Following up my recent thread about my Benefit Golf Day shoot, in which I received several good suggestions - it's now Friday evening and it's all over.
First of all - it has rained all day here in Perth. This is very rare. Nine days ago it was 42 degrees - today it was 19 - the wind howled, the rain fell - so as I woke up I thought no way am I taking my Z1 out in that - I changed back to my old 3CCD Panny EZ1 and used it hand held all day. They gave me my own electric buggy to buzz round the course on, but by midday I was soaked - after that it didn't matter.
Editing - I arrived home 4 pm, put my camera tape in my Z1 which was already set to standard DV and was connected by firewire to my Sony D1000 mini DV deck. From there it was tape to tape, record/pause editing. I shot 61 minutes and edited down to 21mins - took me 90 mins, and I was able to deliver the Mini DV for display on time at 6 pm.
I originally intended doing a DVD, but without a direct to disk device, capturing would have taken 1 hour, rendering maybe 20 mins, burning 10-15. so tape to tape was the best way.
But, I shall capture my edited footage into Vegas on Monday, add a few captions and put it all on DVD for the beneficiary - a local sports identity who has cancer.
(For the Aussies and any other cricket fans - amongst the sports stars there today was Justin Langer, who arrived home yesterday from the Test series in NZ after helping thrash the Kiwis!)
Peter
First of all - it has rained all day here in Perth. This is very rare. Nine days ago it was 42 degrees - today it was 19 - the wind howled, the rain fell - so as I woke up I thought no way am I taking my Z1 out in that - I changed back to my old 3CCD Panny EZ1 and used it hand held all day. They gave me my own electric buggy to buzz round the course on, but by midday I was soaked - after that it didn't matter.
Editing - I arrived home 4 pm, put my camera tape in my Z1 which was already set to standard DV and was connected by firewire to my Sony D1000 mini DV deck. From there it was tape to tape, record/pause editing. I shot 61 minutes and edited down to 21mins - took me 90 mins, and I was able to deliver the Mini DV for display on time at 6 pm.
I originally intended doing a DVD, but without a direct to disk device, capturing would have taken 1 hour, rendering maybe 20 mins, burning 10-15. so tape to tape was the best way.
But, I shall capture my edited footage into Vegas on Monday, add a few captions and put it all on DVD for the beneficiary - a local sports identity who has cancer.
(For the Aussies and any other cricket fans - amongst the sports stars there today was Justin Langer, who arrived home yesterday from the Test series in NZ after helping thrash the Kiwis!)
Peter