Post Production 911
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- Trouble-shooting 101 - Break this mutha down!
This post may seem really lame or rudimentary, but I gotta tell ya… some people just don’t know how to trouble-shoot. Over my years in post production I’ve seen so many editors and other crafts people who can’t seem to trouble-shoot even the most basic problems. When computer tech support facilities get a [...]
Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:41:59 +0000 - Your feature film won’t fit on a BetaSP. Sorry. Really, it won’t.
We get a lot of calls from filmmakers wanting to submit their film to a tv station or film festival on BetaSP. This work-horse professional tape format is also known as Betacam SP. It’s the analogue little brother to DigiBeta. Unfortunately, BetaSP has a maximum running time of 90 minutes. Maybe 92 if the tape has [...]
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:47:24 +0000 - Home video Mini DVD camcorders - 10 reasons why they’re a very bad choice!
Clever gadgets are fun to play with but not to record your important family events. In fact, just don’t use them. Seriously. These are the type of cameras we’re talking about here: Sony DCM-M1, Sony Handycam DCR-DVD108 DVD, Samsung SC-DC164, Canon DC-100, Canon DC-20, etc. The problem with mini DVD camcorders: 1) The DVDs are very incompatible with many [...]
Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:37:23 +0000 - Transferring professional tapes for editing? Go to MiniDV tape, NOT DVD!
A great number of our clients want to edit at home or the office but their origina masters are on a professional videotape format such as BetaSp, Digital Betacam, 1″, 3/4″, or DVCAM. The clients usually request that we (www.betasptodvd.com) transfer their masters to DVD for later importing and editing in Final Cut Pro, [...]
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:48:42 +0000 - How does Hollywood fit 3 hours on a DVD when I can only fit 1 hour at the same quality?
Here’s the deal… The discs you rent from NetFlix or BlockBuster are recorded on a DVD that holds 9 gigs on two layers. A DVD-R that you record on your computer at home is about half the size and usually only records on one layer. Many computer burners can burn dual-layer these days, but the [...]
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:45:50 +0000 - Look out Hollywood, it’s a kid with a $99 still camera making high-def movies!
That’s right. If you’re a kid with a $99 still camera (or a grown-up who’s damn creative), you can make movies that compete with Hollywood! It’s not just a still camera any more. It’s a frame by frame high definition movie camera. Take your dad’s high-def still camera and a lot of brain power and go out [...]
Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:18:30 +0000 - Aspect Ratio - Please don’t squeeze me, baby!
The whole aspect ratio thing is way too big to tackle in a single post here, so let me break it down for you to give you (almost) all you need to know. There are different screen shapes like 1.78 (16×9), 1.33 (4×3 - also called “academy”), 1.85 (the shape of normal theatrical movies), 2.35 (the [...]
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:47:47 +0000 - Hi8 and Digital-8, the greatest video format to every exist… for about a year.
Remember back to the days when the “I Love Lucy” was in its first run and we were all so excited about the brave new video format Hi-8? Well, maybe it wasn’t way back in the Lucy days, but it was an exciting format and great buzzword at video cocktail parties. Yeah, it had the [...]
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:55:32 +0000 - What is “Aspect Ratio” ?
Aspect ratio is merely a fancy way to describe the shape of the image. Is it a long, thin rectangle or more like a square? Think of it as a measurement of the sides of the shape. So 16 x 9 is the same shape of a piece of paper that is 16 inches [...]
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:45:32 +0000 - HDV to Standard Defintion - Go for the letterbox!
HDV is the little brother to broadcast High Def such as HDCAM or D5. It shoots/records in the 16×9 aspect ratio which, for the math inclined is the same as 1.78 : 1 But standard def television uses an aspect ratio of 1.33 :1 So in down-converting the HDV to standard, [...]
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