Re: practical tips for dv home video production
- From: "PTravel" <ptravel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:13:41 -0700
"z" <rzenetl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sony VX2000 camcorder
congrats on a great camera!
i have canon optura pi, which is decent, but soon there may be a need
to upgrade. actually i expect to talk my wife into getting a second
camera, which should provide for a much more interesting, 2-point
shooting.
Good luck getting your wife to agree. ;) Mine won't go near the equipment,
and gives me a hard time up until she sees each final DVD. I got the VX2000
primarily because I wasn't satisifed with the low-light performance of
anything else on the market. My next camera will probably be HDV, but I
want to wait for another generation of cameras to come up.
also i like that you have a healthy size camera backpack. fits all the
essential accessories. keeps them in one place, too, so even on the
road i can clean lense and do some maintenance during downtimes. great
tip, thank you!
That's my "fly to where we're going" kit. When we go out, I only carry the
bare minimum for what I want to shoot. All that weight gets old pretty
quick. However, I will never check any valuables when I fly, so everything
has to be carried on. It's also amazing the number of things that can go
wrong on the road. I started carrying the bulb blower when my 10D developed
an annoying spot on the sensor. I couldn't do anything about it until I
returned home (try buying a blower bulb in India ;) ) and wound up having to
fix each and every still that I took in Photoshop.
- how do you label your tapes?
Not sure what you're asking. I shoot travel video. The label includes
the
country, date, and tape sequence number.
thats exactly what i was asking, thank you.
so basically you label tape with venue info, date/time. sequence number
is interesting, do you number all your tapes in advance maybe?
I don't. First, I don't know how much I'll shoot in a day (though I average
30 minutes per day of video when I'm travelling). I've also encountered 1
or tapes (out of hundreds) that had problems and had to be chucked.
you
mentioned that you carry ample supply of blank tapes, it would probably
make sense that you pre-number them, yes? or am i missing the whole
point of this numbering business? (sorry, probably a dumb question,
just want to be sure i understand).
It doesn't take long for me to label the tapes at the end of each day, and
it's become part of the travel ritual, along with putting the batteries in
the charger, transferring the digital stills to the computer and
re-formatting the CF cards, etc.
- do you reuse tapes?
Never. Tape is cheap, the video on them irreplaceable. Reusing tapes
increases the risk of dropouts, and I like keeping the raw video around
for
re-edits.
makes sense, and i am very inclined to do the same. so thanks for
confirming this for me.
I use Sony Excellence, which runs about $7/tape in quantity. There are
cheaper grades, but it just doesn't make sense to me. I've invested many
thousands of dollars in my equipment, and then many additional thousands to
get myself to where I'm going. I don't see any reason to jeopardize the
video I shoot just to save a buck or two on the tape.
- what do you do for long term storage of archived tapes? racks?
albums?
I have a cabinet in which they are stacked vertically like books. It's
cool
and dry.
do you use inside that cabinet dv-tape racks of some sort? how many
tapes do you have if you dont mind my asking?
In our current house, we have a den/home-theater-sort-of downstairs in the
basement, where it is normally cool and dry. I have a large cabinet that
holds our DVDs, CDs, and video tapes. I probably have a few hundred miniDV
tapes stored in there, another hundred or two Hi8 tapes (which I shot before
getting my first miniDV camcorder), as well as some VHS and beta that go
back to the 80s.
If you're just shooting birthday videos of the kids, you probably don't
need
1/20th of what I've got.
thats the level i've been at so far, but i think i'm outgrowning that
phase and am interested in stepping up a bit. so thanks for all your
valuable advice.
Video is an addictive hobby, and you'll be surprised how quickly the bills
and the time commitment mount up when you start upgrading. If you're
interested, I have a couple of short clips here:
www.travelersvideo.com
They're not really representative of the travel videos I do for my wife and
my inlaws, but are along the lines of generic "video tone poems."
Incidently, a lot of the Las Vegas one was intentionally shot "shaky," but
you'll get a good idea of the difference between shooting with a handheld
camera (with very good optical image stablization) and a camera on a tripod
(which was used to shoot the other clips). I've found that the biggest
factor which distinguishes amateur video from professional-looking video
(aside from overuse of special effects and zooming) is the steadiness of the
shot.
and yes, i agree, DVDs are best souvenirs, the french know what they're
talking about ;)
.
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