Re: Are ND grads only used for static shots?

[David Jones] "Oh no, we like that little camera, it looks wonderful!"

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt and I have to admit to laughing and crying simultaneously when reading this as it hits pretty close to home.

...we actually had a corporate client who had a "video enthusiast" on staff in the company somewhere and decided to buy their own camera. They had to shoot a machine that was very tall and not very wide. Of course, it looked fine in the LCD panel because it was tilted 90 degrees with the camera...I swear I thought Allen Funt was going to pop out from behind the plant in the edit suite.

I explained that our most practical options were to run it into a DVE and either drop it back creating space on either side, or we could build a graphic around it...or worse, we could blow it up so it filled the monitor side-to-side, but we'd obviously cut the top and bottom off.

In a final moment of frustration, the client huffed "Well I can't believe in a professional production company with all this equipment you can't do better than that.

...my editor proceeded to get up, walk over to the Sony Broadcast program monitor, and unceremoniously flip it onto its side. He then proceeded back to his chair and without a word, continued to check out the footage.





TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, "The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro" www.focalpress.com
"Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series" www.classondemand.net