Richard Herd
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I get involved with microbudget movie making: producing, writing, etc.
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Here’s my best guess: It’s the screen not the camera. There are two refresh rates on the x-y board. Horizontal which (at WXGA rez 1280×768) is either 48.1 Hz or 48.4 Hz. The Vertical refresh at 60 Hz. The RBG pixels are arranged as a bayer pattern, but they all don’t receive power simultaneously. It happens so fast that our human eyes hardly perceive it, rarely also will a video camera operating roughly at the same speed as the monitor. But a still camera with a “fast” shutter (faster than the inverse of the focal length) will show it, when comparing frame to frame.
An interesting experiment to try: Shoot a screen with various shutter speeds, see what happens.
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The American Cinematographer Magazine
https://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ac/ac0609/index.php#/66
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https://www.theasc.com/magazine_dynamic/June2009/toc.phpThey’re doing a story on covering digital cinematography, especially those designed for film out. They claim the minimum requirements are:
— 10 bit log
— 1080p
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In improv workshops we called that “yes and…” There are two simple rules.
1. Never say “no.”
2. Always say “yes and…” add something to the conversation -
What will happen to the Bolexes? Can we buy them?
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Also search the cow for motion tracking, especially in the After Effects forum. Basically, motion tracking means the software will stabilize the shot. Fancy software, but not an unreasonable price. Coupled with a stabilizing lens, your footage will be smooth. If you’re posting the footage too, no big deal, but if you have to turn the footage over to an edit house, consider motion tracking the footage first, then handing it over.
Motion tracking has limits, and I’m no expert.
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A little hard ball! I like your style, man.
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I wonder what would happen if you deliver what the PO calls for, 2 minutes.
Can you imagine his face when the picture just stops at 2?
He’ll demand, “Where’s the other 90 seconds?!”
“90 seconds of what,” you ask sheepishly.
He says, “The film is 3:30.”
You can pull out the PO and say “Sorry. I thought the PO was for 2 minutes.”
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Great solution! Maintain your brand position. Nothing is more important.
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Using home depot lights to light human beings is a bad idea, but luminance is a weird thing. Hence, aiming the home depot lights at the back wall–back stage–will make certain that you can control the black point in post.
How you aim them is a stylistic consideration. For example, place them very low at the edges of the set–behind the band–and aim them up at diagonals to create elliptical splashes.