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David Dyer-Bennet
Jan 10, 2012, 11:15:47 AM1/10/12
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It's fun to post videos of stuff I went to -- the one I've been working
on is of an author reading last Sunday at Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis,
for example. Music parties also provide interesting content. Parades
and things.
Mostly I've shot still photos, and for me it works fine to wander
around, take photos, select the good ones, and post a gallery. Fun for
me, people mention having seen them, so apparently my friends do go to
my online photo galleries and look.
Video, of course, is a bigger production problem.
I had an idea the other week, and am wondering if anybody else has tried
this and learned anything the hard way (that I could avoid). I was
thinking, for some future event, of trying to get various friends to
come togehter in a short-lived video "co-op" for that event. The idea
is people would be asked to shoot video or record audio (or both) and
contribute their raw take to a common pool, from which everybody who
wanted to could then attempt to edit a video. Oh, still photos could go
in the pool too, they're useful in video production.
Ideally we'd be able to place one good sound recorder where it would do
the most good, and have at least one video camera running straight
through to give a complete covering shot. And most of the people would
run around shooting whatever looked interesting. (Manually syncing to
the audio tracks will no doubt be something of a pain, but the basic
consumer equipment everybody has these days doesn't support receiving a
central timecode signal, and I don't have anything that would send one
either.)
Anybody done anything like this? Even just two or three people would
give a hugely richer collection to work from than I am likely to produce
all by myself.
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David Dyer-Bennet, dd...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/
Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
on is of an author reading last Sunday at Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis,
for example. Music parties also provide interesting content. Parades
and things.
Mostly I've shot still photos, and for me it works fine to wander
around, take photos, select the good ones, and post a gallery. Fun for
me, people mention having seen them, so apparently my friends do go to
my online photo galleries and look.
Video, of course, is a bigger production problem.
I had an idea the other week, and am wondering if anybody else has tried
this and learned anything the hard way (that I could avoid). I was
thinking, for some future event, of trying to get various friends to
come togehter in a short-lived video "co-op" for that event. The idea
is people would be asked to shoot video or record audio (or both) and
contribute their raw take to a common pool, from which everybody who
wanted to could then attempt to edit a video. Oh, still photos could go
in the pool too, they're useful in video production.
Ideally we'd be able to place one good sound recorder where it would do
the most good, and have at least one video camera running straight
through to give a complete covering shot. And most of the people would
run around shooting whatever looked interesting. (Manually syncing to
the audio tracks will no doubt be something of a pain, but the basic
consumer equipment everybody has these days doesn't support receiving a
central timecode signal, and I don't have anything that would send one
either.)
Anybody done anything like this? Even just two or three people would
give a hugely richer collection to work from than I am likely to produce
all by myself.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, dd...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/
Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
Brian
Jan 10, 2012, 8:34:34 PM1/10/12
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club will be recording in a museum. The videos from the cameras is copied
to a laptop computer using a a/v connection then a DVD of the videos is
given to members that want to try and edit the video. I can't see any
problems at this stage. The result is a documentary of the museum.
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Regards Brian
ushere
Jan 10, 2012, 9:56:40 PM1/10/12
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depending on how large your club is, you could dl the camera footage to
pc as you wrote, then on to a usb hd and pass that around so people can
copy the files to their pcs's - whatever.
Mxsmanic
Jan 11, 2012, 12:01:10 AM1/11/12
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Brian writes:
> The video club I belong to is going to do the same thing. Members of the
> club will be recording in a museum. The videos from the cameras is copied
> to a laptop computer using a a/v connection then a DVD of the videos is
> given to members that want to try and edit the video. I can't see any
> problems at this stage. The result is a documentary of the museum.
You would need similar cameras for everyone and strict rules on shooting style
> The video club I belong to is going to do the same thing. Members of the
> club will be recording in a museum. The videos from the cameras is copied
> to a laptop computer using a a/v connection then a DVD of the videos is
> given to members that want to try and edit the video. I can't see any
> problems at this stage. The result is a documentary of the museum.
in order to be able to edit it all into something coherent, otherwise there
might be some jarring changes with transitions. I suppose harmonizing the
cameras might not be too difficult, but getting all the camera operators to
shoot the same way would be much more challenging.
Brian
Jan 11, 2012, 5:18:42 AM1/11/12
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will find out what type of camera they have got. It will be planned where
each cameraman records someone talking about something in the museum.
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Regards Brian
Brian
Jan 11, 2012, 5:18:47 AM1/11/12
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editing videos.
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Regards Brian
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