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Normally the setup I'm used to would be a shot list, possibly overhead diagrams and/or photoboards for the play-by-play of it all. On a more macro scale, the call sheet backed up by the one-liner for the order of scenes. In this instance I prepared a special one-liner thatt listed out each shot...

Thanks Paul! 24 hours to shoot would have been delightful (not consecutively, of course!) This was a 9.5 hr shoot (10 with lunch), including dressing the location for period, due to restrictions at the restaurant. It was most likely the tightest schedule I have ever worked under and required a...

When is it not...?! regardless of the type of production! BTW, "sketch" for a filmed comedy piece is generally a more accurate term than "skit"--I think the closest to skit in filmed form would be a TikTok (previously Vine) clip, short and one-beat, and limited in scope. Mostly, skits are what...

I shot and edited a small job with no AC and no slate. No hop on camera, so no reference audio recorded. Timecode was jammed but the camera was improperly set to record run. So I had nothing to go on. I manually synced 24 clips to audio which was a laborious process to say the least. The slate...

Welcome! There's a long history within these walls that contains what you are describing, along with a lot more "how cameras work" type posts, but if you go digging you can find some chestnuts. It can be a more elusive thing to discuss. Want to tell us more about yourself, your creative journey...

Allenjandro, may I ask why the 535B is your top camera? And also, what your goal is on shooting film.

Can't quite visualize the cheeseplate concerns...but, what about drilling out the threads on the first 1/4-20 hole so a standard screw goes through it, versus modifying the screw itself? I've done exactly this when mating two threaded objects. Easy to do and works well. Sugru should work...

If understand correctly, you are pitching shooting on 35mm, making selects and cutting the negative to match, and then either scanning the negative, or making an interpositive and scanning that, or making an internegative from the print and scanning that. What is your thinking behind going...

If you have a Dremel tool, you could likely grind the threads down. Also, I've done what you described with cheese bars like this by feeding a standard 1/4-20 through the 3/8-16 hole. If there's slippage after you've tightened everything down, you could use Sugru around the 1/4-20 screw to...

Maybe for fun, try also recording on your phone next to the boom and seeing for yourself which audio sounds better? Some years ago I produced a multicam concert and fed the board audio into a Shogun on my monitor cart. Unfortunately one of the channels recorded really hot (my bad for not...

I just registered, but have pretty much no plans to go unless someone invites me to jump in their car last minute and we have a place to stay already (i.e., minimum spend). I have nothing much to anticipate at the show itself and the parties...well, I get enough of those during Cinegear week...

I'm sorry...Mr. Zacuto?

A friend gave me an old PC laptop to manage the programming software for those radios. I'm incredibly inefficient at anything Windows-based but I muddled through it. Hardly ideal though.

I've had a couple of Blackbox Pocket radios for some years now, they can be programmed to work on the same bands as CP200's and they are so much smaller on my belt, I found them helpful for longer run jobs. I've never used their more typical long range radios, but have had a decent experience...

The F65 is pretty power-hungry if I remember correctly, drawing something like 8 amps. That 95W battery should only run it for around 45 minutes, I would think. A shark fin running dual batteries for hotswapping would probably be a good choice, but you'd need at least four batteries for it to...

That's essentially how I've been working with the Connex since 2018, when I had both transmitters and receivers mounted into custom 3D housings with AJA converters (at the time, the only ones that could convert 24psf signals). I've never had grounding issues powering this system off cameras...

Rob: each receiver needs to be paired to a single transmitter, so in the instance you describe you'd have to re-pair each time you switch cameras unfortunately. And it's a bit of a wiggly process compared to more recent systems, involving a paper clip and going back and forth between tx and rx...

Golly, that is a lot! I still have an absurd number of Decimator MD-HX's for working with older ATEM's to convert signals to the same format, which I don't really need any more, but good to still have around. Such a handy box!

It was definitely the case that older switchers required all cameras to be outputting the same signal (and that format needed to be selected in the switcher software, whereas newer versions had individual input format processing. Did you determine if yours was one of the former, which is why it...

Everything is relative. I'd consider a full shooting package with that camera to be between 30 and 40 lbs (remote lens controls with 2-3 motors depending on prime or zoom, transmitter, Cinetape or Light Ranger). It's not undoable but it will preclude certain methods of shooting, and heavier duty...