Hey gang, I'm shooting a corporate project and part of it involves shooting a presentation screen all day. The camera is on a tripod and every hour I check the frame and change tapes. I'm shooting these with a Sony 1000N (Mini DV Cam using Sony DVC tapes) and I've never had a mini dv camera shooting for this many hours and days straight. I spot check every once and awhile but I wont be capturing this footage until next week. Should I be running a head cleaner? If so how often? What kind of stress is 6 or so hour long tapes a day putting on the camera?
Q: Long Shooting Days and Head Cleaning?
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Renee
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Sorry- response may be too late and therefore invalid.
It is it like a computer controlled powerpoint screen? My suggestion- don't shoot the screen at all. Use a screen capture program / video capture system such as a Kipro. Use your camera to capture a close up of the speaker. Cut inbetween the two.
It is it like a computer controlled powerpoint screen? My suggestion- don't shoot the screen at all. Use a screen capture program / video capture system such as a Kipro. Use your camera to capture a close up of the speaker. Cut inbetween the two.
Steve House
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Seconding Renee - if it's a PowerPoint slide show, just get a copy of the PowerPoint presentation files themselves and add it in post. Consider doing a split screen montage with one half showing the footage of the speaker delivering his talk and the other half the slides he's showing the audience. Don't think shooting the image itself on the screen will look very good
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Both methods have disadvantages.....
Depending on the venue, you don't want to be touching the house computer system...if something goes wrong, you'll have to explain yourself even though the problem may have nothing to do with the video capture device.
On the other hand, taking the Powerpoint presentation and adding it in post will be a royal pain...you'll have to keep track of where the speaker is in the presentation and ensure you're showing the right slides at the right time -- major work.
I'd recommend you replace your tape-based camera with one which records to SDXC cards and get a lexar 128GB card.
Depending on the venue, you don't want to be touching the house computer system...if something goes wrong, you'll have to explain yourself even though the problem may have nothing to do with the video capture device.
On the other hand, taking the Powerpoint presentation and adding it in post will be a royal pain...you'll have to keep track of where the speaker is in the presentation and ensure you're showing the right slides at the right time -- major work.
I'd recommend you replace your tape-based camera with one which records to SDXC cards and get a lexar 128GB card.
Eric Sanderson
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I just shot an event exactly like this - speaker with powerpoint presentation. Kept the camera on the speaker and got the slides from him afterwards as jpegs. Dropped them in, no problem. Your mileage will vary, depending on the nature of the presentation, but I didn't find it at all difficult to get the slides in the right places. If in doubt, I'm sure the client can point out an errant slide during revisions. Or, as an alternative, you could lav your speaker and narrate the slides to the camera mic (assuming you've got two channels to record to)
Hey gang. Thanks for the responses. What I was recording wasn't a power point presentation, it was a live demo of our companies' new software. The presenter was a guest and she didn't want us to make any changes to her laptop and we didn't need her visual, only her voice. I used the camera to record what was being projected and patched the audio into her mic. It was a complete last minute setup, you know how it is, right before she began the boss turns to me and says 'hey lets recored her presentations'. My only question now is what kind of stress was shooting 40 or so tapes consecutively putting on the camera?