I am in the process of moving over to squarespace. I know… it took me long enough to jump to a big boy site!
As a small church plant that meets in a High School, Reality misses that connection point “between Sundays”. We have been looking over different ways to challenge our people to take what we talked about in church on Sunday deeper on their own during the week.
We have come up with ATM or After The Message. It is designed to in 3 minutes or less:
Recap last Sunday
Challenge them to go deeper on their own
Preview next Sunday
We think it’s a good start. Simple, bite sized and easy. Not a ton of production, quick and easy logo and that all important connection to people mid-week.
Check out our first two here.
Videoguys has an awesome article on all the HD formats. t’s a really nice overview of all the mainstream HD acquisition and editing formats… DV, HDV, DVCPRO, AVC-Intra, XDCAM, AVCHD, DNxHD, ProRes, Cineform, it’s pretty much all here.
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Digital Juice has a new Motion Designers Toolkit for the amazing price of $250.00. That may seem steep but considering it includes:
It looks like one of the best toolkits they have put out to date!
CrumplePop has a couple free plugins on their site for Final Cut Pro users. The first is a text effect/lower-third plugin that automagically creates text overlays that look like the kind used at Vimeo. The second free plugin is a polaroid picture effect for photos. You can watch example videos and snag a copy of both plugins here.
If tapeless is your preference than the Canon HF11 is the way to go. It replaced the famous Canon HF10 (well famous because if it’s use in the major motion picture Crank 2) It has no tape mechanism, Canon opted for 32Gb internal flash memory instead. It can also record to cheap SDHC media, and offers 24p as well. Instead of the HV-series HDV codec, the HF11 records full-raster 1920×1080 video in AVCHD, and was (to my knowledge) the first small camcorder to utilize AVCHD’s max bitrate of 24Mbps. The HF11 currently sits in the ~$700 price range at most online outlets, which makes it an affordable and effective entry into solid-state recording.
So there you have it. A few affordable options for churches. But regardless of the tool you choose, use ‘em early and often. Don’t let equipment envy and price be the barrier to your goals as a videographer. Happy shooting!
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Canon offers the best bang for your buck when it comes to affordble high quality cameras.
If you prefer tapes (mini DV), the HV-30 is the best option out there.
The HV30 currently has an 8.1 out of 10 rating over at TestFreaks. It works great as a b-roll cam to it’s big brother the Canon XH-A1.
Below is a good example of just what this $700.00 camera can do.
Christened (HV30 - HD) from Paul Davis on Vimeo.
Over the next few pots I will take a look at other cams and the best out there for tapeless acquisition.
