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MikeSmoke · 10-29-2007, 02:23 PM

Someone once told me about a "bag" or something similar that you could buy, to put around a camera to muffle the shutter click (for when you're simultaneously shooting video).
I lost the link - does this sound familiar to anyone?
Thanks in advance :-)

L-Pink · 10-29-2007, 02:24 PM

Nice idea but I don't see it working

After Shock Media · 10-29-2007, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by L-Pink

Nice idea but I don't see it working

Why not?
It would be something to muffle the noise, and that does not seem to out of wack. What I do not get is why digital cameras even make a damn noise when you push the button.

L-Pink · 10-29-2007, 02:31 PM

It's the shutter making the noise and based on it's location and the amount of dials, knobs, buttons in the immediate area I just don't see how it would work. HOWEVER, if one is made for a Nikon and it works let me know.

johnny o · 10-29-2007, 02:41 PM

http://www.soundblimp.com/

it's called a sound blimp, used in movie/tv stills

After Shock Media · 10-29-2007, 02:45 PM

Thanks jonny, now I can make sure my shooters get them.
Fucking hate hearing clicks in videos.

Do not even ask me about flashes, fucking do not know how to light a damn set shooters trying to pass off crap as content mother fuckers.

Kevin Marx · 10-29-2007, 03:03 PM

you see the size of that damn thing????? I would rather the clicks in the video

JP-pornshooter · 10-29-2007, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by After Shock Media

Why not?
It would be something to muffle the noise, and that does not seem to out of wack. What I do not get is why digital cameras even make a damn noise when you push the button.

its a fake "click" you can turn on and off on most non SLR point and shoot digital cameras..

L-Pink · 10-29-2007, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by johnny o

http://www.soundblimp.com/

it's called a sound blimp, used in movie/tv stills

Johnny, do you have any first hand experience with it? Really like your work ..... thanks

AaronM · 10-29-2007, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by After Shock Media

Thanks jonny, now I can make sure my shooters get them.
Fucking hate hearing clicks in videos.

Do not even ask me about flashes, fucking do not know how to light a damn set shooters trying to pass off crap as content mother fuckers.

Maybe it's time to find shooters who know what they are doing and shoot things correctly instead of taking the cheap way out.

Somebody is being a cheap bastard here....Not sure if it's you or the shooters but there are corners being cut.

You can't cut corners and then bitch about things like this.

Jimmy Rock · 10-29-2007, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeSmoke

Someone once told me about a "bag" or something similar that you could buy, to put around a camera to muffle the shutter click (for when you're simultaneously shooting video).
I lost the link - does this sound familiar to anyone?
Thanks in advance :-)

Yes it's called a Blimp, there is one guy who makes them in the Valley and he pretty much services the whole industry. I use them when i shoot stills in films, they work perfect, you cant hear a thing on camera. Each Blimp is made specifically to each camera. The run from about 800$ and up.
I believe someone in this thread gave you the link

MaDalton · 10-29-2007, 04:16 PM

i might be an idiot, but we shoot each scene twice - the stills with flashes and the video with video lighting. so - no noise in the video. and no flashes.

MikeSmoke · 10-29-2007, 04:33 PM

Thanks folks :-)

DBS.US · 10-29-2007, 05:25 PM

One of our shooters used one that he had installed a small glass window over the LCD screen so he could check out the shots, but now we use a great sound guy with noise cancelling mikes and a boom.

Gary_TLX · 10-29-2007, 05:55 PM

We shoot everything separate as well. I was experimenting with doing both video and photo simultaneously in the past, but it just doesn't work. You could do it to some extent if you muffle the sound of the stills, but if you aim for lighting the video as well as the photos perfectly and you want to have good quality sound under the vid, there is no way this will work.

MikeSmoke · 10-29-2007, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by DBS.US

One of our shooters used one that he had installed a small glass window over the LCD screen so he could check out the shots, but now we use a great sound guy with noise cancelling mikes and a boom.

is that homemade...or is that the sound blimp that people have been talking about?

DBS.US · 10-29-2007, 06:40 PM

It's from http://www.soundblimp.com/

I would try one before you buy one. It's not EZ to use

MikeSmoke · 10-29-2007, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by DBS.US

It's from http://www.soundblimp.com/

I would try one before you buy one. It's not EZ to use

Yep, that's the one I was asking about.
What makes it hard, just the size making it so unwieldy?

After Shock Media · 10-29-2007, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by AaronM

Maybe it's time to find shooters who know what they are doing and shoot things correctly instead of taking the cheap way out.

Somebody is being a cheap bastard here....Not sure if it's you or the shooters but there are corners being cut.

You can't cut corners and then bitch about things like this.

I stopped allowing this long long ago. Just bitching now about it.

AaronM · 10-29-2007, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by MaDalton

i might be an idiot, but we shoot each scene twice - the stills with flashes and the video with video lighting. so - no noise in the video. and no flashes.

And that would be the right way to do it....Well....One of the right ways.

AaronM · 10-29-2007, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by After Shock Media

I stopped allowing this long long ago. Just bitching now about it.

Is it helping?

LOL.....I know whatcha mean.

L-Pink · 10-29-2007, 07:40 PM

The photo with it actually being used vs the ad photo sure give different perspectives on it's size.

MikeSmoke · 10-29-2007, 10:52 PM

I talked to my photog...and he says that's not the one that someone showed us a picture of earlier this year....anyone know of a softer, lighter one that's somewhat similar?

Red Ezra · 10-29-2007, 10:57 PM

I have a blimp and it is great for dialogue - I rarely use it for sex scenes - I always try to shoot it apart from the video so i have the quality of strobe lighting - usually before the scene so model is right out of make-up.

johnny o · 10-30-2007, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by L-Pink

Johnny, do you have any first hand experience with it? Really like your work ..... thanks

no, i haven't used one yet. plan to this year though, they rent them down at PRS on highland, just south of santa monica blvd though. seems like it would be a bit bulky to get used to. thanks for the kind words about my work

johnny o · 10-30-2007, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeSmoke

I talked to my photog...and he says that's not the one that someone showed us a picture of earlier this year....anyone know of a softer, lighter one that's somewhat similar?

that's the only one on the market, anything else was probably some kinda rig someone thought up, doubt it would work as well as the original though.

DWB · 10-30-2007, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by AaronM

Maybe it's time to find shooters who know what they are doing and shoot things correctly instead of taking the cheap way out.

Somebody is being a cheap bastard here....Not sure if it's you or the shooters but there are corners being cut.

You can't cut corners and then bitch about things like this.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

DWB · 10-30-2007, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Red Ezra

I always try to shoot it apart from the video so i have the quality of strobe lighting - usually before the scene so model is right out of make-up.

I think that is the best way to do it. Any other was is just cutting corners.

JP-pornshooter · 10-30-2007, 11:37 AM

sometimes you are shooting something where you cannot do stills first then the video and must shoot stills and video simultaneously. i have tried to shoot the stills without flash, but you need a lot of light to get in at iso800 and the flash helps to freeze the action. i use special daylight balanced video lights which match the flash color temp for clean colors, you can always tell which shooters use hot tungsten video lights, the pics have an orange hue.. but i would gess the best way to really get around this would be to edit out the frame where the flash goes off and also take out the sound ?

MikeSmoke · 10-30-2007, 01:08 PM

A bump for anyone who's seen another option....

Jim_Gunn · 10-30-2007, 02:16 PM

I didn't think anyone used those blimps anymore. The photogs in my crews used to use those back on the old days in the early 90s to take pics with 35mm slide film cameras. Those blimps are awkward and hard to use.

Most shooters do what I do which is take photos before the video shoot with the existing video lights or strobes. Or they take pics with a flash enabled digital camera between the position changes of a sex scene and after the cumshot.

Like JP alluded to, it helps if you are filming with daylight balanced bulbs in Kino-Flo lights so that the typical on camera flash matches and any daylight streaming into the room from windows or skylights matches in color temperature.

Leaving flashes and audible pops from a movie is a horrible idea, and even worse, editing out frames with flash and pops would be both unnecessary and time consuming and look bad anyway!

sinclair · 10-30-2007, 03:31 PM

Mike, I hit your guy with the link to the best option earlier today (its not the soundblimp). If you need it let me know. The best option is the one I sent him. It's a lot smaller and a lot cheaper. Doesn't muffle all the noise but pretty close. It could certainly be an option for your shoots with flash bulbs not being an option.

Sinclair

MikeSmoke · 10-30-2007, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by sinclair

Mike, I hit your guy with the link to the best option earlier today (its not the soundblimp). If you need it let me know. The best option is the one I sent him. It's a lot smaller and a lot cheaper. Doesn't muffle all the noise but pretty close. It could certainly be an option for your shoots with flash bulbs not being an option.

Sinclair

cool, thanks...i'll check in with him on it. :-)

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L-Pink working on my tan Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Florida/Kentucky Posts: 39,151	Nice idea but I don't see it working

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L-Pink working on my tan Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Florida/Kentucky Posts: 39,151	It's the shutter making the noise and based on it's location and the amount of dials, knobs, buttons in the immediate area I just don't see how it would work. HOWEVER, if one is made for a Nikon and it works let me know.

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Gary_TLX Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Budapest Posts: 776	We shoot everything separate as well. I was experimenting with doing both video and photo simultaneously in the past, but it just doesn't work. You could do it to some extent if you muffle the sound of the stills, but if you aim for lighting the video as well as the photos perfectly and you want to have good quality sound under the vid, there is no way this will work. __________________ Quality custom exclusive content: ICQ: 286786153 email: contact(at)tlxproductions(dot)com

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L-Pink working on my tan Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Florida/Kentucky Posts: 39,151	The photo with it actually being used vs the ad photo sure give different perspectives on it's size.

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MikeSmoke Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: SoCal Posts: 3,233	I talked to my photog...and he says that's not the one that someone showed us a picture of earlier this year....anyone know of a softer, lighter one that's somewhat similar? __________________ icq: 541-739-92

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Red Ezra redezra.com Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Location: Vegas Baby! Posts: 4,680	I have a blimp and it is great for dialogue - I rarely use it for sex scenes - I always try to shoot it apart from the video so i have the quality of strobe lighting - usually before the scene so model is right out of make-up.

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JP-pornshooter Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: westcoast usa Posts: 4,007	sometimes you are shooting something where you cannot do stills first then the video and must shoot stills and video simultaneously. i have tried to shoot the stills without flash, but you need a lot of light to get in at iso800 and the flash helps to freeze the action. i use special daylight balanced video lights which match the flash color temp for clean colors, you can always tell which shooters use hot tungsten video lights, the pics have an orange hue.. but i would gess the best way to really get around this would be to edit out the frame where the flash goes off and also take out the sound ?

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Jim_Gunn Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Where The Teens Are Posts: 5,702	I didn't think anyone used those blimps anymore. The photogs in my crews used to use those back on the old days in the early 90s to take pics with 35mm slide film cameras. Those blimps are awkward and hard to use. Most shooters do what I do which is take photos before the video shoot with the existing video lights or strobes. Or they take pics with a flash enabled digital camera between the position changes of a sex scene and after the cumshot. Like JP alluded to, it helps if you are filming with daylight balanced bulbs in Kino-Flo lights so that the typical on camera flash matches and any daylight streaming into the room from windows or skylights matches in color temperature. Leaving flashes and audible pops from a movie is a horrible idea, and even worse, editing out frames with flash and pops would be both unnecessary and time consuming and look bad anyway! Last edited by Jim_Gunn; 10-30-2007 at 02:18 PM..

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sinclair Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,431	Mike, I hit your guy with the link to the best option earlier today (its not the soundblimp). If you need it let me know. The best option is the one I sent him. It's a lot smaller and a lot cheaper. Doesn't muffle all the noise but pretty close. It could certainly be an option for your shoots with flash bulbs not being an option. Sinclair __________________ -- skype:vmgsinclair "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human sex."