Sat, 31/Jul/2010

Shoot

Live Camera shoot methods of preparation and execution. 

 

Use your storyboard/shotlist to establish each of the video shots that you will need, or (if necessary) the screen recording/capture shots that you will need. It's important to be thorough and meticulous about naming and categorizing each shot of video or screen capture, and stick to the storyboard/shotlist. When shooting video, you'll need to choose between Standard Definition (we use the Panasonic for this) and High Definition (we use the Panasonic for this). When shooting screen capture, we use iShowU (Mac) and Camtasia (PC).

 Time Required

5 day weeks of 50 hours. Need to shoot 10 minutes of useable footage per day in order to edit down at a 5:1 ratio of usable footage vs. raw footage.

Podcast Workflow

Podcast Workflow



Capture in ishowu 1024x768 (resize screen resolution, then capture full screen)
shoot video
capture now in fcp

open ishowu in AE
*Make one comp that is sized 1024x768, drop ishowu in there
*pan and scan
*Make another comp that is 720x480 NTSC
*Scale to 63%
*Export 15fps, Animation, full quality

open FCP
*Import VO
*Import Video
*Import AE clip from above
*add each to timeline
*slip audio 2 frames to match video (if video is 24p)
*slip AE clip to match with Video
*simulated multicam edit - cutting to screen and back to camera when appropriate
*add intro clip and music
*add lower third advertisement clip
*add outro clip and music

export Quicktime movie
*640x480 VGA
*audio at 44khz, 4:1IMA, Best quality
*Video at H264, 15fps Best Quality, keyframe every 100
*Prepare for Internet Streaming/Fast Start

Open in Quicktime
*export to iPod (settings already predetermined)

Upload to libsyn

Consider Data Management

At almost every step along the way of your business pracitices and production process you will need to consider, plan for and execute some type of data management. 

Any component you create in a digital format must be considered volatile and unsafe if it has not been duplicated, copied or backed up in at least two places. Three copies at all times is actually preferred. 

Consider all of your files and raw data. Everything from outlines, scripts and storyboards to images, video and audio that was captured into digital formats as well as any graphical elements along with the project files for their manipulation programs. 

We can never stress this enough: BACK-UP EVERYTHING DIGITAL IN TWO PLACES AT ALL TIMES

No hard drive is bulletproof. Never consider a single copy of a digital file to be safe from data loss.

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