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I'm interested in what you all do for storage and backup. I shoot on Cfast 2 cards and the high speed SD cards in my Ursas. The edit computer has an internal 8Tb drive and a 4Tb internal drive. Shorter projects go on the smaller one, and theatre shows go onto the larger one but once they are...

I've got some new jobs coming up this year with previously audio only recordings - not really important for this post, but it is choirs and acoustic live performances in churches, and other nice spaces. Can I provide video with the sound recording? Yes - looking at the piles of gear in the...

I don't think we ever show our working areas off - so I thought I'd share mine - a combined video and audio space. It's also crazily untidy - but with the working lights out, it's fine!

I pulled out some old cameras, powered them up and shot a few things to see how well their images actually stand up, and if there is any point in even trying to use them? I ignored the very old stuff and started with DV - the JVC 5000, then the 100 series I still have, through to the 700...

I added an intro to lighting video - just ramblings about the differences between carefully controlled light, flat panel lighting and work lighting - just some thoughts and an explanation of how I'm doing things for the audio videos I have been creating.

In between jobs, so I started to have a tidy up - first for ages and got sidetracked when I found some flight cases! WARNING - if easily offended by old video gear, don't watch. No cards, no HD, No digits whatsoever.

I don't do tiktok - never appealed to me, but I got my distrokids statement for the music I have out there on itunes, spotify, Youtube and being honest, I never pay too much attention because Distrokids will show you the painful detail of how much the streams generate, but I noticed one track...

I'm in the UK, but I've a project being discussed where because of Covid, we are going to make some children's theatre shows and charge people to watch them. So ideally a Youtube-esque service where they can perhaps watch a free trailer but then stream the programme after paying (Paypal/credit...

The recent increase in jobs with lots of video tracks has really pushed my edit computer to the limit, and pressing play produces stutter playback unless I spend ages rendering everything. I have always had a policy of buying a new computer every couple of years and the newest and fastest...

Do one, and more roll in - here's another of the choir videos. If it hadn't been lockdown time, there is no way these things could ever be charged out at the real rate - the amount of time it takes is out of all proportion - when, as in this case, there are 38 singer's videos that need to be...

This doesn't really fit any category but I'll have a go. I have a BM ATEM Mini, and it's great. If I connect the output to my MacBook, I can do live streaming to Facebook, and other services with minimal latency - certainly not enough to trouble me - but last night I tried zoom - and the in...

I've always been a bit reluctant to do freebies - and good causes rarely got any action from me, but my old boss from years ago when I worked for a larger company is heavily involved with a church, and I promised I'd help if anything in my line came up. Should have known better because a week...

I stupidly forgot to check and recorded to two gopros in 30fps and only noticed when I tried to add the files to a premiere 25fps project and got the warning. I used media encoder to convert but the new files are still too long and sync is impossible. The 30fps file is of course much too long...

Some of the broadcast boys went to try out the new HDC-4300 Sony camera, with the new Fujinon 4K ⅔@ B4 lenses at Pinewood Studios recently. Got to say we were all impressed. The set had the more commonly used Sony 4K kit with the larger sensors, but everyone was pretty excited by 4K images with...

I wanted to ask a question about using a black magic camera on a job - one had been offered, but not having used one before I had a query - so I registered on the external forum site. Trouble was registration needed approval, and it didn't happen. I used my own old camera for the job today, and...

I noted a black spot on some material recorded this week, so whipped the lens off, flipped the mirror and had a look at the sensor. There it was a tiny black grain of sand - not surprising really as I'd been shooting video of coastal erosion, and actually caused some and did an avalanche down...

I use full size shoulder mounted cameras - always have, and use a DSLR purely for stills - and my old trusty Pentax didn't do video anyway. However - I broke it, and replaced it with another Pentax simply because of my lens collection. For the first time, I've tried the DSLR for what thousands...

Ever since I 'upgraded' from XP my JVC 110shave caused me grief - firewire just refusing to co-operate. One of the oft quoted cures on the net was to roll back the firewire driver to the legacy version, but neither of my cameras worked with any of my firewire equipped PCs. I bought a macbook...

I spotted this small HD camera from one of my usual suppliers of audio and lighting kit in China, so got them to send me one. I saw a few being sold on ebay, so figured that as I have lost my Gopro somewhere, this could get me out of trouble. Probably, for less than $100, a load of rubbish - but...

For a project in the summer, I've been offered the use of a nice 50x Canon box lens to fit to my JVC. Another colleague has a B4 adaptor that I've used a few times on a B4 lens I have, and the results are pretty good. I'm happy with the reduction in field angle due to the smaller sensor, and I...