Tom Sefton
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Hi again Andrea/Marv. How is the weather in Seattle?
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Wow Marv, you are an angry fella. Or is it Andrea? I note you only joined recently….
As another individual has already commented, this is a professional forum for mutually sharing advice. I don’t think I’m being unfair to say that a question from a complete novice that is asking how to do the same job that I have trained and learned over an 8 year period is too much. That question is totally indicative of where our business has been going in the last 5 years – don’t pay the guy who knows how to do it, get the guy(or girl) in marketing to have a go and we will just buy them a camera and a copy of FCPX. When I started, Creative Cow was a growing resource out of which Aaron Rabinowitz and Andrew Kramer have added more tutorials and know-how from external sites. It is know a wonderful place where as you pointed out “people come for advice”. I have, and in many cases it has helped me immensely.
If you are a video professional, you should be fighting your corner as hard and as fierce as you can. When I have been asked questions by kids who are starting in the industry and have valid points to make about how to run a business, how to deal with a client, how to shoot a particular scene, how to tight edit something, how to deliver on a particular medium, what equipment to use etc. I have been more than willing to help. This wasn’t a request like that – it was a request for the community here to tell you exactly how to do your job so you could take the budget away from someone who really knew what they were doing. If you really needed an answer and you wanted to learn you would have typed the question into google, watched every tutorial on here and then come back with a specific query. I felt this was too much.
I hope Andrea didn’t find my response offensive, and I note that you have now started to bad mouth me on other responses. Thanks for that. I notice that you haven’t exactly been offering people sterling advice around here, so it’s a little bit much that you fire at me about this being a sharing community for all, when you don’t seem to have shared that much….
If you really want to learn, watch all the tutorials on here and videocopilot. Then come back and ask a question that a community of video professionals would not be asked by a novice.
If I was out of line, please can other Cow members let me know directly and I will stop responding to posts on here and go back to being a lurker.
Thank you.
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Maybe you could tell me how to make your tools and then I can trade information with you, in a fair swapsy style.
Or you could pay someone who knows what they are doing.
Just a thought.
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TvOne do some neat switchers with PiP capabilities – depends on budget restrictions though. We used one recently for a very simple conference to mix HD-SDI, composite, VGA and DVI and utilised the PiP throughout the show.
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If the camera does have an HD-SDI output, then Kramer and Blackmagic do some pretty smart HD-SDI to DVI converters – this might offer better quality and a more robust cable and connection than firewire?
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I know its pretty basic but would a powerpoint show offer similar reliability for playing video files back with looping, click to start etc….?
Failing that – I would also heartily recommend Watchout by Dataton.
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Every time we have used live video and needed to have a moving camera we have used a wireless HD-SDI transmitter.
This one to be precise:
You could hire one – we purchased one late last year and it has been worth the money.
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No, all the equipment; PC’s, vision switchers, cameras, DVD players, sound system and lights was drawn from one single phase supply. The projection had earth noise on all inputs. When we lifted the earth from the feed problem was solved.
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So if I am hearing this correct, new is £580 and used is £500?
If this is so, it doesnt really need thinking about….
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We had a single phase supply which went to various 13amp 4 ways. When we removed the earth from all of the 4 way supplies we found that it dropped the earth hum and the flickering.