Shooting safety training videos-settings??

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VeeMan

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I'm a safety professional armed with a new HVX 200.
I'm using the latest version of Final Cut Pro.

I will be shooting a series of safety training videos.

Desired "look" is... clean and colorful video. Something that my customers will say "That's some great looking video."

Shooting locations: I will be shooting mostly outdoors with natural sun light. I will at times be shooting under typical indoor situations, such as fluorescent lighting alone or with a mixture of daylight from windows.

CHOICES:

SCENE FILE MENU
Operation type: Film cam vs. video cam?
Frame rate?
Detail level?
Chroma?
Gamma: News Gamma vs. Gamma (cinelike, HD-norm, etc.)

RECORDING FORMAT MENU
Video will be for DVD on TV monitors, for insertion into power points and later onto the web in web based courses that will be probably in powerpoint.

480, 720, 1080
24p, 30p, 60p, etc. (I know that frame rates can only be selected if operation type is film cam mode.

Any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks
 
Since you're going to DVD and the web, I'd shoot at 720/30PN or 720/60PN if you think you might need to convert some of what you shot to slow-motion. You'd throw away every other frame except when you want slow-motion, and you'd get very little motion blur for nice, crisp images.

24P requires much more caution when shooting, you need to slow down pans and even worry about the speed with which people and objects move through the scene.

Don't use automatic whitebalance or exposure if possible. It's not that they don't work well, but if either or both shift during a scene, it is distracting.

I've got a scene files that adds some pop to the colors and sets the knee manually to avoid sudden shifts in the highlights that I can post when I get home.
 
i hope this doesn't count as hijacking, but often for no apparent reason my knee settings get blued out--are there only certain modes setting the knee manually will work?
 
Any time you get the "Blue" settings in the menu it's because that option isn't adjustable for that particular setting.
 
CINE-V and CINE-D disable the knee setting and in effect use AUTO, and by default Scene Files 5 and 6 use those two gamma settings.
 
OK, here is a a scene file you could start with -- I copied it from a backup of my SD card contents.
SCENE NAME :INTENS
00005000: 13 ; DETAIL LEVEL: 5
00005001: 8 ; V DETAIL LEVEL: 0
00005002: 12 ; DETAIL CORING : 4
00005003: 15 ; CHROMA LEVEL: 7
00005004: 8 ; CHROMA PHASE: 0
00005005: 8 ; COLOR TEMP: 0
00005006: 8 ; MASTER PED: -8
00005007: 8 ; A.IRIS LEVEL: 0
00005008: 1 ; NEWS GAMMA: OFF
00005009: 0 ; GAMMA : HD NORM
0000500A: 2 ; KNEE: MID
0000500B: 0 ; MATRIX: NORM
0000500C: 1 ; SKIN TONE DTL : OFF
0000500D: 2 ; V DETAIL FREQ : THICK
0000500E: 1 ; OPERATION TYPE: FILM CAM
0000500F: 0 ; FRAME RATE: DEFAULT
00005010: BE029001 ; SYNCRO SCAN :
Click to expand...
The stuff before the semicolon is the internal notation of the scene files -- it's a setting and its current value. The stuff following the semicolon is a comment in human-readable form. You could integrate the block of text above into a scene file that you upload to the camera using a SD card, or you can adjust one of the scene files in the camera manually by changing the settings to match the comments.

Don't forget to save your scene file before you turn off the camera, or the settings will revert to their old settings.
 
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