Comments on: Video Producer Horror Stories http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2009/05/4600-video-producer-horror-stories/ Latest Video News and Discussion from Videomaker Magazine Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:22:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Dylan Bennett http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2009/05/4600-video-producer-horror-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-9536 Dylan Bennett Sat, 23 May 2009 01:58:53 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/?p=4600#comment-9536 I was shooting a high school commencement several years back. I had a guy on a second camera so that I could change tapes without missing anything. We even started the cameras 15 minutes apart, so that there would be plenty of overlap between tape changes to ensure we both didn't need to change tapes at the same time. While I was changing tapes, the second cameraman started zooming in. Unfortunately, as he pressed the zoom button, his hand also hit the record button, stopping his recording... while I was changing tapes. He eventually noticed he had stopped recording, but by that time I was already done changing tapes and back to recording. I ended up having to "invent" the missing footage. Fortunately, the headmistress was talking during that segment, so for the audio I recorded her later in a sound studio repeating that same segment of her speech. I then had to do major sound degradation on it to make it match the rest of the footage's audio. For the video, I had to take some generic footage of a couple of graduates sitting up on stage and put it in place of it. Not a horrible experience, but it was a LOT of work and NOT fun. And it totally defeated the purpose of having two cameras! :P I was shooting a high school commencement several years back. I had a guy on a second camera so that I could change tapes without missing anything. We even started the cameras 15 minutes apart, so that there would be plenty of overlap between tape changes to ensure we both didn’t need to change tapes at the same time. While I was changing tapes, the second cameraman started zooming in. Unfortunately, as he pressed the zoom button, his hand also hit the record button, stopping his recording… while I was changing tapes. He eventually noticed he had stopped recording, but by that time I was already done changing tapes and back to recording. I ended up having to “invent” the missing footage. Fortunately, the headmistress was talking during that segment, so for the audio I recorded her later in a sound studio repeating that same segment of her speech. I then had to do major sound degradation on it to make it match the rest of the footage’s audio. For the video, I had to take some generic footage of a couple of graduates sitting up on stage and put it in place of it.

Not a horrible experience, but it was a LOT of work and NOT fun. And it totally defeated the purpose of having two cameras! :P

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His foot caught my arm, which sent the camera flying.
I heard a crack, followed by a smash… And my favorite camera ever, was dead.
What happened next you ask? Why I picked it up & continued to shoot with it of course! And now the broken camera footage lives on forever in this very clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIWWqCnnGYY
And that concludes the story of my first & last $600 camcorder purchase!

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