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Forum: Panasonic DVX / DVC Assistant January 27th, 2014, 05:38 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 9,093
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: DVX 100b problems...

I've not been able to do so... looking for a parts camera?
Forum: Photon Management November 12th, 2013, 11:15 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 10,889
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Colortran?

Horizontal lever on the rear bottom.
Forum: Photon Management November 10th, 2013, 07:53 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 10,889
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Colortran?

I've found some barn doors and a post adaptor to change my new found 1Kw 6" Berkey Colortran Fresnel into a stand mounted beasty, but still need to find a fresnel lens for it and a new cord (or I...
Forum: Jibs / Cranes / Booms July 12th, 2013, 12:00 AM
Replies: 95
Views: 120,486
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Post a photo of your crane!

http://yafiunderground.com/Video/pan-tilt.mov
Forum: Jibs / Cranes / Booms July 11th, 2013, 11:58 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 120,486
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Post a photo of your crane!

Gotta step it up, I've since added a cable driven pan and tilt head and counter weights that don't hang in a bag :)
Forum: Panasonic DVX / DVC Assistant April 16th, 2013, 09:11 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 9,093
Posted By Cole McDonald
DVX 100b problems...

Although a bit dated, I've come across a DVX that I'd like to resurrect. I've got some troubleshooting to do yet to see if there's power coming out of the adaptor I've got for it (it does light up...
Forum: Private Classifieds September 19th, 2012, 11:14 AM
Replies: 2,491
Views: 298,235
Posted By Cole McDonald
Cameras, Studio Lighting, Audio Equipment...

OK... time for me to get together enough to upgrade to an HD workflow... STOP, Camera time!

Here's what I'm selling, I'd love to sell it as a lot, but if I can hit my dollar amount to upgrade, I'm...
Forum: Open DV Discussion August 8th, 2012, 10:55 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,839
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: iPhone 4s using old lens with lens adapter

point the lens at a light on the cieling and set the focus to infinity. move the lens toward a white piece of paper until the light comes into focus. The distance form the paper to the back of the...
Forum: Sony XDCAM EX Pro Handhelds July 27th, 2012, 08:40 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 5,635
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Mountain lion experiences?

I'm still on snow leopard... Killing off "Spaces" was a no go for me, it's fundamental to my workflow. I tried it and hated all the little changes from previous versions... all those little reasons...
Forum: Digital Compositing and Effects July 1st, 2012, 05:00 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 21,676
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Picking a 3D program to learn, how?

Photogrammetry works the other way, it takes the photos and creates the model from them... Autodesk 123D - 123D Catch turn photos into 3D models (http://www.123dapp.com/catch) does this as well (and...
Forum: Final Cut Pro X May 29th, 2012, 08:39 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,352
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Colour balance in FCP X compared to Colour

This is one of the reasons I've not upgraded (pun?) to FCPx... Recent gigs have been doing grading, so I am firmly in Color/FCS2 for the time being.
Forum: All Things Audio May 26th, 2012, 09:58 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 8,592
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Cellular Signal Noise

I upgraded my audio capture kit to help solve these problems... the issue is that the cable acts like an RF antenna, the longer your cable run, the more it'll pick out of the air and put in your...
Forum: Open DV Discussion May 21st, 2012, 07:08 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 4,462
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Does Deinterlacing then Reinterlacing lose quality?

Test all the possible options, then pick the one that looks the best on the output devices you've got access to.

De-Interlaced TFF, BFF, straight interlaced, then see which looks the best... use...
Forum: Photon Management May 18th, 2012, 10:27 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 7,300
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Safe lighting solution for disabled people

You're right, I got caught up in the rest of the conversation and completely forgot you'd said that.
Forum: Photon Management May 18th, 2012, 07:15 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 7,300
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Safe lighting solution for disabled people

I'll ask the missing question: what's the location? If it's officey, you can get scissor clamps to put led or small fluo fixtures on the ceiling avoiding stands, but allowing the lights... there are...
Forum: Final Cut Suite May 15th, 2012, 07:55 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,901
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Please help me avoid this nightmare becoming any worse

Yeah, setting becomes habit after you force yourself to do it every time for a while. Once it's a habit, you're good to go. Until then, it's alot of mop up when you forget... which is usually a...
Forum: Open DV Discussion May 15th, 2012, 12:07 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 4,462
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Does Deinterlacing then Reinterlacing lose quality?

Yes, you'll lose quality... at its worst, deinterlacing throws away 50% of your image (every other line)... at its best, it guesses at the pixels based on the information around them.
...
Forum: Final Cut Suite May 15th, 2012, 12:03 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,901
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Please help me avoid this nightmare becoming any worse

I fell into the same trap early on in my FCP days... but had the IT background to come up with a relatively simple solution:

Step 1: after opening FCP for a new project, create a folder for that...
Forum: Canon XL H Series HDV Camcorders May 1st, 2012, 11:06 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 47,558
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: The Great Canon XL Series Revival Thread

@Marty: yes, this was in response to the question above... the mounting piece is an "elevator bolt" that set me back < $1 for all of the parts and a little bit of time trimming the edges back to fit...
Forum: Canon XL H Series HDV Camcorders May 1st, 2012, 08:06 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 47,558
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: The Great Canon XL Series Revival Thread

On my XL1s, I ground down an elevator bolt (1/4-20) to fit in my hot shoe and added wingnuts and washers to hold it in place on the top of the camera...
...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD April 21st, 2012, 08:54 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 3,900
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Canon T2i instead of small camcorder

I've now shot with a Canon DSLR after a long time disliking them for various (uneducated) reasons... I'm looking at the T2i as my next camera... the picture quality compared to my SD Canon XL1s is...
Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques April 17th, 2012, 12:04 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 7,631
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: How do you handle BAD backlighting??

Michael: You can use your NLE/ grading package to either;

A) put a gradient across the screen that has a lighter orange side on the left and transparency on the right to bring the blues into the...
Forum: What Happens in Vegas... April 16th, 2012, 10:49 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 4,617
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: Advice on severe backlighting???

Cool technique. you can also lock onto specific color ranges and treat them differently... so you can boost the faces slightly and drop the suits back to a richer color by using a chroma key to...
Forum: Open DV Discussion April 10th, 2012, 01:02 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 8,288
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: WANTED: Most "film look" bang for the buck?

My main focus of late (and it's working really well) is to treat video as film would be treated when lighting.

In the film negative world, chemistry and physics means that the highlights can be...
Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques April 8th, 2012, 09:00 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 7,631
Posted By Cole McDonald
Re: How do you handle BAD backlighting??

A polarizer will give you a little bit of control over water glare as well. I never shoot outside in the daytime without one on my camera, the skies will be richer in color as will the leaves on the...
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