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Tuesday nights at 11pm on October 7th, 14th,
21st and 28th on COX Channel 31 (30 minutes)
Highlights from the September 2003 meeting
of the OCA at Chapman University
Highlights of the What's Up by Chris Butler
Highlights of the main presentation by OCA VP Joel Harris
on the upcoming very rare Venus Transit in 2004
Very short segment showing crowds of public viewing Mars at
the UCI and Irvine Valley College public Mars viewing events
in August.
 
 
 
The taping of the September meeting
went without a hitch with the support of the OCATV SIG members
(Jim, Brian Norman and myself).
The introductory / narrative segments
were taped again in the studios of Pyros Pictures in Costa
Mesa. Greg Pyros was busy working at the time of the setup/taping
so the OCATV SIG members setup the lighting.
We setup the studio on Wednesday September
17th and this time we also did the taping on the same night.
This was the first time we had done both the setup and taping
in one evening... but it all went pretty smoothly as we pretty
much knew what we were all doing. This seems to be a good
way of doing things, saves time, so we will be doing the same
next time.
In the taping we again used three cameras
instead of the usual two. We decided to keep the house lights
up a little more than previously and to swap the front/side
camera around from their usual positions. The best camera
I have is the Sony VX2000 which has very good color capabilities
in low light conditions. As the side camera is almost exclusively
used to get shots of the speaker I decided to use the best
camera I have on the side of the lecture hall. With the lights
up... this camera produced excellent quality video of the
speaker that is far improved over prior months efforts. I
then used the second best camera (Sony TRV 900) as the front
camera capturing primarily the slides and shots of the speaker
from the front. I then had a spur-of-the-moment decision to
use the small TRV22 camera to capture "odd" shots
of the meeting from various vantage points around the hall.
My intention was to use some of these shots to create some
interesting transitional frames in the post production.
As is usual... I never quite have
the time available that I would like to spend n the post-production
editing of the program. I also added an additional bit of
work for myself by having the footage from three cameras to
deal with rather than just the usual two. All the footage
from the tapes are transferred onto my computer editing system
and as DV takes up 13GB of space per hour of video I now have
a LOT of hard drives hanging off my system. Probably the major
difference this time is the way I treated the slides in Chris
Butlers what's up presentation. Chris gave me his presentation
on CD-ROM and this allowed me to insert high-resolution images
of his slides into the video rather than using the captured
footage at the meeting. The video of his slides was still
very important as that allowed me to correctly place the slides
into the video at the correct time. Hopefully you will notice
an improvement in the quality of the slides in the What's
Up section this time.
I delivered the tape to COX on October
2nd.
Jim and Brian Norman
Jim and Brian Norman, Reg Salcido
Greg Pyros of Pyros Pictures
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