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- Wed May 08, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Too much drone footage?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 108
Re: Too much drone footage?
The problem with drone shots is that they distort perception. Given that we aren't used to an aerial perspective in our day-to-day existence it's hard to identify with the world as portrayed from such a vantage point. Travelling "as the crow flies" distorts our sense of distance between pl...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Lip Synch
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9945
Re: Lip Synch
Uher, Beaulieu , Arri? Us poor kids from oop't North couldn't afford such kit! Seriously, such equipment was fantastic, but with regard to sound I've came to appreciate how crude tape recorders were in some respects, having spent some time "under the bonnet" recently. It's not far off the ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Lip Synch
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9945
Re: Lip Synch
I'm just breathing in the heady atmosphere of hot valves and electrical contact cleaner!
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Lip Synch
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9945
Re: Lip Synch
Just a word of thanks for all your replies. I'll keep looking back at this in case anyone has anything else to add. I've managed to resurrect one of the old machines I mentioned and can definitely endorse Ned's comments re. bulk and weight. Although I was a bit sniffy about compact cassettes when th...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Lip Synch
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9945
Re: Lip Synch
Ned The weight and bulk of old tape machines is something I'm aware of as I have three 1960s vintage "non runners" bought from e-bay, one of which I hope to get working again. (Note that the emphasis is on "hope" rather than "expectation"!) In the 1960s I had a portable...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Lip Synch
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9945
Re: Lip Synch
Michael seems to echo the comments of Ned in finding synch sound hard to achieve with 8mm but possible with 16mm; could this be due to both the size of the film and the fact that 16mm was used in a professional / semi-professional way such that both protocols and tools existed to edit it? For instan...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Lip Synch
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9945
Re: Lip Synch
Ned, thanks for taking the time and trouble to post your comments which I found quite interesting. Although I have to admit to having no experience of editing cine film, I did do quite a lot with sound / tape when I was younger and have edited sound and pictures digitally. This being said, the books...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Lip Synch
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9945
Re: Lip Synch
It's an interesting comment you make, Dave, about coming to grips with the aesthetics of sound. While the 1940s-50s issue of Amateur Cine World have many practical examples of DIY synchronization hardware, there are also letters that can only be described as antagonistic to the adoption of sync soun...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Lip Synch
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9945
Lip Synch
Hello I became interested in film and video after making a retirement video for a colleague in the day job about five years ago. I'm retired myself now but unfortunately live around fifteen miles from the nearest movie makers club such that joining one would be problematic. I also suffer from indiff...