Todd Mcmullen
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mike, your best, and really only reliable solution is to get there ahead of time and check it out and do some tests. but, you probably know this. If you can’t then you have to take what is given to you. You might want to taka a couple of lights with you so you can try to light your speakers a little better than the top light you will have from the house lighting. This may help you overpower the rooms lighting. hard to say without seeing?
Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
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call a grip and lighting rental house for dimensions, ie..paskal, hollywoood rental , mole richardson, birns and sawyer, panavision dallas, etc
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thanks barry,
this will help. Does the new fcp universal read mxf files any better?
Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
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It seems to be about a gig a minute to firewire. And I haven’t had time to verify, but, it has been no problem.
Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
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My workflow for the last 2 months has been successful. Shoot, download, backup, edit. I would recomend more cards but maybe firestore will be an option by then. I will say it is a new way of shooting, especially if you are a small crew. Instead of thinking of next shot or setup, you have to constantly be thinking of downloading and having enough space on the cards to continue. And a 8 gig card takes a while to download. Anyway, images are great and with any luck we will soon be saying I remember when I had download 4 8 gig cards………….
Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
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The producers wanted a mini dv camera for surveilance video shots. They were going to make them Black and white. But when the director found out the hvx does 1080 as well, he wanted it for shooting unscripted, edgy, scenes. so we have been shooting whole scenes with camera and the stuff looks great. almost too good. I setup a wide shot with the sony f900 and one with the hvx and it was hard to tell the difference.
Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
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I am currently shooting a lifetime television movie in Shreveport, LA. We are using the HVX as a 4th camera along side sony cinealta’s from panavision.
The post house is in Burbank. Here is our workflow.Shoot 1080i 24p onto 2-8gig and 1 4gig card.
Transfer footage to lacie fw 800 hd.
Copy days footage to g-tech 100 gig mini HD, or, a 20 gig firewire ipod, or dvd’s. ( it all depends on amount of days footage)
Send days footage with hd cam tapes and sound to editorial in Burbank.(overnight)
Editorial sends back HD for another days footage.Works just like sending film to the lab.
Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
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Thanks everyone for replies. I found work around but discovered if you forget the .txt file then you can still access footage in FCP.
Footage looks fantastic for some extremely low light and an extreme amount of red colored stage lights.
I’d personnly give a few 12 packs to whoever could get that .txt file into the main contents folder.cheers,
Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
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Yes, In my case not putting the .txt file in was a mistake, but, you can still import into fcp, you just have to do it 1 contents folder at a time.
Thanks for the replies.
Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
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Yes,
you can import into fcp without the .txt file.Now my question is…how can you not have more than 1 contents folder if you are shooting multiple cameras or just using more cards.
I may be confused here but if i was shooting a long take of something and I only had 2 p2 cards, and one was full, and I had someone dump it to a firewire drive,
and then the next one was full and i had someone dump it, and so on, but, they all have to be named contents, in capital to be recognized later?How does this work? I currently have it as follows. Camera 1>Contents-1, Content-2 etc.. Its basicly like naming tapes for each camera.
so as I understand Jan, you are saying I should label, Camera 1>Contents-1, camera 1>Contents-2, etc..
I will try and reply.
Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
Cinematography Forum Leader