curiousgeorge
New member
Hi all,
"I am overwhelmed by all the information on this site. I have a background in 16mm film, and finally decided to educate myself in DV. I am using a Panasonic DVX100A, to shoot a project; however, I will not be able to get into a course on FCP until the end of next month - the course I took on DV was a waste of time. When I asked specific questions on how to set up the camera from the start the answer I got was: " you learn that as you get experience." Then why pay to take a class claiming me to teach me something, if I'm only going to have to figure it out later myself? My goal is to project at 16:9 aspect ratio with the best possible image. I would really appreciate if someone could confirm my camera settings, so when I get to figuring out FCP I don't find out I spent a fair ammount of $$$ shooting something with the wrong settings. ANYONE IN THE SEATTLE AREA WANT TO MAKE SOME $$ tutoring me at a reasonable rate please send me a PM. Otherwise, here are the settings I am using, and some questions I have after my first shoot.
Scene file - I am leaving all the specific #settings at 0. Gamma is set to normal. Knee, what is knee anyway, is set to auto. Matrix normal, Skintone DTL
ff Vdetail FREQ:thin Progressive:24p( if this was accidentally set to off is there a way to correct that?) Name EDIT:Yes, Save/ INIT:Yes
Camera set up: Syncro scan(what is synchro Scan?) -----1/25, Apect Conv:Squeeze, Set up: 0% 7.5% huh?
I so don't get SW MODE I don't even know what questions to ask, any input?
AUTO SW. A. IRIS:OFF, AGC,ATW,AF all are OFF
Recording SET UP. REC SPEED:SP, AUDIO REC 48K(16bit), MIC ALC:OFF, MIC GAIN 1 and 2 -50db, TC MODE is at DF, TCG at REC RUN, and I am pretty sure I screwed up setting up the Time code.
I am sure this will all make sense to me soon. I really don't want to find out when it's too late that I spent $$$ on shooting something wrong, and with the window of opportunity to capture the subject is closing fast I really need help."
"I am overwhelmed by all the information on this site. I have a background in 16mm film, and finally decided to educate myself in DV. I am using a Panasonic DVX100A, to shoot a project; however, I will not be able to get into a course on FCP until the end of next month - the course I took on DV was a waste of time. When I asked specific questions on how to set up the camera from the start the answer I got was: " you learn that as you get experience." Then why pay to take a class claiming me to teach me something, if I'm only going to have to figure it out later myself? My goal is to project at 16:9 aspect ratio with the best possible image. I would really appreciate if someone could confirm my camera settings, so when I get to figuring out FCP I don't find out I spent a fair ammount of $$$ shooting something with the wrong settings. ANYONE IN THE SEATTLE AREA WANT TO MAKE SOME $$ tutoring me at a reasonable rate please send me a PM. Otherwise, here are the settings I am using, and some questions I have after my first shoot.
Scene file - I am leaving all the specific #settings at 0. Gamma is set to normal. Knee, what is knee anyway, is set to auto. Matrix normal, Skintone DTL
ff Vdetail FREQ:thin Progressive:24p( if this was accidentally set to off is there a way to correct that?) Name EDIT:Yes, Save/ INIT:YesCamera set up: Syncro scan(what is synchro Scan?) -----1/25, Apect Conv:Squeeze, Set up: 0% 7.5% huh?
I so don't get SW MODE I don't even know what questions to ask, any input?
AUTO SW. A. IRIS:OFF, AGC,ATW,AF all are OFF
Recording SET UP. REC SPEED:SP, AUDIO REC 48K(16bit), MIC ALC:OFF, MIC GAIN 1 and 2 -50db, TC MODE is at DF, TCG at REC RUN, and I am pretty sure I screwed up setting up the Time code.
I am sure this will all make sense to me soon. I really don't want to find out when it's too late that I spent $$$ on shooting something wrong, and with the window of opportunity to capture the subject is closing fast I really need help."
