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| | | | |  | documentary ideas!?!?by Jamie Cartlidge 1 year agoI am producing a documentary on knife crime in the UK, does anyone have any ideas how i can start it and what camera setup i could use with the following: Canon XL2 Canon XM2 Sony HD Camcorder Thanks,+1 | Re: documentary ideas!?!?
by Peter Ralph 1 year ago
Shane - with the greatest respect no-one is interested in hearing experts talking about knife crime. They want the Donal MacIntyre hidden cam stuff. No shot lists, crews, funding and fancicams. Just b
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| | | |  | The Documentary?by christopher koo 1 year agoAs a recent inductie to this forum family i feel that it is my duty to inform the masses of any movie new that crosses my path. As such, I feel compelled to inform my fello film enthusist about a trai | Re: The Documentary?
by Peter Ralph 1 year ago
The featured highlight of the movie is "Jo Ventroloquist Live from Las Vegas". Obviously there is an audience for ventriloquism as entertainment, but I doubt there is much of an audience willing to be
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| | | |  | Pan speeds?by Nick Griffin 1 year agoCinematography gurus: I'm believe that there exists (but have never seen) tables, charts, etc. that define the "safe" rates for camera pans, tilts, tracking shots and so on when captured on 24fps film | Re: Pan speeds?
by Peter Ralph 1 year ago
surely it depends on focal length, aperture, shutter speed and the distance of the subject from the lens If you follow a 7 second rule on a distant mountain range a pan could take several minutes
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| | | | | Nazi Priestsby Aaron Cadieux 1 year agoHello, What have you seasoned event videographers done in instances where you have an old-school Nazi priest who, for whatever reason, will allow the photographer to wander around the church during th | Re: Nazi Priests
by Peter Ralph 1 year ago
Aaron - your insistence on "leaving religion out of the equation (which is where it belongs)" is a great argument to make in a bar or a political caucus. Not quite so convincing in a church.
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| | | | | A question on editing pacingby Jon Fidler 1 year agoHi I posted here a while back a fairly general question and the answers I got were a real help so ive come back again for a question regarding pacing. I have noticed while watching films in general th | Re: A question on editing pacing
by Peter Ralph 1 year ago
Both opinions are correct. Faster cuts create more excitement confusion and varying the pacing will give a more organic feel. Crank 2 and the Bourne films had average shot lengths under 2 seconds. Bou
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| | | | | Scripting screen changesby Peter Ralph 1 year agodoes anyone know of a mehtod (unix script ) that I can use to program screen changes on a macbook. Basically I want to have a series of screens that progress after a certain number of keystrokes irres | | | | |
| | | |  | focusing on a moving subjectby noor hussain 2 years agoi just got a 7d and went out to shoot some videos to put it to test.im just a newbie so it totally baffled me how do i keep on focusing on a moving subject.if its moving towards the camera do i keep t | Re: focusing on a moving subject
by Peter Ralph 2 years ago
I understand your frustration. There are dozens of links to "documenatary shot on DSLR", even "photojournalism with a DSLR", which all but ignore the difficulties of shooting run and gun. It's not jus
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| | | |  | focus during live eventby Christopher May 2 years agoSo I normally shoot corporate video. All pretty Static stuff on a tripod. I am now being asked to shoot a reality style video with lots of hand-held shooting. My question is: does one focus manually o | Re: focus during live event
by Peter Ralph 2 years ago
better to switch off AF when you are shooting a stationary subject. You might use the AF to find focus but you don't want to run the risk of focus-hunting during a take. Hand-held live-action shooting
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| | | |  | Tripod Shoppingby Todd Terry 2 years agoI think I'm gonna go tripod shopping soon, and thought I'd ask the gang here if any of you guys have particular sticks that you use that you really love. We've made a company resolution to start shift | Re: Tripod Shopping
by Peter Ralph 2 years ago
Build quality is not "commercial grade" for sure - from what I've seen the same goes for the Sachtlers & the Millers in that price range. But as with the XLH1 - you sacrifice build quality whenever yo
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| | | |  | Shifting wb on Canon xha1by Antonio de la cruz 2 years agoHey, people first hope your are well. I just shot a scene for a short and now I'm looking at the footage and it seems that there is a slight shift of the white balance. I'm looking at it in a regular | Re: Shifting wb on Canon xha1
by Peter Ralph 2 years ago
Todd, you say "It's the fact that the phasing is causing slight changing in the ratio of the mix of the lighting that is causing your color shifts." So when shooting under office fluorescents the phas
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| | | |  | Audio for Group Therapy Documentaryby Jeremy Pinkwater 2 years agoI am going to be working on a Documentary following a group in therapy and I need a audio set up that I can leave in place for a year. The other issue is that there will be 14 people in a circle and I | Re: Audio for Group Therapy Documentary
by Peter Ralph 2 years ago
I'm no audio expert - but I doubt that overhead mics will yield acceptable results. They are fine in a theatre where actors are all taught to project, but try it and see. Peter Ralph http: www.shootin
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| | | | | the color purpleby Peter Ralph 2 years agoDoes anyone have any tips for accurately rendering purple Shooting both inside and out, controlled uncontrolled. Last time I got great color on many of the indoor shots - but the shots in full sun the | Re: the color purple
by Richard Herd 2 years ago
Funny you should mention purple. The brand I advertise, we use (92, 45, 145) as our brand color. Wow, what a pain for daylight balanced, RGB. It helps to shoot in tungsten balanced--as you mentioned--
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| | | |  | College Football shooting. Advice?by Trent Whittington 2 years agoFellow COW Members, I would like your opinion advice on covering a college football game for a major student project. I am a 2nd Year Student; next year I am going to choose to do my major project for | Re: College Football shooting. Advice?
by Peter Ralph 2 years ago
Too ambitious and not ambitious enough. For it to have any value you have to broadcast live. Sports is one of the few bastions of high end production. High-end equipment, very experienced crews. Peter
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| | | | | Printers not accepting photoshopby Peter Ralph 2 years agoWhy is it that some printers publishers can not handle photoshop artwork It seems to be normally smaller printshops. Is it something to do with offset printers color accuracy Peter Ralph http: www.sho | | | | |
| | | |  | Advice for Fixing Filemaker?by Thomas Hughes 2 years agoWe do our client contracts and keep our associate database on Filemaker. Works well, we've used it for years. It just got buggy. We're pretty convinced that it's infected. It keeps acting up each time | Re: Advice for Fixing Filemaker?
by Peter Ralph 2 years ago
just install another version of filemaker on a different partition machine. Import the data, trash the old once the new is up and running. Peter Ralph http: www.shootingbynumbers.com
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| | | | | Help starting outby Markus Furer 2 years agoLooking for some advise from people with experience. I recently had 2 kids and am looking into freelancing as my primary source of income so that I can be at home while my wife works. I currently work | Re: Help starting out
by Peter Ralph 2 years ago
I think there was a time years back when wedding video was a commodity. A video of your wedding was worth $500 for a short one, and double or triple that for a long one. Today a competent wedding vide
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| | | | | short form wedding videosby john bilski 3 years agook. sorry to even ask such a dumb question but, ive been doing event video for 7 years, 80% bar and bat mitzvahs, 20% weddings (give or take through the years),anyway. we shoot journalistic videos, ge | Re: short form wedding videos
by Peter Ralph 2 years ago
I would almost never include "popular music that i think they would enjoy". More obscure music that I think they would enjoy - rarely, and mostly only snippets. Either music from the reception or musi
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| | | | | smoothcam - anamorphicby Peter Ralph 3 years agoI want to apply smoothcam to some downconverted HDV 16:9 footage inside an SD project. I export the clip I want to smooth as a self-contained QT and then reimport, it comes back in as 16:9 with black | Re: smoothcam - anamorphic
by Peter Ralph 3 years ago
I guess the captured clip was messed up in some way - I exported from QT and the problem is fixed Peter Ralph http: www.shootingbynumbers.com
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| | | | | Livestage replacementby Steve Cochran 3 years agoWondering if anyone knows of a product that replaces Livestage I'm looking to combine PowerPoint slides and video (both are onscreen at the same time) output to a Flash video file. Livestage is still | | | | |
| | | | | Split Screen Music Videos?by Trent Whittington 3 years agoHey Guys, For our Uni class we are required to do a Music Video for one of the University's bands and we have come up with an idea to do a split screen style music video. Kind of like the music video | Re: Split Screen Music Videos?
by Peter Ralph 3 years ago
check out Woodstock - it would be an incredible video whenever it was made - but for 40 years old it's mindblowing. In modern video the style-setter for split-screen work is the Brit TV series "Trial
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| | | |  | Knowledge & What Its Worthby John Grote, Jr. 3 years agoGood day all, I have run into a situation that I have encountered before and I know some of you have run into this as well, the old a friend of the client needs a file logo (jpeg in this case) for som | Re: Knowledge & What Its Worth
by Peter Ralph 3 years ago
easiest is to stick with email, keep your responses precise and specific and make sure the entire thread is maintained... so: Q: please send image A: sure what format Q: jpeg A: here ya go Q: that ima
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| | | | | Editing: Experimenting or Papercutting?by Oskari Korenius 3 years agoDear All, I have an question regarding the art of film editing, this question probably is more concerned with fiction editing. I have edited many short films and music videos before, and I have worked+1 | | | | |
| | | | | principles of textby tel jaba 3 years agohello everyone this might sound silly but, any idea where i can find articles or tips on "principles of working with text" such as : "centered text is boring"... ideas on how to be creative with text | Re: principles of text
by Peter Ralph 3 years ago
If you are interested in understanding the principles, and have some time: for typography: Thinking with type - Ellen Lupton for film video visual dynamics: The Visual Image - Bruce Block If you are l
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| | | | | Bass disappears on laptopby Peter Ralph 3 years agoI relaize this is not sonicfire specific but maybe you've seen this before... Using "golden child" basic soundclips. Really strong bass - sounds great thru my edit speakers, great on $100 multimedia s | | | | |
| | | | | Books for beginners...?by elijah levine 3 years agoI am soon to set the wheels in motion for the purchase of my first ( ) digital video editing rig. It has been a lengthy process to get this far. What I have realised is that I need some really good gu | | | | |
| | | | | Proving my capabilities to colleges?by Glenn Fisher 3 years agoHey COWers, I'm a sophomore student in high school with a fair amount of video experience. I've focussed mostly on producing videos and CDs of my district's amazing music program (to get an example of | Re: Proving my capabilities to colleges?
by Peter Ralph 3 years ago
Grinner - I would have thought that a lot of film schools would be actively scouting talented kids...is that not the case Most everyone in film schools is paying big bucks to be there shootingbynumber
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| | | |  | Hack Amateur Vs. Seasoned Proby Tracy Peterson 3 years agoSo a question that I'm starting to wonder about is: What constitutes hobbyist vs. pro I've had very different experiences between "seasoned pros" with some being the most unprofessional people I've go | Learning out loud
by Peter Ralph 3 years ago
Corporate video is in vortex - no-one knows what's going to be left standing 2-3 years from now. Where did Gary Vaynerchuck come from When hack amateurs are making high six figures and seasoned pros a
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| | | |  | Blog: The Essential Need for an Honest Critiqueby Tony Ross 3 years agoI believe that we all are the sum of both the positive and negative experiences, and people, in our past and present lives. As an instructor, I know that both my good teachers and bad teachers helped | agreed -
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by Peter Ralph 3 years ago
agreed - Clayton Christensen has co-authored a book which explores the implications of his theory of "disruptive innovation" in regard to education. "Different people learn differently&
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