Tracy Peterson
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You might want to post a couple stills or footage, but maybe this question would be better in a forum related to your camera or the editing system you are using.
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awesome tip, and i checked out your site, nice work. I still need a little help here though:
where do I apply this code fragment? I can’t apply an expression to a whole clip and I don’t know what property applies to time, that I can apply this to. Where does it go?
Sorry, total newb to expressions.
I want to use this method more to learn now, than to avoid using stretch.
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Ok, that was totally it. Got it shooting great footage in 720PN. Any chance this can be done in any 1080 resolutions?
Also, all the examples i’ve seen, using a 350d shutter, seemed to be much lighter, even at night, than the results I’m getting. Is there yet another setting I’m missing? Keeping in mind that all the night footage with 350d open aperture was not shot to card. Does the viewfinder/final shot on card differ in exposure?
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Using the percentage speed adjustment will interpolate some frames and that’s an effect I want to avoid.
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Ok, I must be crazy but I can’t get this to work:
My scene file is like this:
SCENE NAME :2FP350
00005000: 8 ; DETAIL LEVEL: 0
00005001: 8 ; V DETAIL LEVEL: 0
00005002: 8 ; DETAIL CORING : 0
00005003: 8 ; CHROMA LEVEL: 0
00005004: 8 ; CHROMA PHASE: 0
00005005: 8 ; COLOR TEMP: 0
00005006: 16 ; MASTER PED: 0
00005007: 8 ; A.IRIS LEVEL: 0
00005008: 1 ; NEWS GAMMA: OFF
00005009: 0 ; GAMMA : HD NORM
0000500A: 0 ; KNEE: AUTO
0000500B: 2 ; MATRIX: FLUO
0000500C: 1 ; SKIN TONE DTL : OFF
0000500D: 0 ; V DETAIL FREQ : THIN
0000500E: 1 ; OPERATION TYPE: FILM CAM
0000500F: 1 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT
00005010: BE026801 ; SYNCRO SCAN :and when i load it, it seems to look right till i go to the scene menu and look at it and it’s 30fps if i’m in 30p mode, and 60 if in 60i mode. what am I missing?
Tracy Peterson
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I think this is just an extension of my other post, but lets look at some facts:
1. costs are down but pricing isn’t going down, at least for the guys who are the “old salts”. they aren’t used to the lower pricing yet.
2. much larger “low end” pool : more people afford gear
3. slightly larger high end pool : more people can afford training
4. client pool INCREASING : that’s right, it’s getting bigger
I’m sure there’s more information we could put together and find some illuminating points, but I figure we can start here. The first big realization is that the client pool is actually growing. Because of the web and the huge number of self publishers, people who would never have the budget to have broadcast media, can now self broadcast and use video. This doesn’t mean they should waste the time of seasoned pros with their three minute talking head introducing their used car sales team. Those danged kids can do that work!
In the meantime, you can still do broadcast and film work! The trouble is that corporate video gets lumped in with small business video and with wedding video for some reason. When you compare it as an equal to the work you are doing, it obviously will start to feel like you are being forced down a road of reduced returns.
Sadly, some of those returns ARE reduced by the current costs. Technology shifts change industries, it’s a fact and has been happening since long before anyone here has worked.
The upside is that there is a lot of help to be found online, in broadcasting or promotion. You can blow away a lot of these kids with a great website using cheap/free services and try to nab a client on the upper end that doesn’t BS with “the cheapest rate”. The sad fact is that now just investing huge money in gear won’t guarantee your success.
One more factor: the recession. Business SUCKS EVERYWHERE. What you may have been thinking occasionally about the young turks at the gate, you probably are just feeling it a lot more acutely when business drops off due to budgets slashing left and right.
Good luck!
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Looks more like BlackMagic didn’t advertise the product in their magzine. How else is a busy journalist supposed to know about it?
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The canon MiniDV HDV cameras are super popular and can be found for about that on ebay. They are small and unimpressive, but for B-roll cameras, they are great little hand helds with good image quality.
Tracy Peterson
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