I recently recorded my daughter's dance with my 2 cameras for the club...
The most important things I learnt from the experience:
1) DEFINATELY LOCK WHITE BALANCE on both cameras! I have spent the best part of 10 hours correcting a 1 hour shoot (and learning vegas along the way)... Thanks to the differing cameras (HV30 and XA20) and auto white balance, not to mention the multi colored lighting in the venue, I have been busy after work each day for a week. What was intentionally red lighting the XA20 corrected to neutral lol.
2) Relax - during the first performance, there is a bit of shaking from my nerves. I had it on a Manfrotto 504HD head, not the best, but not bargain basement either.
3) Don't lock exposure on the curtains with the house lights on - wait until the curtains are drawn and spotlights are cranked up to get exposure. (I look back and think DUH!) The first performance was basically unusable on the remote wide angle cam.
4) Don't just check the front edge of stage for dead straight on camera alignment, check the backdrop too
5) Don't roughly lay out your multi cam tracks (to see how it works) without precisely synchronizing and forgetting hours later that they might be 3-4 frames out here and there.
6) Don't start a render the night before its due for review - IT WILL FAIL!
7) When editing/exporting from graphics programs, make sure you're in RGB and not CMYK
8) Going 1080p50 and 1080i50 down to 576i with Vegas is not pretty to look at, unless you add a bit of blur... Or find a different way to render with DebugMode FrameServer, Avisynth and HCENC
9) Check spelling on titles and lower thirds
10) Continue incrementally saving the project, ie dance1, do major changes, save as dance 2... That move saved me a few hours the other day due to a minor error made by me...
The most important things I learnt from the experience:
1) DEFINATELY LOCK WHITE BALANCE on both cameras! I have spent the best part of 10 hours correcting a 1 hour shoot (and learning vegas along the way)... Thanks to the differing cameras (HV30 and XA20) and auto white balance, not to mention the multi colored lighting in the venue, I have been busy after work each day for a week. What was intentionally red lighting the XA20 corrected to neutral lol.
2) Relax - during the first performance, there is a bit of shaking from my nerves. I had it on a Manfrotto 504HD head, not the best, but not bargain basement either.
3) Don't lock exposure on the curtains with the house lights on - wait until the curtains are drawn and spotlights are cranked up to get exposure. (I look back and think DUH!) The first performance was basically unusable on the remote wide angle cam.
4) Don't just check the front edge of stage for dead straight on camera alignment, check the backdrop too
5) Don't roughly lay out your multi cam tracks (to see how it works) without precisely synchronizing and forgetting hours later that they might be 3-4 frames out here and there.
6) Don't start a render the night before its due for review - IT WILL FAIL!
7) When editing/exporting from graphics programs, make sure you're in RGB and not CMYK
8) Going 1080p50 and 1080i50 down to 576i with Vegas is not pretty to look at, unless you add a bit of blur... Or find a different way to render with DebugMode FrameServer, Avisynth and HCENC
9) Check spelling on titles and lower thirds
10) Continue incrementally saving the project, ie dance1, do major changes, save as dance 2... That move saved me a few hours the other day due to a minor error made by me...