Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
January 10th, 2007, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 4,616
leaving to eat...
I have never left to eat because i never know when a good shot will happen. once, the couple were signing the license and hte photo wasn't there. i held up the signing because i knew the couple...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
January 9th, 2007, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,266
could be
bump down to draft quality and if that doesn't help spend 4 hours de-fragging your system. If it still doesn't work, then chances are you system isn't going to be able to preview it.
jason
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
January 8th, 2007, 01:44 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,638
Preview in Full
That is part of your problem. Change you preview setting to "preview" instead of full. Or buy new hardware. Unfortunately that seems to be the only options.
jason
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
January 1st, 2007, 04:12 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,485
Never Stop Shooting
It is a live event and you need to be rollign that camera the whole time. You never know what is goign to screw with your shots so you need as many of them as possible.
If at all possible, don't...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
December 30th, 2006, 02:35 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,961
capture date
i usually just see capture date. But I rarely use timecode to sync anything. That is what a flash or loud noise are for. Seems easy for me at least.
jason
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 29th, 2006, 12:41 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,340
16:9
I have switched to 16:9 but because I film on a Sony HDR-FX1, I can only shoot in 60i. The FX1 does have some 24p mimmicking features, but they are just that..... not true 24p so I just deal with...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
December 29th, 2006, 10:37 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,981
Encryption
Would the PC method still work with an encrypted commercial movie? I somehow doubt that, but I could be wrong.
jason
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
December 28th, 2006, 11:25 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,737
Steve...
Steve has your answer. You will have no end of annoyance if you do not check your Ripple Edit settings as well. Make sure you know how they act and when to leave them off (for me, most of the...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 25th, 2006, 08:50 PM
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Replies: 73
Views: 30,833
many
keep in mind that this is only the case for a mechanic that owns the shop or does free lance work, not your schucks workers. And just like wedding video people, when they aren't working for a client...
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Forum: DVD Authoring
December 21st, 2006, 06:34 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,618
Old Players
My most recent client complained that she couldn't make a copy of the DVD (I allow that for my clients because it saves me hassle and provides negligible income). It was not encrypted and burned...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
December 20th, 2006, 02:06 PM
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Replies: 1,878
Views: 426,381
mouse over learning
I am kind of the opposite. I learned everything in vegas from mousing around and seeing what tips or text popped up. I clicked everything.... right clicked everything, and just looked through the...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
December 18th, 2006, 10:26 AM
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Replies: 1,878
Views: 426,381
no joke
I just bought an external HD for backup and one of my projects cannot be backed up to it because it has a single clip that is about 2.2GB. This drive is "Mac compatible" so it is FAT32. that measn...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 15th, 2006, 03:58 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 5,231
Stills
I ALWAYS try to get stills. They ust work better some times. My latest wedding has an AMAZING still taken by my wife of a dove release. I was busy with the close up of the kiss with doves...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
December 15th, 2006, 11:09 AM
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Replies: 1,878
Views: 426,381
YouTube
I was wondering the some thing since I just created a 3Mbps WMV and uploaded all 29MB of it. The results are less than steller and if Vegas could render to Divx / XVid that would be great.
So is...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 13th, 2006, 01:18 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,334
J & L cuts
I didn't know that is what they were called, but i have been using them from the beginning of my editing experience. I use them for precisely that reason. Very very handy especially when a scene...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 13th, 2006, 12:59 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,259
Chees Factor
I do not use lower 1/3rd and other overlays / transition for just that reason. I prefer straight cross fades or possibly the flash transition. That is about as fancy as I get during the actual...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 13th, 2006, 12:52 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,259
OK Found it....
Looks like it was the 9th Deal of Christmas. They are sure snazy, but I wonder how much I would use them for my current style..... probably not too much. But I could use them on the DVDs and...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 13th, 2006, 12:35 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,259
ETKs... not for $150
I am seeing the Wedding ETKs, but they are still $400. Is there a specific item you found?
jason
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 13th, 2006, 11:53 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,743
Jason
Agreed. I never cut speeches even if the footage is bad because it is darkened reception lighting, etc.
My recent DVD (burned and mailed yesterday actually) had lots of extras on the DVD. ...
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Forum: DVD Authoring
December 13th, 2006, 11:44 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 9,510
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Forum: DVD Authoring
December 13th, 2006, 11:43 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 9,510
Yep
I deliver my content on these discs as well. The problem.... finding the dam things ANYWHERE. I can usually find lightscribe +R but not -R (why oh why?????). They are dam expensive too. About $1...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 13th, 2006, 11:30 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 6,826
H264
LOTS of grunt. I downloaded some demo h264 footage when it came out and using my roommates tiBook we could NOT play the footage. too much computing power needed to decode the footage. Granted the...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
December 9th, 2006, 05:15 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,480
round about?
Seems a little round about, but is that because of limitations in Vegas? Seems like the regions are not necessary, but if that is how it work,s then I can't complain.
jason
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 9th, 2006, 03:04 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,256
taxes
So the above is pretty much the way things work for me as well. The production is a service, but additional copies of the video require sales tax. So I have a state sales tax ID (even a use tax ID,...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
December 9th, 2006, 02:54 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,607
Surround
I have been mixing in 5.1, mainly because I have a ~$300 Logitech sound system (I know, that is cheap) to use to test my mixes. I don't generally do too much, other than keep the camera audio to the...
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