Today we arrived ready to hit the piece to cameras hard. We started filming at 9.30 and got a fair bit done before lunch. We had to stop a few times due to sound issues. While the studio is awesome and has great things in it, it is not built for sound recording. The most annoying thing was the piano in the canteen. Mid Kent students were playing it and I had to ask them to stop. We then had to go back later on when some Mid Kent students were playing music through speakers.
When we ran out of memory. We were prepared though, with the spare SD card I had bought. But it didn't work!!!!!
So we decided to upload at campus and needed a cable. So we asked fergus and he had a cable. But the cameras require the Sony XDCAM Transfer software which campus doesn't have!!!!! SO fergus leant us an SD card! Didn't work.
Alas, we had to take time out of our shoot schedule to head to the studios to upload our footage. As we were stopping for lunch and uploading Fergus came in to say that people were going to use the sound room. This concerned us as we didn't think it would be quiet enough but we were heading off to upload.
But of course! It's the one day Simon's only in in the morning and we arrived later so the cables were locked in the office and we hadn't thought to bring the one from campus. Not surprising as we were in a stressed haze. This however made us more stressed as we thought we would have to waste the remainder of the day being unable to film.
Thank god Dan and Fran were there with their calm and level headedness. They calmly suggested we take the SD card out of the adapter and stick it in the computer. DUH! We could only do it with one as the other is built in. But it was enough! Thank god!
So we allowed the upload to occur and then made a speedy transfer back over to the campus and immediately got stuck into filming again.
We were on a role at this point. It might have been the adrenalin that the stress had caused but Bert was nailing his lines and we were getting the right shots. The guys in the sound room were a bit noisy but Casey went and asked them to be quiet and they were soon leaving anyway.
After we had done a couple of episodes though we realised after trying to format the non-working cards, the camera settings had gone back to default which was different to how we had been shooting! We went back through the footage and it didn't look different through the monitor but we shall see tomorrow when we upload. LUCKILY, it was whole episodes that had different settings, not half of one. So at least those episodes won't suddenly change. We wrapped with 4 or 5 episodes to do still. So it's going much slower than we had hoped but it's easy to book the studio space. The only difficulty will be booking camera equipment if we need extra days. We aren't going to rush as it will make it look bad. We will just edit on the days we aren't shooting and add extra footage to the edit once it's shot.
Question: Will the fact that we were shooting on 1920/ 25p for most of it and then 1920/ 50i when it reverted to default affect our edit?
it wont effect the edit, as such, but the 50i will look slightly different. You can put a filter on the 50i stuff called "de-interlace", which will create a similar look to the 25p.
ReplyDelete1 thing to remember, when you start the FCP project - make sure the first piece of film you drop into the timeline is 25p stuff, then the project settings will default to that.
ask me if you are unsure. I will leave out grey leads in the base room so you can upload whenever you want. Keep pushing! :)