[Tom Nelson]

The Marshall 70 has false color, which gives you a very usable color scale highlighting certain areas of exposure with different colors based on the IRE level. Better than a histogram.

Tom Nelson
Videographer/Editor
Essex Television Group

[Tom Nelson]

Excellent help, everyone. Hello World looks like it might be the winner, as it offers both a follow focus kit and the Marshall 7″ HDMI monitor for a good price. I’ll be sure to post the results of the shoot – I’m working with a jazz pianist afterhours in a piano bar on an original piece he’s composed. Wanted to break in my 7D in style.

Tom Nelson
Videographer/Editor
Essex Television Group

[Tom Nelson]

Here is a paste from the error message I received:

________ Exception Report ________________________
Exception Code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Fault Module: 01:0038931E C:\Program Files (x86)\Avid\Avid Media Composer\ameLibrary.dll
Fault Address: 0314A31E XDCAMHDHiresVideoImportReader::createIndexTable+FE

________ Stack Dump _________________________________________
0314A31E 2F198000 XDCAMHDHiresVideoImportReader::createIndexTable+FE

AVID SYSTEM DUMP – Fri Jan 22 15:39:37 2010

________ Memory ________________________________________________________

numPtrs: 168031
numHdls: 08991
totalPtr: 0x021a665f (35284575)
totalHdl: 0x000965ce (615886)

________ Current Program Stack _________________________________________
773F039D 0017D1F4 ZwWaitForSingleObject+15
764511D8 0017D208 WaitForSingleObject+12
60399852 0017D21C PSPrintStack+82
6031471B 0017D2AC DmpDump+9B
60314C4B 0017D564 DmpDumpToFile+3CB
60319EA0 0017DB1C AvRgn::InternalHRGN+EF0
6031AFA8 0017DB84 AvRgn::InternalHRGN+1FF8
7C359C97 0017DBCC _CxxLongjmpUnwind+EA
7C359629 0017DBFC _CxxExceptionFilter+1C4
7C3598AD 0017DC54 _CxxExceptionFilter+448
7C35994A 0017DC84 _CxxExceptionFilter+4E5
7C359B9D 0017DCBC _CxxFrameHandler+26
773F3099 0017DCE0 RtlRaiseStatus+B4
773F306B 0017DD90 RtlRaiseStatus+86
773F2EFF 0017DD94 KiUserExceptionDispatcher+F
0017DDA8 773F2EFF Symbol Not Found – Error 0000007E(00000126)
006A595B 773F2F03 AApplicationBase::operator=+29D5BB
DA63E851 773F2F07 Symbol Not Found – Error 0000007E(00000126)
0BEBFFFF DA63E851 Symbol Not Found – Error 0000007E(00000126)

________ System Configuration __________________________________________
System software: Windows NT Version 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1
Processor type: Pentium PC
Physical Memory: 4095 MBytes; Virtual Memory: 4095 MBytes
User name: default
Application info: Hitchcock_4.0.2_Patches_R30

________ Processes Currently Running ___________________________________

________ WindowList ____________________________________________________
Hidden Rect: 596, 170, 613, 391
Hidden Rect: 596, 391, 613, 408
Internet Explorer Hidden Rect: 237, 170, 30407, 408
Hidden Rect: 237, 170, 30407, 170

________ Binary Modules Loaded _________________________________________

________ Device Drivers Loaded _________________________________________

Tom Nelson
Videographer/Editor
Essex Television Group

[Tom Nelson]

Am I the only one crazy enough to air travel with a naked eng camera on a strap on my shoulder? Always has a battery and media with it in case the checkpoint guys want me to power it up. Takes up the least room that way, and is snug in an overhead. I’m usually with a lighting kit in a pelican case, so I throw all my camera accessories in there and check it.

Tom Nelson
Videographer/Editor
Essex Television Group

[Tom Nelson]

It looks like a vehicle-mounted crane shot to me. It might certainly be more complex than that, but the road looks pretty smooth and the shot is the most steady when it’s down low and therefore less affected by the suspension movement of the vehicle.

It’s funny, at 1:50 she almost walks into a car. Worthy of a re-take under “normal” circumstances, which this most certainly wasn’t.

Tom Nelson
Videographer/Editor
Essex Television Group

[Tom Nelson]

Thanks, Noah. I wish I was working on a Mac – I’m unfortunately on a PC, and when I try to export using the DNxHD codec, it defaults to medium quality and doesn’t let me change it in the dialogue box. I’ve tried just dealing with that compression, but it’s noticably worse than uncompressed.

Tom Nelson
Videographer/Editor
Essex Television Group

[Tom Nelson]

If you’re viewing the knife from the side, place an eyedropper filled with artificial blood against the other side of the knife with the eyedropper’s open end against the blade. Just squeeze the dropper as you pull the knife. It need not be too complicated.

Tom Nelson
Videographer/Editor
Essex Television Group

[Tom Nelson]

Be sure to check your FCP version compatibility if you’re working with EX. Only the newest version of FCP supports XDCAM and XDCAM EX.

Tom Nelson
Videographer/Editor
Essex Television Group

[Tom Nelson]

I use both, and highly recommend DVD Studio Pro. Encore is extremely buggy – I’ve had crashes on long-timeline projects, bad discs (I’m re-burning one right now), and sluggish timeline navigation. Sure, it could be my discs or my pc, but I’ve never had a bug with DVD SP, and I’ve authored pretty elaborate DVDs that Encore probably couldn’t handle. I’m ordering Adobe CS3 production suite as well, but I’m not even installing Premiere or Encore.

Tom Nelson
Videographer/Editor
Essex Television Group

[Tom Nelson]

90% of DVD players play NTSC around the world – I’d suggest sending a PAL DVD and an NTSC DVD, and suggest using the NTSC one. Even if a foreign DVD player is pushing out a PAL-resolution signal, chances are it can play the NTSC DVD.

Tom Nelson
Videographer/Editor
Essex Television Group