DVL-Digest 566 - Postings: Index How to prep a DV tape. Lighting advice Luck How to prep a DV tape. - "Perry" Robert posted: >Please clear this up. Copy to ANOTHER camera using Firewire or copy into a Mac or PC, thereby creating a new TC?< Copy to another Camera or Deck. There appears to be a common misconception that cameras do a frame accurate timecode join when you make in camera 'edits', or that it preserves an existing TC track. The camera makes a new recording over the existing one (thus wiping it out) and uses the existing timecode to preset the values in the timecode generator. If the manufacturer has done a good job, then it should give a pseudo accurate edit, but it is not guaranteed to not give a timecode discontinuity in the NLE. Copying to a new tape insures a new continuous track is created as long as there are no gaps in the source tape. What companies like Apple should really do is provide applications that happily accept the discontinuities without complaint! Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ Lighting advice - "Perry" Kevin Triplett posted: >BTW, I discovered a quick and dirty replacement for my Chimera -- doesn't work in all cases but is faster to deploy than my Chimera -- Lowell sells a translucent umbrella, costs about and works great. Instead of bouncing the light from the umbrella, I turn it toward the subject and get a nice soft light that's easy to deploy.< Many years ago I bought a Lowel kit, I actually made up my own selection rather than take one of their kits. It has been fantastic, nothing has ever broke except for the bubbles, and even they are a lot less fragile then our infamous redheads. The umbrellas work great, so much so that I see I've now warn out one of the reflectors with years of opening and closing. There are actually two types, an aluminised reflector and a translucent one as Kevin describes. Perry Mitchell Video Facilities http://www.perrybits.co.uk/ Luck - Perry Mitchell Axel posted: >Yesterday a friend of mine and me simply wondered how many people have their camcorders handy when a disaster happens. Do you rememeber the explosion of the fireworks factory in Enschede, the Netherlands? The TV stations showed at least three different tapes.< That is why I said luck with the 'truck' clip. There is no way the cameraman would have got it if he had not been already shooting through the wind shield when the plane suddenly shot into view. I have had 3 items on national news programs and in 2 of those it was pure luck that I happened to have the camera running when the events occurred. In neither case would I have had time to even put it up to my shoulder and start recording. In one case I was shooting (Betacam) cameramen covering a ski race in Switzerland (for a Sony corporate video) and for some reason I cannot remember I wanted a few seconds of one of the racers. I panned around and caught one guy going through the last couple of gates in front of me, except he fell at the last. Turned out he was the hot favourite and I got a very good view of the fall. I didn't think anything of it until I mentioned it to our Swiss Sales guy (and ski nut), who grabbed the tape off me and rushed off to the Outside Broadcast trucks. A few minutes later it was on national TV and later that evening it was my shot they showed on the national news. I had been there for a whole week and that was the only racer that I had shot! And before you ask, no I didn't get paid for it, but I guess the salesman won a lot of Brownie points! (diese posts stammen von der DV-L Mailingliste - THX to Adam Wilt and Perry Mitchell :-) [up] |
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