How to film a TV or monitor.

Aerialsfilm M*

Aerialsfilm M*

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Hey everybody!

I'm an old visitor to this forum, but never needed to create an account because all my questions were easily found with the search function. Now I've been searching for an answer to my following question a lot to this forum, but have not found it, so I thought, this might be the right time to finally get me that account and register, and maybe help someone out in the future. Anyway thanks already for helping me out in the past.

For a shortfilm we are shooting right now with the DVX102BEN, we are trying something new to us in post, by filming the whole film all over again from a monitor. This gives the effect we want according to the script, but I don't know how to do it right with the DVX, because we have problems with framerates and interlacing whenever we try this proces.

So the footage that needs to be filmed (and thus plays on the monitor, an iMac 24" in case needed) is a progressive 25P signal. What are the right settings for the DVX? I know there is syncro scan but I can't do a thing with that setting. Should I use the scene settings? Or shutter speed adjustments? Any help is welcome thank you very much.

Greetings,
Maxim Dierickx
 
you know, whenever im doing a shoot i always manage to have an LCD monitor as a tv or comptuer screen and that looks perfect on camera with a little post work... however, i was working at a professional movie shoot and they actually put a greenscreen on the TV screen and they then added the video to post... I've seen that quite a few times in independent films, but I'm not sure if that is how people actually get over that bridge...
 
Hey,

no that's not what I'm looking for. There are no televisions in the footage or something whatsoever. I want to film the finished video, on my LCD monitor with my DVX. I am specifically looking for the dirty and faults because of that, but I dislike the framerate and interlacing problems. Is it possible to fix this while filming, or in post, and how?
 
I can't really offer any advice on this except to just spend time experimenting and find something you like - there won't be a single scene file or shutter speed setting that'll work everytime out, I'm sure.

I mostly wanted to mention, if you've not heard of it, Godard did something similar for his film In Praise of Love, except somewhat backwards. The second half of the film was shot on rather primitive MiniDV (certainly not a nice prosumer camera by the looks of the footage), then color corrected said footage in an extreme manner (heavy saturation, high contrast, in short really 'beating up' the footage), and finally, filmed (as in 35mm) the final output off some kind of surface. There was an article or two at the time that went into some of the details. The end result was quite beautiful - the strong, bleeding bands of color had a painterly feel to them once they were re-filmed at the end. Anyway, it's something to consider - just do some experiments to find the right look.
 
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