Help! Capturing and editing to play live n the night!

[gta15]

Hi folks!

Need some help, we've been given the task of capturing and editing a big event and to show final version at the end of the night!

Ok a bit more detail, we have to record the kelvin grove art gallery from when the last tourist leaves until its all set-up for 100+VIPs for dinner. After they've had their dinner we want to show a time lapse/speeded up version of what went into getting their meal on the table for them to eat.

We have around 3 hours of editing time and 5 hours to record, we also have 2 dv cameras and have still to decide on mac or pc for the editing.

anyone got any ideas? Would a hard drive camcorder mean you don'[t need to recapture on to your PC? Would you just dump the file?

Finally we have money to spend on this....

THanks!

John

[toadoftoadhall]

I would put cameras on tripods, one showing the dining table and room area, and another in the kitchen high up wide angle. Leave the film running. Drop the tape onto hdd and quick edit out any times that nothing much is happening. Quick splice together, showing either one area or another, and render speeded up. You will have to decide how fast to have it. How much time you have on the film, divided by the length of time you want the video to show.
You could even try to get the guests coming through the door if you have downloaded stuff from one camera already, and have 2 computers doing the rendering.
toad


forgot, you could always try a dry run, to test rendering times etc.

[gta15]

Thanks Toad, i think we defo need to do a dry run, I'm worried about the length of time taken to transfer from the camera to the Computer thats why i was curious about the HDD cameras.

[draconian]

Can't record to tape and also pipe output direct into a switching unit with a single feed going direct to HDD ready for encoding the speeded up version? Wouldn't that at least remove the need to capture and edit two seperate sources and then encode?