Will Granzier
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Good for you using a SLR
Because you can drive a car with your feet doesnt make it a good idea.
There are 12 international TV adverts that were entirely shot and produced on mobile phones !! What does that make it the next thing to shoot broadcast with ??Point is you dont need a SLR with a Nikon lens to get what the chap wanted to achieve. You can do it with PD 150 for that matter.
If the SLR’s are so good that even George is switching, I wonder why NBC, CNN, Sky and 20 of the top networks wont touch them ?
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I have never had an issue to get the desired effect with tthe cam even when shooting with a 1/3 to 1/2 inch lens adapter using a pegasus 2 fujinon.
The principle works the same on all cameras. The ccd is irrelevant. Just open ur iris all the way. Then up or down your shutter speed to get the exposure. Simple as that. Slr are ok for home movies of the kids in the garder, but arrive with one of those a news eng shoot and you will be sent home quicker than a pizza at a weight watchers convension.
Its horses for courses.
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Had similar issues with my 101. We shot moto x swapped tapes and when I goy back to the studio the one tape kept shouting the deck needs a head clean.
I found what happens at times is the heads may have dirt or moisture on, you pop in a tape and roll. Draging all the muck over the head for 3 min or so. So now the muck transfers from the head to your tape. The tape is contaminated. When ever u try and play it back on a good deck it transfers all that muck to the clean heads….
It could be bad tapes. I avoid black and red sony tapes like the plague… They have a high oxide component and leave tons of residue behind. TRy shifting to Panasonic PQ or FUJI HG DV. Both are highly rated broadcast tapes.
It might also help cleaning your heads every 10 tapes u roll. Dusty environment, might require more attention
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Nope not compatible AT ALL. JVC HD is unique to JVC as is SOny. You cannot playback a tape that was shot on A sony on a JVC. Main reason is GOP and the format differences. Sony is 1080 and JV 720
i shot for a client on 720 , sent them the tape and had a call an hour later telling me the tape has nothing on, They were trying to play the tape on a sony deck
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Hmmmm Not quite sure about that statement. The Battery on the NTG is only required if u want to use the mike with a cam like an older Canon XL 1s that has a XLR in that does not supply phantom. I run 3 NTGs on HD101’s as camera mikes… never had batteries in them ever
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HEY
I use the Rhode NTG2 in a broadcast environment on 3 GY101’s all work well on phantom. I actually use themas replacements for the JVC cam mikes as they give much better quality sound. Check your settings as thats critical
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Hi
I have 4 of these puppies. Make contact with me in East London… Might be able to help… digitalemotion@sainet.co.za
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OK Well I can tell you that it took me a while yo figure it out on my 101. But this worked for me… Capture preset I set to the intermediate codec or 422 pro rez. And the firewire setting I use HDV.
Hope it helps u
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Hey
We use the same cams as well as GY101’s to shoot bodyboarding for broadcast television. This how i do it.
Set your cam to shoot at an iris of around 4 or even lower. That reduces your focal depth big time. Set up the cam about 3 m away from the person you want to interview. Zoom in to the subject and get your framing right. Focus and voila !
Well the more out of focus u want the backdrop – move the cam back and zoom in to your subject !!
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Andrew
I have some success with 720p by copying the 422 timeline into the DV 48khz timeline. But the way I did it was to just copy the exported clip back into the 4:3.
I never set the field dominance at all. It just woked when I did it. I must that I have never tried it with 1080. Obviously the footage will not be HDV anymore when you copy it into 4:3, but it looks good.
Be very careful though as I did find that small logo’s and text can become blocky when you scale down. Looks almost like it needs to be anti aliased .
So add you text after you exported and not before. When you do keys in 1080 with the aim of exporting it to 4:3 it becomes crazy as the safety frames are different. Thats why I exported and then added my keys and text in 4:3 DV. It stops it from looking chuncky & blocky and you can ensure that its in the safety.