Its amazing how internet can work for you . This few weeks we have been receiving enquiries from oversea. hence, we will be trying to fix up point of contact like msn and skpe. So that we can touch base with them just in case if they need anything .
Sorry if i have miss your call on my hp. As its appear " unkown " Last but not least you could always feel free to email to sam@vocaremedia.com for more details.
Will be updating the contact on the blog soon.
Cheers Sam
|  | Just a sunday that i spend capturing some moment of my nephew.
One tough guy that is learning how to sit on its own .
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Congrats to all wedding couple.
Some of the details that you will like to take note for your wedding day,
will be on the technical side of the wedding.
Music
Music cds are the most essential factor for your wedding day.
Hence, you might want to start thinking about your favor march in song..
For March In,
This is what we did for my wedding, listen to the beat of the intro,
listen to the timing for the door to open. Than time your march in.
How long will it take for you to open the door , march in and be standing
on the stage.
Video Playback.
Over the year, i have couple who try to do their own photo montage on
their own, as some of they are designer and professional as well. Hence
there are details that you might want to take note if you are working with
flash .
1. Format
Pal
720 x 576
mov or wmv ( i will strongly recommend quicktime movie for its good resolution )
2. Title Safe
if you putting any text or doing any design for your own photo montage,
you might want to take note of the title safe region. Meaning for certain
screen you will only be able to see 90% for your video.
3. Buring into dvd
over the year, a lot of people have ask me how to burn a mov file in dvd.
for pc use nero, for mac can use idvd .
( all these are free software, hence they do not produce high resolution dvd )
for professional, we trust dvd encore or dvd studio pro for mac
Does all laptop play dvd ?
1. No. Not all laptop come with dvd player software install in their com.
Firstly try download VLC which is free open source.
if not try your won media player.
2. adapter from your laptop to projector
if you are using a mac, remember to bring your dvi to vga adapter.
feel free to email if you have question on mac.
Why does dvd player hang?
1. Only burn your dvd with -r format
2. the bottom surface of the disc should be clean before putting into the player.
( i lost count of time, when i save the dvd just by wiping the bottom surface of the dvd
with a cloth . Hence avoid touching the bottom surface of the dvd if possible. )
3. Try using your own player.
Technology is always improving. The first few generation of dvd player at certain player
might be 3-4 years old. Player do wear and tear. Hence i will always advise couple to bring
their own player( new player if possible )
4. overheating or overspinning your dvd
there are time when dvd got heated up than they started to have problem . This will also
happen to cd. Hence, sometimes, the first march in cd got hang, due to the cd was there
from the rehearsal to the march in. My advice is to burn into separate dvd and have
backup.
5. Alway have spare dvd.
we alway bring at least 2 copies of dvd to the hotel especially for wedding highlight, animation and photo montage.
6. Burning of dvd
always burn in the slowest speed. 2x or 4x
For more information, feel free to email me at sam@vocaremedia.com
Cheers
Sam
www.vocaremedia.com just one of the draft that we come out with for the sponsor. video3 white background_512.wmv (2.4 MB)
Link: http://web.mac.com/samvision/Site/Welcome.htmlMy new dot mac account is coming up . Have you ever dream of setting up your own website. If you have a mac, you should get a dot mac. Than its time to make full of your magic mac. We manage to capture a wide ranges of emotion felt on that day - from the dreamy march in to the tears of happiness at the vow, i hope that Stella & Callistus enjoy this as much as we do.
The ceremony started very early in the morning, Zen was assign to cover some of the beautiful establish shot that we can use for the church. At the same time, i was covering the " chaos " games at the bride place. I have a lot of fun covering the game. Thank God that i got married earlier, games nowadays are getting tougher.
Rather than rushing through the shot, we decide to plan ahead of time to surprise the couple with a different storyboard and editing. When it come to putting the highlight together, i wanted to blend in different elements together to create something more unique, rather than just a chronological telling of a wedding.
For this highlight is specially re-edited for copyright music. To view more of our wedding highlight for your wedding, feel free to drop an email to joyce@vocare.sg. She will be glad to follow up on you . At the same time, feel free to let me know if you have any comment for our presentation cswebv2small.mov (15.4 MB)
Do you know that you can rent or buy a movie on itune. next to that, itune itself is a free download. Most important there are short film for sale as well. Its time for you to support independent filmmaker To view sample of the movie, you can click the trailer button Will be good if we can to see local short film on itune as well. Biblical teaching should be sold here as well. Imagine a future without dvd, but just download through legal ways.
| | Just try out the ex1 for full service last weekend. I am not out to kill the camera reputation. Just want to give some feedback to video crew who are using it for the first time or season crew.
1. there are 2 focus ring selection
a. MF
b. AF/MF
always remember to check that you are on MF - if you realised that your focusing is always on auto and you turn off auto mode. This might be one of the reason. Especially for cam 5 . ( turn Macro to off as well )
2.CG for the camera.
a) this is one of the worst ergonomic design camera for all times.
( avoid using it like a pd, always hold with 2 hand support )
3) Menu & Display setting
a) try to make full use of the reading on the LCD
Histogram, focus length.
( as we are seeing it as 16:9, but for the LED feed is actually 4:3)
Why- we cant switch to 4:3 is because this camera is only
design for HD ( 16:9 )
4) Battery Alarm
kindly set it on if you are recording on sxs card
- rumour that the card will loose all its memory if
the battery run out while recording.
5) Wear and Tear for the camera
- try not flip the LCD too often ( can feel that the LCD is wearing out when the camera is less than 6 months old )
- HD SDI connector is wearing out also due to the tension of the cable.
6. If you realised that you are on tripod, what you can do is to turn off the optical image stabilizer. Realised that image tender to readjust a bit, especially when is projected on a LED.
7. 0.8 Lense for the ex1 is definitely the best lense for wide angle. Just got to take note, if you choose to zoom in to more a certain range your image will tend to be soft or your edge might have some vignette effect.
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Quality Expresso - it taste better than it look. Trust me. Coffee.mov (453 KB)
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| | Thinking of exporting a video out from your HDV or AVCHD video.
A good suggestion for exporting will be wmvhd.
As this format, will be able to view for normal pc user.
For people who have quicktime, i will strongly recommend h264 |
| | Internal Raid for Mac Pro
If you are using a mac pro. you might want to consider to raid your harddisk as stripped 2 harddisk together. This will increase the transfer speed for your system. At the same time, help your file to render, export and compress faster.
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Just bought the 2 x 2.8 ghz quad core xeon with 6 gb ram and Apple display And the adobe production suite.
I think my wife will come hunting for me once she realised how much i have reinvested for a new machine for the editing.
All i can say that i love the apple display, although its cost 3 times more then the normal display. Display resolution is 1920 x 1200.
The Desktop i will say its definitely more powerful than my quad power pc. 8 processor engine...wow..thats the way to fly. Sad to say that the application on the other hand does not make full use of the potential that the machine have. Instead of 2 harddisk it can actually take 4 at the moment.
Will update you guys on how i mirrored and stripped the harddisk to make it work at a faster speed. Cheers
| | On the right, you will see this tiring guy..gone a full day of war ...
Thanks God that i am still standing after the shoot. |
Was touch by this couple recently ..that for her coffee table book. They have choose to select one group photo of the couple and us. Its might be something very simple but it touch our heart that they did remember to include us for their special book.
George and i thought that we were surprise them with our customised website
but i think they surprised us with their testimony and by choosing one photo with us really touch our heart deeply.
For more information on Geroge, feel free to click onto www.aphotostory.com
http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecom107266823Well you get a preview of her album Her EP album titled 'Lonely Afternoon' is finally out at all Gramophone stores. There are 5 self-written tracks (3 Mandarin and 2 English) and 1 French cover La Vie En Rose newly arranged in a gypsy-jazz style. Grab it while stock last. Support local artist. Prefer the chinese Song im 80 and Shi Le Zong Cheers Sam  The Wedding and Event Videographers Association International (WEVA) is the largest nonprofit trade association representing professional wedding and event videographers. Based throughout the US and around the globe.
Beside providing the latest news about HD technology and information. It also have forum, classifieds, weva tv( for latest video on quicktime), weva on the air...believe that joining the association will enhance our knowledge for updating our skills, marketing our services, identifying new trends, understanding and applying new technology, and networking with our peers.
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