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| | | | |  | Nanoflash record from HVRS270U SDIby Derek Fremd 4 months agoI rented a Nanoflash for a shoot to experiment before buying one. My idea was to get a few more years out of my Sony HVRS270U which records HDV to CF cards and tape. I took the signal from the camera' | Re: Nanoflash record from HVRS270U SDI
by David Wheeler 4 months ago
The Nano, of course, can record in 4:2:2 color but you will probably not see that difference from your sensor unless you are doing color keying. The real benefit of the Nano for your Sony HVRS270U, or
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| | | |  | Sony EX1 Cannot proceed (Histogram)by Frank Mulder 4 months agoHello, I'm curious, ... does anyone know when I press the 'Histogram' button on my EX1, the display shows 'cannot proceed' No, it's not the 'Direct Menu', cause that one is set to 'Part' and only disa | Re: Sony EX1 Cannot proceed (Histogram)
by David Wheeler 4 months ago
The histogram button can be assigned to another function in the OTHERS menu, such as "rec review" or "last clip delete." You may have had it assigned to a function that could not be performed. All res
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| | | | | Recommend a Camera Pleaseby carlos aguilar 4 months agoHi, I'm looking to buy a used or new camera in the range of 1,200-$1600. It'll be mainly used to indoor record interviews. I'm looking for something with SD cards or memory that I can simply transfer | Re: Recommend a Camera Please
by David Wheeler 4 months ago
Keep in mind that Final Cut will not play Canon's AVCHD files natively. You'll need to transcode them to ProRes or other codec that FCP can handle. David Wheeler EX1R; EX3; nanoFLASH; FCP 7; 17" MBP,
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| | | |  | Visual Treatment - Corporate Videoby Travis Hunt 6 months agoHi guys...so I am after some advice and inspiration. I create corporate video, and lately I have been beaten over the final line on winning a couple of big projects, and when I ask the client "why the | Re: Visual Treatment - Corporate Video
by David Wheeler 5 months ago
Don't confuse storyboards and "comps" with a visual treatment or creative treatment. Most corporations who deal with ad agencies or other professional marketers for print media will always ask for a c
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| | | |  | Shooting green screenby nitin kulkarni 6 months agohi, i want to shoot highly professional green screen video. i am confused between shooting on Canon 5D Mark iii and sony pmw 500 Xdcam hd 422. i want to use 5D but am not sure about its recording form | Re: Shooting green screen
by David Wheeler 6 months ago
The 4.2.2 color space will always give you a better key. Of course, a 4.2.2 color space will not solve problems with lighting, reflections, etc., but if you set up everything else right, 4.2.2 is bett
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| | | | | No HDMI out on nanoFlashby David Wheeler 6 months agoI have recorded a 1080p30 signal to my new nanoFlash set to trigger with timecode. I have several .mov files that show they are recorded to the CF cards. I can play them when the CF cards are in the U | Re: No HDMI out on nanoFlash
by David Wheeler 6 months ago
Here is an update: both HDMI cords supplied by Convergent Design appear to be bad. I cannot get a looped signal to monitor the SDI input and when connected to the HDMI output on the camera cannot get
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| | | | | Wireless lav mic popping/buzzingby Michael Calcagno 6 months agoI've been using a Sennheiser G3 COMBO (A) EK100 SKP100 SK100 ME2 Wireless for interview audio for the past 6 months. I can definitely tell with my last few projects there's been an annoying increase i | Re: Wireless lav mic popping/buzzing
by David Wheeler 6 months ago
I've never had a similar problem with a wireless mic. Hum from a wired mic can sometimes be an induced voltage from running mic lines parallel with power cords. I would check the receiver-to-camera co
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| | | |  | Projecting HD at conventionsby jim brodie 6 months agoHi folks, I wanted to ask your opinion on what encoding formats and data rates you use for presenting video at corporate events. They are generally playing the 3 to 6 minute clips from a MacBook Pro o | Re: Projecting HD at conventions
by David Wheeler 6 months ago
Hi Jim, I don't know what other producers are doing, but I would guess most charge a flat rate per hour of time whether it's editing or transcoding compressing. I always work from a ProRes master file
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| | | |  | First-time Video Camera Adviceby Benjamin Fields 7 months agoHello all! This is my first post on the forum and hope to join in future discussions. I am looking to purchase my first video camera for use in what I hope will turn out to be a low-budget, yet profes | Re: First-time Video Camera Advice
by David Wheeler 6 months ago
I just saw your post and read the recommendations. I agree with Mark's recommendation with the following add-on comment: If you like the HVR-V1U, you should be able to find a used one since it has bee
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| | | |  | What am I thinking of....by Tom Sefton 6 months agoHi all, I'm trying to pitch an idea to a client and I want to give them a taster of what I mean without having to go into production. I remember seeing an advert for a firm product that relied on a pr | Re: What am I thinking of....
by David Wheeler 6 months ago
I may have had the same dream, but I also recall sequences of that type from Minority Report and Tom Cruise, (I think). It's generally shot in green or blue screen and carefully choreographed in post
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| | | |  | lip sync issues with Squeeze 8.5by Mark Honer 7 months agoWe're having a recurring issue with Squeeze 8.5 causing lip sync problems. We're encoding with a brand new Mac Pro 12 core...making mp4 files with standard presets for uploading files to youtube. noth | Re: lip sync issues with Squeeze 8.5
by David Wheeler 6 months ago
I'm having the same audio sync problems with H264 .mov and WMVs so I've stopped using Squeeze for any of my projects where audio sync is noticeable. That's pretty much everything. David Wheeler EX1R;
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| | | | | Audio Sync Problems with Squeeze 8.5by David Wheeler 6 months agoHi Jerry, since you review Sorensen Squeeze regularly, you may have encountered user problems with audio sync. I recently compressed a 10 minute ProRes video file to .mp4 and the audio sync is off by | Re: Audio Sync Problems with Squeeze 8.5
by David Wheeler 6 months ago
The ProRes from FCP is in sync and the h264 .mov files from Squeeze are in sync. Mp4s and WMVs are not, however. David Wheeler EX1R; EX3; FCP 7; 17" MBP, MacPro Quad, Matrox MSO2,CS5 dave@marcombiz.co
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| | | |  | Sony EX-1 repairby Jay Curlee 8 months agoSony no longer has a service facility in Hawaii. My camera is a first gen. EX-1 and has a number of problems to include the problem of not recognizing the batteries to a broken DC port and poor autofo | Re: Sony EX-1 repair
by David Wheeler 7 months ago
This is the group I recommend. They did a fine job on my EX1 and I plan to send my EX3 there soon for a firmware update. http: www.tekmg.com They are located in Burbank, CA. David Wheeler EX1R; EX3; F
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| | | |  | How much to charge?by Sean Ryan 8 months agoHey everyone, A friend acquaintance of mine is a professional photographer, she had told me early in the summer she would like me to film her taking photos of people for promotional purposes for her b | Re: How much to charge?
by David Wheeler 8 months ago
Hi Sean, You didn't mention whether you do this work professionally and have professional equipment to maintain. If your friend is a pro, she values her time and expertise, even though her equipment o
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| | | | | Time Lapse Sony EX1Rby Dennis Cummins 9 months agoHi, wondering if anyone can help me out. Were doing a band shoot next week and im hoping to set up a static EX1R on a tripod and document the making of the video. Its all going to take place in one pl | Re: Time Lapse Sony EX1R
by David Wheeler 9 months ago
I do a lot of time lapse recording of construction projects with my EX1R and most of the time I shoot 1 frame every 2 seconds as you suggested. If I need the final piece to be a set time duration, I c
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| | | | | How can this be?by Greg Ball 1 year agoMy crew shot footage and interviews for 1 day on our EX1. I took the card and using XDCAM transfer, I transferred all of the footage into FCP. I gave the client a hard drive with all of the footage as | Re: How can this be?
by David Wheeler 1 year ago
Never rename the BPAV folder itself, but you can rename the folder that contains the BPAV folder it to whatever you want. Your Browser and Transfer software will not recognize the clips if it does not
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| | | | | Tripod for Sony EX3/EX1Rby Suko Bhakti 1 year agoHey guys, can you please help me decide which tripod is better for the Sony EX3 EX1R Sachtler 0475 FSB-6 Carbon-Fiber Tripod System or Cartoni F128 FocusHD Carbon Fiber Tripod System | Re: Tripod for Sony EX3/EX1R
by David Wheeler 1 year ago
I don't have a Cartoni, but I've used the Sachtler FSB6 for both my EX3 and EX1R cameras. I love Sachtler quality, but have switched to a Libec tripod with a 100mm ball and much larger sticks. Libec i
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| | | |  | Metadata Acquisition in XDCAM Browserby Bertil Holmqvist 1 year agoDear Cow members, In XDCAM EX ClipBrowser V2.6 Version 2.06.00 (155.188) I got an Acquisition Panel showing Metadata from the shot. After upgrading to MacOS Lion and following recommendations from Son | | | | |
| | | | | Cinema 4D Trainingby Aaron Nowakowski 2 years agoDoes anyone know where I could go to get Cinema 4D training in the Chicagoland area Looking for either a class or a few training days. | Re: Cinema 4D Training
by David Wheeler 2 years ago
If you are into saving money with online training, check out the Cinema 4D training segments at http: www.lynda.com. You can't ask questions, but the training is detailed and fairly comprehensive. It'
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| | | |  | 2 Free-lance editors neededby Ernie Santella 3 years agoLooking for 2 Freelance editors with FCP edit systems. I have a huge year-long project that will require 2 editors to handle the workload. We're working in HDV with Focus FS-H200 CF recorders. Files o | Re: 2 Free-lance editors needed
by David Wheeler 3 years ago
Hi Ernie, I just saw your post in the Denver UG for free-lance editors. It may be too late for your current project, but I live in the Fort Collins area and can help if you need free-lance work in the
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| | | | | Embedding video in swf filesby David Wheeler 4 years agoA client wants a 5 minute training video embedded in a SWF file for use in a .Net environment for streaming video. The resulting SWF file is 30MB with a lot of audio noise. Streaming an FLV file makes | Re: Embedding video in swf files
by Mike Smith 4 years ago
I'd be inclined to go back and talk to the customer, and offer a little custom swf player with a linked flv, perhaps explaining how these would be deployed (perhaps uploaded to the same folder). If th
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| | | | | Screencast similar software for Windows?by David Wheeler 4 years agoI purchased Telestream's Screencast software to do screen captures before realizing that the screen captures were possible only in Windows. Can you recommend software similar to Screencast that works | | | | |
| | | | | Screen capture software ala Screencastby David Wheeler 4 years agoHey! I just purchased Telestream's Screencast screen capture software for Mac before realizing the screens I need to capture are based in Windows only. What software do you recommend will do the same | | | | |
| | | | | CD Menu Builder Recommendationsby David Wheeler 4 years agoI have two Flash-based interactive training CDs that a customer wants combined on one CD with a menu that will run both training segments. The autorun.inf file initiates an Adobe Flash Player 9.0 .exe | | | | |
| | | | | CD Menu Builder Recommendationby David Wheeler 4 years agoAnyone have an updated recommendation for software that will build menus links and autorun script for CDs I need to build a menu and links to .iso files. Thanks! Windows XP SP2 Mac Pro Quad Core David | | | | |
| | | | | No Audio in Flip4Mac wmv importby David Wheeler 4 years agoI'm trying to convert a streaming MMV file to non-streaming in Flip4Mac Studio Pro HD (is that possible ). Opening the .wmv file in QT 7.5.5 results in video but no audio. Importing into FCP brings in | Re: No Audio in Flip4Mac wmv import
by Craig Seeman 4 years ago
What's the audio codec of the WMV Flip4Mac is not compatible with Voice codec and there's also some proprietary audio plugins that work with WMP11 on Windows but have no Mac equivalent. Use WMP9Mac an
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| | | | | DH_Counter Plug-in not workingby David Wheeler 4 years agoI purchased Digital Heaven's Counter 1.1 and have been trying to install the plug-in per their directions. I dragged the DH_counter 1.1 file to Library Application Support FCP folder and relaunched FC | Re: DH_Counter Plug-in not working
by David Wheeler 4 years ago
Mark, I finally got the plugin working after finding the correct folder to drop it into. Works great as long as you don't try to change the speed of the clip in anticipation that you can do the same w
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| | | | | IE ignoring style formatby David Wheeler 5 years agoI'm a novice at Dreamweaver, but finally got my website up and running. On the home page (an other pages that have a flash element imbedded) text that should be left justified is centered instead in I | | | | |
| | | | | eSATA Expresscardby Josh Evans 5 years agoFinally made the upgrade to an eSATA drive, but now I need to buy an expresscard for my macbook pro. I've read there are problems with certain brands. Does it make a difference in speed if you go with | Re: eSATA Expresscard
by David Wheeler 5 years ago
I have been using the Addonics eSATA Express card 34 adapter with my '07 MBP 17" for several months with no problem connecting a Seagate HD. However, I could not get the express card to recognize my X
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