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Hi all, I'm just about to start planning for a shoot for a Jewelry store in a week or so. I would to shoot ECUs of the pieces rotation on some sort of turn table. I've seen this effect is several product videos and think it would really help the quality of the video. I've have a look around B&H...

Hi All, I'l going to be filming an interactive plasma screen in a few days ( on a XH A1). I'm just wondering if there are any problems I'm going to run into with flickericng. I will be power the screen with laptop ( dvi ) connection Am I right in saying that aslong as the image is progessivly...

Hi All, I shoot alot of corporate video work and I've seen a few examples of setups where the background is a solid colour ( Back or White ) or a gradient . The pics below should show what I mean. I have a 3 point lighting system,. I wondering what else I will need to get to achieve similar...

Hi All, I'm currently in the process of filming a training video for a hair salon. I'm using two A1s. Both have gain L set to -3db. When I went to review the first days footage there seems to be a large amount of "fluxing" gain or grain in the image. The salon we're filming in has lots of...

Hi all. I'm at the begining of shooting a feature lenght political documentary. We will have multiple interviewees in several locations. I'l looking for a decent lighting kit to get started with ( this will be my first serious work with lights). I found that the DVeStore DVCreator Kit No:1 (...

Hi all, I recieved my A1 a week ago and have been playing around with it ever since. I'm very impressed with some of the images I've got from it. I'm shooting in a club later in the week to get some demo footage, I want it to look as good as possible, I've been getting quite a bit of grain in...

I'm looking to get a Canon A1 as soon as possible, what's the story with a PAL version of this camcorder. Does it do 24/25, 50/60 or will we in europe have to wait for a few months to get our hands on it? Thanks in advance Declan

Hello all, I'm in the midst of starting a commercial production company and need to decide on which HD camera would best suit our needs. I am currently set on the Canon Xl H1. My reasons being the resolution of the chips and the interchangable lenses. I do have a few worries though which I hope...

Hey all. Im looking to emulate a certain effect I've several time recently. I Thinks it's a combination of time lapse/ long shutter speed filming and post effects. Here's an example, http://www.demoreelnetwork.com/chupap/index.shtml click on View Director of Photograph Reel ( thanks Charles...