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Well - wire wrapped around a block of asbestos is sort of 'made' - but the stuff was everywhere. Long blocks with a wiper for the level. I had a quote from a safe disposal company and to scrap one cost more now to dispose of than it cost new in 1975! After all the years I have been replacing...

The snag, i think is the split in consumers. One group with bigger and bigger screens, with wonderful sound, but the rest watching on phones. So annoying to constantly have to consider the end group. Portrait does work when the subject material matches. In my own world, a guitar tuition video...

I hate it with a passion (and am in the middle of an edit using it at the moment), but I do have to use it for stage side screens sometimes, or for on stage legs - the masking at the side of stages. These were usually black wool serge or Bolton twill, but sometimes now it will be a stacked array...

Im actually involved with a lighting heritage project and the collection is growing splendidly! However, while the stuff that lights up fares well, bar rust, asbestos and the actual things with filaments, the controls and dimmers are a muc( bigger problem. The old dimmers are riddled with...

I run a venue. My pet hate is video people who turn up after open stage time has passed. I know all the excellent places in the venue and offer them. Too much trouble for many. They wander round setting up cameras in positions I know will be terrible. They swat aside advice. They also seem...

Im a great lover of this kind of forum, and visit about 6 each day. If i can help people in any way, I usually try. I never claim to be an expert but am now old and winding down, but if i can stop people wasting time, money and energy do8ng the wrong things, or the right things the wrong way, I...

I always used to mark up what the freelance guys I used charged me - but now, I get the same as them because I've increased what I pay them. That is fair to me. Clients are never far from dumping you. One had historically a very low equipment hire charge - because the gear for them was not that...

I'm in a similar position with an old client - and am in the same stuck price situation. Most of the work I do for them includes things out of scope, and not really 'my job'. I've managed to creep in some extra charges there, that get added to the invoice as extra things, rather than a hike in...

One of the reasons I still use ⅓" JVCs - focus is rarely an issue. Worse, I have progressive glasses and with the camera up high, I just can't get the angle right. I now use a 5" monitor with an arm clamping it to the tripod leg tubes. This enables my 'computer' progressive setting to be right...

Not always. Two circuit systems usually have audio and DC on the tip. Sennheiser and Sony used to have wiring in the paperwork that was in the box. Separate DC or hot audio are quite common. The common throw away when wrecked chinese headset mics come in TS and TRS versions, and of course we...

Im old now, but I too in my career have ended up in places that with common sense and hindsight, I should not have been. I use an app on my phone sometimes and SPL can be scary. Right next to a sub speaker is a pet hate. I always have ear protection now and luckily, my elderly hearing is still...

The 'damaging' mics thing is often a concern for people, but every since my first 57 in 76, I have killed a total of three microphones - my current stock is over 100. All three were damaged by water. Two by direct contact and one with excess humidity. Humidity often produces strange noises and...

Why on earth do you want a mic in the engine bay? Remember that the sound people recognise of performance cars is heard at a distance. The actual sound of what happens in the engine bay says nothing about power, speed and engine capacity. Its all tappets, knocking and cooling! You want power...

try this? I've invested in an IA system for my music work. I have to say I'm quite impressed and this tune only has basic editing - I've not used any advanced features yet. It takes ages to play in the melody, and then type in the lyrics, and even then you have to go back and tweak (and this...

In every technical or artistic area there will be people who are good enough to break rules and conventions. I have always been wary about following these things when reported. Originally in magazines and later online. I remember a quite famous now, but upcoming lighting designer turning up...

Here in the UK, I am involved with a historic lighting collection - mostly theatre but unexpectedly quite a lot of film/TV, and every new donation brings unexpected things. In one section we have a large projection screen which in essence, we use unscientifically - hanging each item, powering it...

It's the resolution and quality loss that surprised me - as in you want it but aren't going to get it.

The critical thing is to have somebody tasked with audio as a job role who has headphones on and can hear what is being recorded so they can tell if the take is usable. Somebody who has the skills to say STOP when something happens that spoils not just the take but perhaps the success of ADR...

Being in America hasn’t meant NTSC for years, same with PAL, we dont really come across that as an issue anymore, now digits rule the world. Some of the sharpest, least grainy video I get comes from phones. You can get apps for iphones, for example that let you take charge of the camera, and...

No - it was irony really, not upset - I just don't think I have that gene that you have. I take photographs but I'm not a photographer - me 'eye' isn't there. I can draw plans, diagrams and technical drawings - but a face or even a tree is beyond me!