How to Shoot Multicam Live Event Shoot ► Production Tips and Checklist
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Planning to shoot a multi-camera live event? These how-to tips and checklist (scroll down to snag the checklist!) will help to ensure you get the most from pre-production, the event, and post-production so you don't miss anything critical!
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► NOTES FOR A MULTICAM SHOOT ◄
PRE-PRODUCTION
• What’s your camera layout; wide / medium / tight?
• What is delivery requirement? If 1080p, can you shoot 4K for punch-in “extra camera angles”?
• Get layout of the house
• Ensure you know audio config of location. Tapping into house audio? Do you need M-M XLR joiners? Can you get an audio recording from the house? If so, can you get ISOs?
• Rent gear far in advance. If traveling, rent any big, heavy, cumbersome gear. Tripods and cables! Rent backups of anything critical or fragile. (borrowlenses.com will ship to UPS Stores!)
PACKING LIST
• As many bodies as you need, plus backup if possible
• Pack a variety of lenses assuming you don’t know what the environment will be. Pack a long lens for sure!
• More camera batteries than you need
• At least one battery charger per camera
• Backup AA batteries (not just rechargeable)
• AC adapters if you know you’ll have access to power
• Extension cords and power strips if using AC
• Memory cards
• Tripods (or rent)
• Audio cables and accessories (or rent)
• Mics for each camera - facilitates syncing, AND gets you house sound (audience reactions) to mix in
• XLR camera input
• Audio recorder
• Wired headphones for audio monitoring
• Head lamp / mouth-grip flash light - it’s hard to hold a light and make hardware adjustments with one hand
NIGHT BEFORE
• Batteries charged
• Cards formatted
• Ensure cameras have the same settings; consider saving settings and transferring them from camera camera
• If using rental gear, check it all completely before using. i.e.; make sure tripod heads are tight. Make sure you know how to use the gear. You may be in the dark trying to make adjustments.
• Be packed and ready to run!
BEFORE ROLLING
• Try to position cameras where people won’t walk in front - people always come late, leave early
• Start at 180d angle, but it’s ok to adjust… minimal movement
• Manual WB
• If possible, get exposure/WB card from grey card on stage and match all cameras
• If using waveform monitor - make sure it’s is on before hitting record (can’t turn on once recording)
• Set Zebras to acceptable skin tone level and to 95% - can’t adjust once rolling
• Microphones on all cameras; check and balance all levels (by meters)
• Make sure volume is up on camera output so you can monitor - can’t adjust once recording if it’s not on the back wheel
• Have extra memory cards ready (leave at the camera?) if possibility of running long
• Start recording several minutes apart so there’s time to swap cards and all cameras don’t stop at the same time
• Use relay record, not backup, if any possibility of going over max record duration
WHILE ROLLING
• Know when your cards will fill or batteries will die so you can be there ready, and try to make the swap at a non-critical moment - USE TIMERS!
• Check cameras regularly… you never know!
• If manually operating close-up camera, don’t stop rolling… just let it go; it’ll make the multi cam edit easier
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I would suggest either a note pad, or keeping notes in your phone about times where audio, or visual issues to edit around might occur if noticed live.
Great tip!
I'm setting up for an 8 hour shoot, possibly live but recording video on 3 cameras or 4 if I cannot "Y" into the Powerpoint. I bought 256gb SDXC cards for all cameras so I won't have to worry about swapping. I also bought AA replacements that run on 110vAC from the Battery Replacement Store. I'll plug everything into AC power, or a stand-alone Battery Generator if I cannot get AC power close enough to the cameras. All equipment will be plugged into 110vAC. This is the first event I've had to plan for that long of a run. Otherwise I'm equipped to record/broadcast live over 4 hours without AC power. The additional cameras and Power Point are shot wireless to a switch back to Camera one operator, which minimizes post production. Lots of preparation!
Good luck!!
Very nice video. Thanks for sharing your mistakes!
Best video explanation. I am your fan now.
haha thank you!
No 'arguably' about it. Video supports audio... NOT the other way around. People notice bad audio. They are much more forgiving of bad video.
I am in the middle of a live, multi cam music festival, and everyone keeps mentioning how good the audio is... With no mention of how great the video is. But no news is good news. If no one is complaining, your video is good.
Thanks for this!
“If no one is complaining, your video is good”… that’s GOLD right there. Thanks for watching!
This is the core of my business so I use Atomos recorders to capture the video. Because I use GH5’s each camera also records a backup, which is 10 bit 4K.
I needed this video. Thanks learnt alot.
Nice!
Wow this was a cheat sheet. Thanks joe. And I have more questions
Grateful the text was in the description as my hand was having a hard time taking notes fast. We got as far in assembling an equipment checklist or production checklist with what we need from the client but needed a cheat sheet to help us stay on points for a multishoot. thanks again!!!!
This was very very useful. Thank you for this in-depth analysis, it’s so helpful to learn from others experiences and mistakes!
Thanks for watching!
This was great and very thorough. Watched it in full but you may want to clarify that this isn't a video about a live streaming event. I would also add that editing on the spot with an ATEM switcher is a live saver! No need/minimum editing in post with you are locally switching angles and slides at the event. Great video.
Very helpful and confirming that I'm doing a lot of things right. White balance and timers are the biggest adjustments I need to make to help with stress. Excellent breakdown. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Question for you ... Apology if this is already answered ... TASCAM ... (I love that thing).... Did you hook house XLR audio into TASCAM and then hookup TASCAM OUT into your primary camera? Or did the audio engineer provided you two sets of XLR outs? One for TASCAM and one for camera. Your setup resembled closed to what I had to do for one of my shoot where I was one person operation...and I also needed to have a backup audio. Thank you for your response and time. Great information. Much appreciated.
This was so long ago I don’t recall, but taking a standard 3.5mm output from the recorder passing into the camera is a common way to get a clean in-camera recording. However if there’s a problem with the recorder or the feed to the recorder, then both audio recordings will have the issue. A safer way is to get a unique feed from the board for each the recorder and the camera, but that’s not usually available.
thank you so much for this , i have the convergent design and i have not used it but now i am about to use it.
I record myself multicam when I perform on the piano. I have to go through all of these steps everytime, so it's nice to have a complete overview like this. I'll probably watch it a couple more times. Thanks for the awesome video.
I'm jealous of your current setup with the box cameras and remote recording. I'm thinking of getting a blackmagic quad hdmi recorder (and a sonnet chassis) so I can get all the recordings straight to my computer without dealing with ingest and hitting record on every camera.
Recording all in one place is awesome. If you only need 1080p look at the Ninja Cast as well as the older Shogun.
@@photojoseph Thanks for the reply. It's gotta be 4k, that's why the Atem Iso's don't interest me, and why I got Gh4/5 cameras that can downconvert in realtime to my Atem while recording 4k internally, when I need to livestream. . Actually I think my GX8 can do it too, surprisingly. it's just a lot of details to keep track of, and hours of ingest afterwards. Luckily cards are cheap nowadays so i can get over an hour of record time without too much worry. I think I'm going to switch to DC power just to eliminate one more possibility of failure.
It's a testament of the quality ofnyour content that a long video from 4 years ago is still relevant and full of helpful advice.
Great check list. I have mines on paper. I Check it like a dummy every time before I leave the house. Most stimulating lesson was forgetting the XLR mic because of overconfidence I did not do the check list. Then was the reinforcing lesson #2 when I drove 2 hours without A Media Card. (lol). Yes, this video is real. (lol)
hehe yeah, it's tough when we get overconfident!
Great video. Have done 100+ event recordings with 4 cameras ( no 4 covering the audience ) and learnt the trade by myself and doing every mistake possible. Now everything runs very smoothly and my checklist is 98% the same as yours which means I probably do most things right now. Have had camera overturned and destroyed by one of the participants and one camera being stolen during the shoot. But event filming is fun - as fun as being a youtuber in front my own camera. :-) Great video.
Ouch! Sounds like a rough couple of camera losses, but I'm glad to hear you're having fun. Thanks for watching! ;-)
Did my first live event on the weekend. Couple things I learned. Use manual focus, or your cameras will focus on people waking in front of it. The next thing I learned is that using the house audio didn't sync perfectly with my cameras from the back of the room because of the sound delay, minor tweaks required in post. Finally I found that the projector screens were showing flicker at double shutter speed, so I had to drop SS down to actual record frame rate. It actually wasn't to bad. Thanks for all your tips included here!
Right on! Always a learning experience 🙂
Sick video Joseph thanks
Thanks Mert!
Thanks for this.
I found this super helpful.
Thank you, for this in-depth review of the whole process and probable mistakes ;)
Just wanted to add that, if you've got the possibility (for instance, with the Tascam DR 60d Mk II, that you're using) to back up the main audio recording with an additional -6 dB to -12 dB track, it can also save one's ass / bacon ! (more especially in theater performances, where the voice dynamics can get particularly strong).
By the way, this very recorder accepts usb external power, which makes it great for long runs, without worrying about power issues...
Thomas, from France
Yes!
Great point. Using Zoom H6 which has a backup track. Great feature.
Thank you very much
Concerning your suggestion to use timers for your batteries. I can say this would be more worry free alternative. AC Adapter DMW-AC8 + DMW-DCC8 DCC8 DC Coupler BLC12 for Panasonic Lumix GX8 FZ1000 FZ300 FZ200 G7 G6 G5 G80 G81 G85 GH2 Cameras
The timer suggestion was for the memory cards, where you know exactly how much time you have left. I did recommend AC adapters where possible as well. Thanks for watching!
HI was watching this video look and sound good, I would like you to tell me how to setup multi cameras, plus monitors, video recorder, video switcher, please tell me the correct way to set them up.
Sounds like you need a little more help than I can offer through a RUclips comment… photojoseph.com/1to1
Are you using your iPad as a switcher????? how are you doing that??? is it just an interface??? or is it the switcher????
Interface. Click the link in the description for how I do my live show!
This is a great tutorial! BTW, what kind of gears do you recommend for shooting LIVE wedding ceremonies? I've browsed many other videos, although some of the gears require a direct power adapter, for outside weddings, sometimes there are no direct power plugs. So I would like to have your suggestions if possible on what kind of gears I should invest for :) Thank you!
Oliver, that's a massive question. If you'd like to discuss in person, feel free to book some time with me at PhotoJoseph.com/1to1 - this isn't something I can just answer in a simple youtube comment.
How come you can not just get to the point it should not take 20 min to get to the point
Really I didn't understand any thing because you too much talk but I wanted to see practically how I can shooting videos from three camera without any wire ?
Well I may talk too much but try this ruclips.net/video/tImhcQ_-7bA/видео.html
Everything was smooth and very understandable, I don’t know what you are talking about...
What does a person do when the "house" doesn't know their board? Or too darn afraid to let you piggy back? The church where I'm constantly recording doesn't know the difference in direct audio and ambient audio. Their projects are so amateur it isn't funny. The audio is awful. I'm at my wits end. THEY DONT EVEN HAVE AN ACTUAL SOUND MAN.
Yikes. I guess; learn their board and take over? 🤷
Too much, " . . . and I'll get into that later."