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Re: Weekends and Vacations

Lexy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:09:00 -0000

You didn't piss me off. I was dead to the world until the alarm. Good job! Oh, and good post.

Re: We Are Rocking It!

Lexy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:05:36 -0000

Holy Crap! You have a LOT of insight into what you want to do and the roadblocks in place that keep you from meeting your goals. You are being really honest with yourself. I'm convinced that you will be just fine.

Re: A Little Change of Pace

Lexy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:31:22 -0000

Glad to see you have a project to really sink into. Can't wait to see the finished product!

Re: I’ve Taken It Upon Myself

Anthony Thompson — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:48:30 -0000

That is true. Joss Whedon did have considerable clout prior to doing Dr. Horrible. The concept is there and proven it can be done. The biggest difference is that people who don't have the initial following at the onset have to work that much harder.

Re: I’ve Taken It Upon Myself

Josh Roberts — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:13:37 -0000

Also, don't discount that if you can attract a strong base following online, you can pull a Joe Swanberg (Young American Bodies) and get someone to finance a small (indie) feature of yours (LOL, Hannah Takes the Stairs, etc).

I think Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible would not have succeeded had he been an unknown. Without his clout, I doubt he could have gotten the cast he did, in addition to the production value. Now that makes me curious as to what the budget on that project was. Few crews of that caliber want to work for free.

Re: Project Updates

Mike — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:05:44 -0000

I did not know you were working on a feature!! That is very exciting and I really cant wait to see it. It really is so awesome to be surrounded by SOOO many very talented people.

Re: How about some nice stuff to talk about?

ffxi gil — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:16:50 -0000

Yea that's some nice stuff there for that talk show. "might hear something from Zmoney in the future as well."

Re: How should you capture your footage?

moogaman — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:33:41 -0000

Footage from an HV20/30 will play nicely will all formats shot on an A1(S). Even 24p if you are going for that film look. If you stick with 60i on the A1, especially since your editing with FCE 3.5, any HDV camera or tape deck will read your footage with no problem.

Finding a consumer camera that has both tape and HDD recording may be hard to find. The awesome Panasonic AG-HVX200 records onto HDD and MiniDV, but only SD on tape, even you are shooting 1080p on P2 cards. Kind of annoying, but at least it is some sort of backup.

From what I've read on Canon's website, there really isn't a major advantage of the XH A1S over the A1. Maybe the HDD recording capability, but I just got a brand new A1 and can't afford to sell it and buy an A1S. Unless you are looking for an A1 with less than 1 hour on the heads. :D

Re: How should you capture your footage?

Shahryar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:38:26 -0000

Nice post.

With both my Canon XH-A1 and my Sony HC1 being destroyed in a recent house fire, I'm now figuring out what I should buy or rebuy. Ever since I've been recording with video, I've been recording to tape and I love that I still have archives of all my tapes. Because of that, I will always want a tape-oriented camcorder no matter what. But ideally, I would like secondary recording functionality. The big problem is that I have so many events that I've recorded that I've been "meaning to look at" but know that i'm probably not because I would have to connect my camera to the computer to import, cycle through the footage, etc. So it would be nice if I had a much easier way of getting footage rather than importing. If my camcorder also would record to an SD card or something also, I could just take the SD card w/ my MacBook Pro on the go and edit and upload.

with the new XH-A1s, with the 6 pin firewire, it will be much easier to record to a hard drive simultaneously while recording to tape. So that will work nicely for me for one of my profesisonal needs: one of the big things I do to make some money back on this hobby is record other stand-up comedians while I perform myself and sell them their recordings. So the quicker and easier I can get the footage into my computer to edit, the better.

What I'm wondering is if there's a consumer camera that records to minidv AND some sort of hard drive, flash drive, etc. This way, family events, etc,I can actually do something with it. If there isn't a consumer level camcorder like this, then this time around, I'm probably getting a Canon HV20/HV30 (under the assumption that these will play nice with the XH-A1s - I know with the XH-A1 they were supposed to, so I assume it's the same)

Perhaps I should invest in a tape deck too. I would like to own a Mac Pro sometime in the next couple months so I would leave it hooked up to that? (not too familiar with tape decks). I see from your post it's tricky working with 24p and a tape deck, but that's ok - I don't plan on working with 24p footage in the near future because I'm working with Final Cut Express 3.5 (don't have Final Cut Studio), and from what I understand, FCE 3.5 doesn't work with 24p footage without some sort of conversion.

Re: I’ve been watching TV

Artificial — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:37:15 -0000

so the complexities arise in the dialog between Paul, the psychologist (Gabriel Byrne), and whatever client(s) he happens to have that day

Re: New Project(s)

Zanthina — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:57:13 -0000

I'm really excited for you!

Re: America’s Favorite Serial Killer Returns

Zanthina — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:12:49 -0000

I likes me some Dexter!

Re: Anthony T.

moogaman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:06:01 -0000

I found a 4 pin to 9 pin firewire cable on monoprice.com for ~$7. As long as the cable is "bilingual" there shouldn't be a problem. At least that's what the IEEE 1394 standard says.

Re: Anthony T.

Shahryar — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:56:41 -0000

Hmm.. I've never seen a cable that (sorry for the lack of technical terms) goes from the small end of the usual firewire 400 cord to the big end of a firewire 800 cord. That's what you would need to test this right?

Re: Anthony T.

moogaman — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:59:00 -0000

Yeah? How do you like it?

Re: Anthony T.

Shahryar — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:41:32 -0000

Nice, I just got an XH-A1 myself last month

Re: Communications Majors Listen Up!!

Mike — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:49:56 -0000

I hear you should be getting your stuff soon!! Congrats. I cant wait to check out the new MBP when you get one!

Re: Communications Majors Listen Up!!

Mike — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:06:41 -0000

You are officially our web 2.0 consultant. 8>)

Re: Communications Majors Listen Up!!

Lexy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:12:20 -0000

Agreed.

Re: One Time

Lexy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:31:40 -0000

fascinating...I think you know lots of people that would contribute to this plan.

Re: GameFly or WoW?

mitchel — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:48:49 -0000

i was woundering if i should quit wow and join game fly

Re: Twitter Updates for 2008-09-17

Mike — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:49:05 -0000

I do like how they keep making fun of it though. Like the scene where Zane is blasting the dummy with fire. And they comment about how Corporate Sponsorships are great.

Re: Some animals are too damn creepy

Mike — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:11:11 -0000

I play that game all the time with our cats. It is fun.

Re: Twitter Updates for 2008-09-08

Mike — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:31:07 -0000

I actually kindof enjoy True Blood. I am interested to see what happens with the girl. I am wondering if she is going to end up being a "Slayer" of sorts. I will watch a few more shows and see what happens.

Re: From teh iPhone

Mike — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:50:25 -0000

AHHH you finally got a Iphone!