Stephen Schott
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Personal opinion, the more weight, the more stable. One thing to look at that I’ve learned the hard way is, what is the height range of the sticks? I’ve had projects where I wanted to get fairly low, close to the ground and my sticks wouldn’t go as low as I wanted… others do. Also, how high. When you say indie films, I think of a fairly free rein regarding creativity and height might be something to look at. Just a thought.
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Honestly, I think it depends on your “kind” of shooting. I’ve been a part of different shoots where there isn’t a lot of moving and if you do move, it’s a major thing. I’ve also been a part of shoots where they are moving A LOT. And moving because what they are shooting can never be duplicated. Wildlife style stuff where if you miss the tiger attacking a gazelle… you’ve kinda missed it, kinda thing. No reshoots. You want stability, but if your leaning more towards a “run-and-gun” kinda shooting, I’d avoid the larger sticks. Just make sure you get the stability you need, but I think it’s personal choice, depending on your clients and their kind/your kind of shoots.
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Michael,
I shoot lots of stuff that is ALL fast motion (horses running), and at first I was working with as slow a shutter speed as I could. Especially when I go for the “slow mo” I wanted it as smooth as possible. Now I find that, although it isn’t “smooth” I crank the shutter up quite a bit. People really enjoy seeing the actual dirt clod flying, or in your case the wake and water spray and being able to truly see the “shape” of them. What I WAS working with was 1/100 max, now I work at trying to get 1/500.Stephen
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So you de-interlaced… what dpi to get the 8×10 and it still look decent? Any other programs/plug-ins/tricks?
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Thanks Craig. I’ve been off and on looking for the tutorial and couldn’t find it. I appreciate the help. I know that this isn’t even in the ballpark of a “good” situation, but the client is fairly ticked, and desperate. Appreciate it. Thanks to all.
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That is what I’m doing. My client had a photog. screw up the stills and is now wanting to know if we can get stills off our footage. Possibility of magazine cover shots… 300dpi stuff. My response was we could get stills off the footage, but the quality is the question. At 300 dpi, I can get something like, 5″ by whatever. That still doesn’t have much to do with the “quality” but as long as I don’t mess with the straight conversions… I’ll have to look for that tutorial. Thanks guys.
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So how do we find out if we have that firmware update? Is there something within the menu’s that I’ve missed that tells the user, or is it a “trust” issue as to purchase date?
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I think it is the way that I’m exporting to the DVD. I checked some of the other DVD’s and a good portion of them have all the Metadata, but the ones that only have a few clips don’t. While on location we’d shoot and sometimes a full SxS card wouldn’t fit ALL the clips onto a DL DVD. So apparently my workflow for the 3 or 4 straggling clips is faulty. The shoot was so long ago, and I was burning them in the middle of the night because we were shooting all day, I can’t remember how I was doing it. I’ll have to be more careful on the next shoot. You’d think I’d do the same thing regardless of the number of clips but… Thanks Craig. Been a great help!
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Got the new Transfer upgrade and all is good. But, regarding all those other files that weren’t on my copies on DL DVD (.smi .ppn .xml .bim)… are those SUPPOSED to have been copied over with Clip Browser? Now I ask this using Clip Browser 2.00.00. I haven’t had time to look for, nor download, version 2.00.01. Or does it even copy those over to a DL DVD with 2.00.01 version? I’m not trying to be a pest, I just want to make sure all is good with the world when I’m out there on location copying all this. I sure do appreciate you guys being available like this… COW is an invaluable jewel of knowledge.
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Thanks guys. Didn’t know there was a new Transfer release. I’ll try that. But first, I noticed something late last night while trying to fix this issue. I noticed the DL DVD didn’t have the .smi, .ppn .xml nor the ,bim files in the folder with the mp4 file, like it would have on an SxS card… is that an issue? Could that be the core problem I have? Thanks again.
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