http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: setup - Recent Posts en Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:55:33 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/studio-reno-need-some-suggestions#post-74196 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:54:20 +0000 Shawn Speller 74196@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey all,</p> <p>I am new here, and fairly new to the business. The company I work for is looking to do improvements to their small studio and I have been elected to spearhead the project. I have looked around on the net a bit for some of the items we were looking into getting and I thought I would try here to see what your suggestions are.</p> <p>What we are looking into getting is...</p> <p>1. Tile flooring (suggestions on what I should be looking for, what I should avoid? We are hoping to be able to paint the tiles chroma green/black/white when needed)</p> <p>2. Track/rail for curtains (a cyc) ( what should I be looking for? Do I have to get the rails from a video equipment dealer or is there a cheaper more readily available choice?</p> <p>3. Looking to put up a grid for small studio lights (What should I be looking for and where? Just at the local hardware store?</p> <p>4. Sound proofing for a small v/o studio and in the main part of the studio (Should I go with sound proofing blankets/foam made for that or can I get away with hardware store items?)</p> <p>5. Blacking out windows (Paint, stick on vinyl, what else, what would be the best option?)</p> <p>6. Paint (What is my best choice, obviously matte but is there something I may miss?)</p> <p>Thanks ahead of time for any response, it is greatly appreciated. I can't wait to get this project going, I will have to post some before and after pictures at a later date!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/video-setup#post-65930 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:51:22 +0000 Chris Morlang 65930@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have my current setup with dual 27" displays running on a QuadCore Desktop, its nothing special but it gets my work done. Friends have been wanting me to upgrade my stuff so that I can edit their Indy projects. I have been wanting to upgrade anyway as I got a new job as a commercial editor and I would like to do some of my work at home.</p> <p>I am going to build my own computer to use Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere, my budget is 15,000$ </p> <p>I can build a computer myself as I have built several what I have no clue about is more advanced setups for video editing. I keep hearing about Kona3G and BlackMagic but I don't know exactly how they integrate.I would love to have scopes to check all my stuff for broadcast, speakers for surround sound setup and editing.</p> <p>Honestly I'm just at a complete loss of where to start once I get the base computer setup. Here is what I have so far (I'll store all my video/projects on my server):</p> <p>Two Video Editing Monitors - Asus VH242H</p> <p>Motherboard - Asus P6X58D-E</p> <p>Processor - Intel Core i7-970 Gulftown 3.2Ghz</p> <p>RAM -Corsair XMS 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 (x4)</p> <p>Hard Drive - Western Digital AV-GP WD10EURS 1TB 64MB Cache SATA</p> <p>Graphics Card (for two monitors) - PNY VCQFX3800-PCIE-PB Quadro FX 3800 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16</p> <p> </p> <p>That is my base to work with now what I need is to figure out the rest of the setup</p> <p>Capturing HD, SD and being able to Listen to and Edit Surround Sound. Should I just buy a Surround Sound card and get some quality speakers (I was thinking KRK Speakers) and somehow to hook up a broadcast CRT monitor and then also support a HD TV connection for previewing to clients and stuff, do I just need another graphics card or should I look into something like Blackmagic or Kona?</p> <p>I'm sure you'll have questions for me to help figure out more of my needs, I'll answer what I can.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/pc-hard-drive-set-up#post-57396 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:18:31 +0000 lmenningen 57396@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> The OS and Programs can be on the same drive because once you are up and running, most of what the OS and the application needs will be memory-resident (assuming you have sufficient).</p> <p>However, if the application is going to read from file A, write to file B, read from file A, write to file B etc., repetitively for many video frames, you'd best have file A and file B reside on two different drives, because if the two files are on the same drive, the heads have to constantly move back and forth, and head movement is time consuming.</p> <p>I use Premiere Pro CS4 and often wondered why Adobe doesn't have a chart showing a few head movement scenarios and suggesting drive allocations for optimum performance. (With their new Mercury engine, will it still matter any more?)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/pc-hard-drive-set-up#post-57118 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:40:21 +0000 segpie 57118@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Composite1,</p> <p>I would tend to agree with you.</p> <p>Keep it simple.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/pc-hard-drive-set-up#post-57112 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:54:11 +0000 composite1 57112@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><em>"What's screwing me up is this RAID thing."</em></p> <p>The thing that's most confusing about RAID arrays is the type you want to set up. In a nutshell, RAID's are individual drives that are 'linked' to each other through hardware or software. A RAID 0 is just the drives linked together with no 'mirroring' (i.e. data redundancy 'back-up'.) All other RAID setups involve greater degrees of mirroring to protect data in case of drive failure. So a RAID 0 gives you the greatest amount of drive space but no mirroring and the others give you greater mirroring with lesser amounts of drive space. It all depends on what you want to work with.</p> <p>As for separate drives for the OS and programs, yeah I think that's overkill. Often I partition the OS drive in half to make a backup space for the main drive and documents. It has the side benefit of cutting the amount of time maintenance programs take to perform their functions on the main drive. You definitely want extra drives for cache and scratch disks as I mentioned before. And you can assign to your extra drives the tasks of preview and so. Remember, internally most motherboards only support 6 drives so even if you utilize that capacity fully, you'll still have to make some practical choices as to what will go where. If you want reliability, keep it simple....</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/pc-hard-drive-set-up#post-57106 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:55:44 +0000 segpie 57106@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Much appreciate the replies and makes me think.......is there not some rule or guidelines explaining how to do this? It's strike me as if it's a free for all out there and everyone pretty much sets up the drives as they wish.</p> <p>I'm certainly NOT an expert on this subject but I do remember while watching a Total Training tutorial several years back, they suggested the <em>OS</em> and programs be on their <em>own individual drives</em> apparently it makes the system faster.</p> <p>They also suggested to setup the scratch drives (captured and preview) with their own separate drives, again, speed gain was the reason. That's why I setup my drives as I did years ago and it worked well.</p> <p>What's screwing me up is this RAID thing. It seems that RAIDS are used to store video (I thought the OS and programs went in there) until I starting reading about RAIDS.</p> <p>So, <strong>what would you guys think if I was to try the following</strong> or is it overkill (am I being stupid?)?</p> <p>1-OS</p> <p>1-Programs</p> <p>1-RAID0 (captured)</p> <p>1-Preview</p> <p>1-Effects, titles, etc</p> <p>All I'm searching for is reliability, speed and a setup of scratch disks that makes sense.</p> <p>Thanks for your help as your opinions time taken in replying are valued!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/pc-hard-drive-set-up#post-57097 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:14:28 +0000 composite1 57097@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Seg,</p> <p>John has it about right and I would add that depending on what you'll be working on, a specific drive wouldn't drive for what you do wouldn't hurt. For example, on our main editor we have;</p> <p>1 OS/Program Drive</p> <p>1 Graphics/Mographics Drive</p> <p>1 DVD Authoring/Animation Drive</p> <p>1 Raid 0 Video Editing Array (internal)</p> <p>Anything extra like FX or Stock Footage storage we keep on external eSATA or Firewire Drives.</p> <p>Why all the drives? Space and cache overflow resources. Nothing worse than working on a project and running out of cache space and having nowhere to put the overflow.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/pc-hard-drive-set-up#post-57074 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:42:21 +0000 Johnboy 57074@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> The way I have worked my computers in the past is this:</p> <p>1 drive for O/S and programs</p> <p>1 drive for source files</p> <p>1 drive for renders</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/pc-hard-drive-set-up#post-57070 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:25:36 +0000 segpie 57070@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm in the process of building a new PC dedicated for editing.</p> <p>My question concerns how to set-up the hard-drives.</p> <p>My current HD set-up is as follows:</p> <p>1-HD for the OS</p> <p>1-HD for programs</p> <p>1-HD for projects</p> <p>1-Hot-swap HD with captured video</p> <p>How should I make use of the HDs in my new PC and should I use RAID0 or RAID5?</p> <p>Here's what I was thinking for the new PC:</p> <p>1-HD for the OS?</p> <p>1-HD for programs?</p> <p>1-RAID (0 or 5?) for projects and captured video?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/connecting-camera-to-large-screens-for-live-events#post-52023 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:09:44 +0000 XTR-91 52023@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The analog composite (A/V) jack that they implemented into camcorders was designed for the display on Standard (320x240 resolution) TVs. The analog output on camcorders is probably equivalent to that. The design of a camcorder's (single-barrled and round) A/V jack is cheaply designed compared to the three-barreled composite output of DVD players - having a separate jack for left channel audio, right channel, and video that is more immune to loss and interference. The difference in quality on separate displays is most likely something to do with matching impedance or signal level. As I have said, the composite output of video camcorders is generally poor, until you start getting into the realm of pro camcorders. If your camcorder has Component, S-Video, or HDMI output, you'll have much better options than using the standard "Audio/Video" output.</p> <p> </p> <p>If it's a 100 foot cable, and you're outputting analog, I'd find a good BNC adapter that converts the output to a BNC cable and plugged into the port of the projector. If the projector doesn't have BNC, you should get a second adapter that converts the BNC cable back into something compatible (such as component or S-Vide). BNC handles long distances better than any other type of signal. If the output is digital (HDMI), there probably won't be much worry. For retaining maximum quality, BNC is still your best bet.</p> <p> </p> <p>And not to mention, just in case, BNC is the "Cable TV" type of signal and retains quality the best over long distances.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/connecting-camera-to-large-screens-for-live-events#post-52019 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:46:03 +0000 mckielvideos 52019@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I just finished recording a Dance Competition where they wanted to hook up my video camera (Sony HVR-Z5U) to the large projection screens set up by a professional company (TEL-AV).  They had a 16 channel switch-box and I tried two different outputs (composite and component).  The switch-box then went into their transmitter amplifier box (not sure of the right terms) because it had a long feed to the lcd projectors (100 ft).  My camera was set at 480i/1080i output.</p> <p>The resolution that came up on the large screens looked terrible (low resolution and white washed) while the same output on the monitor screens (HD-televisons placed around the conference centre) looked great.  Is there something i should have had between my video camera and the switchbox to make adjusting easier or better for projecting onto large venue screens?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/working-with-wvga#post-51903 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:09:12 +0000 XTR-91 51903@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Is this resolution actually take part in recording with camcorders, or is this a only resolution that computers and/or other digital devices utilize? Just wondering... because I have never heard of it.</p> <p>A standard-def camcorder (720x480) uses the same resolution for both 4:3 and 16:9 modes. There might be an exception to this with some camcorder brands. A pixel usually isn't square, at least not how it is displayed on most monitors. Each pixel is more broader and rectangular on a 16:9 video display.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/working-with-wvga#post-51901 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:55:43 +0000 Little960 51901@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I also use that 853X480 format which is the actual 16:9. I set my project to ''NTSC anamorphic'' before I import and everything stays in that format even when I export to Quicktime.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/working-with-wvga#post-51870 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:21:20 +0000 XTR-91 51870@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The video card resolution you listed is somewhat of a strict figure when working with video. If the project aspect ratio is set to 4:3, the preview resolution may be equivelant to 720x540 in order to match the ratio exactly - something I've seen happen with my editing software, Cyberlink PowerDirector. Camcorder Video that matches the 853x480 resolution virtually doesn't exist as far as I know. If it does, your editing software will strictly forbid it, converting it to 720x480. Screen capturing software is one exception that I can think of. If you captured DV via FireWire, you've probably had experience with dropping frames or possibly single fields (every other line that makes up half of the frame). With interlaced video, two fields create a frame. </p> <p> </p> <p>Have you checked any possible "Drop Indicator" (amount of information dropped) during the capture process? This also might be a problem with your camcorder. Does it play fine on TV?</p> <p> </p> <p>I'd also consider upgrading your graphics card. 1024x768 is currently the average computer resolution of today, so you probably won't need to rack up a lot of cash for a higher-end graphics card directly up from your level.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/working-with-wvga#post-51865 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:07:31 +0000 ohjames 51865@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey hey! I am using 853 x 480 video and i cant seem to figure out a way to set up my project to edit in that resolution. Of course i can go 720 x 480 but i don't want the black bars. Any help would be great. Thanks!</p> <p>Using Final cut express by the way.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-shoot-three-person-interview#post-51024 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:39:13 +0000 alex70 51024@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi Peterson, can you send me a message? Are You from Slovakia? </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-gz-hd7-multi-cam-setup#post-45754 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:09:36 +0000 hd7guy 45754@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Forget about the switcher. I use 2 HD7's for a lot of live events. Just use a clapper board, or electronic flash at the beginning and keep the cameras running.</p> <p>Use the multicam setup in Vegas or FCP to do the cuts and fades after. Put the tracks/clips on the timeline and adjust to the audio waveform to synchronize.</p> <p>In Vegas I can display each camera in the preview window and switch between them as I watch the playback. I'm pretty sure you can do the same in FCP.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-shoot-three-person-interview#post-43562 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:02:54 +0000 Peterson 43562@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hey guys,</p> <p>thank you so much for you tips. I definitely will stand all the time behind the main camera to get nice shots of speaking person or even ones who are listening. To line them all side by side seems to me as the easiest setup especially for lights. I will have to give them instruction though how to move their heads during interview. I know these guys who are speaking and they make gestures quite a lot. But I will switch shots of their faces with shots of the body movement so it is not boring.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-shoot-three-person-interview#post-43461 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:11:08 +0000 BruceMol 43461@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I would line all the talent up side by side, keep them close</p> <p>Light the same as 1 or 2 people - making sure that the people on either end can turn their head to the other w/o shadows on their face.</p> <p>Because I'm always by myself, I set camera 2 to capture all the body movements or, when I have seniors who don't squiggle much, I get the head and torso (rather than whole body) because seniors have great facial expressions. Also, with Camera 2, I have mic'd for backup sound in case Camera 1 sound, boom or wireless, misses a spot. While I'm at it, I tape in HD and I've found that when my project is not HD I can zoom in a bit too on the footage of both cameras. I stand behind Camera 1 with my headphones on and zoom in on the active speaker. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-shoot-three-person-interview#post-43453 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:27:04 +0000 robGRAUERT 43453@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Why does it have to be 3 people being interviewed? You can't do one at a time?</p> <p>  If you are stuck interviewing 3 people at a time, I would still implement 3-point lighting. I would then use one camera as a while shot and use a second as a close up camera that will often being changing it's aim to whoever is talking. Make sense?</p> <p> As for arranging the people, where will you be shooting the interviews? If it's in a big empty boring room, your set up might be kinda boring; probably just everyone sitting side-by-side.  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-to-shoot-three-person-interview#post-43452 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:15:13 +0000 Peterson 43452@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>I came to video production just recently and my main area is shooting events and possibly documentary. In two weeks I am flying to London to shoot interview of three persons. I have read several articles explaining setup for lights and camera, but only for one or two people. Does anyone have good suggestion how to setup interview of three people? I have two cameras with tripod, three lights: one with umbrella, one soft light /Rifa/ and one is pro-light. How to arrange people and lights with this limited equipment - I cannot take more on the board of the airplaine. Thank you for any possible advices or hints.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-gz-hd7-multi-cam-setup#post-41106 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:26:04 +0000 EarlC 41106@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Google for firewire video mixer. There are some options. Some affordable. Others mucho expensive. Videonics has one...</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-gz-hd7-multi-cam-setup#post-41079 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:54:14 +0000 NewBirthProductions 41079@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>:))))) I didn't say my idea was cheap.  but it would work.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-gz-hd7-multi-cam-setup#post-41072 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:45:17 +0000 bishop1884 41072@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Thanks for your help.</p> <p>Could you recommend a low cost switcher?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-gz-hd7-multi-cam-setup#post-41066 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:56:06 +0000 robGRAUERT 41066@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> In my opinion, what you should do:</p> <p> Have all your cameras recording.</p> <p> Then have someone stand in the shot (so all the cameras can see the person) and clap or something. This creates a common point on all the tapes.</p> <p> Bring those tapes into FCP and use the multi camera editing feature. WHen you use that, you need to mark a common point in FCP so the multi-camera editing works smoothly. That's why it's important to have someone stand in the shot and clap or something. </p> <p> </p> <p> You can do what NewBirth said, buy JVC250Us, but that will cost you over 20 grand, plus you need a switcher and monitors...basically a whole control room.  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-gz-hd7-multi-cam-setup#post-41060 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:41:54 +0000 NewBirthProductions 41060@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The HD7 is a fine rig, however it does not have a time code gen.  there are a few ways to do it.</p> <p>one as you have said, use a switcher.  the other is to run a cromokey time gen behind your shot and then key it out after you finish editing.  and the third is to sell your hd7's and buy 2 jvc hd250u's</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/jvc-gz-hd7-multi-cam-setup#post-41055 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:18:12 +0000 bishop1884 41055@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I need help with multi-cam setup. I have two JVC GZ HD7's for live talk show. Do I need an audio and video switcher?  How do I sync the cams? Should I just shoot and edit?  This is a new church project with no real experience and cost is out of my pocket. The studio room is complete with pro lighting. I also have Sennheiser lav mics. Thanks for your help,</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-webcast-setup#post-36079 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:11:00 +0000 DerrickY 36079@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>We produce Live webcasts of events and what you are saying your requirements are go beyond a simple camera. </p> <p>for Camera I would suggest a good quality 3 CCD camera.  Budget will determine what you go with but I love our XL1s' and with the MA200 we can put in multiple XLR mic's.  Will go on standard tripod and can be bought for decent value IMO.  We also have a Sony DSR250A.  Again little older but good quality camera that perfroms well.  Downside to Sony is the baseplate and tripod requirements add to the cost.  But the sony does have built in XLR so saves you on the cost of MA200</p> <p>We use 4 cameras in our prodution so we also have a cheapo MX1 video switch.  It does the job for us, has chroma key,couple of hundred transitions and some features I yet to figure out.  Apparently it has Luminance that will allow you to plug in computer and use graphics as video source but I have yet to try it.  depending on what we do for graphics generation I may go with an MX4DV for our next event if budget will permit the purchase</p> <p>We run all our audio through a Behringer 1204fx mixer.  I like this mixer as it has some audio effects built in and comes with a USB type adapter to feed audio from mixer to computer.  Allows ontrol of audio and effects on each channel so you can control each mic independantly</p> <p> Lighting I can not really comment on as most our events are outdoor and cover a large space that would be to hard to light.</p> <p>Software<br /> Currently use Premiere pro CS3.  Only really use this as it came with the suite we bought for photoshop and illustrator. <br /> WEBCAM MAX.  I know most people are probably groaning at this app.  but for the price it allows me to do a variety of overlay effects with text and graphics on the downstream side of things.  As well I can throw in images and other media files into the webcast easily.  I am hoping to move away from it by getting a proper genreator to plug into the stream but for benig on a budget and needing to add some stuff to your webcasts it works.  Again we are talking webcasts not production TV</p> <p>The only other thing I can offer is cables.  Buy more than you think you will need.  Every event we seem to have a need for a different/longer/modified cable.  Everything from S-Video, BNC, XLR have spares and more than enough length.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-webcast-setup#post-35622 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:45:01 +0000 krazykid035 35622@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>   I am going to be producing a web cast for a company i work for. I need to know the best camera to use for this. It has to have GREAT/BEST quality out there, be able to have multiple microphones/audio inputs, be able to capture computer screens via a connection, and i also need to know the best lighting system, back drops, green screens etc. Basically right now i have a "cheap-o" in which i sold the idea of the show, and now they want it produced full scale. Also, what is the best software out there for editing videos, not just creating good videos from raw film, but also the special effects part of it.</p> <p> Needs:</p> <p>Camera</p> <p>Lighting</p> <p>Audio Inputs (microphones)</p> <p> Software</p>