How to Direct Multicam as a Solo Filmmaker
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Let's dive into how to approach multicamera event shoots as a solo shooter or as a small team.
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Love hearing talk about shooting these kind of videos. It's not sexy work but there's a lot of it out there. I went from live college sports to doing corporate video, so the hardest part of doing this sort of event is staying focused. It's so easy for a person to move and ruin your shot without you even noticing.
Man, you are a hustler, and a filmmaker, and obviously love every aspect (to coin a phrase) of the movies: the history, the imaging tech, production concepts, and you are a good writer. Break a leg, kiddo - B. Dunlap
Thanks for the tips! I'll be using them to take my video production up a notch.
I cover local government meetings (usually indoor) and civic events (political debates, outdoor ceremonies, parades, etc) and have just put everything together so I can add a second camera. I'll be shooting most everything live through an ATEM Mini Pro with onboard SD Cards as backups in case things go wrong.
Thanks we shoot live stream every Sunday for church and even though you said these tips were not particularly for live stream they are still very good - thanks again and God Bless
It's the same idea for live stream but you can't make a mistake on live stream ;)
This is great! I do a lot of this type of shooting for schools and theatre productions. Either cutting live and fixing small errors in post or doing the full cut in post. It's so nice to learn from you and also have confirmation that what I am doing is what other professionals are doing as well. I have multiple sony professional camcorders and we always record on camera and if we directing and cutting live then I use a hyperdeck and a sony mixing desk to record the cut. Also use wireless comms to direct cam ops. I love directing and vision mixing live.
17:06 and damn that needs to be said so much more!
Thanks for this video! I used to do imag for concerts and livestreams for corporate events and there’s basically no youtube info on how to think about this type of filming!
You mention shooting wider to avoid framing errors. When editing in post, do you ever use digital zoom?
Oh yes. See this video for one!
But for the types of videos Im talking about in this video I don't tend to do much to the image other than color correction
John, need a question. What brand and model is your monitor and How much is your monitor and its entire set up?
I'm not in the market for a new monitor, but I have seen Apple fans defending the 999$ monitor stand by saying that the people who buy the 6000$ Apple Monitors would have easily afford extra grand for those stands. They also defend the price for all of them by stating how industry standard color calibration are much needed and the ones that the industry used is 10k-15k.
For my experience, all monitors are terrible and some are worse than others, due to simply that colors are never going to be correct on all of them. Most printing shops and smaller studios I've seen, never going to touch anything with those price range, at least I never asked them. People have make 20-minutes ads with just a Macbook for all I see.
So how much are yours? You survived in this business. How much do you spend for your monitors?
I like the Samsung or LG monitors. I don't buy the cheapest ones obviously but I don't go for the professional multi-thousand dollar ones. The single monitor for me would be about $400.
I'm not a professional colorist in that that's not primarily how I derive my income. If I were I could justify spending thousands on a perfect color monitor. I really don't like the attitude that you can only do color correction on those perfect monitors anyway. All of my work is seen on less than ideal monitors anyway. Besides I think if you're going to get serious about color you should probably confidence check various different kinds of monitors and tablets to make sure the color at least holds up on all of them instead of being swayed by any single setup.
@@FilmmakerIQ Thank you. I figured as much. I'm contend with my dual LG monitors setup with two pneumatic arms costing less than 500$ in total. It may not be great for creative works but it is great is everything else. At least I can't tell the differences with higher specs monitors anyway. The Iphones and any smartphone screens look exactly the same to my eyes.
I still never buy the justification for the 999$ Apple Monitor Stand, since my entire desk setup with two monitors, a standing desk, pneumatic arms, keyboard and trackball mouse cost the same. But Apple fans justifying the price shook my reality a bit, but I really wonder how much business really going to get from buying a 5k-6k XDR display. The higher-end of the industry will still get the more expensive highly-specialized super-accurate screen and professionals like yourself have been dealing with far less.
Hold on... There are still Sizzler restaurants around? God, I haven't seen one in, like, 20 years...
If your peaks are under -20 doesn't that leave your average level close to the noise floor? Or are most mic pres quiet enough that it doesn't matter?
Nope not with 24bit. You still have 120dB to go before you get to the theoretically limit... And you'll hit room noise long before that.
@@FilmmakerIQwell that's what I mean, it seems like the gain would be awfully close to the noise floor. Even the best pres and ADCs have noise well above -120
Couple things to understand what I'm saying, room noise is not ADC internal noise. Even when recording with average peaks at -20dB, the room noise is still going to be much higher than internal noise because the room noise scales down as you gain down.
So in post you apply a compressor and do a 20ish dB makeup (I usually only no 12 or 16). It's only 20ish dB of 120dB range (remember dB is a log scale, not linear)
Even if you are generous and and say your dynamic range is only 90dB before you get to internal noise, that's the difference between a mosquito buzzing 3m away and nightclub. It's a huge range.
Here is a video where I demo recording a circular saw and a whisper... And you can't make out ADC noise:
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@@FilmmakerIQ OK so basically even room noise isn't enough to be a problem...which is impressive, I don't like being close to any floor :)
I think you missunderstand. Room noise is the noise from the room. It's the sound of the HVAC system, the wind outside, the hum of every day life.
That will always be louder than the systems noise floor by a considerable amount.
The ratio of your desired sound to room noise is a function of mic placement NOT gain.