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How to Capture Directly into DVD
Charlie Fulton: Okay, we’re back. We’re ready to do some Tips and Letters from our readers of Videomaker magazine, the vidcast, and let’s get into it.
We’ve got one here from Doug Rickoby, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. And he is using Sony FX1 HDV camcorder, and add-on DVD recorder. And what he’s doing is, he’s capturing directly into DVD that way. So what he can do is instant dailies, or he can give his client directly, give him a DVD when he’s done shooting for the day. So, that’s a pretty good solution.
And then, he’s also doing this so he can record more than an hour worth of footage. He’s recording a two hour dinner theatre, he says he’s doing.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Yeah, he doesn’t want to, he says he doesn’t want to put a wear-n-tear to his camera, so he’s just using his camera as a pass through to record to so he can just finish it off, import it and get it passed that, so he doesn’t have to go back to his computer, burn it to DVD, and I think that’s a great way of saving wear-n-tear of your camera for sure.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: And a quick turnaround, too.
Charlie Fulton: Absolutely. So we have another tip-
Jennifer O’Rourke: I have another tip. This one came from Derek Spicer of New Zealand. We love our New Zealand people.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: And he came up with a very good idea that he found, he discovered as he was visiting here in United States. You know those umbrellas, I think they’re sometimes, they’re like golf umbrellas, but sometimes they’re kind that you attach to a beach chair. They have a little clamp on them. He found one of those to clamp into his tripod when it was raining. So it keeps camera, and possibly him, depending on its size, from getting wet. And it’s a really good idea, we haven’t really thought about doing anything like that before. Or you can put it on a spare tripod, some other pole if you needed to.
And Brian Peterson, our editor in chief, would say this is really good for sun, too, because the camera will shut down after a 100, over a 120 degrees and I suggest that would be good if you’re shooting down and Death Valley. And, he said, or Chico.
Charlie Fulton: Or Chico.
Jennifer O’Rourke: It gets really hot here in summertime.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah. We’ve got a lot of college students saying, oh, you’re going to stay here in the Chico for summer? They’re just saying, oh you’re going to melt, but most of this people are from the Bay Area, or LA, where you actually do get only into like 80 and 90, so it’s considerably hotter up here.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Yeah, they don’t really know what heat is. We have two seasons. We have hot and we have cold.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: We have two weeks of spring, two weeks of fall, and that’s it.
Charlie Fulton: But we’re not kidding about this. It’s really that extreme in temperature.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Really very hot.
But we have another letter. This is a question to Charlie, Charlie is our expert on all things technical sometimes. It is a DYI question, and he says he’s a big fan of, this is Dave Rebel, he says he’s a big fan of Videomaker magazine. He attended our recent workshop Expo workshop where we had a DYI on build your own computer workshop, and he actually missed that. He wanted to, a couple questions from Charlie answering.
What was it he was asking about? He wants to know editing specs?
Charlie Fulton: It included editing specs, yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: What can you tell him, Charlie? Charlie is our expert. He actually wrote this lecture, so he knows it all.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah, well, we could sit here for 15-20 minutes on motherboards alone. It can get that technical, that intense amount of detail. And deciding what exactly you want your computer to do, what you want, what kind of parts you want by etc. It can get really, really, really detailed.
And we noticed that there was a forum thread that you referenced, and then, yeah, we’re going to keep going back to the forum, and I think that thread is probably going to live for a while, saying, hey, did you hear about the new whatever processor, or the new spiffy hard drive, or whatever new parts come out.
So, since we are a video magazine, and not a computer magazine, we have to kind of limit what we can talk about here. Although, we can certainly see where, it would help a whole bunch of people if we did keep covering different computer parts. So, this is an interesting one.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Yeah, it really is. We are in the process of planning our next year calendar, and we will have some DYI articles in there. And specifically, when it’s building a computer, it will be a computer for video editing, so, different things that you need to beef it up to make sure that you have it well done with video editing.
Charlie did my own video editing system we call the Beast.
Charlie Fulton: The Beast, yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Yeah. It’s pretty beefy, yeah.
Charlie Fulton: All right.
Jennifer O’Rourke: So what else? What do we have?
Charlie Fulton: So I have a letter here from Matthew Severns, I suppose.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Severns.
Charlie Fulton: Severns, okay. Walnut Creek, California. And he’s asking, who you’re going to call when you call in sick?
Matthew is still in high school, but he set his sights on being videographer when he graduates, with the Master of Fine Arts from college, he says hopefully, but, we’re sure you can do it. You know, go for it, man!
He says, I was wondering, since I hear most people start out as wedding videographer, I’ll use that as example. What happens when you get hired for a job, then you get sick the day before or someone in your family dies, or something of the sort? You call in saying you can’t come and leave the family with added hassle of no videographer? You go anyway, and hide your grief or sickness. You call in a favor from a friend assuming that you have some kind, or have some that are good at videotaping.
So, this is an interesting question.
Jennifer O’Rourke: It really is, and it’s a really good question, especially if you are in business on your own, you’re doing things by yourself, and you know the old saying, the old joke about the show must go on.
Charlie Fulton: Right.
Jennifer O’Rourke: The show must go on, and if you have a moment of grief, if you’re having a bad time in your life, you cannot share that with them. Your job is to get out there and do the shoot and hide your grief any way you can. If you can’t be there, you can’t leave them hanging. This is bride’s big moment, if it is a wedding, and to leave her hanging would be just, just a horrible thing for her and her family. And you and your business, you would get a bad mouth out of the business very, very quickly.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: What you should do is you should always make sure you have some sort of the network of friends, people who work in the business that you can call up at the drop of the hat, and say, hey, look, I can’t pull this, I need a bail, can you do this for me?
And keep in contact with this network, have good referrals going on there. You actually pay, give them the money for the job, but maybe they pay you a referral fee. And then you can share with each other and vice versa. Every once in a while, you may need to call them for a second camera, and so as long as you keep good report going on with other videographers in your business and in your network, don’t think of them as rivals as much as people who are all in the same team with you.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah. That’s a great point, is that you can’t think of these as your rivals, or your competition. You really have to think of it as a comradery kind of between everybody in your field.
Because, you don’t ever know when you have to call in a favor.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Right. And in the end, it’s pure networking. I have done this for some people where I haven’t been able to do the shoot, but I’ve been able to do the edit for them. So they called me up, I’ll finish up editing their piece for fee, they’ll do the shoot, and vice versa. I have lent my camera out to someone who needed two camera shoot.
Again, keep up with your key networking always.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: And you know what? I think that’s it for letters today.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah. I think so.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Okay. We’ve got coming up Baby Bear Max Hunter, one of our video contest winners. It’s comedy, you’ll love this one.
Charlie Fulton: M-hm. Be sure to send us an e-mail if you’ve got any kind of questions, editor@videomaker.com. You can also visit our blog at www.videomaker.com/blog, and don’t forget to visit the forums, either www.videomaker.com/forums.
Jennifer O’Rourke: All sorts of resources.
Charlie Fulton: Okay, we’re back. We’re ready to do some Tips and Letters from our readers of Videomaker magazine, the vidcast, and let’s get into it.
We’ve got one here from Doug Rickoby, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. And he is using Sony FX1 HDV camcorder, and add-on DVD recorder. And what he’s doing is, he’s capturing directly into DVD that way. So what he can do is instant dailies, or he can give his client directly, give him a DVD when he’s done shooting for the day. So, that’s a pretty good solution.
And then, he’s also doing this so he can record more than an hour worth of footage. He’s recording a two hour dinner theatre, he says he’s doing.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Yeah, he doesn’t want to, he says he doesn’t want to put a wear-n-tear to his camera, so he’s just using his camera as a pass through to record to so he can just finish it off, import it and get it passed that, so he doesn’t have to go back to his computer, burn it to DVD, and I think that’s a great way of saving wear-n-tear of your camera for sure.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: And a quick turnaround, too.
Charlie Fulton: Absolutely. So we have another tip-
Jennifer O’Rourke: I have another tip. This one came from Derek Spicer of New Zealand. We love our New Zealand people.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: And he came up with a very good idea that he found, he discovered as he was visiting here in United States. You know those umbrellas, I think they’re sometimes, they’re like golf umbrellas, but sometimes they’re kind that you attach to a beach chair. They have a little clamp on them. He found one of those to clamp into his tripod when it was raining. So it keeps camera, and possibly him, depending on its size, from getting wet. And it’s a really good idea, we haven’t really thought about doing anything like that before. Or you can put it on a spare tripod, some other pole if you needed to.
And Brian Peterson, our editor in chief, would say this is really good for sun, too, because the camera will shut down after a 100, over a 120 degrees and I suggest that would be good if you’re shooting down and Death Valley. And, he said, or Chico.
Charlie Fulton: Or Chico.
Jennifer O’Rourke: It gets really hot here in summertime.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah. We’ve got a lot of college students saying, oh, you’re going to stay here in the Chico for summer? They’re just saying, oh you’re going to melt, but most of this people are from the Bay Area, or LA, where you actually do get only into like 80 and 90, so it’s considerably hotter up here.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Yeah, they don’t really know what heat is. We have two seasons. We have hot and we have cold.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: We have two weeks of spring, two weeks of fall, and that’s it.
Charlie Fulton: But we’re not kidding about this. It’s really that extreme in temperature.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Really very hot.
But we have another letter. This is a question to Charlie, Charlie is our expert on all things technical sometimes. It is a DYI question, and he says he’s a big fan of, this is Dave Rebel, he says he’s a big fan of Videomaker magazine. He attended our recent workshop Expo workshop where we had a DYI on build your own computer workshop, and he actually missed that. He wanted to, a couple questions from Charlie answering.
What was it he was asking about? He wants to know editing specs?
Charlie Fulton: It included editing specs, yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: What can you tell him, Charlie? Charlie is our expert. He actually wrote this lecture, so he knows it all.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah, well, we could sit here for 15-20 minutes on motherboards alone. It can get that technical, that intense amount of detail. And deciding what exactly you want your computer to do, what you want, what kind of parts you want by etc. It can get really, really, really detailed.
And we noticed that there was a forum thread that you referenced, and then, yeah, we’re going to keep going back to the forum, and I think that thread is probably going to live for a while, saying, hey, did you hear about the new whatever processor, or the new spiffy hard drive, or whatever new parts come out.
So, since we are a video magazine, and not a computer magazine, we have to kind of limit what we can talk about here. Although, we can certainly see where, it would help a whole bunch of people if we did keep covering different computer parts. So, this is an interesting one.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Yeah, it really is. We are in the process of planning our next year calendar, and we will have some DYI articles in there. And specifically, when it’s building a computer, it will be a computer for video editing, so, different things that you need to beef it up to make sure that you have it well done with video editing.
Charlie did my own video editing system we call the Beast.
Charlie Fulton: The Beast, yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Yeah. It’s pretty beefy, yeah.
Charlie Fulton: All right.
Jennifer O’Rourke: So what else? What do we have?
Charlie Fulton: So I have a letter here from Matthew Severns, I suppose.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Severns.
Charlie Fulton: Severns, okay. Walnut Creek, California. And he’s asking, who you’re going to call when you call in sick?
Matthew is still in high school, but he set his sights on being videographer when he graduates, with the Master of Fine Arts from college, he says hopefully, but, we’re sure you can do it. You know, go for it, man!
He says, I was wondering, since I hear most people start out as wedding videographer, I’ll use that as example. What happens when you get hired for a job, then you get sick the day before or someone in your family dies, or something of the sort? You call in saying you can’t come and leave the family with added hassle of no videographer? You go anyway, and hide your grief or sickness. You call in a favor from a friend assuming that you have some kind, or have some that are good at videotaping.
So, this is an interesting question.
Jennifer O’Rourke: It really is, and it’s a really good question, especially if you are in business on your own, you’re doing things by yourself, and you know the old saying, the old joke about the show must go on.
Charlie Fulton: Right.
Jennifer O’Rourke: The show must go on, and if you have a moment of grief, if you’re having a bad time in your life, you cannot share that with them. Your job is to get out there and do the shoot and hide your grief any way you can. If you can’t be there, you can’t leave them hanging. This is bride’s big moment, if it is a wedding, and to leave her hanging would be just, just a horrible thing for her and her family. And you and your business, you would get a bad mouth out of the business very, very quickly.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: What you should do is you should always make sure you have some sort of the network of friends, people who work in the business that you can call up at the drop of the hat, and say, hey, look, I can’t pull this, I need a bail, can you do this for me?
And keep in contact with this network, have good referrals going on there. You actually pay, give them the money for the job, but maybe they pay you a referral fee. And then you can share with each other and vice versa. Every once in a while, you may need to call them for a second camera, and so as long as you keep good report going on with other videographers in your business and in your network, don’t think of them as rivals as much as people who are all in the same team with you.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah. That’s a great point, is that you can’t think of these as your rivals, or your competition. You really have to think of it as a comradery kind of between everybody in your field.
Because, you don’t ever know when you have to call in a favor.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Right. And in the end, it’s pure networking. I have done this for some people where I haven’t been able to do the shoot, but I’ve been able to do the edit for them. So they called me up, I’ll finish up editing their piece for fee, they’ll do the shoot, and vice versa. I have lent my camera out to someone who needed two camera shoot.
Again, keep up with your key networking always.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah.
Jennifer O’Rourke: And you know what? I think that’s it for letters today.
Charlie Fulton: Yeah. I think so.
Jennifer O’Rourke: Okay. We’ve got coming up Baby Bear Max Hunter, one of our video contest winners. It’s comedy, you’ll love this one.
Charlie Fulton: M-hm. Be sure to send us an e-mail if you’ve got any kind of questions, editor@videomaker.com. You can also visit our blog at www.videomaker.com/blog, and don’t forget to visit the forums, either www.videomaker.com/forums.
Jennifer O’Rourke: All sorts of resources.
