Rennie Klymyk
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I’m with everyone else here as well. Upgrade to FCS-2 for $700.00 and buy some 500 or 750 Gb drives. Like David said you can take that investment with you if you upgrade your tower in the end but it might make all the difference in the world. Also make sure your 4.5GB of ram is in matching pairs and properly installed in consecutive slots.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[David Roth Weiss] “the AJA Gen 10 at just under $300 is perhaps the best deal on the market.”
Hey David, don’t you mean just under $400.00?
Where can you get them for less than $300.00? They are sold without a power supply and usually at $350.00 – $390.00 so they come in around $390.00 with power for the best I’ve seen. Even still that is the best deal out there by a long shot.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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the record (A+B) tabs must be down. Also the “C” tab (in the center by the window) is up for 4 track audio and down for 8 track.
You must go to the “HOME” menu and set F13 to recording enabled.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[Michael Nichols] ” I have a groovy NTSC monitor”
I’m not sure what your monitor is but Sony has firewire option cards for some of their monitors.
ie: PVM-L series“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[Goran Myrendal] “In a earlier thread Jan Crittenden Livingston from Panasonic wrote that the 64GB P2 card likely would be on the market at NAB this year. “
Are you sure she said that? I’ve only seen it posted to arrive in the fall and I tend to follow these threads.
Hopefully we will see the 128’s by next NAB! 🙂
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I’d have to agree here. I’ve used my still camera when I’ve been called in by one speaker on short notice without proper planning and without involvement of all participants. It worked well for the situation I was in but if you have access to the original files that’s the way to go of coarse.
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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Wow… great thread here. Kudos Mark for another informative post!
One thing I like to do with pp or any on screen graphics is keep my digital still camera hanging off my tripod and shoot a still of each slide. You can color balance, straighten perspective and adjust contrast in photoshop afterward.
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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I liked one of the scenes from Alien when the actor gets dripped on and looks slowly upward. When he sees the alien it secures him and lifts him up out of frame (or am I just having a nightmere here?)
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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I think Mark makes some strong points but then that is up to the lawyers to decide. If your client wants it then you need to provide what they ask for as best you can.
Another consideration is the angle of view. Humans have binocular vision so we see things slightly different from a camera which is a type of cyclops (having only one eye). It is pretty well accepted that a 50 – 55mm lens on a 35mm camera has about the same degree of perspective, angle and depth perception as a person. You will need to keep your camera fixed at an equivalent perspective (focal length) in order to maintain the proper distance relationship of physical things and their relationship to the speed you are traveling. A truck driver looks from side to side and into his mirrors too so you will need to do some of that. A helmut cam may be in order or the judge may be asking you how you filmed the video and you may find yourself at two trials.
As well as what Mark already covered, when we humans concentrate on one thing like the tail lights of the car ahead of us or a license #, we “zoom in” differently than a camera. A camera or telephoto compresses distance and makes things appear closer together but our eyes don’t do that yet we can still select a license plate and read it out of the middle of a larger scene. IE: if you zoom a lens on the tail lights the gas station a 1/2 mile ahead suddenly looks like it is 100 yards ahead through the telephoto lens. When we concentrate our vision on the tail lights the gas station remains 1/2 mile ahead still. Try this from where you are sitting. Try reading the title of a book or the Sony logo on a deck paying attention to the background and then try it through a camera.
You need to concentrate on the lawyer and the truck driver and listen carefully what they have to say (particularly the truck driver) and try to re-create what he says he saw and experienced. You could accompany him in the passenger seat even in the day time while he re-iterated his recollection of things on the said night. This may help him remember more details.
Whether or not it is thrown out of court or if it is admissible is another question but not really your concern.
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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[Eric Holzapfel] “(I could use 2 cameras!)”
A talented camera man will give an editor enough variety that it looks like a project was shot with 2 cameras when it likely was only 1 camera. The example you used above could easily be done with 1 camera as the pictures used in the edit are from different moments in time.
Live events like hockey games require multiple cameras for good coverage but most documentaries can be done with only one camera. You will need to build up your equipment arsenal with microphones, lighting equipment and camera support (tripods etc.) next.
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan