Steve Wargo
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Thanks for the clip. I only see two dark spots and that’s between 1&2 and between 3&4. The rest looks pretty even. As for the EX-3, I can see where you may need a long lens from that vantage point. We shot all of our later stuff on stix with proper lens controls. I worked with ESPN for 8 years shooting off-road races. That meant a 30 puond camera on the shoulder for 8 hours or more with very few breaks. I can’t give you much sympathy on holding the EX on your shoulder.
As for the beer infested rednecks, that was meant in jest, of course. I’ll look around for the dirt track commercial spot we did and see if I can’t post that.
Your footage looked very good, by the way. As far as bit rate, I would still test the 25mb against the 35. If it works, why not use it? When your shooting an event, it would be tough to lose something because you were a minute short on record time.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
This is the very thing that I did when I started my production company in 1982 and we shot on VHS, moving up to S-VHS in ’87 or so.
I would start with SP and look for problems. If you don’t really have any, you’ll get more record time. The racers will not even see an occasional glitch. They wouldn’t see it if you stopped the video and showed it to them.
Lighting at a track can be tough. Dirt tracks do not have a reputation for even lighting. You want manual iris (auto iris is bad, bad, bad) and set it so that you are at the top of your exposure when the cars are under the brightest light. While the white cars might seem a bit hot, you’ll still have a picture in the darker areas.
Talk to the track owner about spending a couple hundred grand on evening out the lighting. He’ll probably decline because the beer drinking crowd at dirt tracks don’t care. He’s right. I’m not trying to slam the crowd. I was a professional dirt track racer from ’76 till ’85 and, trust me, as long as we could see the car numbers, we were very happy. If it was in focus, we were in heaven.
Back then, we had tube cameras and the color was never right. Today’s cameras have got to be fantastic compared to those things and I envy your product.
Where are you located anyway?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
never mind. I got it.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
There is a company that is licensing a lot of popular music to re-license for small projects. Let’s do some research on this because I saw it a year or two ago and they were compiling a good sized list.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
looking forward to it…
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
I believe thaty Sony has provided the codec for FCP and Premier and Avid. It looks like the “Calibrated Q” is a third party program who makes their money by selling product.
Sony probably won’t write codec for every edit system in existance but they have provided for the Big Three.
What I won’t say is that anyone who wants to edit with non industry-standard software, in order to save money or whatever, has to suffer the consequences of being the bastard child. You can’t have it both ways. That not being said, I agree that $80 is a good chunk of money but all you have to do is download the FREE Sony clipbrowser 2.0 to at least look at the footage. I don’t know what you can do past there.
Can’t the person who gave you the files convert them to something you can use?
Ouch! Sorry.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
The camera straps to the bottom of the bag and we pack accessories around it, in padded bags. The Petrol bags are also very durable. The KATA bags I’ve seen don’t have enough pockets.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
[Michael Slowe] “Here in the UK our airports are run by a terrible outfit called British Airports Authority (no connection to the airline) and they only allow 1 bag as carry on”
What a shame Michael. All of the personnel who work in US airports are some of the most caring individuals that I have ever met. They treat everything as it’s their own. “Easy does it” is their mantra. And when we ask them how they’ve managed to destroy everything they touch, they respond in a very gentle manner, just like talking to grandma.
Part sarcasm and part truth. I’m sure you know which is which. I NEVER allow them to take possession of my gear unless there is no alternative. The last time I did, they tore a viewfinder from a DSR-300 camera and bent the head plate on a $5000 tripod. And they’re not responsible for a dime of the damage.
We do, however, get some privileges as I mentioned earlier, IF you get the right person.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
We do hand them hard drives if they want their footage. The request is usually “Dump it on a DVD and that will do. They don’t understand why I can’t put 2 hours of footage on a DVD when a 2 hour movie will fit just fine. I must be doing something wrong.
They also can’t understand why I can’t whip up a 2 hour WMV in 10 minutes.
They have no idea what our actual depth of knowledge and capabilities are.
Oh well.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
We have this one for every day use: https://www.evsonline.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=DVO2R&Category_Code=5A2&Product_Count=65 It fits in overhead bins for airline travel.
For a hard case: https://www.all-pelican-cases-4-less.com/detail_pelican_1610.html It’s a tad big for airline travel but we’ve gotten this one on Southwest and US Airways. Buy it with the PADDED INTERIOR. The foam is useless. You’ll also do well to get the Photographer’s Lid Organizer.
Most people don’t know that the media gets special privileges when traveling on planes. We can pre-board and we can carry smaller tripods. Make up an ID badge in Photoshop and laminate it.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD .