i am shooting a documentary in india. we are renting our equipment in country, which makes me nervous for a host of reasons. chief among these worries is the PAL format. how will this effect sound? we are editing on Final Cut and i know that it has a choice for PAL. are there any other issues that i should be aware of? actually i assume the camera is PAL, but we are getting very cloudy info from the rental house. pls. advise.
using a PAL hvx in india
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Hi,
I just got back from a 6 week trip in India. I toyed withthe idea of carting my HVX around with me but gave it a miss and did more of a recce this time.
Where abouts in India are you going to be based? I would be extremely careful about logistics of shooting there. I hope you have a good local fixer to get things sorted out.
Have you done all the necessary permit work for documentary work in Indai?
India is a PAL country generally so I would imaging an HVX there would be of the 50hz variety but it would no doubt have been imported so make sure you know what you're getting. Have you made decissions yet on what mode you are shooting (1080/720) and what you're delivery format is?
What is you're concern with sound? Are you talking shooting 25 fps and going to 24?
Is there anything more you can say about your project, sounds interesting.
Regards
Miles
I just got back from a 6 week trip in India. I toyed withthe idea of carting my HVX around with me but gave it a miss and did more of a recce this time.
Where abouts in India are you going to be based? I would be extremely careful about logistics of shooting there. I hope you have a good local fixer to get things sorted out.
Have you done all the necessary permit work for documentary work in Indai?
India is a PAL country generally so I would imaging an HVX there would be of the 50hz variety but it would no doubt have been imported so make sure you know what you're getting. Have you made decissions yet on what mode you are shooting (1080/720) and what you're delivery format is?
What is you're concern with sound? Are you talking shooting 25 fps and going to 24?
Is there anything more you can say about your project, sounds interesting.
Regards
Miles
I was in India for 5 weeks in September with my PAL HVX and had not one jot of a problem. I carried all my kit including a 17" Mac laptop, HVX, 600Gb Lacie d2 and some other filming kit in a Kata backpack. I travelled from Delhi to Mumbai to Amritsa to Daramasala to Keylong, shimila etc etc all on public trasport as I said NO problem!
As for filming again no problem WRT permits, police etc I had none!! I've got some footage that I'll post up soon!
You'll have a great time
Indy....
As for filming again no problem WRT permits, police etc I had none!! I've got some footage that I'll post up soon!
You'll have a great time
Indy....
I was shooting virtual tour photography in Mumbai and Delhi last summer. I found it to be quite a hassle whenever I pulled out a tripod, especially in sites maintained by the government. In other places, the police acted like I was setting up a machine gun mount rather than a tripod. But as soon as I discarded the tripod and shot from the waist, no problem. (Another problem with a tripod, especially in India, is that by the time you get your tripod set up, you've drawn such a crowd that you can no longer get your shot.) As is the rule in third world, its always best to go low profile and fly under the radar. We did last month in Cambodia and Laos, including Angkor Wat, and enountered not a single problem, but we never used a tripod, just a spiderbrace. Good luck in mindbending India!
aaronbsmith77
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Shooting in India in PAL - completed trip
Shooting in India in PAL - completed trip
I was the producer on the project woof was mentioning. It went pretty well, except we got saddled with the stupid piece of poo device we all know as the Firestore. This little hard drive is nice, if you have continuous power available, which we did not. We were shooting interviews and footage in villages and towns with constant access to power (all in the state of Andrah Pradesh in and around the city of Hydereabad). The PAL camera worked splendidly well and Tanner was able to create some stunning portraits. The only crimp in our workflow was the stupid stupid firestore.
As far as working with the footage in FCP, we had 0 problems and were able to watch our footage every night.
Anyway, if you want to know more details about the project, email me privately.
Shooting in India in PAL - completed trip
I was the producer on the project woof was mentioning. It went pretty well, except we got saddled with the stupid piece of poo device we all know as the Firestore. This little hard drive is nice, if you have continuous power available, which we did not. We were shooting interviews and footage in villages and towns with constant access to power (all in the state of Andrah Pradesh in and around the city of Hydereabad). The PAL camera worked splendidly well and Tanner was able to create some stunning portraits. The only crimp in our workflow was the stupid stupid firestore.
As far as working with the footage in FCP, we had 0 problems and were able to watch our footage every night.
Anyway, if you want to know more details about the project, email me privately.