I completely agree with Kevin. To absolutely nobody does the phrase “under the render heading and log menu” mean anything. You could have been much more clear in your explanation, especially for a representative of Adobe.
Users over at another forum have attested to the surprising quality of these lights, so I’m really curious to hear if anybody else has had any experience with them. They’re basically Ari clones, and people that have used them have said they’re solidly built.
The group that I’m starting is entirely non-profit for now, completely self-serving (art projects and skits and the like). This is in addition to my regular job as a producer and editor. So we’ll have some leeway to be inventive with lighting solutions.
So I guess I’m wondering whether anybody has had any experience putting together a budget light kit from scratch – and specifically if they’ve used kits from imageWest.
I know $1500 isn’t a lot of money, and I have experience with DPs, Fresnels, etc. But money doesn’t grow on trees, and in this case, for starters, a little is going to have to go a long way. Hence this thread.
When it comes to audio keep in mind: there are no magic fixes. What you record in the field is what’s married to the tracks, and contrary to what you see in hokey movies, there’s no feature that will just allow you to pull just one type of sound out of a single track of audio. There’s also equalizing out certain frequencies – but you’re almost always going to lose part of the signal you want to keep in so doing.
I actually came up with a work-around which involved opening all the bins in a new project and transcoding all the media from XDCAM EX 35 to DNX HD… No idea why the EX video format should cause this problem, though, as it’s officially supported in the 1080i 59.94 video format with 1920×1080 raster dimensions… But such it is. Has anybody else had any similar problems with XDCAM EX media?