David Akinde

The technical craft of filmmaking can be learned in a few weeks.

The conceptual and artistic aspects requires an understanding

and familiarity with a lot of thinkers from centuries past to the present time.

This takes a life time of study. Great filmmakers like all other artists have that rare combination of a more developed capacity for critical and abstract thinking. A good solid education formal or informal is indespensable.

Hi All

I hope this is the right forum to post this question..? How do the team from BBC's 'Planet Earth' achieve those stunning - super steady aireal shots. I recall the episode with the polar bear swimming for miles out into the ocean, and walking over iced landscapes, with the framing starting on a full shot, and then zooming out to reveal the bears as specs on the infinite frozen background. On some of the other episodes, the animals do not seem to be too bothered on whatever they use to fly the camera...

Hot air balloons!

M. David Mullen

Janusz Karminski

Rodrigo Prieto

Hi all,

 

This is my first post and I was wondering if anyone has any opinions on the Angenieux 9.5-95mm lense for the CP-16R. I just bought the camera on ebay (and it is in transit) and am not familiar with that lense...was wondering if people had any thoughts on it.

 

Also, any recommendations of where I can get a video tap for it? It does have the port on top and was wondering what the options are (especilly in terms of price).

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Ed

The 9.5-95mm is an excellent zoom lens. I use one with my NPR the results have been very good

its a very sharp lens and fast enough, skin tone reproduction was great.

Hi everyone. I've recently bought a Betacam SP 300, it's a great camera and I got it for a fantastic price.

I was wondering though, I will want to edit my stuff on Final Cut Pro and what is the easiest, cheapest way of getting the best possible Betacam signal into my mac?

I have access to a Betacam player at my work, though I am confused - I was looking at it's connections and it seems there's only a composite BNC cabel coming out of it. I thought Betacam was supposed to be taken as a component signal with the three BNC connectors being used?

Is there a way of taking the component out into my computer, or do I have to convert to say, DVCAM first?

Your best bet is to convert to dv/dvcam. If your dvcam deck has component inputs then you can play out of the beta deck and record to Dvcam.