Steve Wargo
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[Brendan Coots] “just wondering if I’m missing a bigger point here.”
Not everyone wants to be a system builder. I think that when you buy from ProMax, you get a system with everything installed and ready to go, along with someone really nice on the other end of the phone who can tell you where the power switch is located, among other things . It arrives, you pull it out of the box and go to work. With a kit, you need to know a lot of technical things which might completely baffle an “Editor”. Editors edit and technicians tech.
I used to build custom cars and often wondered why people would buy boring cars that came with the engine already installed. After all, all ya gotta do is plug it in and hook up a couple wires, slap some belts and hoses on there and drive it to church. I can rebuild any engine in the world but I have a hell of a time getting my e-mail to work.
I did a video a few years back on “Home Dentistry”. I’m not even going to go there.
By the way, I have dealt with B&H and it was the worst experience of my professional career. I know that a lot of people won’t go anywhere else but not me, ever again.
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 . -
[julie hill] “fancy name for a clothespin”
In professional budgets, there are line items.
On one of the more used budget packages, there was a line “C-47”. The item on line C-47 was a small wooden clamp that some used for laundry.
If you want in for the next Olympics, get to Burbank, the NBC building on Alameda (that is soon moving to Universal Studios) and find out who produces the Olympics.
Before you go, edit a 90 – 120 second piece using HD footage from this years programming. Give them something that they can’t say no to. Keep it short and sweet. Offer to produce something for them. Insist that you need to be on the team. Want in on the Olympics, do a Gold Medal job.
Buy them lunch.
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 send ours to some guys in Seattle. If I wasn’t sitting a recliner with a Pug in my lap, I’d get the info for you. I’ll look it up tomorrow though.
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 . -
If all of us would simply drop our rates to, say, $25 per hour, we would have more work than we could do. I don’t know why we haven’t thought of this before. I am a marketing genius. Wait! Just think how much work I could get if I work for free!!! Holy COW. And, I’ll make up the losses on volume. And, once I get really busy, I’ll go ahead and start paying clients to allow me to work for them. Not only that, but if we’re working out in the blazing sun, I could actually pay them double time.
Within 6 months, after I’ve lost everything and I’m in debt a few hundred thousand dollars, I won’t need money because I will be living in a deserted old van, down by the river, fishing for food with a spear.
Wait till I tell the guys.
On second thought, let’s keep it a secret. I don’t want any competition. Before long, I will have all of the work and everyone will be starving. Awesome.
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 are a number of threads on this forum discussing the downside of CMOS. You just have to know what situations can present a problem.
The EX-1 is great.
The EX-3 has Time Code in and out and an interchangable lens. If you’ll never change the lens and you’re not linking two cameras together to match time code, the EX-1 will suffice. I would buy an EX-3 if I could buy it without the lens and then get a really nice pro lens for around $5k.
On the F335, you will be buying XDCAM cartridges. With the EXs, you store the footage on a drive somewhere.
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 . -
Go to this site: https://www.dsclabs.com/tech_tips.htm
They have all of the charts. They are expensive.
Contact them, tell them that you’re new to production and ask if they have something available that you can used to set some framing.
Now that it’s been asked a few times, we’ll work one up and post it on our website.
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 . -
Here’s how we do it:
1. Get a DSC (or other) chart that has 2.35 framing lines.
1a. Frame it up on whatever LCD you’re using.
2. Find a piece of lightly tinted plastic sheeting (thin) and lay it over your LCD.
3. Mark the 2.35 framing with a marker.
4. Cut the frame out, exposing the 2.35 center section.
5. Tape it onto your LCD when needed.
6. Remember, in post, you can slide the image up and down to adjust vertical framing.
We shot a feature film framed at 1.85. However, we were able to convince the production to allow us to post frame at 2.35. Problem: Some of the shots now had improper framing like heads cut off or whatever. In one shot, we panned across a room and the last guy’s head was cut off. We did a slide movement with the frame behind the matte and it looked like a camera tilt up. Using key frames for your move, no one will ever know it wasn’t a planned camera move.
So, with this in mind, you have some flexibility in vertical framing that you can adjust in post if necessary. In our feature, we only had to adjust a dozen shots out of a about 1500 and didn’t have the luxury of planning in advance.
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 . -
Yes
Yes
It’s a COW Forum.
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 . -
[Reid Caulfield] “I have Declick software that works beautifully on “lip smack”,”
Reid, Do you have anything that fixes bad acting?
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 . -
You’ll want Tiffen White ProMist in several densities, a Polarizer, Coral, Ultraviolet. Go to Tiffen’s website and they have suggestions and samples. https://www.tiffen.com/filters.htm
Someone sells a starter kit worth 5 filters at a discount. Explore at B+H website but look for a deal elsewhere. We buy our stuff from BandPro in Burbank
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 .