caheb
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Hello everyone, here is David from france using a PAL dvx100b. I bought the barry green handbook and searched answers through various forums, but still I can't solve my problems and I hope you guys over there could share your thoughts so it can get me on the right way.
First, my purpose is to make short movies (fiction) to be shown on 16:9 tv set and/or video projector. Anarmorphic lens being hard to find and unaffordable for me I chose the squeeze mode. I use sony vegas pro 9 to edit. But when I play my movies (converted to AVI) with VLC on my Phillips Brillance widescreen monitor I have two laterals black bars, I can't get full 16:9, and I don't understand why. So I'm considering shooting in letterbox mode and get 16:9 in post, what do you think, is there other alternatives? Also what do you think about up rez to HD on Vegas ?
Another problem I encounter is to set up my field monitor (jvc tm-h150cg). When on blue check I can't get the 4 blue bars to be equal. Also I don't understand how to set the contrast and brightness with the built in camera color bars, every tutorials I got my hands on (at least a dozen) say that contrast and brightness can be calibrated with pluge bars, but the dvx100 don't display those. So I can't get a proper calibration and every time I process the rushes to my computer I discover they are actually brighter than it was on my monitor during shooting. So I came up to adjust my monitor based on rushes I see on my computer monitor, but it's a painstacking and inaccurate process and I can't take my computer on the set everytime. What should I do? If I turn all the scene file settings to 0 it seems blue check can work, is it true or it's just my imagination? Again I'll be gratefull if you could share your knowledge and experience.
I'm a self taught apprentice filmmaker/camera operator with a fulltime job on the side that has nothing to do with video and filmmaking, and it's been almost a year I try to solve those problems on my own but obviously I failed. So thanks already for the help and please excuse my poor english (hope my message is not full of mistakes)
First, my purpose is to make short movies (fiction) to be shown on 16:9 tv set and/or video projector. Anarmorphic lens being hard to find and unaffordable for me I chose the squeeze mode. I use sony vegas pro 9 to edit. But when I play my movies (converted to AVI) with VLC on my Phillips Brillance widescreen monitor I have two laterals black bars, I can't get full 16:9, and I don't understand why. So I'm considering shooting in letterbox mode and get 16:9 in post, what do you think, is there other alternatives? Also what do you think about up rez to HD on Vegas ?
Another problem I encounter is to set up my field monitor (jvc tm-h150cg). When on blue check I can't get the 4 blue bars to be equal. Also I don't understand how to set the contrast and brightness with the built in camera color bars, every tutorials I got my hands on (at least a dozen) say that contrast and brightness can be calibrated with pluge bars, but the dvx100 don't display those. So I can't get a proper calibration and every time I process the rushes to my computer I discover they are actually brighter than it was on my monitor during shooting. So I came up to adjust my monitor based on rushes I see on my computer monitor, but it's a painstacking and inaccurate process and I can't take my computer on the set everytime. What should I do? If I turn all the scene file settings to 0 it seems blue check can work, is it true or it's just my imagination? Again I'll be gratefull if you could share your knowledge and experience.
I'm a self taught apprentice filmmaker/camera operator with a fulltime job on the side that has nothing to do with video and filmmaking, and it's been almost a year I try to solve those problems on my own but obviously I failed. So thanks already for the help and please excuse my poor english (hope my message is not full of mistakes)
