Shooting studio with 3 cameras!

[petelms]

Hello!

We have been planning of shooting a studio with 3 cameras. There will be 2 persons in the studio, the host and one guest.

1.) What do you think, would 3 cameras be good setup for this kind of studio?

2.) Would it be ok to use Pana DVX100 x 2 and HVX200? Can you see the difference when you switch from DVX100 to HVX200? Of course, we would shoot in MiniDV format with all the cameras.

3.) We have been planning of renting 2 DVX100s and using my coming HVX200. So, is there any reason for renting DVX100as instead of DVX100s? It's a little bit more expensive...Is there any main reason for this kind of studio setup? We are shooting with letterboxed 4:3.

4.) I think 3 cameras would be better than 2 camera-setup, right? A lot more flexibility...

5.) Any tips you would give us to improve our studio? rogar-BigGrin(DBG)

Thank you! :dankk2:
, Pete.

 

[oneinfiniteloop]

You might have a little bit of a hard time matching footage between the 100's and the HVX, but the best thing to do is test. 2 cameras would be suffiecient for this job, maybe a 3rd floating for inserts if needed.

 

[petelms]

You might have a little bit of a hard time matching footage between the 100's and the HVX, but the best thing to do is test. 2 cameras would be suffiecient for this job, maybe a 3rd floating for inserts if needed.

Thanks for the reply. What do you mean by "maybe a 3rd floating for inserts if needed."?

And please, would you mind of describing a little bit more detailed how would you shoot this kind of studio? So, you would use 2 cameras...would you move another camera from wide shot to close shot somewhere...? Would you have to take many takes with 2 camera setup?

Maybe I have to ask if someone has tried to match DVX100 with HVx200...

:dankk2:

 

[RyanBellaCine]

by floating he means not locked down on a subject or shot. The first 2 cams u'd want to stay locked on the talent, One on the host, other on guest. You don't want them moving because you may have wanted to cut to the shot of the host talking, where that camera happened to be looking at the audience, and you find you have no footage of the host at that point!

3rd can "float" by randomly picking wide shots or two shots, crowd shots, what ever else you can grab to cut to and liven up the boring "talking heads theater" editing.

Also you will definitely want to do a universal slate for the cams. That means you slate all 3 cams at the same time, positioning the slate where they all have a clear view of the slap. All the cams should start recording at the same time and stay rolling! if one cam stops taping, you will need to re-slate.

The reason for this is to make it easier and faster in editing. throw down each camera on a video layer, sync them up to the slate, and they should all be synced the whole way through to the time one of the cams stopped. Then you can dice around and extract the unwanted stuff without having to re position for time in the timeline. (unless you want to edit out extra time.)

make sense?