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Ooops, I left out the RAM: 4 GB 800MHZ DDR2 SDRAM – 2 x 2 GB.
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director of photography
Oakland, CA
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Did you encounter any difficulty setting up Windows and Vegas 8 on your Mac? I notice that the Sony site specifically states it offers NO support for Mac users. Possibly because they sell PCs, or possibly because there are problems they don’t want to deal with.
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director of photography
Oakland, CA
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That’s it! PNG works. Thanks!
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Don, what wireless system do you recommend?
Rick
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director of photography
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Quite true. But the empirical evidence seems to be that if you upload Flash, they will re-encode it. Better to follow the WMV line. However, try uploading both ways and see which is better, if you like. I am reasonably satisfied with going the WMV route. Not quite as good as Flash on my own web sites, but OK. Especially now that YouTube has upgraded the viewer.
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Thanks, Allen, for posting that link. Now I’ve got it bookmarked…
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There is a tutorial on YouTube on just this topic. Basically:
–render to WMV (WIndows Media 9)
–template: 1 mbs
–custom: Best
–audio tab: attributes: 128 KBS
–video tab: frame rage = 30; image size = 320 x 240; video smoothness == 100 (max)
–bit rate tab: click last option, Internet/Lan: 1 M
–project tab: give your settings a name, such as, “YouTube Settings” and under description, type something likes, Best for YouTube; then save. The next time, you only need to select Render as: Windows Media 9, and chose the “YouTube” template (Vegas will default to that unless you do a WMV to a different template in the mean time.)I can’t find the original YouTube tutorial on this, but here’s one that’s similar, though it leaves out a couple of things: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W6LpQ0ZyqgI
Or, if you search on YouTube help, they recommend:
–render to MPEG4 (Divx, Svid)
–640 x 480
–MPT3 audio
–30 fps
Here’s a YouTube tutorial for this method: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I1LuS2n9_c8Several posters in the past swear by the first system/version.
Finally, in the future, try a search on this forum for such topics. It’s been covered before.
Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
http://www.RickWiseDP.com
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Frankly I find Pro Titler so difficult to use I’ve given up on it and gone back to the old system.
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The problem with Flix Standard ($39) is it does not include the ability to make an SWF player. It also does not support dual pass. If you are an academic, they have a reduced price for the pro ($249) version. I use the pro version and once I figured out how to use it, love it. Elsewhere on Cow I’ve posted details about using it.
Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
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Unfortunately, the SD cameras mentioned above all cost more, used, than your budget. You might want to consider the Canon HV30, which is HDV and right at your budget of $1,000. If you do, make sure you have the computer power and upgraded FCP to edit HDV.
The lighting advice is great — just to add a couple of details: Try to get the interviewee (if there is just one at a time — much easier to control and light) to face either into the lens (one style) or just to the left or right of the camera. The latter is the more common style for these sorts of videos. Let’s say the interviewee is facing camera left. Then place your single key light 45 degrees further to the left of camera and about 45 degrees up from horizontal as a starting point. Every face is different. You are looking to have your light: reach into the subjects right eye and also just into his/her left eye, and illuminate only a small bit of the subjects left cheek. This is called the “Rembrandt Patch.”
But look at the subject either through the camera or by placing yourself in front of the lens. If the subject has deep set eyes, you will need to lower the key light until the light reaches into those sockets. If the subject has a very flat, round face, you may want to move the light even further to the left.
With a piece of foam core or white show card clipped to something like an empty chair and placed camera right, you can adjust the amount of fill bouncing back from your key into the face of your subject. There is just one spot where you will get the maximum bounce back. Obviously, the closer you bring the card to the subject, the more fill you get. Again, look at the result: do you want so much fill? or is there too little? There are no rules for this, just taste. Look, look, look.
Eventually you will want a second smaller light and various rigging devices to use as a backlight; later, some other lights to put patterns of light on the background.
And be sure to bring along some 1/4 plus green, some 1/4 and 1/2 CTB, so that you can balance the color of your key to what will almost certainly be overhead “daylight” fluorescents. (You will figure out ways to clip the gels to your light).Your key will almost certainly be a tungsten unit, since HMIs (daylight balanced units) cost a whole bunch of money. You might start with a Lowel Rifa light, with a soft box on the front. Generally, you will want soft light, not hard light, for these interviews.
Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
http://www.RickWiseDP.com
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com