use a Kramer VS-66FW firewire switcher which has 6 bi-directional inputs that I have an AJA IO; FW HDD; G4: G5: DVD Deck style Burner and a DSR-11 plugged into. I can route anything to anything and it can connect the deck to the g4 at the same time the aja IO is connected to the G5 as well as many other possibilities. And I don’t have to get out of the chair. Although I think it will work as a glitch free live switcher I’ve never tried it for that.
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[Tim Gibbons] “Hee’s the link to the cheapest, current, HD Monitor I could find:
You also have to spring another $1100.00 or so for the BKM-15R remote controller and the connector cable lists for $250.00 as this monitor doesn’t come with anything other than an off/on switch on the back. To get the dual-link HD-SDI capatabillity I bet you have to add an option card too. The BVM’s usually have component in as stock (HD/SD) but everything else is an add on. The model before this one was the BVMD-20F1u so you could keep an eye open for one of them. They use the BKM-10R remote which is only about $700.00 or the BKM-11R which is a little desktop pad with all the same controls for about $800.00. These “D” series connect with a standard 9 pin D-connector cable which are cheap. I don’t know why the BKM-15r cable would be $250.00 other than they are 20-25′ long and are nice and thick. I just thought of something though, you could use your BVMD-9H5 to control another monitor with the remote connector and a 9 pin cable at least until you could afford to replace it with a proper remote. Sony should make another run of PVM-20L5/1 monitors, they’d sell like hot cakes. They’r sure not selling many lcd or plasma monitors.
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[Tim Gibbons] “I didn’t have to spend $11,500 for a Sony BVM-F24E”
Gee..have they dropped in price?
[Tim Gibbons] “Basically I’m looking for a 20″ grading monitor.”
I’m with you on the 20″ factor. I find after adding a widescreen bezel the 14″ seem like 8″ monitors and the 20″ seem like 14″‘s. In the 4:3 world 20″ monitors felt like a luxury but in 16:9 world they are more of a neccessity. IMHO
The most affordable crt is the Sony PVM 20L5 which is multi standard,480, 720 and 1080. These have been discontinued but they show up on the used market and every once in a while a dealer discovers one or two in the back of their warehouse.
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I hope when they add G3 to the i-phone they also add a more capable camera inside as well. I like the idea of always having a camera with me so the incorporation of a digital camera in a phone has always appealed to me. Problem is the manufacturers seem to think we would only want to email snaps of our hip friends doing cool things. Don’t they get it? You can preserve images on them for other uses. In Korea they’ve had camera phones in the 6-8 MB range for about 3 years. The i-phone has a whopping 2mb. With 5-6 mb you could do continuity shots, location shots, photograph the idiot who just slammed into your car etc. etc. Look how camera phones were used during the gulf war, in Canada a politician just resigned because he left the scene on an accident while impaired (supposedly). The guy he hit was a reporter who followed him and video taped him on his video phone and it made the national news. It’s the one gadget we always have with us. Come on Apple Inc., give us a decent camera phone!
Me – I’m waiting for the 9″ widescreen shoulder mount model with B4 Fujinon lens mount and 120 gb drive….
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I think what Walter is saying is he comes OFF the FCP timeline INTO the deck, not vis~versa.
The only mpeg that FCP supports is hdv and imx and recently xdcam.Mpeg-2 (DVD) is a delivery format that uses lossy compression. You need to convert it back to another codec for editing in FCP and it will loose some quality in the back conversion. Your best to find the original source tapes for editing. Mpeg-2 encoding will hack a 25GB digital video file down to 4.2GB so it fits on a dvd disc or can be digitally broadcast and even though it looks pretty good you have lost a lot of your original data in the process. All this other 20.8Gb (hypothetical) of data that is missing from the original video frames is cleverly written back in to each frame for display by borrowing adjacent data from other I,P or B frames futher up and down the line. The original data for each frame is lost. Do a google search of Mpeg-2 compression to dig deeper into this.
If you have a Pioneer LX1 with 422 control you can come off component from the dvd and log and capture that way, use capture now from an analog input or use slipstream or other software converter to change the files to something FCP will work with. I don’t know of any dvd recorders that output DV from the firewire port as that would have to be transcoded back from the mpeg-2 stream.
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The AJ-SD93 can record on medium or large DVCPRO cassettes with a maximum record time of 184 minutes (92 minutes in DVCPRO50). It can playback DVCPRO50, DVCPRO, DV and DVCAM tapes, automatically sensing the correct format.
https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/news/news04_036.asp
Why don’t you sell it and buy a DSR-11 or something that matches your shooting format?
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Hi, just some thoughts to offer
Moonlight is typically monochromatic – blue and black, so green screen is it.
If the moon is high in the sky it will illuminate more of the top of the bed and the woman (with more desaturated colors) but if it is low in the sky it will be mostly edge lighting with a lot of blackness at the camera side. Where she touches the bed should be black but as she rises the edge light would start to appear beneath her too and on the surface of the bed. Her clothing (I imagine semi transperent gown) would hang down as would her hair and really catch the light. A low camera angle would demonstrate the height off the bed best but would need to show the clothing unfolding off the bed till it no longer touched the bed and just hung.If you had a wide shot of just the empty bed from above it could be edited in for the receding bed illusion. You could do a green screen shot straight down on her and have the composite of the bed shrink behind her so it looked like she was traveling away from the bed then cut to a side shot where she was already suspended.
You would want to suspend her from cables lying on a fine board(green) so the clothing and hair hangs down. Maybe consider hiring David Copperfield for this one.
Trying to think of movies where similar things have been done all I can recall is “Imortal Beloved” the scene where young Beethoven is running and running to escape his father’s wrath and he gets to his sanctuary, the pond and lays down in it looking up to the stars. The overhead shot gets wider and wider untill somewhere in there we are seemingly transformed from looking down at the reflection to looking up to the heavens where he disappears into the constellations. It was miraculously concieved and executed and evokes a feeling that is repeated during the performance at the end of the movie in which Beethoven performs ode to joy and the same starry sky is painted in the hall as a backdrop. POWERFULL
Just thought of “Kissed” the contoversial film dealing with necrophilia with Molly Parker and “The Excorsist” but I don’t distinctly recall the floating scenes in these movies very clearly or if there even are any.