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A few weeks ago, I binge watched "The 100" TV series. I was initially watched the first episode to see if was of interest, and ended up watching all the episodes available on Netflix. The show is 'packed' with all manner of references ranging from "Lord of the Flies", to "Colossus: The Forbin...

Scheduled for a November Release. For those who have never heard of Desmond Doss nor the upcoming film... ---- WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be...

For those who live/work in the Philadelphia and Cleveland areas, may want to rethink any work plans using wireless mics during the conventions... The FCC has announced that the spectrum allocated for wireless mics is maxed out. The reason given is due to the interest given to the respective...

Last month I participated in a 77 Hour project under the umbrella of the 48 Hour Project organization. It was 77 hours, which began on Friday 7 pm local time, and ended at 11:59 local time on Monday. Several people I had worked with before that I contacted were not available, and the two people...

I happen to be looking to upgrade some of my audio equipment. While I could probably use some sort of shotgun mic, I'm thinking of upgrading the recording device. I've been looking at the Tascam DR70D and it seems to have 4 XLR imputs, as well as front panel adjustment knobs. I did search the...

Avid apparently is seeing some benefit of getting people addicted to software packages by providing a 'free' low capability but high similarity to their $$ packages... The package is called "Pro Tools|First" http://apps.avid.com/ProToolsFirst/ At the moment it is a 'signup' page, for when...

Ran across this article on a recent event in New York, which indicates potential problems for wireless mic users in many metro areas. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/81285/wireless-mic-frequencies-getting-squeezed

In looking at the FCC regulations on wireless mics and interactions with 'white space' devices, apparently there is a procedure for a wireless mic user to 'register' their device for use in an area, for some time interval. A couple of points. The FCC has allocated 2 TV band channels in various...

I don't have a lav, but on a shoot recently, some who does, had one and we used it. I recall reading some posts about creating a sort of 'bubble' so that the lav/clothing would not produce cloth scratch/rubbing sounds. Is there some sort of 'tape' recommended for this use. Also, does one tape...

I'm going to be shooting at a location which has very low light conditions. One of the group may be able to use a C100. My request is, 'how good' is the C100 above 800, say 1600 or 3200, and what examples of shots, with some amount of 'dark area' in the shot. The location is paneled with a...

And if there is some configuration capability to select 0-255?

I'm experimenting with using the AE 'standard' film grain plugin, and am wondering what others use to get this effect, especially in terms of B&W film stocks. The standard AE widget has a number of film stock presets, but they are all 'color' stocks. The standard Film film stock has been Double...

I've been setting up a meter test, and for some reason, I've been getting a consistent almost 2 stop difference between my camera 'meter', and two external meters, one reflectance, the other incident. All this using a 18% grey card, and then checking with Premiere CC's wave form display, and...

In a completely different arena the topic of 30's musicals came up, and in particular the 'sense' that women's voices were 'higher' as well as men's. It could be that at the time soprano for women and tenor for men were 'preferred', but I'm wondering if there was some technical reason why such...

I was able to do some tests this week, checking out how close my L-308DC meter was to a 'reasonable' exposure for the D600 in 'video mode'. Camera setup: 1920x1080 24 fps @ 1/50 @ f/4.5 @ ISO 200 'default' style. Since I did the minimal of setup, I think it was pretty good for that. I'll be...

Slugline is a Mac screenwriting app, available on via the Mac App store. The program uses Fountain, a screenplay 'format' which allows one to use simple, keyboard based, syntax to format screen plays. Some like the mouse action that many 'windowing' based editors use, but many like to keep their...

In a previous thread I made the statement about wanting to have a 'cheap', basically a 'sensor', lens mount, and attendant 'readout' capability, and why should I have to pay 2-3x for such capability, when 'stripping' down features out of a DSLR would probably satisfy my 'need'... The BMC-Pocket...

So, every year for the last couple of years, I've gone to the Panasonic booth at NAB, and asked about the GH series cameras... with the 'oh that's in the another division'... well apparently this year they had a guy, a case with the GH-3 and attendant lenses stuck in a corner of the massive...

Just when you thought it was safe to enter the art house theater to watch obtuse, unwatchable, and downright schlock... Harmony Korine brings "Spring Breakers"(2012) to the screen...

I have a low end Sony HDR SR11 and it has a 60GB internal disk for recording. I use it for capturing lectures and really am not interested in any real 'quality', just document the lecture... Anyway... I copy the AVCHD file structure to my 'archive' disk, then import the appropriate MTS files...