Ryan Elder
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Sorry I don’t mean to troll, I just want the best product which has to be ordered, and want to make sure that it’s worth the money. I can’t experiment with these products, without ordering first, so I want to know exactly what I am getting and if it’s right for me. That’s all.
I am directing a project currently with a gimbal and will see how I like that one.
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Okay thanks, I tried using a person in the wheelchair before though, but the footage did have vibration in, and I was told it was because a wheelchair is just not meant for smooth camera movement. Plus with that set up, I would need one more crew person to push the chair, where as with a dolly, one person can move the dolly as well hold the camera, since the dolly holds it. So it’s one less person that way.
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Another thing that worries me about the slider is that it’s more difficult to hide the track since it’s much higher up compared to a dolly. So I would have to zoom past the track which could be problematic in a smaller location, where I need a wider field of view. So is hiding the tracks often a problem on a slider, when pushing in and pushing out?
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Okay thanks. I don’t mean for everyone to wait on set for the sound person to do it. What I mean is after the scene is done, and the actors can go home, then have the audio people stick around and record the sound effects.
As for going to another location to get a similar reverb, I have had much more success with that then trying to recreate the same reverb with computer effects cause the computer effects sound somewhat synthetic and artificial compare to the real thing, at least they do to me.
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Okay thanks, but what if I shot at a deep enough DOF to hold focus like F11 or something like that?
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Yeah but for some reason the sound people want to do this in studio, and this costs me more money cause then I have to pay the post production audio engineer to make something that was recorded in a studio, sound like it was recorded in a different type of room.
For example, I shot a short film with a scene in the bathroom. I needed to record Foley and sound effects, such as for the actors washing their hands, and paper towel and all that.
Now instead of doing this in a studio with a sink and paper towel, I went to a different restroom in post, and got these sounds while in the actual restroom in order to get reverb that sounded like a restroom.
This was much faster than recording in a studio, and then using computer effects to make it sound like a restroom. I asked viewers opinions and they said it sounded the same and could not tell the difference in the sound effects being recorded in a different restroom compared to the actor’s dialogue.
So this is what I mean. Why not use actual locations to get reverb, rather than creating computer generated reverb in post, which costs more time and more money?
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Oh okay, thanks, it didn’t look blurry to me when I zoomed on the historical footage. But if switching aspect ratios is best, then I will do that.
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Okay thanks. I met someone who operates the Moza Air gimbal and he said that any lens under 100mm looks pretty smooth on a gymbal. But is he exaggerating then, if that’s not true?
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Oh okay thanks. But wouldn’t a flex track get me movements like that, since the flex track can be bent to move the dolly in curved shapes?
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No I don’t mean record all of the sound effects while shooting the actors. What I mean is after shooting the actors is done in a location, why not just record all of the foley and sound effects in the same location, to get the same room reverb?
Because for some reason a lot of audio professionals prefer to record in a studio environment and then try to make it sound like the same location instead of recording in the same location in the first place. And that’s just a lot of extra work in post. So why do it that way?