Scott Sheriff
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[Chris Kenny] “This statement implies that brand loyalty is causing me to defend something I otherwise wouldn’t support, but one of the reasons I like Apple is that they’re willing to do things like this. In my opinion,”
That statement, and your overall defense of apple has the same feel as having a drink in support of sobriety.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Dennis Dean] “And the black marker is not as black as a Sharpie. We may end up switching to traditional marker on paper… Just have to see what we can adjust to…”
I’m not trying to be a jerk, but since you said your not technical, I was wondering if you were shooting in auto-iris? Could be part of the problem.
If you are not familiar with the camera, I wouldn’t make adjustments to the scene files. Instead, start with the basics, and make sure they are OK.
In the first layer of menus, maybe in video format look for “set up”. This item should be set for 0, and not 7.5. Digital should always be at 0. 7.5 is for analog TV. Using 7.5 in digital will give muddy, elevated blacks
In the ‘camera process’ menu, look for ‘white clip’ and set this to 108%. This will let the camera shoot a brighter white before it has that blown out over exposed look. You can then bring that down in post, to the normal level.
If your shots are sill lacking enough contrast, look for ‘black’ in the camera process’ menu. Try going from ‘normal’ to ‘Compress1’ to make the blacks, blacker and increase the contrast.
Like I said, I have an earlier camera, but JVC menus tend to be similar. Maybe not identical, so you might have to do some looking around.
Be sure to test your changes before shooting any mission critical stuff.
How are you posting this? I wish I could see a couple of seconds of your footage to see what can be done in post with it.
I really can’t imagine it is so far off that the blacks and whites can’t be fixed.
Feel free to contact me if you can’t get what you’re looking for.
SScott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Mark Suszko] “Not only did it not work, we looked just like the cartoon illustration of when comic book character Andy Capp gets into a bar fight: a cloud with a tangle of arms, legs, and lenses poking out at odd angles. The caboose end of our little train overtook me and we swapped ends. I saved the camera, natch, but not our pride. Damn thing made the papers in a wide 2-shot of the guv and his daughter, racing a human tumbleweed, down the bumpy toboggan slide.”
Mark,
One of the things I love about your posts is you have a great ability to paint a great visual with your words.Living in Colorado, I have done my fair share of skiing gigs. And this type of thing is always in the back of your mind if you’re trying to ski the gear down the mountain when there’s no sled available.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Dennis Dean] “Is there a way to get whiter whites and blacker blacks?”
I have a HD110U, and I’m not that familiar with the gy100. But they should be pretty close, feature wise.
The HD110 has the ability to make scene files. To alter the gain of each channel in the whites and blacks, etc. These usually can be expanded somewhat to improve exposure latitude.
Plus in the menu most of the JVC cameras come set-up pretty conservative. The whites are probably set to clip at 95, and the blacks could be at 7.5. You should be shooting at 0 black, and going to a super white (110) clip is how I would set the camera. That way you have a lot of exposure latitude for post.One thing to remember is a lot of white boards are not as white as a piece of paper. And the black dry-erase makers are not as black as something like a Sharpie.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Ronald Lindeboom] “Some of the largest and most trusted names in home electronics, computers, hard drives, etc. — onetime leaders at the top of their respective stacks are now gone, or survive as nameplates only, tacked on to other people’s products for the sake of milking past goodwill. RCA, Zenith, Connor, Magnavox, Sylvania, Packard Bell, Compaq, Seagate, Quantum and many others, are gone — though someone may have picked up the rights to the name at a fire sale somewhere.
Being the leader doesn’t save anyone. It merely gives one the opportunity for survival. But it’s never guaranteed.”
Ron,
Very well said.
Let me throw in Ampex. Not only were they a leader, but they invented almost every important device that got us to where we are today. And if they didn’t invent it, they built it. You couldn’t go in a station or post facility that wasn’t all Ampex or RCA gear. Until Sony came along in the mid to late 70’s. About the only thing RCA built, that Ampex didn’t was transmitters.
This is a partial list of Ampex key inventions and developments.
First (radio) show to be tape delayed 1948
First data instrumentation recorder 1950
First multi-track audio recorder 1954
First practical video tape recorder 1956
First to use helical scan video recording 1961
First frame accurate tape editor 1963
First high band color VTR 1964
First portable VTR 1967
First video slo-mo system 1967
First robotic spot playback system 1970
First 1″ C format VTR, first VTR to do slo-mo 1976
First practical electronic still store 1977
First video paint system 1978
First digital real time video special FX unit to do rotation and perspective 1981
First digital (composite) video recorder 1988
First digital post production system with image compression 1992And where are they now? In 2008 Ampex received an Emmy for lifetime achievement, they also filed chapter 11 that year. The only place you will see their gear is in someones collection, or museum. No one lasts forever.
Yes, I’m fan, and I was lucky enough to work for them for a while.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Greg Burke] “But the problem is some “vets” who own there on houses look at it say “..Its a toy..” Thats what my boss called it when I was trying to show him what it did.”
Back when I worked in broadcast, and not the guy that writes the check for the gear, some of us production guys were bending the GM’s ear at an after party. The subject of how our online bay used to be the best in town, but now was not came up.
He put down his drink, and told us the job of the station was to make money. Not to acquire every piece of new equipment that hits the floor at NAB.
This was coming from a guy that not only was the GM, but a partial owner, and a guy that wrote the checks.
It was then I realized it was a lot easier to spend money that isn’t yours.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Ted Levy] “Final Cat Fight X!”
LOL!
FCF X. You should trademark that!
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Joe Martino] “lol why are people on this forum so angry all the time? I always am seeing fights and arguing etc. Nobody has patience for the people who don’t do this every day of their life.”
Joe,
Why do you think?
I can’t speak for everybody, but I can speak for myself.
I do this for a living, and time is money. I’m not a mind-reader, and I’m not sitting in front of your machine. So the only way I have to know what is going on, is for you to tell me. And you are wasting my time by making me waterboard you in order to get accurate info.
Considering you’re asking for free help, do you think it is too much to ask that you:
1. Give us accurate, pertinent info.
2. Try searching the forum for similar issues, and answers.
3. Read the manual.
4. Tell us what you did to troubleshoot your problem, and what result you got.
5. Stop complaining about the mood of those you expect help from, and the nature of that help. It really won’t prove to be effective in getting an answer.I think you will find plenty of posts where people did numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, and never got to number 5.
And Adam is not only correct, but has every right to point out typo’s.
First off, how are we supposed to know this is a rough cut? And if you don’t care enough about your project to get the fonts spelled correct, why should I care enough to help you?I’m sorry if you and Sascha think that cutting to the chase is the equivalent of “reading someone his rights”. I never went in for that PC ‘everyone in the class gets a gold star for trying’ crap. This is a tough biz, full of opinion and ego.
If you guys think this is mean, dissing, judgmental or whatever, perhaps your not cut out for it?Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Craig Shields] “No offense to you either Sheriff but if you are done with Apple, why are you still hanging around this forum and posting as often as you are – each time more venomous than the previous?”
Let me follow up with this.
This is a public forum, of which I am a member. I have received not so much as even an ‘informal warning’ about the content, or the nature of my writing from Ron or any of the the other COWS staff.
I will continue to be critical of whomever I feel like, whenever I feel like, and will not be censored by you, or any other apple apologist.
On this point, I hope I’m perfectly clear.
If you, and others in your little clique’ find this doesn’t not suit you. Please feel free to avoid the debate, and continue to use inflammatory rhetoric, personal insults, misconstrue, misquote and take statements out of context in your unending quest to defend apple and your position.
And as a staunch defender of apple, I would also recommend you read this, and see where you fit in:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/6427The only childishness I see here is when I criticize your beloved billion dollar corporation, and you and a select few others feel the need to personally attack us to defend it.
It is actually very sad and pathetic to see someone so emotionally invested in a marketing brand.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Craig Shields] “Why would I be afraid of Apple? I’m just not going to put my name to anything that doesn’t come off as professional. That petition is a waist of time.
No offense to you either Sheriff but if you are done with Apple, why are you still hanging around this forum and posting as often as you are – each time more venomous than the previous? If they have blown it with you, then why not move on to the next thing? Maybe you are a little more optimistic than you let on that they will right the ship.
Also, I mentioned this to you in an encounter before. Don’t go dismissing everybody that differs from you with the “fanboy” wrap. People are different and you should be able to respect another man’s opinion. Personally, when I see someone calling someone else a fanboy, I think of some teen typing away on his Dad’s computer. It’s a bit childish.”
Yawn…
[Craig Shields] “No offense to you either Sheriff”
BTW, that is Mr. Sheriff to you, sir. Since you are so concerned with how professional you look here.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair