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Message # 56967.1.1.1.1.2 Subject: Thanks for reply Date: Fri 08/02/13 10:45:51 GMT Name: mwet |
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Thanks for the reply and explanation.
I know it's not easy to shoot so much content in one place and I admire the effort you make here.
It's really sad to here that some guy's rip you off...
Please keep up the good work and I'm always looking forward to the new release...!
Regards, mwet
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In reply to Message (56967.1.1.1.1) Re:Overall quality
By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Fri 08/02/13 01:04:28 GMT You are right -- there is no comparison between HD quality and the older cameras that only shoot in the old DV quality.
FYI, I did hire 2 new Russian camera guys last year, who were equipped with HD cameras, and both of those guys let me down, cos one of them was only able to find 1hr of scenes in the area he lived, and the other guy, from St Petersburg, sadly, ripped me off...cos after I wire transferred money to him to buy an HD camera he just ripped me off and never submitted any footage to me and he fails to respond to my emails now...and this is the 2nd guy in Russia who has ripped me off in the last 4 years. I will not name names, but you know who you are.....so trying to deal with Russians is not easy cos they are very keen to contact me and claim they can shoot wetlook scenes if I buy them an HD camera...but 2 of those people already scammed me and ripped me off. So...my faith in dealing with Russian camera guys is waning these days....cos some of them are merely scammers.
It is not easy to find honest and trustworthy camera guys in Russia these days...but my two main guys SG and DD are solid and reliable and they do the best job they can....in circumstances that are becoming more and more difficult each year. ....cos in the past it was relatively easy to shoot pics and video at those fountains...but in recent years the waterfight flashmob people have become increasingly more drunk and violent and have attacked our cameras guys at times....and worse are the corrupt police and security guards at those fountrains....and now there are more police and security guards than in past years....and those cops and guards are corrupt and will simply do a "shakedown" of the camera guys and threaten to arrest you....unless you give them some money to go away. So...what you see on the videoclips does not really tell you much about what things are really like at those fountains....i.e. you have to deal with drunk students and corrupt police officers and security guards. So...it is not easy as you all think to get that footage. We have already had several cameras damaged and had to replace them so far.
I already made offers to my camera guys to change their cameras to new HD cameras....but they preffered to use their existing cameras last year....but I will contact them again before the new shooting season starts in May....and offer to replace their cameras with new HD cameras for this shooting season.
MK |
In reply to Message (56967.1.1.1) Overall quality
By mwet - Thu 07/02/13 22:14:00 GMT @ MK: Something different: Is there any chance that you are going to offer HD vids at some point?
Early this week I downloaded some vids and I was surprised by the low quality. Recently I also downloaded some vids from another producer (same russian fountains) and those are in HD, the difference in quality is huge...
This is not a comment but an question. The footage is great! |
In reply to Message (56967.1.1) Re:Mk sg files
By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Thu 07/02/13 22:00:07 GMT Hi Guys
These files in the SG series have been downloaded by many different people and so far nobody has emailed me thru my site to say they are having problems playing these files.
The only difference in the SG series to the similar DD series, are that the DD series were shot in NTSC (American video format) while the SG series were shot in PAL European format, so the screen size is slightly different in the SG series to the DD series.
Some of the media players do not always play the PAL videos properly....i.e. I have found that GOM player does not play the SG series PAL videos properly, and it is better to use Windows Media Player or the VLC player to play those files.
Also, I am aware of some bad spots in some areas of SG's camera files, and that is because his camera was damaged at times during some of the flashmob waterfight scenes at one fountain, and he was attacked by some drunk students and his camera suffered some water damage which caused his camera to later freeze up and the pixels on the screen ro break up. We have since replaced SG's camera with a new camera and I tried my best to edit out the bad spots where the frames froze up.
If you guys will email me at wamtec@comcast.net and give me some more details of the problems you are seeing....i.e. tell me precisely what files you are referring to and tell me what media player you are using and tell me the exact time code moments at which times the frames go bad....then I will gladly check those files for you and offer you a free replacement file. But you must email me directly and list the exact infos on the problems you are having.
tks MK |
In reply to Message (56967.1) Re:Mk sg files
By Mike - Thu 07/02/13 20:12:57 GMT Same problem, full of frame errors |
In reply to Message (56967) Mk sg files
By Siren - Thu 07/02/13 14:49:37 GMT Mk,
I am writing to the forum this time because i want to know if somebody else is having trouble with the sg files to play. Not only the compression from the sg files is different, also the latest files are sometimes full of frame errors.
Nobody else who's having same issues?
Siren
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