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If you like how Premiere works, why not just stick with it - the ancient versions you're using are really tired now. If it's a cost thing then maybe go with Blackmagic Designs freebie - lots like this.

Maybe I can put this in it's place. One of my regular clients is a parachute centre - they want clear video of the parachutists exiting the aircraft from the ground at a considerable altitude. My usual cameras for this are JVC ⅓" HD 750s. They're a favourite of mine. Using a B4 lens gives an...

I'm still not quite sure I've explained this very well. It perhaps could be a British thing? I don't know. I'm not talking about anything cinematic I think - I don't do that kind of thing, I'm talking about studio stuff - broadcast or industrial TV. I suppose the largely boring stuff. So things...

No - perhaps I did not explain well. I light quite small spaces - interviews and pieces to camera, and general talking heads and I've always used hard light for key and soft light for fill. Going back 20 years in the studio I worked in, it was always a Fresnel for the key - always. then on the...

Nice video - the 2021 one. I'm very interested in how 3 point lighting has changed though? My introduction to lighting was via theatre with usually symmetrical lighting around a centre line. Then I started doing TV and a bit of film, and got introduced to 3 point lighting. In every book and...

I suppose the important feature is how those softboxes spread - what do they look like on? Patches, shadows, hotspots? You want to buy a softbox for fill, and use the other softbox as key? Are they both not soft sources?

And another - you can see the key light direction on the grass - there are shadows!

I found this picture - taken just before lockdown - so a current show. I was working on this one and I think the Lighting Designer did a good job - and Fresnels do all the talent lighting, and quite a bit of the set lighting too - and you cannot see the joins between them. Everything focussed...

For the space lighting I don't disagree, but walk into any TV studio here that is on the hire lists, and the staple light sources for people - not the cyc, are Fresnels and soft lights. All my friends who do single camera work on location have a bag with Dedos and similar - but not in the studio...

Your lighting ideas area little odd. A mix of bits and pieces of knowledge but with holes. The quality of your keyed plays a HUGE part in this. My green screen seems to spend it's time on live stuff via black magic switchers and OBS, and one or two cameras and a proper edit. Premiere uses the...

Spectral Layers is very good for this kind of thing, and I'm told Izotope have a similar and well performing product to separate wanted from unwanted.

Re: the camera angles. Just look up the spec for your lenses, and draw them out like this - then lay them down on your plan and see how much your camera can see. If you have a side elevation, you can do the same thing with the other aspect of the lens spec. These are two of my lenses - one is...

I think that throwing green LED light at a green screen actually helps. I'm lucky enough to have lots of theatrical RGBW lighting and zoom wash lights in green do great keys in Premiere. It does seem rather pointless to throw blue and red light at a green wall, but the interesting thing is that...

Oddly, my rule for white is simply that they must all be the same. The CRI thing clouds the issue because if your workflow is shoot, edit, distribute, then having not just white correct, but the subtle shades right too is important. If, however, your workflow includes a colour tweaking stage...

The space is big - so you're going to need big soft sources and quite a lot of bright ones. I'm not sure there is a true cheap solution for even white lighting any longer. Most of the economic soft sources are low on light output when you have 30ft width, with 20ft depth. That's wide enough that...

The important thing is that if your work flow is the same then it is likely the fault is in one of the files. If neither jump, it’s some kind of speed issue. In the way you are working, do you have to trim the end of the vision and sound? I assume you edit the picture to the sound? Maybe you...

USB is simply easy and convenient for people with basic needs and needs that will not change. Manufacturers of quality products rarely even offer usb versions of their most popular mics. Shure make the most successful mic on the world, and it’s not even expensive. Putting a usb version on sale...

That's quite a big time discrepancy - many seconds - if the audio 1-2-3 and the video 1-2-3 should be together. It's like the project settings are wrong - so you have the sound running at 30 frames a second and the sound is at 25? or could it be a 44.1/48K conflict - these can cause the sound to...

What format are you uploading to YouTube in? For the audio to go out of sync makes me wonder if YouTube is having to ‘fix it’ when it’s encoded and squashed, and thus is the snag?

Nice idea. Small fig-8 capsules or even mics are just tricky to find, and damn expensive new.