IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

On the rare occasions I've edited HDV I've transcoded to DNxHD which is an I-Frame only codec (Available free from Avid) on my Media Composer system. I usualy shoot HD in DVCPro HD.
Dave

Hi again.
Apparently though we are affiliated, we're too hard up to afford the PLI. Bother.
I thought that the PLI that came with my camera insurance would cover it, but on closer reading it wouldn't.
Bother.
I may give them a ring, see if there's a possibility of a "special"
Dave

Hi Dave, thanks for the quick reply. I may be going to the club this evening (We have our Christmas bash) if the weather doesn't go down hill, so I'll ask how we stand. I may be getting paranoid (Or perhaps others are) but the location I'm most concerned with is a local park where some aliens lay an...

I've recently (ie 1/2 hour ago!) been online looking at getting location permits for an amateur project. All the forms I've seen ask for the name of the Production Company, and of course Public Liability Insurance. Now, I understand the importance of both but here's the nub of the question. Has anyo...

My problem (?) is that I shoot stills as well as cine, and am serious enough about both to insist on a tripod. I have, in my time lugged a 5x4 field camera, lenses, film (Remember that?) holders, and the obligatory tripod over the Lakeland Fells. Unfortunately I now find I need a whole new species o...

Mike, hi.. Have you tried MPEGstreamclip to convert your footage? I've only tried it out od 5DII to see if I could convert 30>25fps, but it has a good rep as a do-anything converter. Sony Vegas pro 9 supposedly handles AVCHD well, unlike my Avid MC which turns its nose up at such a lowbrow format :m...

I would think, and am thinking in terms of a RAID 5 array, a good combination of speed and recoverability if one drive goes down, you can do it with four drives in an enclosure, or else buy special RAID 5 devices. This is especially important if you shoot to a card format, and have no archive tape t...

A few random points. When I went HD, I went all the way to a Panny HVX200,even though I needed a big loan to get it. Why? First manual controls, sadly lacking in any cam under £2k+, second, an I-frame only codec, DVCProHD (In PAL, 1440x1080 unlike NTSC 1220X1080), with the added inducement of over /...

It's going off at a bit of a tangent, but have you considered getting a vDSLR such as the Canon 5DII? If you've got Nikon lenses you can use them with an adaptor, it's not everyone's cup of tea, and my not be yours, just chucking it up as a possibility. Otherwise I concurr about the Panny HMC 151. I...

I edit DVCproHD on a dual-core laptop with eSATA drive. The graphics card is a geforce 7900 with 256 meg ram, running Avid MC 3.0 TBH DVCProHD, even at 100Mbps is probably a lot easier on the computer than any MPEG or H264 format. I have edited HDV on a 3 GHz P4 with a basic 256 meg graphics, but tr...

Hi... I've just been reading our club's copy of the mag, and a couple of point come to mind, observations rather than criticisms. DVCProHD 1080 in PAL regions is 1440x1080, like HDV, but without the compression problems. With the new lower spec P2 cards, shooting P2 no longer costs an arm and a leg,...

Hi Tom. No, it wasn't the mics, as this happened at the end of a series of recordings, all of which were ok. There were also massive amounts of macroblocking noise, skipped frames judder and droppouts on one audio channel. We'll be sending it to Thear technologies to have it serviced, when I can get...

Hello folks! Been away from the forum for a while, thought I'd check in to see what's happening :) . After a particularly traumatic experience with our Sony PDx10, basically massive dropouts and a total loss of sound for about 10 mins of a 22 min take :roll: , I've been put right off anything involv...

In the last year I think I could count on one hand the number of own-produced films in 4:3. The last one I personally made was a deliberate B&W Silent movie. Our problem was to make sure our DVD player and projector could agree on the format!
Dave

Cheers! I held off replying in case anyone else showed up. I'll have a look at that site.
Dave