Recent content by dosborn

greetings all! so my office building has been recently converted to lovely, arty farty incandescent lighting fixtures. my question is this... can our old 4 bulb florescent light fixtures be used in someway for production? maybe throw in some high CRI kino bulbs, rig barn doors and attach to...

a room in my office recently opened up, and my company is wanting a small studio. do you guys have any advice on wall/ceiling colors? the room currently has old flo. fixtures that buzz like MAD. i have absolutely zero experience in setting up a studio... any ideas or suggestions? as far as...

okay... so the head honcho at my company is monitor CRAZY. he wants a editing/motion graphics work station, and we just so happen to have a powermac g5 2ghz dual core that is going unused. he wants to have dual desktop monitors, an HD output for client viewing (46" consumer LCD), an SD CRT...

Okay... so my company bought a Kona LHe card a while back, which is basically used for monitoring HD and to output component SD to a Beta SP deck. They just picked up a 1080p plasma for comfy client viewing during the edit process. Here is where my issue comes into play.... The big-wigs of...

Hey, gang.... here's another 48 Hour entry... shot on an HVX with an M2 adapter. I'm a relative newbie with narrative filmmaking... I was a photography guy in college. This is my second short... I shot and edited. It was basically a one person camera crew... me... with a friend on boom. I...

Okay... so I'm wanting to share some edited 720pn/24 footage with a colleague, and we've decided that the easiest way is to just toss it back on a P2 card. I read through the FCP workflow PDF... seems easy. I follow the directions, get everything set correctly... but I can't get the HVX and...

My iTunes is giving me FITS! I've noticed that low frequencies are distorting... almost sounding like my speakers are blown. I've tried several different mp3s in both iTunes and Quicktime... the files played in Quicktime are fine. Sound Enhancer is turned off and all EQ settings are off. Any...

I picked up a set of Tapco studio monitors a few months back. All seemed fine and dandy, but recently, I've noticed bass getting all funky and distorted when I play back an audio file. There's absolutely NO punch... just kinda putters... almost sounding like the speakers aren't powerful enough...

I'm at a complete loss. When I export SD video from my G5 Quad to a Mini-DV deck via firewire, the signal goes all funky... the audio goes to a very loud buzz, and the video turns into bright colored rectangles. I have a Kona LHe installed in the computer for HD work, and it works like a charm...

I just tossed a new Kona card in my quad G5. After a little messing around, I determined that I'll still have to use firewire to export my SD projects to a mini-DV deck. I'm using a signal from the deck for monitoring on a JVC SD monitor. My director wanted to LHe specifically to monitor HD...

i'm wanting to pick up a video projector for my new apartment. my target price is $1,000... so it's obvious that i'm not wanting something TOO cutting-edge. i checked out the epson moviemate... simply because it was an all-in-one package, w/ prog. scan dvd, 80" screen, and projector. i'd LOVE...

Greetings! I'm a little confused with the Black Magic HDLink DVI Conv. I'm picking up two Dell 24" monitors... one for a computer monitor, and one specifically for monitoring video. I'll be using the component inputs on the Dells... is the HDLink a necessity for me? I'm pretty confused on...

Hey gang! A few years back, I was pretty big into still 35mm photography. I'm picking up a M2 adapter for my future HVX. I have a few lenses for my old Pentax that I was hoping to use on the M2. My question is... Pentax and Canon lenses are interchangeable, right? So I would need to order...

hey gang! does anyone know the model number of the vocas matte box pictured in the online HVX brochure? any recommendations for vocas dealers? i have the matte box narrowed down to the vocas and petroff... also... we're picking up a new cobra crane 2 from promax, along with the HVX. they...

hey gang! i'm a fresh-out-of-college newbie, and my college didn't exactly spend a lot of time teaching lighting. instead of constantly complaining about my useless education, i'm trying to learn some of the stuff that i missed out on. can anyone recommend a good book on movie lighting...