blimping a camera

[ulrichsd]

Hey Matt,
I've listened to your advice, BUT...
My brother is leaving for Europe in 2 weeks, and between the 2 of us it is just a 2 man crew. So we are going to go with what we got. Plus, I'm going to visit him in Europe for 2 weeks in Novemeber so I have to save just about every penny I can to get there.

So we are pressed on time and money... sounds like a recipe for disaster, eh?

But, the script is finsihed and reread and reworked many times, plus most of the film is shot outside during light hours. And it is pretty fast paced, so syncing should be OK because there will be a lot of cutting. For me, I will have plenty of time to edit, just not a lot of money or a lot of time to shoot. So your advice is heard, and I will proceed cautiously.

Thanks,
Scott

[This message has been edited by ulrichsd (edited August 12, 2001).]

[MovieStuff]

Hi, Matt!

I agree that using a stable sound recorder like a minidisk or even a video recorder is better. However, I don't understand why you went to the trouble of importing and exporting to Sound Forge to stretch and shrink your audio. I do it all the time directly in Premier right on the timeline and it's butt simple! The speed change function for video also works on all AVI audio and WAVE files. I would agree that importing and exporting over and over would be a major drag. But I use Premier's speed change for synch purposes and it's really quite convenient, since it's right there on the timeline. But, yeah, very little modification is required if you use a stable sound deck in the field. Well worth the money.

Roger

[mattias]

don't know about all premiere version, but 5.1 on the mac can only change the speed of the sound in integer percentages. you can put fractions in the "speed" dialog, but it will only scale by the integer part and then clip the audio to the correct length including the fraction.

[Matt Pacini]

To ulrichsd:
I understand your predicament. My advice is get lots of reaction shots. You can cut to them when your audio gets off sync, and it gives you leeway if you want to keep a whole audio clip without cutting, so you can adjust the length of the video by inserting a reaction shot. (Of course, there are other reasons for reaction shots...)
As far as adjusting the audio stretch in Premier, yeah, I needed more precision, and it sounded to me like Premier was screwing up the fidelity of my audio, so I used SoundForge, which should be in sound editors bag of tricks! Great for special effects, too.

Matt Pacini