[FCP-L] Panasonic GH1 success story

Last week I had my first production shoots using the Panasonic GH1.
As usual I hardly prepared myself, apart from charging the batteries.
Some people need to feel the breath of a deadline blowing in the back
of their necks to get going and I am one of them. If there were no
deadlines I would be drinking beer in my bed all the time probably.

Anyway, I also brought my MacBookPro with FCS to the set.

Everything went like a dream. Shooting video with the GH1 is much
easier than I thought, I was using a Tokina 11-16 wide angle lens
which has huge DOF so I didn't have to do much focusing. I was
recording audio with a remote Zoom recorder with two XLR mikes
attached. After each shoot I copied the content of the SD cards
(private folders) to the desktop of the MacBookPro, and used FCS log
and transfer for converting to ProRes422.

The material looks amazing on the Book screen. For me it's a dream
come true, because from the day I've started shooting video
(somewhere in 1991) I always found that video looks horrible.

I do need to improve my work flow though, like linking video to audio
somehow to make the manual synchronization a bit easier (for example
I now have 42 30 minute video-clips and 6 4 hour audio-clips lol!), I
need to get a follow focus system for the camera so that I can focus
when the camera is in difficult positions and I need to get a grid
for hand held operation. I was now shooting from a dolly most of the time.

DSLR video filming in combination with FCS is fantastic. I must say
that I use a PAL version shooting FHD at 25fps so I don't have to go
through the pull-down removal routine.

Rieni

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