Dave Brown
August 23rd, 2009, 01:19 AM
We are using a Sony A1U HDV camera (shooting in SD 16:9) outputting to a monitor and to a Sony DVDirect DVD burner, for burning DVDs on the fly. We are using this for actor auditions, and the advantage is that the camera operator doesn't need any technical skills; they push the ON button on the camera, the ON button on the DVDirect and shoot a 1 to 4 minute audition, often with 2 to 3 takes. Then the DVDs get labeled and sent to the director and producer for casting purposes.
We need to bypass a computer completely because we don't need anything fancy; they just need to view the faces and the performances. It also has to be done YESTERDAY ... like everything else in film, of course. It also has to be 'technically-challenged' proof, if you know what I mean.
Right now, each actor is 'slating' to camera by facing it and stating their name and agent contact info. We want an easy way to add an inline titler so we can quickly type in their name and have the title appear on the DVD. Any ideas?
(They tried using a consumer camcorder with a built-in titler ... but that was a joke. We are talking 10 to 20 actors coming through per hour so there is NO time to be wasted playing around with all those scroll buttons!)
We need to bypass a computer completely because we don't need anything fancy; they just need to view the faces and the performances. It also has to be done YESTERDAY ... like everything else in film, of course. It also has to be 'technically-challenged' proof, if you know what I mean.
Right now, each actor is 'slating' to camera by facing it and stating their name and agent contact info. We want an easy way to add an inline titler so we can quickly type in their name and have the title appear on the DVD. Any ideas?
(They tried using a consumer camcorder with a built-in titler ... but that was a joke. We are talking 10 to 20 actors coming through per hour so there is NO time to be wasted playing around with all those scroll buttons!)