[Steven J. gilbert]

One of the most important things to learn is lighting. As a still professional first and foremost I believe my still training has helped with my transition to video. I am still learning the tolerances of lighting ratios with video and maintaining detail with good image quality. Learn lighting and composition and it will help with your progression as an artist to produce good stills from video. just the technology needs to catch up a bit.

Steve

[Steven J. gilbert]

Bill,

Check with the guys at sweetwater.com they are true pros at audio recording and instruments.

Steve

[Steven J. gilbert]

Jeremy,

Check out Sound Ideas. As a musician, I prefer having live musicians instead of electronic music. It is all personal taste. I really didn’t care for the backtraxx at all. I love their image libraries and graphics, but not music. Smartsound is a viable option, but be careful what you by to keep it “real” and not canned. Hope this helps. Research will pay off and you can sample libraries on line from Sound Ideas and possibly other libraries.

Steve

[Steven J. gilbert]

Robin,

You might want to check out two brands. Photogenic and Dynalight. I personally own photogenic powerlights and have used them in commercial and portrait settings effectively for over 15 years. The accessories are very good. You want to be able to control the light and maintain the quality as well. There are some comparable accessories for the Dynalights as well. I prefer a monolight, which is a single self-contained light. The Dynalights use a battery pack. I have actually used my bellows shade and black dot screen filters on my video camera and used the modeling lamps to light an interview with fantastic results. I would probably not recommend that too often, but for the situation it worked great. Hope this helps.

Steve

[Steven J. gilbert]

I am checking into a Viewsonic 20.1″ VP201B Black Monitor. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Steven J. gilbert]

And I have a Radeon X700 video card with 256 Mb RAM along with the Canaopus DVStorm Pro +.

Steve

[Steven J. gilbert]

KT Williams,

To start I wouldn’t have either piece of equipment in a control room situation. Globcaster not bad, but not reliable in my opinion. I have been a one-man band Government Access coordinator for about 9 years and had a partner in crime for three of them. I have set-up three control rooms with remote pan and tilt systems. I just remodelled a facility I am at currently and stuck with the Panasonic equipment. At the first facility we installed a Vinten pan and tilt system, which was definitely the Rolls of the pan and tilt systems. Your cameras and switchers could go a number of ways. The current facility we have Panasonic MX-70 switchers, Compix Media character generators, Panasonic DVD and SVHS recorders, Videotek waveform/vectorscopes and Videotek APM audio monitors with Ikegami TM-9 Monitors on a Windsted console. Real solid but reasonible. Tell me a little about what you are trying to do with your facility. How many camera? Are you upgrading audio equipment? Let me know.

Steve

[Steven J. gilbert]

Thanks very much.

[Steven J. gilbert]

Thanks Guys.

My workflow will produce the moves in AE, export and then edit in Final Cut. Thanks again.

Steve

[Steven J. gilbert]

Steamer,

You should check out the TVOne solutions as well. I talked with the VP at NAB and their products are real solid performers. I will be deploying 2 CS-620A scan converters in my control rooms real soon and a few video scalers (SC-1250) as well.

Steve