OnLocation
by Goa Borrek
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Mar 5, 2008 at 6:17:37 pm
Dear all,
I've been asked to fullfill a video-assist-operator position and will need to produce the following:
a splitscreen showing sourced and actual material in 1 screen (so both cropped to fit).
Can OnLocation do this? Can it get close so I can combine it with other soft or hardware to produce the same result.
Does anyone have any experience with this ON SET-splitscreening?
thanks
Re: OnLocation by John Baumchen on Mar 7, 2008 at 11:25:31 pm
On location is only designed to capture the video. Not sure what you mean by 'source' material vs. 'actual' material.
The video coming out of your camera into OnLocation is your source material being recorded onto the HDD.
If you want to compare the video right out of the camera to what Onlocation is doing to it, you'll need an external monitor for the camera video and set it up next to your computer running OnLocation.
Don't know why you would want to do that though. If you set OnLocation up right, (i.e., calibration/focus), then you should see the video exactly as the camera does, unless you want to tweak it on the fly but then, your source material is no longer 'pure'.
Re: OnLocation by Danny Hays on Apr 10, 2008 at 2:59:58 am
On location does have an onion skin and split screen feature so you can see pre-recorded video on one side and live camera on the other. This feature is used to check lighting and camera settings from a previous shoot and a current one. The onion skin is used for placement of talent and props from a previous shoot and a new one. For example if you recorded a singer and a mic on a stand and continued another day after moving the camera or stand, you will be able to see through the partially transparent prerecorded video and put the mic stand in the exact place it was in the previous shoot. Hope this helps. Danny
