Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 13th, 2006, 04:12 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 6,192
Compression
I ahve been worrying about posting my samples using to small of a resolution and too large of a file size, but mine are hitting 4-12MB so may be I don't need to worry too much.
Is this the file...
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Forum: Helping Hands
April 11th, 2006, 06:28 PM
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Replies: 125
Views: 37,678
Nice sample
Todd,
Nice job on those tours. I like the angles. Are you using a .5 wide angle for your interior shots? I have shot mine with out any wide angle lenses. To compensate, I provide more angles...
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Forum: Helping Hands
April 11th, 2006, 04:32 PM
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Replies: 125
Views: 37,678
Real Estate Videos
This is possibly a legit company. Another competitor that wasnt to have an "affiliate" network of videographers is http://www.realestatevideos.com They operate under a similar premise.
I have...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 11th, 2006, 03:55 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,192
mileage
I will be charging my next out of town wedding for mileage. I did one for no relocation charge and have to admit that I should have. Especially because it was a 2 hour drive. In any case, what do...
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Forum: Techniques for Independent Production
April 8th, 2006, 12:23 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,926
It can't hurt
IF your production time line can afford it, try asking the various makers that you have already shot footage to pay for the on screen time. Mention that you have a choice os using a Ford (for...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 7th, 2006, 12:35 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,099
Something New
Well I am at the point where I am Looking at everything so I can get new ideas. I have filmed the last three weddings almost the same, so I am looking for new shot ideas or editing ideas. :-)
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Forum: Open DV Discussion
April 6th, 2006, 04:25 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,964
Emergency Gear
What about speciality emergency service contact numbers (poison control, etc)?
Emergency contact list for all involved persons (home phone #s, emergency relative / friend contact #s)?
jason
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Forum: Flash / Web Video
April 6th, 2006, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,993
Wrath of the Forum
I know I may encounter the wrath of the forum, but I find very good results with Real Media's codec. It may have an ugly-ass player that is annoying.... but their streaming software and compression...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 6th, 2006, 03:11 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 10,662
Video & Photo
This is where I am. I just plain love the editing. Sitting in front of the time line with 30 GB of source footage and idea. That is what I like to do. I also love showing up and finding the parts...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 5th, 2006, 10:49 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,099
Phantom web site
I am also not finding the web site. Either the link has a typo, or the site no longer exists. Just letting you know.
jason
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Forum: These Are the People in Your Neighborhood
April 4th, 2006, 09:17 PM
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Replies: 332
Views: 68,857
Sounds like a great trip
Looks like you have lots of plans in place already. Do you have a business model and advertising plans worked out? In other words, how to get the word out about your productions while you are...
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Forum: Sony HVR-Z1 / HDR-FX1
April 4th, 2006, 07:52 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,584
Mountain filming
I have filmed several mountain climbs in bitter cold and blowing blizzards so I am familiar with that environment. First off, don't except any sort of reasonable battery performance. As soon as...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 4th, 2006, 03:01 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 9,774
Thanks for the input
Looks like I need to streamline my ceremony editing time. I had a fair amount of color correction to do for my last wedding (pictures taken while standing on snow.... blue everywhere!) so I need to...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
April 4th, 2006, 01:35 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 5,295
File Size: The Curse of Video Editing
You have found the curse of video editing. File sizes. I have only a few current projects, but I have already chewed up 250GB of space. I have to swap projects from my ackup HD on to my edit...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
April 4th, 2006, 01:23 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,685
2 Pass Encoding.... Why?
This is a rendering question for all the gurus out there (Ed, Doug, etc... :-)
Logic would tell me that if I do something twice (taxes, math problem) I might find errors and thus obtain a...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
April 4th, 2006, 12:45 AM
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Replies: 2,090
Views: 424,347
Upgrade
I played with the demo of Vegas 6 and decided that there was no way I wanted the limited # of tracks that VMS provides. In just a demo I already had too many layers.
The first NLE I played with...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
April 3rd, 2006, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 6,088
Playlists
Did you link the multiple files using a playlist? I created on of my projects using a playlist and there is no pause between items in the list (all of which were rendered at different times).
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Forum: Final Cut Suite
April 3rd, 2006, 11:21 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,661
Air Flow
I have built many computers (though not laptops) from scratch and a primary concern is always air flow. Small and thin laptops (like the Powerbooks) are not going to have the same sort of air flow...
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Forum: What Happens in Vegas...
April 3rd, 2006, 09:45 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,140
Ram
I have an alienware MJ12-7700 mobile desktop and with 2.5 GB of RAM I NEVER use even 1/2 of that while runnign Vegas. It doesn't matter how big the project is, Vegas simply cannot use that much ram....
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 3rd, 2006, 02:14 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 9,774
Editing Time per 1min finished product
Here is a simple question with many not so simple answers (as usual). I would like to know about how much time it takes ya'll to edit (on average) a simple (not too many fancy masks, color effects,...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 3rd, 2006, 01:32 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,396
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 3rd, 2006, 12:54 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,943
My mistake.
My mistake. I'll post a new thread in an appropriate place.
jason
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Forum: Non-Linear Editing on the PC
April 3rd, 2006, 12:32 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,751
Schedulers, clocks, etc
Right.... the HT systems still share the same instruction cache so when the next thread swaps in to play the entire instruction cache and memory cache have to be reloaded from L2 memory (on the CPU...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 2nd, 2006, 03:39 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,139
A possible solution
Here is something that popped into my mind for those pan & soom scenes that you don't like.... Take still frames (the cleanest ones you can find) and freeze frame them. Hold each frame for ~5...
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Forum: Wedding / Event Videography Techniques
April 2nd, 2006, 03:33 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,139
tricks
Since I lack all the fancy gear, I have created tricks to over come the small annoyances and problems faced with filming live events.
1) When capturing a still object, use a still camera. Just...
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