Videography

Post more work, man! Looks great!

 

hey hey! good to see you Chaz

 

I've been wanting to get into FPV drones to get some shots like this i cant get from my Phantom. Did you say your buddy does this work? I've been wanting to buy a 5" FPV drone to strap a GoPro on online and was actually wondering if there was anyway i can use my DJI remote to control an FPV drone with so i would only have to buy it and a set of goggles. Couldn't find what i was looking for so i didn't know if maybe he would know or a good way to get started! Thanks man

 

Yeah his name is Johnny. Goes by airblastr on YouTube and Instagram. Very active and easy to get a hold of. I'm sure he can help. I can't really as I've never done it. I kind of think you wont be able to use the remote bit the goggles likely yes.

 

He’s actually changed to @_blastr FYI

 

Yeah i found that and messaged him. Haven't gotten a response yet

 

Latest project i did for a construction business!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFQWHaZ5xDY

 

Really liking this Sony A7iii so far. The low light on this camera is just crazy good


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkAYaKugln4

 

I’ve gotten to use an a7r3 at work for the last couple years and Sony’s are great and the color is great, we wanted to try something a little different too recently so that we could get some anamorphic lenses on, we just got an S1h and oh my how the dual native ISO is awesome esp for low light, total game changer esp with 4K 10 bit 422 color. Here’s some stacks i put together (some repeated frames)

 

I came from a Panasonic Lumix. Thought about the S1 for the 10 bit color but for how big that sucker is, went with the Sony. Most people that i work with/for aren't going to notice 10 bit color over 8 bit for now. That and i got a huge deal on the A7iii from the Zon. Got that sucker with a lens for $1700 tax and all.

 

Did all the sound for this new film. Pretty cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svSMQyLsshI

 

Has anyone ever had any trouble with only some audio playing on certain devices? I've rendered the last 2 projects out of Final Cut Pro that has had an interview overlay voice on them and the music audio works fine but only on some devices (Usually a little older phones) the interview voice of the person talking isn't playing. Plays perfectly fine on my device but on some peoples it won't. Both on Facebook and Youtube so it has to be the rendered file. Not sure where to start other than detaching the audio and moving it off the video file and trying it or something.

 

Could be how the audio file was rendered. As in if it was a dual mono and is being summed to Mono then it will have cancelation because L+R = M. Due to this all signals that are the same amplify and all signals that are different can have cancelation. Older phones only have 1 speaker typically so likely summing to mono.

Just a guess.

 

Hmmmm, interesting. I'm really just learning about the audio side of it all and have been trying to better my audio. Do you know exactly where I can change the settings in Final Cut pro to see if that's what it is. Seems like you may be on the right path the way it is sounding. I've narrowed it down to it being the Rode Wireless Go file because before I purchased these wireless microphones, my shotgun mic worked fine. The wireless Go work perfectly on newer phones, TV's, computers, etc. Just cant get the file to work on older devices.

 

no super familiar with that setup. But looks like its just a mono wireless setup. So it should be feeding a mono signal to the camera. That said, a lot of times in prosummer gear like that it'll record on both the L and R channels.

So if that is the case then it shouldn't cancel it should get 3dB louder when summed to mono. The music will be stereo and would have some cancelation but not enough to make it go away.

The audio file itself doesn't matter that much because when you export the video it gets baked into the video file in a new format. Which is likely h.264 I'd guess or .mov. So an AAC file likely and depending on how you have other things setup in the project. Your own export settings could be affecting something as well or project settings. But likely not the audio file itself.

 

Adjusted the audio down in my camera. Use the Wireless Go so it doesn't peak. Have exported my rendered file (Which again works perfect on newer phones, my computer, etc) As a .mov file when its finished.

Have also tried as a smaller file, .m4v (i believe) just to try to render it as another file. Same thing.

You can barely hear talking every once in awhile on the older devices but it isn't loud or can make it up at all. Its very low and very distorted. I obviously lowered the background music audio during the speeches (using of the wireless go) and all you can hear in the video is the music declining, no speech audio.

 

what older device are you testing this on?

 

Plays well on most new phones. I know different Iphone 6 & 7's, and Samsung Galaxys around 8 are having a problem with it coming through. Emailed Rode, they are having a hard time understanding what I'm trying to tell them (probably some foreign guy across the ocean reaponding to me) they keep replying like I'm using the rode wireless recording from the phones and I'm trying to explain to them its the playback of the video and it works on some devices that listen and some devices it doesn't. Here are the 2 videos below. Audio works fine on my new Samsung galaxy s20


https://youtu.be/tWHCBIzzKYc

https://youtu.be/RrDGXgiauPU

 

Yeah its not Rodes fault.

You have a phase issue though for sure. Could tell instantly when listening back. The vocals are in both the L and R tracks but not in phase so they are canceling out when summed to mono. That's your problem.

Post a screen shot of the video session and the audio mixer.

 

Will try to get you one when i get home this evening. The video with the main interview is on the main timeline. The overlay video with broll and junk are over top of the interview video, and the background music is on the bottom of the timeline.
Appreciate your help man.