Patrick Baldwin
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In an ideal world one would capture the same frame as the cinema camera along with other images. In reality it can be impossible to get that near to the camera. However, I have yet to meet a DP who wasn't happy to help me get into a good place. I've met a few 1st Ad's that were a bit grumpy! For clarity, I shoot more unit stills than moving image.
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With the advent of mirrorless and silent shutters you won't see a blimped stills camera on set anymore. I'm selling my Aquatech blimp if anybody wants it! Ran when parked?
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I am not setup for time code but I have filmed quite a few multicam theatre shows with up to four cameras and synced them up using the waveform method in FCPX. Most of them were 2 1/2 hours long and there was no audio drift either. I have had very occasionally to manually nudge one track to achieve perfect sync but that is pretty trivial to do.
You don't need to make sure you have continuous takes either. NLE's synching capability can cope with gaps in takes easily.
Having said all that I think something like Tentacle synchs kit will do what you are asking in terms of time code.
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22 hours ago, Mark Dunn said:
Always useful but less of an issue outside the US (OP is in the UK) as we have 230V. You can easily run two blondes and a set of redheads off a modern domestic ring main.
Really? I always understood one blonde and a redhead to be effectively the maximum on one ring main. 3K in other words.
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3 hours ago, Ryan Ivy said:
Ahhh I didn’t even think about that! Completely spaced the additional ports on the H6! ?Thank you! This seems like a great option! I will see what I can muster up! Thanks again!
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If you do this two things: Remember the shotguns pickup sound from the rear as well so you don't want chatty audience sitting right behind them and also remember to treat the two tracks as mono in post. It's not a stereo setup. Nobody will care that it isn't stereo. Good luck.
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Assuming the show is not in the round but proscenium arch (end on) then the easiest and cheapest way would be to hire two shotgun mics and run them into your H6 and synch up to the camera(s) later in post. Have them on stands at the front but off to the sides pointing into the centre of the stage. You may get some off axis colouration depending on how wide the staging is but will be a better result than omnis and reduce the room/hall sound. That is what I have done on some of the theatre multicams I have done. Without knowing more details that is what I would do.
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In 2011 I was doing unit stills on a UK BBC drama and was amazed to see the focus puller alongside the steadicam op on a walking shot pulling focus without a monitor. I asked him how he did that and he very politely said "it's my job to know what 10 feet is". In 2021 I bumped into him again on His Dark Materials and he was pulling off a monitor next to a camera on a dolly. When I reminded him about 2011 he said: "I wish I still had those eyes!"
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I have the first gen BM recorders in 5 & 7 inch versions which I think you can still buy. I also have two Ninja V's. The Atomos is a far better product than the BM's. You cannot calibrate the BM but you can with the Atomos. The BM are tied to SD cards which is very expensive in the case of the 4K version. They eat batteries and are only 400 nits so useless outside. The battery circuit failed on my 5 inch so I use a battery adaptor into the mains socket. BM wanted more than the cost of a new one to repair it! The 5 inch has false colour but no waveform. The Ninja V is a 1000 nits so much more usable outside apart from full sunlight. It records to SSD's which is a much better solution than BM.
The second gen BM's look like a much better product and are 2000 or possibly even 2500 nits and aren't tied to SD cards.
If it really has to be cheap then find a second hand 5inch BM but with all the caveats I mentioned in mind.
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David has breakdowns from some scenes from Mrs Maisel on his superb Instagram page. @mdmullen1
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I think the head in the top picture is this:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/272630-REG/Manfrotto_700RC2_700RC2_Mini_Video_Fluid.html
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Have you tried googling because I just found this and they sell tubing as well.
https://www.bickers.co.uk/tracking_equipment/speed-rail-kee-klamp-official-distributors/
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Try here. Googling speed rail tubing for other options .
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9 minutes ago, aapo lettinen said:
it is pretty random flickering in most cases. you will have to try to keyframe it out the best you can. make a correction node which has just the green channel pulse adjusted out and then enable/disable it when there is a green "flicker" frame keeping it otherwise disabled. check the rgb waveform or parade to find out how much the flicker pulse lifts the green tones and how to reverse its effect.
lots of manual work but should make the shot usable and the audience will probably not notice the flicker anymore
Thanks for that. As you say a LOT of manual work. I am on FCPX so probably even harder!
Thanks again.
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I think I have just had this flickering. I had three Z6's using exactly the same settings as part of a multicam. 5000 ISO @f5 25fps in 1080 10bit N-log. Only one of them is exhibiting this flickering! Only in the darkest scenes of the performance. It was an intimate play so they were basically looking at the same thing. Brighter scenes on the offending camera were fine. It actually looks like LED flickering but clearly isn't. Worrying if it is that random. I would be interested to hear any ideas on how to make it usable in post. I am expecting it to be unusable when I get to the edit.
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I hear you and I would of course use them given that ultimatum. They must be in love with at orange rubber look!
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When I'm on the road I download to bus powered WD 1TB SSD drives which are routinely 300mbs using Hedge. Whenever I use mains powered 7200rpm drives the download is always 170mbs. It doesn't matter one bit who has made it or what the cache size is it is always the same.
The original posters problem is the bus powered spinning hard drives. I personally won't touch anything made by LaCie having had numerous failures in years gone by.
Huge fan of Hedge.
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Congratulations David
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Go with grey seamless.
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You would have to budget for all the Horlicks you would need in order to sleep at night....
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Every day is world back up day in my workflow.
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On 3/27/2020 at 3:14 PM, David Mullen ASC said:
Here's a photo I took in Miami of a crew member trying to set up props on a beach just as a storm was coming in. I titled it "The Optimist"...
Incredible sky. I might start running if I saw that coming.
Which DSLR is the best to use for videography
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Please explain to this Z6 user why they are so useless for video because personally I really enjoy my 10bit log and it looks great. What sensor issues?