tokyodrifter
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Ok, so I'm new to the forum, new to the 100a, and new to digital filmmaking entirely --- all my past experience has been with 16mm and steenbecks . . . . but I did search posts for these questions, so bear with me, and please give advice.
Urgency: so I'm shooting a feature in like two weeks. yes it is my first, but it will happen, and I finally was convinced by the producer that we didn't have the dough to shoot film (this is low low budget). . . . so I bought a dvx100a (seduced by the 24p), and have been trying it out, trying to learn the ins and outs over the last few days, I have a couple questions, though:
1) I finally got around to learning how to capture digital footage into FCP4 the other day and was VERY surprised that there were glitches (lines across the screen, each lasting a frame, admittedly, but far too many of them) in the footage. Is this a problem with me, the camera, the tapestock, or FCP? I was using the PQ tapes, and I will be using the MQ when I start shooting . . . . a worry, though, is that the lines seemed to appear when there was a lot of camera movement, I intend to shoot handheld with a LOT of camera motion, so it is important to know if this will always be a problem.
2) is it worth the dough for the anamorphic lens adaptor for the 100a? I am very concerned about the quality of picture being good enough for a 35mm blowup and I have heard (from another DV filmmaker I trust) that regular NTSC 4:3 just doesn't cut it if you want to go all the way to 16:9 (and given this is a fiction project I would like to keep that option open).
I appreciate any response to these concerns (and any other reccomendations or advice for a possible 35mm blowup) and be aware, I am really more of a director than a cinematographer at heart, there is just no one else that I trust to run camera for this project, so forgive my naivette on the technical side of things.
thanks.
Urgency: so I'm shooting a feature in like two weeks. yes it is my first, but it will happen, and I finally was convinced by the producer that we didn't have the dough to shoot film (this is low low budget). . . . so I bought a dvx100a (seduced by the 24p), and have been trying it out, trying to learn the ins and outs over the last few days, I have a couple questions, though:
1) I finally got around to learning how to capture digital footage into FCP4 the other day and was VERY surprised that there were glitches (lines across the screen, each lasting a frame, admittedly, but far too many of them) in the footage. Is this a problem with me, the camera, the tapestock, or FCP? I was using the PQ tapes, and I will be using the MQ when I start shooting . . . . a worry, though, is that the lines seemed to appear when there was a lot of camera movement, I intend to shoot handheld with a LOT of camera motion, so it is important to know if this will always be a problem.
2) is it worth the dough for the anamorphic lens adaptor for the 100a? I am very concerned about the quality of picture being good enough for a 35mm blowup and I have heard (from another DV filmmaker I trust) that regular NTSC 4:3 just doesn't cut it if you want to go all the way to 16:9 (and given this is a fiction project I would like to keep that option open).
I appreciate any response to these concerns (and any other reccomendations or advice for a possible 35mm blowup) and be aware, I am really more of a director than a cinematographer at heart, there is just no one else that I trust to run camera for this project, so forgive my naivette on the technical side of things.
thanks.
