http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Forums » Tag: HELP - Recent Posts en Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:30:12 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/manfrotto-701hdv-fluid-head-replacement-pan-handle#post-52421 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:12:45 +0000 FILMSinc 52421@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&lt;span style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Hey, Quick question; i just was interested in buying a Manfrotto 701HDV fluid head and was going to buy an extra handle so i could have some more stable shots, also having an extra pan bar is a wonderful convenience. When i started shopping i really didn't know which one to buy and i wanted to make sure that i wasent buying the wrong one.</p> <p> </p> <p>So if anyone could post a link to the right handle that would be greatly appreciated.</p> <p> </p> <p>Thank you </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/camcorder-help#post-52112 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:16:38 +0000 jjlj88 52112@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I am a golf instructor and I want to film my students lessons. I am completely new to this and have no idea which camcorder would be the best to film a golf swing. I want to transfer what I film to a DVD. High resolution, slow motion capability, and zoom are important. I do not want to spend more than $3000. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/canon-gl1-problems#post-52048 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:35:35 +0000 patriotsfanatic 52048@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I was shooting my bros football game and these blue bars would intermittently come down the screen. The would come and go i switched tapes but it still continued to happen. What are they and what do i do to get rid of them?<br />example:<a rel="nofollow" href="http://web.me.com/cltraylor/Site/Movie.html">http://web.me.com/cltraylor/Site/Movie.html</a></p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51980 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:32:00 +0000 Jaimie 51980@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Dane,</p> <p>All of the suggestions so far are good, but you would gain more information by describing in what way your video quality is "poor".  Are the pictures blurry or is the color unsaturated?  Do the images jump or freeze?  does it lose lip sync?  </p> <p>Is everything bad all the time or do you sometimes get good quality?</p> <p> </p> <p>A little more detail will get you a better answer.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Jaimie Charlton</p> <p>Images and Motion</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/graphics-card-help#post-51976 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:04:18 +0000 XTR-91 51976@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>What type of graphics card are you currently using? The processor speed (even more so than the graphics card) determines nearly 90% of your computer's editing capability (how well it handles software). There's more to good editing capabilities than a good graphics card.</p> <p>Also, the vast majority of horse-power graphics cards are expensive. If your system is within five years old, you probably have a good, stable graphics card that's good enough for editing.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/graphics-card-help#post-51970 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:20:03 +0000 BZL Productions 51970@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>About a year ago I got my first editing software, Pinnacle Studio Ultimate V.12. Now I was coming from movie maker so I didn.t care when it said magic bullet looks couldn't work on my computter. Now i'm on v.14 and it still has magic bullet. Once again it shows an error. After talking to some VFX people I know I decided I need to use this software. </p> <p><strong>So what type of graphics card do I need. I use a dell computter.</strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51882 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:40:03 +0000 composite1 51882@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><em>"I'd also have to go against part of what you said on the 'capabilities of the computer'."</em></p> <p>XTR,</p> <p>I thought the 'computer not spec'd out for HD' line clarified that. Pardon me for not making my line of thought clearer.</p> <p> If you are working strictly in SD DV then the scenario you mentioned would apply. Trying to use the same systems to work with HD will result in the celeron maybe capturing one or two short clips before it crashes the system and being unable to edit the footage after a reboot. The dual-core would have no problem working with HD. Having a system crash in the middle of capture and being incapable of working with any surviving footage would constitute a serious 'quality issue' in my book.</p> <p>Also, the better your computer's capabilities the better it will be able to handle footage during capture, editing and export. A system that bogs down during those processes can introduce errors into the footage and force you to use lower compression rates than you'd want to use just to get out product. If your system can't handle working with uncompressed video in DV (fugeddabout HD), you're going to have 'quality issues'. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51862 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:29 +0000 XTR-91 51862@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><em>"The 'quality' of your exported video depends on the capacity of the software you're using and the capabilities of the computer you use to encode the video output"</em></p> <p>For the most part, I agree with you on the factors that affect the resulting quality. I'd also have to go against part of what you said on the 'capabilities of the computer'. Let's say we're importing (copying) the same video from the same camcorder, and using the same conversion software (i.e. AVS Video Converter) - and just to add, the same format with the same video settings. If identical conversions were made on an Intel Celeron PC (1.33 GHz) and a Dual Core (4.2 GHz), there should be no resulting difference in quality.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51838 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:17:30 +0000 composite1 51838@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Dane,</p> <p>The 'quality' of your exported video depends on the capacity of the software you're using and the capabilities of the computer you use to encode the video output (i.e. consumer level software will not have the same capacity as pro and a computer not spec'd for HD won't be able to work in that format.) As the others have mentioned factors that contribute to video quality are; video format and video compression settings. Another important factor is how you're outputting the finished video. If you're going to tape are you doing it through firewire or a dedicated video card? Also, the quality of video is directly affected by how it was shot. If it wasn't shot well there's not much you can do with it in post. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51836 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:44:05 +0000 XTR-91 51836@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The performance of your computer may hinder the quality of preview, but should not affect the resulting quality after the rendering process. Have you converted anything before editing?</p> <p>As some people don't realize, converting MPEG-2 to MPEG-1 decreases file size and compatibility, but will compromise quality. I'd even have to complement web formats such as WMV and H.264 as looking better MPEG-1.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51832 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:54:38 +0000 grinner 51832@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> or by how fast your PC is. RAM has nothing to do with image quality. </p> <p>Ensure you are capturing at full rez (720 X 480 if capturing standard Def DV) and check your cmpression settings to make sure you are not compressing it more than it already is (assuing you shot DV) You can bring it in as a clone (DV25) and not lose any quality at all.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51831 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:11:30 +0000 robgrauert 51831@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>um...what video format are you editing? What has your workflow been so far? What are you looking at when you say your video has poor quality - you should not be judging based on what's on your computer screen. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-video-quality#post-51821 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:44:04 +0000 Dane 51821@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have just upgraded my pc to a Intel dual core with 2GB ram. But I still seem to get poor quality. I am using Magix Movie Edit Pro 12. What pc specs do I need for good quality production? I am talking about clear picture? Help!!!</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tripod-heads-umiversial-or-not#post-51814 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:43:10 +0000 FILMSinc 51814@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Ok, cool</p> <p> </p> <p>Good news, and bad news...</p> <p>The bad news is that my tripod doesent have that--shoot</p> <p>2nd - I do have an old velbon vef-3 tripod that is extremely heavy and pinches you a lot</p> <p>But it realy gets the job done well.. and it does have that screw on it--goodie</p> <p> </p> <p>Thanks sooooo much for the help- you saved my life here- i appreciate it</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tripod-heads-umiversial-or-not#post-51813 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:29:35 +0000 Coreece 51813@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>It should look like this in order to use the 701 HDV:</p> <p><a href="http://www.teamworkphoto.com/images/manfrotto/055ccsb.jpg">http://www.teamworkphoto.com/images/manfrotto/055ccsb.jpg</a></p> <p> </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tripod-heads-umiversial-or-not#post-51811 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:40:50 +0000 FILMSinc 51811@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>i see that coming out of the peak of my stages (sticks). there is a 1/2 inch mettle cylinder  with about an 1/8th inch  female screw at the climax of the cylinder. does that help? </p> <p>There is no markings on my tripod whatsoever, i think the stages may be cheaper than i had originally thought.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tripod-heads-umiversial-or-not#post-51810 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:46:12 +0000 FILMSinc 51810@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>How do you know</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tripod-heads-umiversial-or-not#post-51806 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:14:14 +0000 Coreece 51806@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>No...not all heads are universal.</p> <p>What is the make and model of your sticks?  It sounds you described a Libec....if that is the case, the 701HDV will not fit.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/tripod-heads-umiversial-or-not#post-51805 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:08:23 +0000 FILMSinc 51805@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Ok, so i got this new tripod, awesome, sturdy carbon fiber legs with rubber feet and spikes. I love it. except the head is crap. I spent a fortune on this tripod that "claimed" to be a fluid head, but from where i stand, its not, and will never be in a million years. </p> <p><em>Soooo</em></p> <p>I was wondering if i could buy a fluid head and just pop it on top of my fancy carbon fiber tripod. I know that you can replace the head because i have taken it off before. but now im wondering if i can just buy a new tripod head like the Manfrotto 701HDV compact fluid head and just screw it on there or is it more complicated than that?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/critique-please-asd-confused#post-51694 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:45:41 +0000 TheWildlifeStudio 51694@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Many thanks Composite, your comments are appreciated.</p> <p>I take your point about white balance, but the report papers are actually Yellow! And I now realise that the audio is not good. :(</p> <p>Thanks for the pointers on the shots sizes, I'll be a lot more careful with the next one. Again, many thanks for taking the time.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/critique-please-asd-confused#post-51693 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:15:54 +0000 composite1 51693@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>TWS,</p> <p>Event's got your number. Audio's the main killer. You're choices are; put a lavalier (lapel) mic on the talent, use a support and 'boom' the talent (preferably with the mic off camera) or do an ADR track after the shoot. The first two you can do without much trouble in the field or studio. The third is trickier and you'll have to use the same model mic used in the shoot and recall the talent to record the ADR track. </p> <p>Event's right in that you don't have to record your narration directly to the tape. You can use a separate recorder or depending on the audio software available, record directly to the computer in wav, aiff, mp3, etc. Make sure whether you're recording natsound, field audio, narration or ADR that you use mic foamy's, fuzzy muffs, pop stoppers and do it in as quiet a space as possible. Right now, the best way to salvage your audio is to record ADR tracks and redo your narration track using the previously suggested means.</p> <p>Video wise, I could have lived without all of the 'whizzy' text transmissions in your opening titles. That stuff works for kids only programs, but I figure you're pitching this to adults about kids. Pick one that's not too annoying and go with that. Also, give enough time for one title to fade down before fading up the next. The word 'confused' was plainly overlapped by the episode title. </p> <p>When you shoot/edit training and info videos don't hold on a single shot too long. You have to keep the cuts moving at a good pace because these types of videos no matter what the subject matter can get boring quickly. That shot in the intro with the two women talking was way too long. I got it they were there supervising their children but holding for six-seven seconds without any pertinent action is too long. When you show someone doing something like typing or using a laptop, don't forget to go in for a closeup of what their typing/searching for. Your narration gives the impression their doing something pertinent to the film so a 2-3 second CU of what's being typed or what's on the computer screen will bring the viewer along.</p> <p>Don't forget to white balance for each new scene. Unless the paper on the Interim Report is actually yellow-green, you need to white balance. It wouldn't have killed you to put some light on it instead of going with available light.</p> <p>Show the discussion topics prior to introducing talent/experts. Avoid long lists of topics like the 9 you had in the intro. Figure out a way to group them in tighter 'bundles' so you won't lose the viewer with what they'll perceive as a 'ton o' topics'. You can hit them with the more in-depth list when you discuss  the 'main topics' as a related group. Once you've ready to focus on topic points, then roll out your talent/experts. Mentioning Lorraine verbally is good, but when she comes up as a 'talking head' put her full name and title onscreen as a secondary intro. That reinforces her presence to the viewer and takes away any lingering 'who is this?' in their minds. </p> <p>Oh, and tighten the cut introing Lorraine as we can see both the light fading up and her nervously looking offscreen. It wouldn't hurt to let her introduce herself when she starts up and as a director try to get you're talent to loosen up. The 'deer in the headlights' look doesn't inspire viewer confidence in the talent. And, the full length shot is good for 2-3 seconds but afterwards a pop-in to a MS will allow the viewer to clearly see your talent and still leave enough room for your graphics. </p> <p>I wasn't too fond of the composites with Lorraine and the 'virtual people'. The WS with her on the chair was too wide MS would have been better and you should have had her 'interact' with them more. Switching back and forth from the super WS to the close-up of didn't 'sell' and looked 'gimmicky'. Also, you used hard cuts and fades between Lorrain's takes, again pick one (fade or takes) and stick with that. There was also a cut that was so short I didn't know what was going on.</p> <p>Now, I didn't hate it. As a producer, I would say its somewhere between an assemble edit and a rough. No way would I stamp that as final product. Clean up the audio, put some more thought into your basic edits and your basic shooting when you shoot the next episode and I believe you'll have a fine program.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/critique-please-asd-confused#post-51677 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:24:52 +0000 TheWildlifeStudio 51677@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Thanks EVG, I'd not thought of an external recorder.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/critique-please-asd-confused#post-51659 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:33:40 +0000 Eventvideoguy 51659@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Audio.  Instead of speaking at about 10 feet from the mic.  Either speak directly into the camera mic or use a lapel or handheld mic.</p> <p>You don't HAVE to record the narration directly to the tape.  When I film weddings, I connect a lapel mic to a digital recorder. Just a standard Olympus WS-100 dictation device then usb it to the computer and synch it up in the editing software.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/critique-please-asd-confused#post-51657 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:49:41 +0000 TheWildlifeStudio 51657@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> This is way out of my comfort zone, but it is a project my daughter has been asking me to do for some time now. This is just an intro.</p> <p>I'm pretty thick skinned, so any critique will be appreciated, good or bad. Thanks in advance.</p> <p>\<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WxFveO7yMs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WxFveO7yMs</a>\</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-a-video-camera#post-51194 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:36:03 +0000 The shooter 51194@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I suggest the Panasonic PV-GS320. Simple cam, easy to use with image stabilization. It has manual shutter speed and offers Firewire connection. Good luck!</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-a-video-camera#post-51176 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:54:34 +0000 gam40000 51176@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>hey guys, </p> <p>so I have some experience in video making but I want to get into it more buy purchasing a camcorder,</p> <p> </p> <p>so what I am looking for is a relitivley cheap camer $300-500ish that has a high quality picture (or HD) and can capture images that are going really fast (say 300fps or a paintball) well you get what i mean that it can capture fast moving objects and not blur. so basicly</p> <li>Fast Shutter Speed </li> <li>Manual Control </li> <li>Image Stabilization </li> <li>Large Zoom</li> <li>Low Light Performance </li> <li>Easy to Use </li> <p>but mainly I just want to have a camera to make movies with my friends, not full length productions just a short 5-12 min videos for my school and such, </p> <p>also what would be a good editing software to get that is easy for a beginner like me to get and how much it costs and where i can get it/ download it.</p> <p> </p> <p>Thanks for reading this and helping me out, like I said I am new to Video making so I am not sure if what I said is exactly industry speak / terms soÃ??Ã?  laugh if you want,</p> <p> </p> <p>but really thanks guys anything you say will help me out</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-building-custom-editing-computer#post-50472 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:00:34 +0000 Franko 50472@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks everyone for your help. I appreciate any and all input from everyone. I will check out the suggested sites and previous forum posts. Thanks everyone.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/what-type-of-camera-is-for-me#post-50471 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:55:00 +0000 Franko 50471@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks everyone. I wont be getting one till near the end of the school year. which is May or June. So i can still wait for new models to come out for this xmas season and next years models. But thanks to everyone for your impute.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/what-type-of-camera-is-for-me#post-50469 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:26:20 +0000 zoobie 50469@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Get a HD camera so you don't look like a blithering idiot a few years from now. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-with-building-custom-editing-computer#post-50461 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:08:15 +0000 MazdaMan 50461@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I know you are wanting a response from the professionals so I hope you don't take this as being rude but this is what I'm running as a hobbyist for a bottom of the bucket reference point.</p> <p>I do very low budget tech videos for my automotive website. My existing home computer wasn't even capable of movie editing so I had a budget of $500 to buy a camera and upgrade my old computer for the editing.</p> <p>I'm running an Asus P5QL Pro board with 2GB of ram and a 2.8 GHz P4 HT processor. The hard drive I'm using is a 350Gb 7200rpm drive and I originally had an EVGA e-GeForce 8600 GTS video card. With this setup on premiere v7.0 it took between 1-2 minutes to render video in the default Microsoft DV AVI format, whatever that is (I'm not a video buff) converting it to MPEG2 for youtube took about an hour to render a 5 minute video. I later upgraded to a GeForce 9600 GT video card (had an issue with the 8600 I received), since I built the computer to upgrade later and everything was being limited by the processor and it's buss speed I overclocked it to 3.6 GHz and the rendering times dropped by about 1/3rd would have dropped more if I upgraded the processor but I needed another vid card while the old one was in for warranty and decided to not go with a lower powered one.</p> <p>Make sure that the power supply you select is capable of providing the amperage your video card needs, just because it provides the wattage doesn't mean the rail will power the video card. </p>