Jason Levine – Healing People Daily with the Power of Digital Video & Audio

Alrighty, here's the first little look at how the shoot began. You can actually see that what's being filmed by Michael is actually, and more importantly, simultaneously being captured direct-to-disk in OnLocation CS3 (see the laptop screen? You can not only see the video , but you can also see the audio waveform drawing as we're filming! too cool!)

So yeah...bright sunlight! What a drag! lol. But yeah, it basically meant that I was following Mikey around with this hood over my head for a good part of the shoot. However, he was able to make adjustments to iris/white balance right on the fly, based solely on what I was seeing in OL-CS3, brilliant. This allowed us to quickly capture the best footage, without that inevitable 'surprise' of getting it back to the edit suite, only to find that the whole thing is blown out because I couldn't really tell whilst I was on-set. Not to mention, it also allowed us to make sure that audio was coming thru clearly, and in the end, what was captured was truly brill... By mid-day, we were just walking side-by-side (you'll see it later); one filming, one holding the laptop.

That being said, I'm still cutting the little montage together (and we did some additional footage last night too!) So I should be posting some small snippets of the beautiful locations within the next few days (and preferably, before the Benelux tour begins)

Oh, and I received quite a few inquiries with regard to the actual system: MacBookPro, 2.33GHZ Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, running Bootcamp 1.2 with Windows XPSP2, fully updated. The system absolutely kicked butt!

Onward and upward...see you in Belgium!

Until next time,

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