My trip to Mexico revealed some issues with my wireless audio equipment. I wasn’t able any more to srew the Micon 1 connector to the Sennheiser ew100 G2 transmitter’s thread. That meant no more use of my Røde PinMic. And I had to do every single interview with my handmike. Worked out but limitted flexibility.

I travelled the first week of December 2014. The second week I sent transmitter and receiver via my dealer to Sennheiser. Though there were Christmas and new year in between I am still waiting to get back the Sennheiser stuff. Meanwhile I found out that the tiny Røde PinMic cable also had an issue. It was a call to the service center in Germany, I sent them the cable and after just a few days I got it back – new cable – for free! I wish Sennheiser would have had at least the speed to fix the problem as Røde did.

Just an update: Today (20.01.2015) I got my Sennheisers back. It took them just five weeks….

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A short portrait of Margrethe Vestager. Great opportunity that I got from German public broadcaster 3sat. I didn’t doubt too much which camera to take for that work. I filmed everything with my beloved Lumix GH3. The great advantage was to have almost everything almost always with me. Tripod, monopod, lenses. But I have to admit that I didn’t use my Voigtländer 25mm, 0.95 that much. The flexibility of zoom lenses is worth having them next to you. Only in the conference the commissioner held in Kopenhagen I would have preferred a better zoom lens than my 3.5-5.6. It’s just crap when it comes darker surroundings.

The interview was lighted with one spot (Ledzilla) on camera and one of my small led panels for the painting.

Editing was fairly easy to handle except that FCPX didn’t accept the filter of „broadcast safe“. The only issue was the playout to 3sat. They like AVID and they didn’t like my ProRes 422 in 1080p. But they managed to convert it with an acceptable result. Next time I have to look for some more processing on my site.

The whole programme can be watched here (German): www.3sat.de/makro

 

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I just came back from a five-days-filming in Mexico. A colleague, who joined me from Berlin, and me went to Guerrero state to see what’s going on, two months after the abduction of the 43 students. It was everything, from beautiful to scary. Within the next days I will report some details of the production. To make waiting easier here`s the result:

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On behalf of DW Akademie I travelled with my colleague Dennis Leiffels for one week to Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. My mission: Training of radio journalists in video making for a future project of FM 100, Pakistan’s first private radio station. It was quite interesting and challenging as we started from scratch. But after five days most of the ten participants managed to film with their smartphones and edited on Sony’s Movie Studio Platinum. It showed that it depends not only on training but also on a homogeneous equipment. Different laptops, different smartphone and different accessories made production flow tricky. In real conditions that would mean a loss of time. But therefore we made this training.

Dennis explaining the different types of cameras, e.g. DSLR and smartphones to two of the participants.

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Vom 20. bis 23. Oktober trainiere ich wieder in Hamburg beim Medienbüro. Zum ersten Mal habe ich nur Teilnehmerinnen. Zur Halbzeit bin ich auch diesmal beeindruckt, wie schnell Einsteiger selbst mit der anspruchsvollen Sony PMW EX 1 erste gute Bilder drehen können. Am Ende des Kurses steht ein kurzer fertig geschnittener Beitrag über einen Musikinstrumentenbauer, einen Brauer und einen Segelmacher.

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Eigentlich war ich im Urlaub, eigentlich. Denn als die Anfrage der Redaktion kam, einen Aufsager zu machen, konnte ich nicht ablehnen. Jeder Psychologe wird mir jetzt einen Mangel an Entspannungsfähigkeit unterstellen. Doch solche spontanen Aktionen machen mir einfach zu viel Spaß, als dass ich sie ablehnen könnte. Und: Da ich meine Lumix GH3 ja ohnehin dabei hatte – und auch die Grundausstattung für eine saubere Tonaufnahme – stand dem Aufsager nicht viel im Weg. Meine Frau musste herhalten, um das Einbeinstativ (Grundausstattung!) zu halten und das Handmikro war auch nur Fake. Doch dem Endergebnis schadete die Tatsache weniger.

So sieht das Ergebnis aus Sicht der Kamera aus:

Das Ergebnis ist ab Minute 18:00 hier zu sehen: Made in Germany, Deutsche Welle und nach 18:30 Minuten in Hecho en Alemania (Spanisch)

 

 

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