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- Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:25 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Dual-layer DVD issue
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7980
Re: Dual-layer DVD issue
Many thanks, Dave and Tom, for your help. Dave: 1. I’m working in SD. 2. Yes. 3. I know this is one solution to the issue. I have a couple of programme that can burn ISOs, but I'm still interested in other solution options I can use to burn a movie file. 4. No problem with the menu making, but if I ...
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:31 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Dual-layer DVD issue
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7980
Dual-layer DVD issue
I'm using Pinnacle Studio 14 Ultimate to edit video, but there is a bug - that is, burning dual-layer 8.5GB DVDs with over 55 minutes of video content doesn't then play in normal dvd players. (I’ve got 93 minutes of video to burn.) This isn't a settings issue or disc problem as different brands of d...
- Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:08 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: NEW LOOK IAC WEBSITE
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13187
Re: NEW LOOK IAC WEBSITE
Congratulations, Jan, on creating a brilliant, new, user-friendly website for the IAC. I whizzed around it with child-like enthusiasm as I found myself coming upon many familiar but reassuring, essential features alongside numerous hidden treasures just waiting to be discovered. I'm sure it's going ...
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:23 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20461
Re: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
Thanks for the XL2 link, Chris.
Great stuff!
Ian
Great stuff!
Ian
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 5:33 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20461
Re: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
Chris, the £70(approx) Nikon adapter lens to accommodate the XL2 (among others), seems a very serious option. (So why, one wonders, would anyone therefore want to pay around £450 for the Canon EF adapter?) The Nikon adapter is incredibly, relatively cheap – presumably, it would usually cost much mor...
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:20 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20461
Re: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
Sounds ingenious, Dave! Alas – or maybe fortunately? – I’ve reached a point in my life where I want everything to be fuss-free wherever possible: i.e. go online, order a piece of kit, fit it to the camera, and off we go. The penalty I pay for that, of course, is that I fork out much more than I perh...
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:48 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20461
Re: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
Thanks Chris. I have three Canon camcorders and for the XL2 I use, like you, a dedicated Canon XL 1.6x lens. At £396, with p & p, it cost a little bit more the 2.2x lens at £16.95 from ebay! But even so, with the extender fitted, it is not really powerful enough for big wildlife close-up shots. ...
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:34 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20461
Re: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
I suspect, John, that once we set our mind to it there'll be loads of second-hand lenses out there (not to mention new ones) suitable for our respective purposes! I just haven't had the time yet to get down to it. Maybe I should make that my resoluition for the coming year. I've certainly been think...
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:05 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20461
Re: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
Oops! In my post I left oput a 2 - my camera is a Canon XL2.
Ian
Ian
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:03 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20461
Re: Telephoto lens required for filming waders.
By coincidence, I was just about to post a similar request as John's as regards filming wildlife subjects on my Canon XL which has a x22 zoom as standard. But this is insuffiecient for distant shots of many secretive wildlife species. Can anyone recommend a lens for such work? I, too, would be prepa...
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 10:43 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Filters and how/when to use them
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13662
Re: Filters and how/when to use them
Tom, you’ve finally convinced me – stay clear of filters. I’ve had several Canon camcorders over the years: my current ones are an XL2 (22x zoom,) and a Legria HV40 (10x zoom). I must confess that about a year ago I noticed that (re the XL2) that images of, say, corn blowing in the wind or leaves on...
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:46 am
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Filters and how/when to use them
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13662
Re: Filters and how/when to use them
You’ve certainly given “filter-or-no-filter?” doubters like me, Tom, much uncomfortable food for thought! You have also seem to have gone against the Holy Grail of all still-camera/camcorder advice columns in saying “DON’T use a UV filter” which, as you say, most of us use purely as a projective mem...
- Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:42 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Filters and how/when to use them
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13662
Re: Filters and how/when to use them
Good point, Leif, regarding the possibility of vignetting on wide-angle shots. And, Dave, you've raised what I've been pondering on for the past year or so: the fact that most of the effects that on-camera filters achieve can amore or less be approximated in the post-production editing stage. Starbu...
- Mon Nov 08, 2010 6:36 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Filters and how/when to use them
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13662
Re: Filters and how/when to use them
Thank you, Brian, for clarifying this.
I'd still love to see a good feature in FVM about the use of the filter, for those not particularly well versed in the subject.
I'd still love to see a good feature in FVM about the use of the filter, for those not particularly well versed in the subject.
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:14 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: Filters and how/when to use them
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13662
Filters and how/when to use them
A couple of easy questions for the video-camera literate on which I’d appreciate clarification. 1. What rules apply when a UV filter has been attached as a permanent fixture to a camcorder lens and, for some shots, one wants to fit, say, a circular polarising filter or a starburst filter or a colour...