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Nothing really happens but complex emotions
A colleague of mine asks her students to split camera shots into two categories: those for telling story and those for making us FEEL the story. It's a fairly straight forward exercise that has the story column filled with simple static shots- medium shot, establishing shot, insert, etc., while the…
ContinuePosted on February 12, 2011 at 2:30pm
Time vs Success
Ahh, graphing success. I once read that a New York philanthropist who had supported many artists over her years came to the conclusion that most successful artists took about ten years on average to achieve some sort of recognition. So for the film student, time = zero begins on that first day of school, the day he or she puts up the placard saying, "I am a film student and by the way, sorry mom but I am not going into…
ContinuePosted on September 19, 2010 at 3:40pm
Kuleshov and Cheesecake
film master, experiments (early 1920's) with montage by cutting a
blank faced man with three different shots. In each case the
audience reads… Continue
Posted on April 17, 2010 at 12:00pm
Sir, what is a movie moment?
Movie moments, whether they happen in real life or up on the big screen, are really just dramatic beats. Ahhh, the dramatic beat, the life blood of, you guessed it, drama. What is it? A change in consciousness of a character. Simply put, your character learns something they didn’t know about themselves, their situation or those around them. From…
ContinuePosted on April 17, 2010 at 12:00pm
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Hey Andrew - I luv Andy's film school and would love to help with it, any way I can. iwould love to act in it, or help with writing etc. Ilook forward to seeing u soon.
John.
P.S. STRAW DOGS, has been remade by ROD LURIE, starring JAMES MARSDEN and KATE BOSWORTH, it opens in Sept. and is reputedly more violent than peckinpah's nasterpiece.
P.S.S. I don't think I have your projector, but I'll check.
by: Gert Kracht
You might try the next time to connect the microphone to the upper XLR line input. There are four switches on the camera above. One of them says LINE/Mic: choose Mic, the other switch says: CH1, CH1+CH2: choose the CH1+CH2 (Your mono signal will then be recorded on both channels (CH1 and CH2).
The Audio you have to switch to XLR via the menu and use the AUTO setting on the left side of the camera. That way you can be sure there is no audio input which is too loud.
In very loud situations you also can switch on the ATTenuators on CH1 and CH2 which are also on the right side above the XLR input.
In this setting the audio should be fine. Beware there is a slight delay when you listen to the audio when you have your headphone connected to the camera. It won't be that way on tape!
About the settings:
I would use the following settings in FCP:
Sequence: Apple Intermediate codec 1080i60
Capture: Apple Intermediate codec
Device: Sony HDV 1080i60 FireWire or Standard Sony FireWire
If the problem with this recording stays the same. You have to shift the audio for this tape manualy. That's not a bit issue if you know how to do that: lock the video track, select the audio track and type: + or - and a number: for instance 100 that will pull your audio forward or backwards, depending on the + or -. Just watch the video and don't panic...try to get them back together.
If the audio is put back on the right track you can continue editing.
Succes!
You're evolving.
Signed,
Cliff.
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