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| | | | | | live music ambient mics?by Jeff Mack 10 months agoMy show is wanting to do 5.1 delivery this season. It is a music show and I am looking to add 4-5 mics to my bag. one situation would be when we are filming bands at a venue. We have board audio cover | Re: live music ambient mics?
by Rob Neidig 10 months ago
Peter, I've got 4 of the Oktavas - 2 are MC 012 and 2 are MK 012. I got them ages ago for like $149 a pair from Banjo Mart. As Ty writes in his review, they are really a pretty good bang for the buck.
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| | | | | Streaming lagby Jeff Mack 1 year agoSpecs on my setup. MBP 2.16Ghz, 2 MB ram, wirecast 4.12, Sony Z-1 record settings to DV 720x480 firewire connected. Wirecast settings Flash low bandwidth, 320x240, 96k stereo 500k + 96k =596k combined | | | | |
| | | | | Mix minusby Jeff Mack 1 year agoI am preparing to be part of a three city simultaneous webcast and I think I will have a problem with audio. Here is the setup 3 cities. There will be one camera in each city with speakers on lavs. Ea | | | | |
| | | | | WMV with compressorby Jeff Mack 2 years agoI can't seem to find any reference to encode settings for WMV's in compressor 3. I just bought Flip For Mac Studio Pro but don't see how I can export a .mov with compressor. Any help Jeff | Re: WMV with compressor
by Craig Seeman 2 years ago
Jeff Mack "I just bought Flip For Mac Studio Pro but don't see how I can export a .mov with compressor." I'm not sure what you're asking. Compressor exports .mov natively. Are you trying to use .wmv
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| | | | | Mic and line feedsby Jeff Mack 2 years agoI have, many times, taken a line feed fron a sound board into my Z-1 (selected line vs. mic) and everything is great. The other day, I was feeding a line feed into an HPX 370 (line feed also selected  | Re: Mic and line feeds
by Erin Harper 7 months ago
I too have had the problem w my Panasonic HVX200 or even a tascam field recorder receiving a line from a board (music concert) and not getting a signal even when switched to "line" What do I need to k
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| | | | | Motion 4 templateby Jeff Mack 2 years agoI am using a MotionVFX free template. It is #13 on their site. It is 19:21 long and I want to change it to 26 seconds long. Is there any easy way to extend the 4 individual drop zones so each piece of | Re: Motion 4 template
by Jeff Mack 2 years ago
Hi Stephen. Here is my issue on the template: it was a drop zone that cracks and falls away. there were like 6 layers per drop zone. It starts with the pieces coming up to make a drop zone, then the v
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| | | | | IOHD to SD Switcher to Jumbotronby Jeff Mack 2 years agoHello all, I got this gig to run media to a jumbo tron at a music festival next week. In between acts, I will play off my FCP timeline, artists videos with audio. The switcher will then send my image | Re: IOHD to SD Switcher to Jumbotron
by Jeff Mack 2 years ago
Yes, 14 x 13 is the physical size. I am waiting for the par and sar for viewing. Since the 4x3 video would leave a lot on the sides, I was going to add the background so it was more pleasing than blac
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| | | | | Title safeby Jeff Mack 2 years agoI have built my project in DVD Studio Pro. I have encoded Pro Res 1920 x 1080 and everything works great. I built all of the menus with 16x9 pan scan and letterbox and within title safe borders. Every | Re: Title safe
by Joseph Demme 2 years ago
What Noah said. Also, this website is a valuable asset for knowing what DVD players play what formats mediums.
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| | | | | corruption somewhereby Jeff Mack 2 years agoSony Z-1 component into an a d converter then HD SDI into IOHD. 1080i 60 into VTR Exchange. MBPro and esata expresscard external 1 TB drive. Last night I set up like I have done a million times. This | | | | |
| | | | | video and audio t/c?by Jeff Mack 2 years agoNext week I am going into a studio with a band to film the process of their making of an album. What I want to do is to capture like 8 tracks of audio into my video interface (IOHD). So I want the eng | | | | |
| | | |  | HD POV issuesby Steve Culpepper 2 years agoWe do a lot of on-board and on-bike pov mounting. We've used a lot of different cameras but pretty consistently we see some level of the "rubber band" effect where trees or signs are wavy. From what I | | | | |
| | | | | Audio dropoutsby Jeff Mack 2 years agoHere's my workflow: Sony Z-1. 2xlr inputs - 1 line level feed from a miver, the other is mic level to a shotgun. Audio and video out into a miranda adc800 converter (converts audio and video to HD SDI | Re: Audio dropouts
by Jeff Mack 2 years ago
Hi Jeremy, your right, I kinda knew I was pushing it with my MBPro. I did NOT capture HDV. I did use the component cable, it went into the converter which embedded the audio in a 10 bit full raster 4:
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| | | | | Live streaming - overlays & commercials?by Adam Pollock 2 years agoHello, I'm preparing to video stream some kids football games (must be streamed live). Looking for advice on the following, or links if these topics have already been addressed: - Best way to overlay | | | | |
| | | | | Slow Motion Techniquesby Jeff Mack 3 years agoPlease delete my post if it is out of line to post this. Tonight is the monthly meeting of the Dallas Final Cut Pro User Group. Steve Sullivan, cameraman for NFL Films will be presenting slow motion t | | | | |
| | | |  | IoHD and Wirecast?by Matt Larson 3 years agoDoes anyone know if AJA IoHD is compatible with Wirecast | Re: IoHD and Wirecast?
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
Yes it is compatible but there are some issues. It seems that when you use the iohd with Wirecast, you get issues when using the iohd without wirecast - like with vtr exchange. I often have to delete
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| | | | | MPeg 4by Jeff Mack 3 years agoI have a client asking for a live capture HD SDI through my IOHD but they want an MPeg 4 file. I noticed that VTR XChange has that preset but I never used it. Anybody have before Jeff | Re: MPeg 4
by Michael Sacci 3 years ago
Mpeg4 can be a lot of things, there are a lot of variations of it out in the real world. H264 is the most widely used version. You need to ask for specifics from the client, then test. If the AJA soft
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| | | |  | pixelated streamby Kathy Smith 3 years agoJust so you know, I don't know much about video but here is my problem. I have a professional HD camcorder that feeds into a switcher which is SD. Then from the switcher it goes to Analog to Digital c | Re: pixelated stream
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
You probably don't have enough bandwidth to send an HD signal out to the internet. If your switcher is an SD version, it's probably an issue right there. What format from the camera, what encode setti
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| | | | | Live streamingby Jeff Mack 4 years agoI have been waiting for this forum to develop. I guess I will ask the question and hope for an answer. I am interested in multi cam live switching and I see wirecast supports multiple cameras. How doe | Re: Live streaming
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
Don't mean to be confrontational here Craig but I am not exagerating when I say I NEVER get a response from the tech support people. That's why I have to call and then when I do, I get no results. I h
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| | | | | Live webcast tonightby Jeff Mack 3 years agoI am using Wirecast to broadcast tonight's meeting of The Final Cut Pro User Group in Dallas, TX. Check out some great info on Slow Motion techniques in camera and in Final Cut Pro. Steve Sullivan of | | | | |
| | | |  | Webinar with videoby Mike Cohen 3 years agoMost webinars (webex, etc) focus on powerpoint slides and voice (over phone or over IP). If there is video, it is webcam video. But if you are doing a webinar and want to play video, either embedded i | | | | |
| | | |  | I can mix with two different cameraby Darius Cornean 3 years agoHello I have a freaky problem. Yesterday I try to shot with 3 camera and mixing live for web but I couldnt. I use 2 camera Sony NXCAM and one Sony Z1 HDV The problem is that i couldnt see on auxiliar | Re: I can mix with two different camera
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
Josh, You can use a switcher to switch both cams. Then into the black magic should work fine. Once you have those connections made, then you can open your broadcaster and you should see the black maji
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| | | | | Crashby Jeff Mack 3 years agoI have been using Wirecast on my MBP for about a year. My last three broadcasts are having problems. I have my MBPro connected to my SOny Z-1 via firewire (only connection) and during broadcast I hit | Re: Crash
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
Marie Louise, I found the quickest way to fix this is to trash the wirecast preferences and reboot. I don't know why it happens, it just hangs up. Now, everytime I get ready to do a broadcast, I wipe
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| | | |  | Audio peaks when uploaded to YouTube!by Lauren Estes 3 years agoI hope 'peaks' is the right word. When I render my videos in Sony Vegas, the output video sounds just fine. After being processed by YouTube, however, the audio peaks! It sounds all staticy and terrib | Re: Audio peaks when uploaded to YouTube!
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
Why would you ever upload surround sound to youtube What's happening is your audio is running 6 channels into two and it's overdriven. You need to keep it stereo then go to youtube. Jeff
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| | | | | htaccess and mime typesby Jeff Mack 3 years agoI have a page on godaddy and I have a lot of videos installed in flash. Now I am trying to make an IPhone compatable page and have added m4v's and mp4's but they won't play on an iPhone 3G. I was told | Re: htaccess and mime types
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
Curtis, I got it all figured out. Here is a test page. http: www.texasmusicchannel.net Test2 Blank.html There is a flash playlist with all three types of files. They play great on my desktop. Then at
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| | | | | Need feedbackby Jeff Mack 3 years agoI am a freelancer just starting out in this business. I have taken a different approach to a demo reel and I would like to get some feedback if you have the time. Since I have done a lot of different | Re: Need feedback
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
Hi Michael, I created a gallery and separated several types of work into albums. I thought that way, if a client wanted to see my concert stuff, they click there. If they want to see a webmercial, the
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| | | | | Best quality HDCAM Conformby Chris Stout 3 years agoHi all, Several years back I shot a short using HDCAM (regular 8-bit, NOT SR). I did a watchable conform using ProRes (8bit) and coloring myself in FCP. But now I have to get this baby to Hollywood st | Re: Best quality HDCAM Conform
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
And finally, for delivery, I've never been too impressed with DVDSP. Any recommendations on how to get a quality DVD and Blu-ray in hand for the final product (I'm even contemplating a specialty post
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| | | | | how to log clips for HDCAM footage in FCPby Jason O'Hara 3 years agoI am needing to log some HDCAM clips from a Sony JH3 deck - but there is no HDCAM capture preset in Final Cut I have only a firewire interface - so I am planning to log the clips only - then pass my F | | | | |
| | | | | Can I do this?by Jeff Mack 3 years agoCan I send into my IOHD a 1080 i signal, cross convert to 720 P then cross convert out to 1080P Poor man's way of getting 1080P Jeff | Re: Can I do this?
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
Yes, the producer wanted 1080P. I knew it should be psf. I am pretty much self taught Jeremy and feel I have a pretty cool mobile rig. I have a Sony Z1 and I connect it to Miranda ADC 800 which takes
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| | | |  | Seminar streaming video??by Dan Newell 3 years agoI'm trying to work out a budget for changing a seminar series that we want to change over to streaming video off our website. The basic setup we would have is a Hughes Net satellite, I'm assuming this | Re: Seminar streaming video??
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
Dan, I have checked speeds randomly at all wifi spots I connect to and I have this. Connections will be really poor due to location of the hub and streaming is not possible. Then there are really two
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| | | | | Web Streaming with Wirecast and Ustreamby Jon Brewer 3 years agoI am new in the web streaming venture. I have the following hardware: - MacBook Pro Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard) - Matrox 02 (SD mode - Sony EX3 XDCAM - Verizon Air Card Objective: I wish to stream live vid | Re: Web Streaming with Wirecast and Ustream
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
In Wirecast, Click the Layout tab at the top and then the Output statistics on the dropdown. If you are exceeding 70% on your cpu, you will definitely lock up. You might have to downconvert to sd in o
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| | | |  | Better quality from HDV camera?by Thomas Morter-Laing 3 years agoOk, so I'm fully aware of how HDV camcorders record at a resolution of 1440 by 1080, and display (oddly) at 1920 when imported because of how Quicktime plays stuff back. I own a Z5 though and have rea | Re: Better quality from HDV camera?
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
You all need to check out the Miranda ADC-800 analog to digital converter. It's about a grand. Use your component out cable from your camera. I have a z-1 and the cable outputs precompression 1920 x 1
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| | | |  | HDV vs. HD for feature filmby Sean Simms 3 years agoHello, I am looking for a camera to make my first low-budget independent feature (Budget about $100,000). I was looking at the various HDV cameras when I talked to an editor friend here at film school | Re: HDV vs. HD for feature film
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
The Sony HVR Z1U's component out is truly analog uncompressed. I have a Miranda ADC 800 that converts the component to HD SDI. It is superb. My workflow when needed is to go Z1 HD SDI to IOHD and into
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| | | | | HDCam to HDV conversionby Rick Locke 3 years agoThanks in advance for the help! I have a client that needs me to convert his HDCam (23.98fps) tape to HDV (29.97fps). I'm using a Sony HVR-1500 - no HDSDI input. The only way that the deck records HDV | Re: HDCam to HDV conversion
by Jeff Mack 3 years ago
Why on earth would anyone want to go from HDCam to HDV ! I suppose he can't edit HDCam due to drives etc. Why not go to Pro Res and stay out of long gop Jeff
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| | | | | AVCHD Codec Qualityby Bob Birkett 4 years agoHello, I'm trying to compare some of the new options for recording HD from an HD-SDI output. With Panasonic's introduction of the AG-HMR10 compact recorder, I'm wondering about the quality of the AVCH | Re: AVCHD Codec Quality
by Jeff Mack 4 years ago
How do you think the KI Pro is less portable HD DSI out Set it on the table and add 300 feet of cable. How much more portable does it need to be Add it to the exoskeleton and mount it under your camer
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| | | | | Sony Z1U record to hard drive?by Jessica Berryman 4 years agoI need to figure out a way to take our HDV camera - Sony Z1U and hook it up by fire wire to either a program or firestore of some type and record straight to external hard drive. Does anyone know of a | Re: Sony Z1U record to hard drive?
by Jeff Mack 4 years ago
You should read the manual.. Connect a 4 pin to 6 pin cable to your camera and laptop or computer. In FCP, go to log and capture. Your camera should be recognized. When you are ready to start capturin
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