When I was at the Return of the King midnight showing:
Poor underpaid stagehand: Please don't download movies off the internet
Someone in audience: Did anyone get that on video?
Someone else: Yeah, I'll put it on Kazaa when I get home.
The E5 earbuds he was using are extremely sensitive, 122 dB SPL/mW. Most headphones are down in the 80 range. As a result, any noise in the electronics will be audible.
Mmmm, manual focus on an XL1... The lens controls just suck on that camera, it doesn't quite keep up with what you're doing. But it's an awesome looking camera, I wish we had them in my high school, we had some very old JVC professional camcorders.
Anyway, I do sports productions with local public access. I'm the poor sucker in charge of trying to teach volunteers how to do camerawork for sports. =D Of course, I'm usually too busy running around making sure everything works to give them more than "This is your zoom, this is your focus, this is how you talk on the intercom, just try and make it look like TV, okay?"
No, it gets a lot worse, trust me. You haven't seen bad camerawork until you've really seen what happens when you hand an inexperienced person a handheld broadcast video camera that doesn't have automatic picture controls, including autofocus.
Yes, the dubious ones that advertise heavily on TV and are owned and managed by corporations such as CEC. Of course, I don't watch TV*, so I didn't catch the advertising. I had just heard that it was a fairly prestigious local college that had an excellent program. Later, I realized that I had only heard this from the college and not from any of the students or employers in town.
* Yes, I know this is rather strange coming from someone who works in television. I'm just as fed up with the reality crap and declining quality of shows as everyone else. That, and when you work behind the scenes, it's awfully hard to watch the show instead of the camerawork and other technical aspects of the production. =D Sports highlight reels are fun to watch just for the amazing camerawork as well as the plays.
Amen. I took a television production program at a "prestigious" local corporately-owned "college." Then I found out that the degree was next to worthless in the eyes of local employers (and other schools, even other schools owned by the same company), their much-hyped job placement was useless (especially since they were flooding the job market with more people than jobs), and I didn't learn a single thing that I hadn't already learned from just going out and working on shoots for free.
As a result of this, I'm very suspicious of any school that's not a nationally recognized university, especially if it's corporately-owned. I'm going to the University of Minnesota now and doing freelance studio and sports camerawork and video photography on the side.
That's a load of BS. It doesn't matter what equipment you're on, what matters is demonstrating that you know what to do with it. You can learn a new piece of equipment in a couple days. What's more important is that you have a feel for editing that can be used no matter what you're editing on, from FCP down to a linear setup, or even a single deck, a timecode readout, and an edit decision list.
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I'm not a programmer, so excuse my ignorance, but how does a quine work? When you compile it, it gets turned into machine code, so how does the program know what the source code is?
MP3Pro failed because they didn't release the standard. Only someone who bought a license could encode or decode the bitstream, and guess what, nobody bought a license. If they learned from that mistake, MP3 Surround might take off. If not, well, you know.
The entertainment industry tends to happen outside of business hours, since that's when people are generally available to be entertained. Music is a classical example. You can play bars at night and still have a day job. If you're any good at it, you can pull down some money, though you've gotta work for a while to make back the original investment in instruments and lessons. =P
From TFA: Revocation can help contain some attacks by preventing future titles from playing on a pre-chosen set of players. For example, if studios learn that pirates have hacked a player with a specific serial number, revocation makes it possible to author future titles so they will never play on that player.
So just because you own a DVD player that was hacked, you won't be able to play future DVDs? That's a load of crap.
I wouldn't trust it myself... Even if you can get the colors "pretty close" by eyeball, there's so many factors that can throw it off. The XL1 does have a handy color bar generator, though.
Of course, if I had my way I'd lug a pair of scopes along on every shoot, but the price tag kinda puts me off that.
This reminds me of a story about the engineer for a local public access station. He's barely good enough for public access, even. Nothing ever gets fixed, and nothing works 100%. We got some new cameras in the sports truck, so he's setting it all up. The colors look funny. So he *adjusts the monitors.* I so want to fire the guy, but I can't.
Well, anyone who's shooting something with an XL1 probably doesn't have enough money to buy an external monitor, either. At least not one calibrated well enough to actually judge your colors on it.
Hmm, I've never had a problem with DVCPro myself. Never noticed any quality issues even after a couple generations, never broke a tape or a deck. I used a DVCPro deck for instant replay for sports for a while and I'll tell you it was one heck of a lot more reliable than the Omega deck they replaced it with. God, Omegas are pieces of shit.
I don't believe I've heard of IMX. Care to enlighten? As far as I can tell from a quick google, it's an MPEG video stream on a Beta casette? I thought everybody was moving to DVCPro nowadays. Around here, as far as I've seen, everyone uses either Beta or DVCPro.
Anyways, Beta is still quite alive. Last night I ran a camera for a college hockey game, they used DigiBeta for replays and packages.
I shoot a fishing show with an XL1. The color viewfinder is actually pretty handy when you're the only crew there and you want to know what colors you're shooting without hooking up an external monitor. Especially since said monitor doesn't have any power because you're in the middle of a lake. But a B&W viewfinder really is better in most other cases, especially when you've got an entire production chain above you who are working on your colors for you. It's just a ton easier to focus.
Disclaimer: I work in television.
Based on my experience wtih hard drive recorders, they're horribly buggy. They crash all the time, sometimes freeze in the middle of playback, especially when the hard drive starts getting full. For something mission critical, I'd rather record to tape.
'Cause sports and news production entities, even if they're branches of the same company (i.e Fox), are still quite separate, and often don't even own the equipment they're using anyway. It's a common practice to just rent equipment from a nearby broadcast rental company when they're covering a remote event, news and sports alike. Blame the broadcast rental company for including so many cameras in their truck packages, I guess. I suppose you could rent an 8-camera truck to cover a news event, but I don't think it would be worth it. The sports people make much more money than the news people, and a cameraman is a bit over $300 a day.
And I must say as someone who is sports cameraman today (and will be a news cameraman the day after tomorrow =D) that I'm saddened you find sports coverage "dull." We really do try our best to make it interesting, but I suppose you can only be so interested if you don't like sports.
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When I was at the Return of the King midnight showing:
Poor underpaid stagehand: Please don't download movies off the internet Someone in audience: Did anyone get that on video? Someone else: Yeah, I'll put it on Kazaa when I get home.
That was a rowdy crowd that night.
The E5 earbuds he was using are extremely sensitive, 122 dB SPL/mW. Most headphones are down in the 80 range. As a result, any noise in the electronics will be audible.
Heh, I've got a pair of E5s and love them. I use them on TV shoots to monitor the audio, as well as on musical gigs to hear the rest of the band.
Mmmm, manual focus on an XL1... The lens controls just suck on that camera, it doesn't quite keep up with what you're doing. But it's an awesome looking camera, I wish we had them in my high school, we had some very old JVC professional camcorders.
Anyway, I do sports productions with local public access. I'm the poor sucker in charge of trying to teach volunteers how to do camerawork for sports. =D Of course, I'm usually too busy running around making sure everything works to give them more than "This is your zoom, this is your focus, this is how you talk on the intercom, just try and make it look like TV, okay?"
No, it gets a lot worse, trust me. You haven't seen bad camerawork until you've really seen what happens when you hand an inexperienced person a handheld broadcast video camera that doesn't have automatic picture controls, including autofocus.
Yes, the dubious ones that advertise heavily on TV and are owned and managed by corporations such as CEC. Of course, I don't watch TV*, so I didn't catch the advertising. I had just heard that it was a fairly prestigious local college that had an excellent program. Later, I realized that I had only heard this from the college and not from any of the students or employers in town.
* Yes, I know this is rather strange coming from someone who works in television. I'm just as fed up with the reality crap and declining quality of shows as everyone else. That, and when you work behind the scenes, it's awfully hard to watch the show instead of the camerawork and other technical aspects of the production. =D Sports highlight reels are fun to watch just for the amazing camerawork as well as the plays.
Amen. I took a television production program at a "prestigious" local corporately-owned "college." Then I found out that the degree was next to worthless in the eyes of local employers (and other schools, even other schools owned by the same company), their much-hyped job placement was useless (especially since they were flooding the job market with more people than jobs), and I didn't learn a single thing that I hadn't already learned from just going out and working on shoots for free.
As a result of this, I'm very suspicious of any school that's not a nationally recognized university, especially if it's corporately-owned. I'm going to the University of Minnesota now and doing freelance studio and sports camerawork and video photography on the side.
I believe reading the comments in this article will enlighten you.
Avid's made by the same people who make ProTools, so no wonder they integrate easier.
I just realized that that was what you said in the first place, I only read the first half of your post and hit reply out of impulse. I'm sorry.
That's a load of BS. It doesn't matter what equipment you're on, what matters is demonstrating that you know what to do with it. You can learn a new piece of equipment in a couple days. What's more important is that you have a feel for editing that can be used no matter what you're editing on, from FCP down to a linear setup, or even a single deck, a timecode readout, and an edit decision list.
I'm not a programmer, so excuse my ignorance, but how does a quine work? When you compile it, it gets turned into machine code, so how does the program know what the source code is?
MP3Pro failed because they didn't release the standard. Only someone who bought a license could encode or decode the bitstream, and guess what, nobody bought a license. If they learned from that mistake, MP3 Surround might take off. If not, well, you know.
The entertainment industry tends to happen outside of business hours, since that's when people are generally available to be entertained. Music is a classical example. You can play bars at night and still have a day job. If you're any good at it, you can pull down some money, though you've gotta work for a while to make back the original investment in instruments and lessons. =P
From TFA:
Revocation can help contain some attacks by preventing future titles from playing on a pre-chosen set of players. For example, if studios learn that pirates have hacked a player with a specific serial number, revocation makes it possible to author future titles so they will never play on that player.
So just because you own a DVD player that was hacked, you won't be able to play future DVDs? That's a load of crap.
I wouldn't trust it myself... Even if you can get the colors "pretty close" by eyeball, there's so many factors that can throw it off. The XL1 does have a handy color bar generator, though.
Of course, if I had my way I'd lug a pair of scopes along on every shoot, but the price tag kinda puts me off that.
This reminds me of a story about the engineer for a local public access station. He's barely good enough for public access, even. Nothing ever gets fixed, and nothing works 100%. We got some new cameras in the sports truck, so he's setting it all up. The colors look funny. So he *adjusts the monitors.* I so want to fire the guy, but I can't.
Well, anyone who's shooting something with an XL1 probably doesn't have enough money to buy an external monitor, either. At least not one calibrated well enough to actually judge your colors on it.
Hmm, I've never had a problem with DVCPro myself. Never noticed any quality issues even after a couple generations, never broke a tape or a deck. I used a DVCPro deck for instant replay for sports for a while and I'll tell you it was one heck of a lot more reliable than the Omega deck they replaced it with. God, Omegas are pieces of shit.
I don't believe I've heard of IMX. Care to enlighten? As far as I can tell from a quick google, it's an MPEG video stream on a Beta casette? I thought everybody was moving to DVCPro nowadays. Around here, as far as I've seen, everyone uses either Beta or DVCPro.
Anyways, Beta is still quite alive. Last night I ran a camera for a college hockey game, they used DigiBeta for replays and packages.
I shoot a fishing show with an XL1. The color viewfinder is actually pretty handy when you're the only crew there and you want to know what colors you're shooting without hooking up an external monitor. Especially since said monitor doesn't have any power because you're in the middle of a lake. But a B&W viewfinder really is better in most other cases, especially when you've got an entire production chain above you who are working on your colors for you. It's just a ton easier to focus.
I'd have rather had them give human organs to a human... The organ bank doesn't have enough stock as it is.
$15,000 cameras have B&W viewfinders. Makes it easier to focus, actually.
Disclaimer: I work in television. Based on my experience wtih hard drive recorders, they're horribly buggy. They crash all the time, sometimes freeze in the middle of playback, especially when the hard drive starts getting full. For something mission critical, I'd rather record to tape.
Yes, I suppose those anime girls could see VERY well in the dark as a result... Hmm...
Anyway, I think it's because they're proportioned like very young children, only with boobs. Therefore, anime fans are pedophiles. Sorta.
'Cause sports and news production entities, even if they're branches of the same company (i.e Fox), are still quite separate, and often don't even own the equipment they're using anyway. It's a common practice to just rent equipment from a nearby broadcast rental company when they're covering a remote event, news and sports alike. Blame the broadcast rental company for including so many cameras in their truck packages, I guess. I suppose you could rent an 8-camera truck to cover a news event, but I don't think it would be worth it. The sports people make much more money than the news people, and a cameraman is a bit over $300 a day.
And I must say as someone who is sports cameraman today (and will be a news cameraman the day after tomorrow =D) that I'm saddened you find sports coverage "dull." We really do try our best to make it interesting, but I suppose you can only be so interested if you don't like sports.