Walter Biscardi
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[Marion Laney] “Walter,
Are you awake yet???Seriously, I hope you and Clay had a wonderful time this weekend and the Varicam cooperated.”
Hey Marion! Yes, just now I am awake! We did a hard push on the last day starting at 7:30am on Sunday and wrapping the final primary scene at 9:30am Monday. We knocked out about 85 primary shots in the three days of shooting and have about 30 computer shots that still need to be completed, but the camera and lenses go back today, so we’ll reschedule for those. At least we don’t need anyone but the D.P. to be there since they’re closeups.
What a weekend! Thanks to you and the folks at Panasonic, we had a great time with the Varicam and really pushed it in low light situations. Overall the camera performed perfectly though it’s a definite that the camera really isn’t all that great with low light situations and introduces more noise than expected. You really need to finesse the settings to get rid of as much noise as possible.
Panasonic really needs to update their manual though because it took almost an hour for Clay to figure out that because we were using Prime Lenses from Canon which DON’T have auto-iris on them, he could not get the black balance to work. Black balance automatically closes the iris and then does the setting. Well, since the iris would not close automatically, it didn’t work. Nothing about working with non-auto iris lenses in the manual, so Clay got a hold of the camera assist you mentioned and they figured it out.
And speaking of lenses, Wow! Canon came through with 7 freshly minted prime lenses that just made all the difference in the world. Clay was able to deliver exactly the angle and composition we wanted without having to compromise because we were stuck with a single lens. I belive we have the 5mm up to the 55mm and their gorgeous zoom lens.
That’s all I can say at this point. Wow! From our all volunteer crew to our actress, Wow!
And Clay, I can’t thank you enough for the work you did as the D.P. Outstanding camera setups and you just made my life much easier.
I’ll update you all as wel move along with the project. Time to return the equipment.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Go into your Capture Settings and turn the Speaker On. It’s off by default.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[ange] “lacie drive are not built for video, and they said that. if you need to do video you need a G tech drive. they are built to do video and they back that up.”
Excuse me? Lacie says their drives are not build for video? Quite a false statment. I mean not all their drives are meant for video use, but certainly all the FW 800 units are. I run the Big Disk Extremes here and they’re fantastic running 8bit and 10bit uncompressed.
To say they aren’t built for video is flat out wrong.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Buy another Dual 2.0 (the original model), add 4GB RAM and an Apple 20″ monitor and it’s about the same price, if not less, than the G5 Dual 2.7 alone. That’s what I did. I was rather disappointed with the latest offerings and do not see the need to spend $3,000 for a Dual 2.7 when you can get the original 2.0 for $1,894 if they’re still around. I run uncompressed and DVCPro HD on my system with the Kona 2 with no issues.
I’m waiting until Apple releases a real upgrade to our current machines. Rumors are already starting to fly about quad-processors and the June WWDC event potentially debuting some sort of a new machine. I’m just hoping that Apple will have some new machines by the end of the year.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[AJA Sales Department] “I’m sure it will go great, but if the Io pulls any prima-dona routines, or doesn’t like it’s trailer or the craft services, just threaten to unplug it”
Ha ha! Yeah, if it gives me any lip I’ll tell it what we’ll do with its parts.
“Toaster Ovens! Do you hear me, we’ll put you in Toaster Ovens!”
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[jaser] “how does the bella keyboard jog/shuttle compare to the contour shuttle?”
I don’t like the contour shuttle because it’s clunky and another thing to mess up my desk. The all in one function with the keyboard is much better in my book.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[AJA Sales Department] “We have a 1.1.1 KONA 2 driver that is due for release early next week. This driver completes our FCP5 and Tiger compatibility, as well as numerous bug fixes and more.”
That’s what I love about you guys. You’re all over it and we didn’t even need to ask.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[Ron] ”
Hey AJA!!!!….. Make this a feature and I guarantee every Cinewave owner will convert!!! :)”This was actually one of my biggest disappointments from Apple with FCP 5. i thought this would be an implemented feature right in the app with supported hardware, but it’s not there. Perhaps when the next gen desktops come out (maybe we’ll see them in June?) we can get that feature finally brought over. In the meantime, I simply capture any DV footage to the uncompressed codecs if I need to mix them with other stuff.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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I haven’t tried it yet, but I thought the folks at AJA said the 2YUV (or is it YUV2) codec would allow playback of CineWave captured material. So you would set up your sequences to play back in that codec and it should work. Haven’t tried it as I honestly don’t have any CineWave related material here any longer so I can’t even test it for you.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Working with 24p HD material natively without the pulldown is really really nice and that’s the reason why I got the /1. In my opinion well worth it. But do you absolutely need it? No.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters