[Richard Ragon]

>>Have Sony given you any indication as to how to convert or edit their format?

The Sony software provides a media player to “play” the files.. Also, a converter to MP2, which degrades to a DV standard, and also create a AVCHD DVD, which looks like it plays on BlueRay/Playstation players. Nothing past that.

I want to convert or transcode to DVC50 or DVCpro or QT H.264 for storage or editing.

>>I suggest you search through lots of online forums as there seems to be a few people having trouble with this format.

Did that.

>>Have you tried opening it in Quicktime?

Fails to open.

Thanks

-Richard

[Richard Ragon]

Hey.. I’ve got a small Quicktime video.. Hows this?

https://www.hanaho.com/temp/Sennheiser_Wireless_microphone.mov

-Richard

[Richard Ragon]

I think that pretty much sums it up. I hope to god people aren’t taking these jobs..

-Richard

[Richard Ragon]

I never read the script.. Personally, I don’t really care about the movie. Anyone can have a good script, and the director can totally screw it up! So, I don’t even care really, because too many factors I can’t control.

This doesn’t mean that I don’t care about my job. I care about the shot, and I take one shot at a time, and my main concern is what time do you want me there?

To me it seams like when someone ask you too do something for free, they are asking people they don’t even know to “invest” in some project that most people don’t even care about. Asking for free work is like saying, “Hey, I just want to get this going, so I look good, and your on your own buddie”.

I’m just not sure how a director or producer can look you in the face, ask for free work, and then say to be sure that you bring all your equipment costing you near 10K!!! Do they think I just got all this recording stuff for free?

-Richard

[Richard Ragon]

Good point. 🙂

[Richard Ragon]

>>>Where are you located?

The Greater LA/OC area!

>>>What is your experience-level?

Worked a bunch of low budget (paying) feature films now.. working my way up the ladder.

>>>Exactly WHO and for what kind of project is the attempt being made to get audio work and gear for free?

It seams about half of the craigslist or Mandy ads are posted something like this.. “I need a Sound Guy (to come bring all his equipment down) and help me shoot my (crappy, half ass) film. I can’t pay anyone but I’ll give credit (a blip on the screen) and food (cookies) for the 3 weeks of shooting. Your work will get exposure (how a sound guys work gets exposed I don’t know) and I will maybe pay you on the next film (if there is one).”

Come on guys.. you’ve seen these ads haven’t you?

>>>Unless its for family or by special arrangement for a “charity” of some kind, audio ops DO get paid in my part of the country (midwest).

Yeah.. I might do it for one day and I’d better get IMDb credit for it.. 🙂

But in general.. I’m thinking of saying, “Yeah.. I’ll do it”.. and then hit them up for a massive rental bill for all my equipment!! 🙂

-Richard

[Richard Ragon]

Another great resource is One River Media.

https://codecs.onerivermedia.com/

-Richard

[Richard Ragon]

Thanks Tony,

I go to my system>Sound.. I have a Revolution PCI Sound card. When I move the volume slider, I hear the little “bubble” sound..

Every other facet of sound is heard on my computer.. it just doesn’t play the sound on QT movies..

-Richard

[Richard Ragon]

>>Is your Mac audio “muted”?

No.

>>Is the audio on the Mac (or QT Player) turned down?

No.

>>Can you hear iTunes playing an y kind of audio?

Sure.. iTunes plays normaly, and I can hear it. Any podcast that I’ve downloaded, played though iTunes I can’t hear either it looks like.. Perhaps video played though iTunes, is actualy using the QT engine within iTunes, so I have no sound on any videos played though iTunes either.. Music plays fine.

I have sound though every other means.. I have to use VLC to play videos now.

Thanks
-Richard

[Richard Ragon]

Personal Ive hit these question a few times too..

I decided on DVCAM. You can buy DVCAM decks for pretty good prices now, tapes are your best bang for the buck still. I’m sure it will last 10+ more years, and even if the tape player breaks you can easly get these from eBay for years to come, and I’ll deal with it again then..

But, untill then, I have a great resource where I can pull up anything on the small lib of DVCAM 187 tapes holding 3 hours off footage in top quality detail. I’m in the process of getting everything from 8mm to VHS and placing it on the tape and documenting the timecodes.

-Richard