What kind of camera and format to you shoot on ?? Does anyone use multicameras ??? If not how many shots/takes do you take of each scene ?? If you do, please give me a link of a clip where you used your camera ....appreciate all the responses.
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Sony FX1 with a cute little Brevis imaging adapter I've use multiple cameras in the past and wish profusely for the opportunity again. Axial cuts are so much cleaner, and continuity problems go out the window.
I average about three to four separate takes per shot.
I use a Canon XL-2. Not my favorite, but I'm using it for free, so I can't complain. When I have lots of crew and little time, I'll use an old XL-1 too as a sort of "B" camera. Usually, though, I don't have the ability to shoot with multiple cameras. How many shots and takes depend on a lot of things. On average, I'd say I get about 3 angles of each scene, excluding establishing shots and cutaways. I try to get everything right by the second time I shoot the scene, but often it needs 4 or 5 takes before the actors, the camera and the story seem to synch up.
Actors? What actors?
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I got a Sony HVR-Z1U two summers ago and I love it, it is a great camera with great picture. The only thing I do not like about it, is that the MPEG-2 compression makes night shooting sometimes grainy, but that is to be expected in most night shooting in general.
Originally posted by dhdrixle: I got a Sony HVR-Z1U two summers ago and I love it, it is a great camera with great picture. The only thing I do not like about it, is that the MPEG-2 compression makes night shooting sometimes grainy, but that is to be expected in most night shooting in general.
You can expect some grain from night shoots but it should mostly come from bumping the gain up to the max 18dB, not the mpeg compression. I get a very clean night image keeping the gain at 12dB. Are you sure you're not shooting all the way at 18?
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I remember trying to figure this out with you before, Josh... but how is it possible to call HDV garbage? Maybe the A1U does something funny. I don't love HDV, but it sure beats DV by a lot. It's still got the interlacing, and the funny chromiance problems and all that, but it's sharp and huge.
Here are some examples. I exported these frames at 50% resolution in QTPlayer (960x540, aspect ratio uncorrected), which automatically deinterlaced them, and then bumped the levels in PS to compensate for the different gamma of video, but they're pretty much raw, downsized, exports from the Sony Z1U. All natural light except #6, and all uncolorcorrected except #7.
They look just as good at full size, and they're far, far superior to DV. I hate HDV, but not as much as DV, or VHS.
At the very least, you can downcovert by over 50% and have gorgeous progressive-frame NTSC, or square-pixel 720x480 progressive web video. It's a beautiful thing.
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Posts: 5197 | Location: Tisch at New York University | Registered: June 03, 2003
Currently I have access to the Canon XL2, the Sony DVX100 (still not sure which of those I prefer, do you guys have a preference?) and my own crappy little camera. I also shot recently on HDV which was fun, but also cost me a few dollars.
Posts: 975 | Location: Australia | Registered: December 20, 2002
I've got a VX2000 that I use for pretty much anything and everything (commercials, movies, music videos, home movies). I've also got a Bell and Howell 8 mm that I might start tinkering with if/when I can get some film for it.
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Posts: 131 | Location: Murray, KY | Registered: July 25, 2004
i shoot on my sony hdr-fx1, which i got about a year and a half ago. its nice for videography, but for narratives it isn't as good since it doesn't do 24p
Posts: 50 | Location: San Diego | Registered: September 27, 2006
Use a JVC DV500 at work with two GL2s as backups/secondaries (not my choice), but that's mostly for interviews and instructional training videos. Never used multi-cam setup during a personal shoot.
Posts: 598 | Location: Mobile, AL | Registered: May 10, 2005
I've used many DV cams! But about the angles, i take different shots and run them in on my NLE to look like I was using more then one cam! . You can make it look really good.
I use the DVX100A for normal single cam work. XL1s for multicamera setups. On my last project we used a Arri235, but that probably doesn't count for this poll.
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What kind of camera and format to you shoot on ?? Does anyone use multicameras ??? If not how many shots/takes do you take of each scene ?? If you do, please give me a link of a clip where you used your camera ....appreciate all the responses.
. You can make it look really good.
