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We have one and we’r wiling to let it go. It has a bramd new power supply and cable. I’ll write back tomorrow
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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I produced a Pizza spot in HD a while back. They had it on their website for a while but I can’t find it right now. See eatzapizza.com We used slightly wider food shots showing complimentary items like the salad and a beverage. The beauty shot of the dough being kneeded by hand. A fly over of all the different offerings. A slice being pulled from a pie.
Ask the client this.
Why should someone choose your pizza (menu) over others?
What makes your place special?
Why them instead of a chain?
Do they have a quality guarantee?
Specials? Anchovy night? Free drinks during certain sports.
Repeat customer clubs? (Card required)
Do the owners look nice?
What would make someone leave their house and go there to dine?Welcome to the world of “Marketing”.
Remember Mama Celeste Pizza? We did their spots for years. When we put the beautiful 25 year old grand daughter, also named Celeste, in the spots, sales jumped over 20%.
One of my biggest clients is an organization that teaches reataurant owners how to market their restaurant. It’s dog eat dog if you’ll please excuse the pun.
Show HAPPY diners but please, do not show people putting food in their mouth. Professional spots never show people eating. Bringing the food up, yes. Sticking it in their mouth? No thanks. Remember, you’re selling the dining experience, not just the food. Eating an Outback steak at home just ain’t the same.
Good Luck
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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If you have no way to clean the heads, stick with the Sony tape. When you switch back and forth, a gummy residue results from the mixed lube.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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What you’re asking is a very important part of every day production. You were smart enough to record a back up audio track and you’re wise in asking what you should do before making a mistake which can’t be undone.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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We have been sponsoring office space for a company producing a feature film shot on a JVC HD100 camera. He is using PPRO and any timeline over 18 minutes seems to just bog down to turtle speed. They have their movie broken down into 5 sections to reduce this problem. They do not have a dual processor PC but the guys wife is an Intel exec and she gave him the latest and greatest chip to build his rig around. He is not a computer whiz either, just a writer/director.
My point here is that our feeling is to find the platform that works best with whatever format you’re shooting on. We chose FCP on a Mac because the combination of the dual processor, a BMD or AJA card and a X-Serve Raid is a proven combination and it has worked flawlessly for 18 months without a single glitch.
I listen to guys all the time telling about how fast their custom built system is but they seem to always be working on it also to keep it running. Myself, I would rather sweat the $1300 a month payment rather than waking up each day wondering if my computer was going to crash. And believe me, we fought the whole MAC thing for a long time. We started with D-Vision 3.5 in 1997. FCP was a joke until version 4.5 and the Tiger operating system. And it all worked, out of the box, from day one.
We’re cutting a feature we shot shot last year on HDCAM and posting in 8 bit uncompressed and while it seems tired once in a while, we have no complaints.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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Well, I guess I got a different website than you did. The one I landed on had Mark’s phone number and e-mail address in plain site. So much for a dead end, I guess. Just how much closer can you get to the original footage than talking on the phone to the guy who shot it?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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OK The last time I did this, I got my ass ripped for being sarcastic. But, I will throw caution to the wind and say it again.
After I read your post, I copied the words Mark Falstad directly from your post into my GOOGLE search bar and hit enter. Guess what I got?
So, go ahead, let me have it for being a wise guy.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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I know I’m going to catch hell for this but, in a pinch, you can use a roll of plastic such as what you would buy at Home Depot, which comes in a 10’x25′ roll and build a frame out of simple electrical conduit with corners. This is a very inexpensive type of diffusion which works remakable well. It does make noise in the wind, however, but hey, cheap is cheap. You can use it in a single layer or double it. Good luck.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!
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[l_vaughan] “I was hoping for some feedback from people that may have used the camera and have an un-biased, independent opinion.
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Set your F-900 to record at 59.94 and play it back at 23.98. A rental house will do this test for you. Unlike the Panasonic product line, you don’t have to pull the footage into an NLE and remove frames. Many sony decks also have dynamic tracking for slo-mo. Hey guys, we’ve been playing slo motion video for decades. What’s the big problem here?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, ArizonaIt’s a dry heat!