Richard Herd
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For DV, packing the tape seems more important than striping it.
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For me personally, when I was in a similar position, I bought the HVX200. That was 3 years ago. Today, if I were in the same position I was in then, I’d get the AG-HPX300 because 10-bit is hard to ignore.
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What kind of imagery?
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And lighting. You have to light it properly. There’s about a million threads on the topic in the lighting forum.
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This isn’t legal/ethical advice. This is don’t-waste-your-time advice.
If the DVDs cost $19.99 each, brand new, it’s really worth your time to just buy them. Not sure how many you have, and not sure the running time, but 2-hour tapes will take 2 hours to transfer! Potentially, you’re looking at a very long project — a library of children’s videos.
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Here’s a couple of camera names for you to search: the Thomson Viper & the Panavision Genesis.
The data management of this equipment is complicated. Renting these usually requires the appropriate experts: a crew for the camera operation, and a crew for the video village.
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[Maria Cooper] “Any idea how I would make this into a template?”
Yes, but it depends the actual meaning of “template.” Template is an important branding term. I use Alpha Video’s CastNET software, which is based in a nifty program called Scala.
This software/hardware would be ideal for a screened event, not so great to make DVDs (not sure what you’re after, here). CastNET is really difficult to describe, but in effect, this is the software used in casinos all over the world and in movie cinemas as an advertising tool. The templates are made in a series of software (FCP, CS3, and InfoChannel Designer). A user (non-specialist) interacts with a Web interface to fill-in the content, the video, text, jpgs, audio, loop schedule, exact schedule.
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Whoa! I did my thesis project in Linguistics on Urdu.
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[Chris Durham] “I hardly call it a decent camera – it’s over-rated and over-priced)”
I disagree completely. It far exceeds being merely a decent camera, but I’m not here to market and advertise for Panasonic. Just that there are varied opinions on the cow.
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I am on the exact opposite side of the coin. I’m the one folks invoice, in a big, huge international American corporation. No kiddin’, I was hired out of a local production studio.
In June 2008, I contacted a vendor and I ordered 1 quantity (big expensive stuff). The vendor construed the email thread as 2 quantities. The vendor sent the proposal to the wrong email address. On the day of install, I received 2, but refused 1, and sent it back. My Purchase Order was for 1 and it doesn’t matter how much the vendor complains or moans about it, or if they call me names or sweet talk me, or if the confusing email thread was my fault, or if they were doing me a favor and hitting a tight deadline. They screwed up their own business practice. When they didn’t receive my signed proposal, they should have called, emailed, faxed, sent smoke signals–something to let me know my order was stalled. We would have then discovered my last name was spelled incorrectly. Anyway, the vendor got paid for 1 and is now stuck with a distressed inventory that continues to depreciate.
Am I being a grinder? No.