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Having spent the best part of 40 years looking through a viewfinder of a stills or video camera, sitting in front of a computer editing photos or videos, producing websites and managing content and social media accounts for organisations or individuals, it’s a very strange feeling to now say “I’m retired".

Despite no longer taking on commercial paid work, it’s virtually impossible to suddenly stop what you’ve been doing for the best part of your working life so, for the past few years I’ve been taking on work on a ‘pro-bono’ basis for church, charity or voluntary organisations. I hope that my experience, skills and equipment can now be put to good use by those who perhaps, don’t have the budget or funding to produce what they want or need for their media requirements.

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Calibrite Video Checker

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Recently, I posted about using ‘Shot Match’ in Davinci Resolve 18 and how it managed to match the colour on a 2 camera shoot, a cameraman friend of mine read the post and mentioned he’d just bought the Calibrite ColorChecker Passport Video card (£159.59) and he suggested I look at obtaining one.
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Shot Match - Magic!

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Having only recently acquired both my 4K JVC cameras, I’m still getting used to shooting with them. On a recent series of videos for one of the members of my church for his YouTube channel, I’ve tended to stay safe and use ‘auto’ and this has given me very acceptable results as there is minimal editing involved.
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Audio to Text UPDATE

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Browsing a pro video forum recently, I spotted an mention of ‘MacWhisper’, this is an AI based App to transcribe audio to text, similar to the Apps and online sites I tried a week ago to transcribe a badly recorded lecture on an audio cassette.

MacWhisper comes with 2 versions, a free version that included the ‘Tiny & Base’ models or a Pro version for $10 which describes itself as “industry leading transcription quality’. It also states it'll work in 100 supported languages and of importance to some, "no data leaves your machine".
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Audio to Text?

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I had an interesting project for a friend recently, a 23-year-old audio cassette from a talk he wanted to put on CD. He also asked if the audio could be transcribed into a text file

Digitising the audio was not a problem. I fed it from a Yamaha audio cassette deck into an Apple Mac using the free software program Audacity and saved it as a .wav file. The tape audio quality was poor as the microphone was too far away from the speaker, you could hear what the speaker was saying, but it sounded distant and wasn’t that clear.
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Pond5 👍

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I do something most people don’t, (don’t panic, it’s not illegal), I watch the credits on almost any film or TV production when it’s finished, one name you’ll often see is Pond5 for stock footage, archive library film, video clips, still photos or music assets.

I’ve been aware of them for many years but, as I always seemed to be working on ‘inverse budget’ productions, I’d never been able to afford to use any of their assets, even less since I’ve retired and now only do pro-bono work.
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How times change!

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Just recently I’ve been digitising some of our old tapes to hard drive before they deteriorate and the machines are no longer available to play them. One tape I came across from 1996 was called “Looking at Digital Shooting and Editing” it was produced by a good friend of ours from our early days in video, Gwynne Williams from Usk.
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KIMAFUN 2.4G wireless microphone system

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I’ve used Sennheiser wireless mic’s for over 25 years, recently it let me down with an intermittent crackly mic cable which I failed to notice at the time, I do have a spare tie-clip microphone which solved the problem afterwards, but I realised I’d be stuck if it let me down or failed again so, off to Amazon to browse for a ‘standby’ system.
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