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Videoguys' Tips for Shooting Family/Home/holiday Video
Each year around Thanksgiving we update and publish this guide. We've
been doing it for over a decade. Today you can shoot video on not just
a camcorder, but your iPhone or cell phone, still camera, webcam, or
pocket size solid-state digital video cameras. No matter what you
shoot with, you'll find the tips in this guide helpful. After reading
it you will be able to make more interesting and enjoyable videos for
your friends and family to watch. So have a great holiday, enjoy your
Holiday meals and be thankful for all the things you have. Shoot some
great video, do a little editing (or a lot ;-), then post your video
on YouTube, Facebook or your favorite video sharing website for all to
see!
If you're like me, you shoot tons of video of your family. I've got
hours and hours of videotape of my kids. Over the past 15 years I've
learned a thing or two about getting the best possible footage. No
matter how cool your NLE system is and how many awesome special
effects you can add, the bottom line is this:
The video is only as good as the video you shoot!
If the quality of the video is poor, then no amount of editing is
going to make it look better. By shooting better and getting more
cinematic, your videos will look better and the editing will be
easier! So here are a bunch of really useful tips and tricks hat will
help you shoot better video and capture the moments.
My company has just bought a Matrox MXO2 (with Max) and I'm trying to get my head around it!
The main purpose is for interfacing an HDSDI switcher with a computer for Internet Streaming, and that I mostly understand. The bit that remains a mystery is the claim that it 'understands' XDCam, DVCPro, (AVCIntra?) etc. for the purposes of editing. How does the MXO get involved in those circumstances? Is it purely as a decoding device for monitoring and transmission to HDSDI?
I'm guessing perhaps that the interface via the PCI Express port allows the MXO2 to be used by the host computer as an acceleration processor, similar (I gather) to using spare processor capacity in graphic card(s). Obviously this would need suitable driver software in the host application, so is this why (for instance) Adobe suite must be CS4?
Probably all too simplistic for people on this list; presumably geared toward producers that don't know mpeg from avc. Especially all the stuff about color space which just doesn't affect anyone on a day to day basis (but boy do we all remember the fights about it back when digital video was young!).
A few quick thoughts since you asked:
*) Bold move trying to number each q&a, but with predictable results - there are two Q5's in Media. *) I don't recall hearing anywhere that Bluray is limited to 2X read speeds - I think the real limit is 12X (but who knows when we'll see that). And it's a bit misleading to call it 'proprietary', as Sony is licensing it to virtually everyone now. Kind of like calling mpeg proprietary. *) "What is good about Flash?" Okay, maybe I've just got Flash on my mind lately what with Apple trying to kill it off, but I totally misread this so think it might better be titled "flash memory" or "flash cards". *) The main problem with blu-ray in the HD world is that they're so small. You barely mention hard drives at all except as 'backup', but today they're really the only way to archive projects. Unless you have really fat internet pipes.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Perry <perry.mitch...@gmail.com> wrote: > The folks have got together a new web site for the company I work for, > Procam Television:
> I’ve started some technical explanations in Q&A and longer formats, and the > first two on ‘Media’ and ‘Video Compression’ are now up under ‘Resources’.
> I’d much appreciate any feedback and also any suggestions or requests for > further topics of interest.
Hi Perry:
Overall, I like the site. Have not had a chance to look at your Q&A
yet. Just a question: There is a photo in the Anton Bauer announcement
-- Handshake showing, I assume, your managing director. It would be
nice to put names to the other faces in the shot... you for example if
you are there.
I am back in Canada now. Sorry I didn't get a chance to visit your shop
when I was working at the Beeb.
Cheers
David
On 17/03/2010 8:27 AM, Perry wrote:
The
folks have got together a new web site for the company I
work for, Procam Television:
Thanks for the comments Joe. You are right about the Q&As although the linked to longer articles will be perhaps of more interest.
In terms of your thoughts:
1) Well spotted
2) Just my practical experiences. I should have said 'with present players'
3) Point taken
4) I am talking to an acquisition broadcast market. We don't currently have a single camera with an HDD record media but I do talk about them more in the longer article. I think the main thing to say about blu-ray is that our clients are treating them like tape rather than like flash memory.
From: dv-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:dv-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joe Parker Sent: 17 March 2010 12:49 To: dv-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [DV-L] Re: Information
Probably all too simplistic for people on this list; presumably geared toward producers that don't know mpeg from avc. Especially all the stuff about color space which just doesn't affect anyone on a day to day basis (but boy do we all remember the fights about it back when digital video was young!).
A few quick thoughts since you asked:
*) Bold move trying to number each q&a, but with predictable results - there are two Q5's in Media. *) I don't recall hearing anywhere that Bluray is limited to 2X read speeds - I think the real limit is 12X (but who knows when we'll see that). And it's a bit misleading to call it 'proprietary', as Sony is licensing it to virtually everyone now. Kind of like calling mpeg proprietary. *) "What is good about Flash?" Okay, maybe I've just got Flash on my mind lately what with Apple trying to kill it off, but I totally misread this so think it might better be titled "flash memory" or "flash cards". *) The main problem with blu-ray in the HD world is that they're so small. You barely mention hard drives at all except as 'backup', but today they're really the only way to archive projects. Unless you have really fat internet pipes.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Perry <perry.mitch...@gmail.com> wrote:
The folks have got together a new web site for the company I work for, Procam Television:
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