Jan Vanhoecke
July 26th, 2008, 04:37 AM
Hi, i'm a mobile dj, mostly for weddings. Now to get ahead in my service, i give away a dvd to the couple, which contains random video-shoots with the days happenings. I said random shoots, it's not a classical, normal wedding-edit as we know.
I've done this a several times with great succes in my opinion, people loved it and it is free. I ca do this rather easy, because i build my audio-set in the afternoon before the weddingparty of course, and in the free time, i join the couple and family/friends in the afternoon some hours before the dinner, shooting video.
After the dinner, there's the weddingdance and the following dance party, these shoots are done, with the cam on a tripod, which stands near to my dj-set. I don't use additional light.
Afterwards all is edited in Vegas and burned to a menu-based disk.
I've used my brothers Panasonic GS500 (3ccd) for this work alot to give it a try. Which does it's job pretty good. Some lowlights scenes, can be too dark, but not grainy in a sort.
Now i bought a HV-30. Not the lowlight expert, but i've chosen this model, mainly for it's mini-DV's. Didn't explained earlier, but i also have a projector/screen in combination with my DJ-set, which displays music/videoclips, pictures-slideshows of the couple, their own made powerpoints and so on. So the tape i shoot in the afternoon, i display this first tape on the screen to the audience with another mini-DV camcorder attached to my computer, meanwhile shooting further video with the main camcorder.
So much for now. What i would like to know? I'm not that familiar with manual settings, like white balance, aperture, shutter speed and so on.
1.Can you help how i set the HV-30 at it's best for lowlight-scenes, as the parties are done in dimmed environments some discolights-effects? What's best?
2.If i bought a extra light-LED, should i stick to the Canon accesoires, or is there another brand that could to the job? Is this LED necessary?
3.The manual says you should turn off the image stabilizer when filming on a tripod? Why is that?
grtz
I've done this a several times with great succes in my opinion, people loved it and it is free. I ca do this rather easy, because i build my audio-set in the afternoon before the weddingparty of course, and in the free time, i join the couple and family/friends in the afternoon some hours before the dinner, shooting video.
After the dinner, there's the weddingdance and the following dance party, these shoots are done, with the cam on a tripod, which stands near to my dj-set. I don't use additional light.
Afterwards all is edited in Vegas and burned to a menu-based disk.
I've used my brothers Panasonic GS500 (3ccd) for this work alot to give it a try. Which does it's job pretty good. Some lowlights scenes, can be too dark, but not grainy in a sort.
Now i bought a HV-30. Not the lowlight expert, but i've chosen this model, mainly for it's mini-DV's. Didn't explained earlier, but i also have a projector/screen in combination with my DJ-set, which displays music/videoclips, pictures-slideshows of the couple, their own made powerpoints and so on. So the tape i shoot in the afternoon, i display this first tape on the screen to the audience with another mini-DV camcorder attached to my computer, meanwhile shooting further video with the main camcorder.
So much for now. What i would like to know? I'm not that familiar with manual settings, like white balance, aperture, shutter speed and so on.
1.Can you help how i set the HV-30 at it's best for lowlight-scenes, as the parties are done in dimmed environments some discolights-effects? What's best?
2.If i bought a extra light-LED, should i stick to the Canon accesoires, or is there another brand that could to the job? Is this LED necessary?
3.The manual says you should turn off the image stabilizer when filming on a tripod? Why is that?
grtz