Let’s say you are assigned to shoot an interview video. You set up the location, position the lights, mount the camera on the tripod and test the mic. Everything is in order. Your interview subject arrives, sits in place and as the tape rolls, the interview begins. The shoot is a success–or at least you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘church video’
Outfitting a New Building
Do you ever have the experience of attending a conference, or reading a book, or hearing a sermon and thinking, “Yes! That’s exactly what I’ve been saying.” That was WFX for me last week. For years I’ve been thinking on the right way to outfit a new church building with A/V equipment. And WFX was [...]
Using Compressor
After my previous post, I’ve had a lot of questions about Compressor. It seems a lot of people have never delved into this great little program, so I thought I’d write a quick tutorial. Compressor’s job is simple. It compresses whatever video project you give it into another format. For example, if you need to [...]
Droplets and Other Cool Compressor Tricks
I’ll admit it: I’m a Compressor fanboy. Now that it’s all grown up to Version 3, it’s more useful than cootie repelant at a Miley Cyrus concert. It can package your movie into any one (or more) of a dozen plus formats (including FLV if you have Flash installed), or your audio into MP3, AC3 [...]
Field Monitoring
Back in the day, when I owned my video company, my partner and I were sticklers for image quality. To be sure we had properly exposed and color balanced shots being laid down on tape, we traveled with a pretty expensive field monitor and a handy little device called the Hamlet Micro Scope. The Micro [...]
The Fig Rig
I know what you’re thinking. I thought the same thing, too. I read a review of the Fig Rig a year or two ago in DV magazine or something. At the time, it seemed rather silly. A steering wheel looking device with a bar across it for mounting your small camera. And a bunch of [...]
