OnLocation with OnLocation CS3
Hello, my friends. Well, today marked a very significant day for CS3, as today my colleague Michael O'Neill and I went 'on-location' to capture a whole series of awesome, breathtakingly-beautiful HDV footage from the south-eastern coast of England...Cornwall, to be exact. We carted along a Sony Z1, my MacBookPro, a couple of still cameras, a backup battery and firewire cables, and set off to make magic....Oh, and we captured the entire thing in 'OnLocation CS3'. And yes, it totally rocked! We visited quite a few coastal regions, and were completely blessed with unbelievable, film-ready weather, and lots of great material to showcase on the road.
Here I am, arriving at our 'location'...
Now, the journey from London to Cornwall was a nice one (we drove; about 4+ hours), and along the way, we made a stop at another very popular, 'mystical' English site...Stonehenge, to be exact. I captured a quick movie from there as well (for now, ever vlogging!) but it was VERY windy, and there were some mysterious helicopters flying above us...so i'm going to try and clean-up the audio as best I can, and then I'll post that movie later this week.
As for the rest of the day, well, I definitely learned a few things about really doing on-location HiDef recording. I'm going to edit a little montage and post it up here (hopefully tomorrow). You'll also get to literally 'see' how we did it, replete with some very old-school (ie, makeshift) techniques for getting the job done...Intrigued?? Stay tuned.
So, until tomorrow,
Blog on, luvs.
Comments
Jason,
You wrote: "We carted along a Sony Z1, my MacBookPro ... and we captured the entire thing in 'OnLocation CS3'."
I take you were using Boot Camp + Windows to run OnLocation on the Mac. Could we know the spec's of your MacBook? Were you satisfied with the performance?
Thanks,
Thomas
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Hey Thomas! I used a MacBookPro, 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo, 3GB Ram, running BootCamp 1.2 with Windows XPSP2, fully updated. Captured HDV direct to OnLocation (using MPEG vs. M2T). It was brilliant! Having just upgraded (rather, rebuilding) my machine with BootCamp 1.2 (before I was using 1.1.2) I notice even before overall windows performance. Best thing: we kept connecting and disconnecting the camera from the firewire -- and *never* had any plug/play recognizing firewire bus issues. OnLocation kept finding the camera, and we pressed on! Stay tuned. ---Jason
Posted by: L. Thomas Martin | May 3, 2007 06:39 PM
Sounds like a great trip. Last May arrived in London and temp was a humid 85 degrees F and the following day was around 60 degrees.
Posted by: Closets | May 4, 2007 10:12 AM
Question: Is there an easy and inexpensive way (for rank amateurs like me) to hook up my Samsung Mini DV
> camera to my Presario R 4000 so that I can see the big, huge laptop screen --
> and reciord what it sees -- at the same time? I dson't think I need all the stuff in OnLocation CS3.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Seamus
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Hi Seamus. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any other direct-to-disk capture software that does what OnLoc does. In truth, even if OnLocation does 'more' than you need, it's reliability and ability to integrate directly with Premiere Pro/After Effects are really what make it so ideal. ;) --JL
Posted by: Seamus McGrady | February 5, 2008 12:16 AM