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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 10:00 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Getting Started With The DV Camera
Well, I finally
did it. I went out and invested in a Canon 480p DVD resolution DV camera
on Monday, January 12, 
2009.
I've been running tests with it, and the footage is of the great quality
that I expected. It's capable of doing DVD quality feature films, although
will be doing short films, experimental films, interviews, tutorial videos,
and other projects with it.
It's an awesome little camera, and shoots in a 16:9 screen ratio as well
as a traditional one. The footage is very usable, and the quality of the
footage is as good as a non-HD camera can get. I have a few curve balls,
however, that will take me a week or two to get around. Earlier today,
I did some night tests of the camera for the upcoming short film The
Point, which is based on my published short story, and will have
additional scenes added to the screenplay version. It’ll work nicely.
Anyway, with my photography business and my hundreds of thousands of pictures,
hard drive space on my computers is at a premium. The video files are
huge, and I will have to invest in more hard drive space before I can
do any short film. Additionally, my computers are slow, and Premier chokes
on the files. If I had bought the HD camera, I'm afraid that I would not
have been able to edit the footage until I upgraded my computers.
For now, I have a lot of cleaning to do with my fastest computer. It'll
be a few days before I have my first test videos completed.
Fortunately, computers and large hard drives are cheap (now). I'll build
a computer specifically for film editing and post production work. I also
need to buy a card reader for SD HC cards, which don't read in my SD reader
built into my laptop.
Other things that I need before I shoot my short films? A good tripod
and a phantom power rig for sound. I already have the XLR microphone and
the boom.
I did get some great footage so far, however. I looks like my eye from
photography is translating well for indie film work.
Expect
some footage to be revealed next month.
Speaking of next month, the online film festival probably won't have a
lot of films added until February. I'll be busy with my photography company.
That doesn't mean that I won't be working on films, however. For my films
to work, I have to be a director, DP, and an editor. The first two come
easy, but editing so far has proven to be a pain. I feel like I am a photographer
back in 1997 who doesn't know how to use Photoshop. Of course, these days,
I can work Photoshop in my sleep, and these programs are not hard to master
when I am used to learning video games. I'll have Premier down in a week,
and then my editing skills from the old days will come into play.
I will say, on a side note, that I am sitting back and watching the latest
Tampa Film Review / Tampa Film Network developments closely. Don’t
rush it, guys. Take your time and do it right. Fix what is wrong, and
what I pointed out in the reviews. This is for your own good, too, because
I intend to compete against it with my own monthly Tampa film festival
event, and I want a challenge. For now, it will be tough for them to compete
against the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, let alone going head-to-head
against another film festival event.
So, would I show any of my films at a revised Tampa
Film Review? It depends. My film festivals have priority, but if they
fix what is wrong, I may consider it. For now, however, I’ll bet
on what I am working on and concentrate on that.
Well, I have to run. I have some more tinkering to do with converting
video files and getting back to speed with editing. I also have some computer
issues to resolve, and may have to back up a lot of files before I restore
one of my computers and wipe the hard drive (maybe I can get a certain
CD burner working on the secondary computer, because my main burner has
been down for a couple of weeks now). Ciao.
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