Evil: Another Phong/Dalton A/V Thread

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-03-03 09:26pm

Guys, this board has a wonderful thing called PM.

Or even e-mail...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-03-03 09:36pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Well, hell, I have an interest in film of all sorts. Direct me to the nearest resource, oh TV god.

Well, what do you want to do ?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-03 10:39pm

phongn wrote:'Tis all that mattered. Though once when we were shooting elsewhere I had to use my dad's friction-head tripod (very light, though) and, well, the results weren't too pretty when we panned.

Ughhh...let me guess, earthquake shot?

phongn wrote:Yes. When the Avid boxes came in there was much rejoicing. And when the SCSI drives began failing they was much screaming (it happened here and there for some reason; I fear what happened to CNN since our order was tagged on to it).

SCSI inherently unstable maybe? I've heard a lot of weird things about SCSI.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-03 10:40pm

phongn wrote:Well, film does have a better light-capture range than video, but the latter is so much easier to work with. And Lucas's custom 24P HD cameras look decent.

Not to mention the fact that a roll of decent film can cost thousands, while a decent-length DVCPRO tape can go for under fifty bucks...

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-03 10:42pm

weemadando wrote:Guys, this board has a wonderful thing called PM.

Or even e-mail...

Oh gee Ando, I'm sorry. I forgot I had to consult you before I decided to start discussing an interest of both me and Phong in the Off-Topic forum.

Should have made more room for you and your political ranting.

I'll delete this thread, just for you.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-03-03 10:46pm

Dalton wrote:
weemadando wrote:Guys, this board has a wonderful thing called PM.

Or even e-mail...
Oh gee Ando, I'm sorry. I forgot I had to consult you before I decided to start discussing an interest of both me and Phong in the Off-Topic forum.

Should have made more room for you and your political ranting.

I'll delete this thread, just for you.

:roll:

I'm just pointing out that if this was to be a closed conversation between Phong and you there are better mediums.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-03 10:47pm

weemadando wrote:I'm just pointing out that if this was to be a closed conversation between Phong and you there are better mediums.

There was a reason I let this thread continue, and that was to let other A/V-heads jump in if they wanted to. Including, but not limited to, HemlockGrey, DW and Durandal.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-03-03 10:53pm

Dalton wrote:
weemadando wrote:I'm just pointing out that if this was to be a closed conversation between Phong and you there are better mediums.
There was a reason I let this thread continue, and that was to let other A/V-heads jump in if they wanted to. Including, but not limited to, HemlockGrey, DW and Durandal.

Righty then, back to angling for jingoists for me.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-03-03 11:22pm

Dalton wrote:
phongn wrote:'Tis all that mattered. Though once when we were shooting elsewhere I had to use my dad's friction-head tripod (very light, though) and, well, the results weren't too pretty when we panned.
Ughhh...let me guess, earthquake shot?

Not...quite an earthquake, but not smooth.

phongn wrote:Yes. When the Avid boxes came in there was much rejoicing. And when the SCSI drives began failing they was much screaming (it happened here and there for some reason; I fear what happened to CNN since our order was tagged on to it).
SCSI inherently unstable maybe? I've heard a lot of weird things about SCSI.

It's not, the drives tend to be much more robust than IDE drives. It's strange, IBM's IDE drives had a bad spate, but their SCSI drives are usually solid.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-03-03 11:22pm

Dalton wrote:
phongn wrote:Well, film does have a better light-capture range than video, but the latter is so much easier to work with. And Lucas's custom 24P HD cameras look decent.
Not to mention the fact that a roll of decent film can cost thousands, while a decent-length DVCPRO tape can go for under fifty bucks...

Indeed. That, and you have to digitize the film...

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-03 11:38pm

phongn wrote:
Dalton wrote:Ughhh...let me guess, earthquake shot?
Not...quite an earthquake, but not smooth.

Still bad enough. Ugh.

phongn wrote:
Dalton wrote:SCSI inherently unstable maybe? I've heard a lot of weird things about SCSI.
It's not, the drives tend to be much more robust than IDE drives. It's strange, IBM's IDE drives had a bad spate, but their SCSI drives are usually solid.

There's still a lot of SCSI voodoo that goes on, right? I was reading some anecdotes about it on the Jargon File.

phongn wrote:
Dalton wrote:Not to mention the fact that a roll of decent film can cost thousands, while a decent-length DVCPRO tape can go for under fifty bucks...
Indeed. That, and you have to digitize the film...

Yeah, but you have to develop it first and deal with huge reels...