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Se la ve (or however it’s spelled)
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. -
So, do we get a discount?
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. -
I called my pilot this week to ask if had a seat open on any flights and we’re supposed to do one next Monday. We won’t be using any type of stabilizer because I want a worse case scenario. It’s a Bell Ranger so it shakes a bit (2 blades).
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. -
I believe that we can output the composite A/V signal with TC overlay to a DV field deck. I would try it right now but I’m in the LazyBoy with Chuee & LoverBoy (our Pugs). Tomorrow for sure.
Someone said recently that you can burn a DVD from the EX-1 clip browser with a TC overlay. We could try that too but it will be later this week.
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FCp 6.0.2 is working very well. We have the Ahoy project cut to 10 minutes and it looks great.
We need to come shoot your bird. How’s Wed eve sometime?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. -
[Pat Ford] “I don’t know where the heck the color of water discussion came from”
In your opening post, you said “footage I got was flat and drained of color”. So my comment was along the lines of: If the sky is hazy, that’s going to be almost white and when it reflects on the colorless water, it’s going to make the water white, like the sky, so that’s what I thought that your issue was. I guess I misunderstood your question, if there was one, which I guess there wasn’t, so I don’t know why I answered your non-question.
Well, it’s 11:20pm and, according to Boomer, it’s almost bed 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. -
Ron,
Is the movie about time travel? If so…
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. -
https://www.cdrom2go.com/product-buy.asp?D=EQ&S=S0196&C=C0383&N=1
combo units
Our Bravo Pro printer has been very dependable
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. -
We use a VinPower tower for burning and a Bravo Pro printer for printing. Some people want to buy combos and that’s fine but they take longer to do both jobs. Burning is fast but full color printing takes almost 2 minutes.
Here is a link to a company here in Phoenix that runs some pretty good deals on equipment. They are also a replicator company.
https://www.cdrom2go.com/product-buy.asp?D=EQ&S=S0196&C=C0471&N=1
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. -
Walter,
I was talking about a single piece of software that causes one to buy a new box. Without FCp, we probably wouldn’t have and Macs here because there is plenty of PC software that does what the rest of the FCp Studio does.
The last place I would go for a Mac with FCp is the Apple Store. I would go there for other items but not something big. I buy all of my larger stuff from Apple Enterprise and get a 13% discount without standing in line or hauling a bunch of boxes to my van.
Also, when I order through Enterprise, I get interest free leases and absolutely no sales pitch. I am so small that they want my name, address, and social security number and we’re done. 4 or 5 days later, the product shows up on the doorstep. We just ordered Leopard and our FCp Studio upgrade and it took less than 5 minutes. And need I say that none of this required me to wear clothing? Well, I did get dressed to drag the boxes through the door. (Yep, the studio is on our residential property)
I haven’t been to the last two NABs but the year before (05), I spent a while at the booth and never did find someone who was knowledgeable about our business. They knew how to edit clips and do cool stuff but that’s it. When I want real answers, I get them from Shane Ross on the FCp forum.
So, to comment on your comment, I have no idea how much impact FCp has on the bottom line so I can’t base any statements on my feeble knowledge. But, now that we have 5 Macs, we buy lots of mac software.
By the way, our prior systems were Discreet *Edit and the software with the 3-D module was $13,000. When we went to HD in 2002, we had to do something.
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. -
[Ron Lindeboom] “it’s midnight, I’m tired and I am going to bed.”
Good night, Ron. Remember back when Midnight was when you got your second wind and went out for the evening?
Now, I have a question. Why in the world would Apple sell the one piece of software that sells more computers than any other? We just bought 2 Sony EX-1 cameras and the software runs only on FCp 6.0.2 on an Intel Mac. We have an Intel Mac Pro and an Intel Laptop but also 3 non-Intel machines that will eventually have to be sold off and replaced. There is no other application that would bring us to make that investment. How many filmmakers have bought a Mac just to run Final Cut. Answer: A Bunch. It it weren’t for our switch to FCp from *Edit, there would not be 5 macs in our facility.
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.