Recent
HD, SD, Film & crew news highlights from cameraman Nick.
(complete credits click
here)
July 2010: HDX900 video crew services throughout Windsor, Denver, Broomfield,
Colorado Springs, Boulder Colorado end user locations for Purina
produced by Kansas production company.
July 2010: Dell Computer
high definition videographer services in Denver, Colorado Springs,
Boulder, Longmont, and Lafayette Colorado produced by CA production company
for partnering upcoming Microsoft
7 + Dell computer hardware. Additional videographer services to Dell
computers by Nick included videographer support for UStream, Google Video
& YouTube campaigns.
June 2010: Our Denver Colorado HD video crew videotaped with the HDX900
for journalism assignment providing high definition PAL covering Gary
Brooks Faulkner in Greeley Colorado.
June 2010: Boulder & Denver Colorado local camera crew services for
Canadian production company co-op relying our cameraman Nick for coordination
of multiple locations directing crew for interviews, talent direction,
along with broll acquisition with the Panasonic SDX900 DVCPRO camera.
June 2010: Microsoft
in Lone Tree at Park
Meadows retail launch (suburb of Denver CO) by our HDX900 local video
crew.
June 2010: Verizon Wireless HD video
crew in Denver and Colorado Springs for B2C corporate video & training
video produced by corporate office.
June 2010: FSN
ENG & Sports Coverage in Los Angeles & Denver Colorado for LA
Dodgers in 720P HD by ENG HD video cameraman Nick Teti. Assignments included
player & manager interviews, packages & profiles, broll + other
broadcast TV production packages.
June 2010: More SPEED Channel HD shoots for Barret Jackson - http://www.barrett-jackson.com/
. Shoots in Denver & Charlotte NC & back to Colorado for 2010
including host stand ups, broll, interviews, and programming.
June
2010 - Speed Channel - Barrett Jackson - Our Denver HD crew provides
HD for Speed Channel in Grand Junction Colorado
June - Our HD video crew has several upcoming timelapse video assignments
in Denver,
Boulder,
Fort
Collins, Westminster
& Colorado
Springs for a construction company & architecture co op project.
5-2010: Cary
Kennedy for Treasurer & Democratic
Primary Coverage in Denver, Broomfield, Boulder, Louisville Colorado.
P2 HD video crew services were provided for YouTube
& Google Video advertising
campaigns as well as TV spot advertising.
May 2010: "Solved" Crime Documentary for Discovery
Channel with Sony HDV cameras videotaped in Aurora & Denver Colorado
focusing on BRoll, Interviews, and other video footage elements.
May/June 2010: Crew & P2 videographer for the American Diabetes Association
& Clinix produced by Symon Productions in Denver, Centennial, Littleton
Colorado locations.
Late May 2010: On
the Case With Paula Zahn, Discovery Channel in Denver & Glenwood
Springs Colorado providing director of photography (cameraman) for crime
documentary with Sony HDV format. Hand held camera, interviews, broll,
and reenactment video footage by Nick. Rave Reviews by the Line Producer:
"You are a saint. Not only did you shoot really well, you and Sgt.
Young were amazingly patient. Thank you so so much. -- I hope we get to
work together again." - Liz Brown
Late May 2010: Colorado Springs P2 HD camera crew for Microsoft
SQL Server providing cameraman & crew support for Microsoft corporate
video advertising to be used on Google
Video +You Tube
Video via potential clients.
More Credits - visit
our credits page
Most
Common Cities I provide cameraman, HD video camera crew,
film crew, TV crew, DP other than Denver,
Colorado Springs or Boulder include: Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont,
Loveland, Wellington, Eaton, Sterling, Thornton, Northglenn, Westminster,
Wheat Ridge, Arvada, Aurora, Lakewood, Lafayette, Superior, Ken Caryl,
Parker, Marshall, Golden, Louisville, Niwot, Broomfield, Centennial, Lone
Tree, Littleton, Englewood, Central City, Black Hawk, Highlands Ranch,
Castle Rock, Vail, Eagle, Avon, Aspen, Georgetown, Glendale, Evergreen,
Glenwood Springs, Idaho Springs, Silverthorne, Frisco, Eagle, Dillon,
Breckenridge, Brighton, Steamboat Springs, Fort Lupton, Durango, Telluride,
Bailey, Conifer, Buena Vista, Cortez, Cripple Creek, Grand Junction, Pagosa
Springs, Craig, Akron, Fort Morgan, Florence, Fountain, along many other
Colorado cities.
Additional
specialized video cameraman & video crew services in Denver, Colorado
Springs or throughout Colorado:
- SNG
news cameraman or general news camera crew shooting HD from the HDX900,
HDV, HDCAM, P2 HD or other format requested by particular networks. Or
standard def video SNG news crew shooting BetaCam SP, DVCPRO, DV or DVCAM
in either NTSC or PAL. SNG is a acronym for satellite news gathering or
often referred to as a uplink news crew or remote uplink crew, or uplink/downlink
crew. SNG crew are most often employed for live shots or studio or broadcast
to remote location broadcast. Examples of shows using satellite crew services
are Larry
King Live, The
Jimmy Kimmel Show, NBC, ABC, CBS morning shows and many other live
shows rely on SNG crews, and SNG satellite trucks.
- ENG
in HD or non SD (SD is referred to as standard definition) cameraman or
complete crew throughout Denver, Colorado Springs or Colorado with a variety
of HD formats or SD video camera formats. ENG is electronic news gathering.
ENG camera operators are known as photojournalists.
- Single
cameraman or larger multiple camera crew with satellite truck for live
shots uplink/downlink or tape feed needs on day rushes. Either HD (PAL
or NTSC) or SD video (NTSC or PAL) throughout Denver, Colorado Springs
and Colorado. We use the F900 and HDX 900 for live shot HD due to genlock
capabilities, and found the preference to be the HDX900 due to the cameras
color palette.
- Other
program or production specific experience cameraman or camera crew with
particular production expertise from audio visual or conference video
crew, sports cameraman or crew, news, news package, documentary, magazine
show, feature production, television advertising or corporate advertising
video TV crew, infomercial cameraman or camera production TV crew, corporate
communications video production crew, entertainment journalism, reality
show crew, live shot, training video production, television commercial
DP, cameraman or complete crew, television programming, current affairs
television among other specific production experience.
Camera
Crew Equipment References and FAQ:
HD
- High Definition video, or in the case of HD cameras also nicknamed
HDCAM or the camera make and model + HD. Examples are Sony XDCAM HD, Panasonic
DVCPRO HD or Sony HDCAM, P2 HD, RED One HD, other other digital cinema
HD cameras. There are HD resolutions standards including 720P is 720x1280,
1080x1280 or 1440x1080, and 1920x1080. Larger HD resolution cameras are
the Dalsa Origin, Arri D20, RED
ONE and Phantom from 2k to 4k (2000x2000 or 4000x4000).
Why
videotape with HD Tape?
Simple. No backup
& everything HD is forever there for your production now or later:
good old fashioned rugged HD tape. HD tape is the ability to keep videotaping
uninterrupted BUT P2 and Solid state HD cards can hold limited amounts
of HD before HD video needs to be offloaded either requiring the crew
to stop or employ additional crew to download while video cards are changed.
Another advantage the 2/3" CCD HD cameras like the AJ-HDX900, VariCam,
F900, PDW 700 and other larger CCD HD cameras have is the pixel block
resolution compared to the smaller 1/3 & 1/2 series HD cameras. Read
about HD storage for Hd digital production at HD
Dailies -
More native
HD resolution?
Larger HD cameras
like our HDX 900, F900, or the VariCam among the many other 2/3"
CCD or larger CMOS high definition cameras handle contrast and detail
better than smaller HD cameras - something to consider. And the larger
sensor cameras also have a lower light sensitivity as well making them
more capable for detail as well as angle resolution.
P2
HD or HD Delivered by Hard Drive?
HD quality is increasing
with smaller HD cameras like the Panasonic
HVX200, HPX500, HPX170, HPX300, and
Sony XDCAM EX 1 & 3, and the Z7U: these cameras enable to digitize
material more quickly, but the HD video still needs to be backed up. Standard
single layer DVD's hold limited amounts of high definition video as well.
You'll need a large external drive for you laptop for high definition
video to go. Mac, Lacie,
Seagate,
Western Digital and
many others are all offering high capacity 'to go' hard drives for high
definition. These external hard drives are referred as Fire Wire drives
and work best transferring, digitizing and managing high definition via
Fire Wire interface or raid interface. Many HDV, and DVCPRO HD cameras
can simultaneously videotape and record HD to external hard drive (known
as a FireStore drive).
PAL:
Phase Alternate Line - a european video standard
based on 50HZ (50 alternating electric cycles per second) where the frame
rate is 25 frames per second. Either HD or SD PAL shoots in 25 FPS unless
the camera is over or under cranking. SD PAL has higher
resolution than standard def NTSC and does better for film transfers due
to video frame rates. PAL and NTSC can be transferred to either but it
is better to shoot in PAL then transfer to NTSC or shoot PAL then transfer
to film.
Freelance
Cameraman: Is a non employee cameraman or camerawoman whom is
hired by a video producer, production manager or client to videotape of
film for a video production or film production.
DVCPRO
HD: Is a high definition camera format with cameras capable of
shooting HD NTSC or PAL onto HD videotape (DVCPRO Tape format, and DVCPRO
HD tape) or to P2 cards, or a FireStore HD drive like the FS160. The HDX900
can simultaneously shoot to P2 Gear, videotape or FireStore.
HDV -
A smaller sized cassette camera shooting a compressed 720p or 1440 x 1280
or 1920 x 1080 native HD signal. The drawback is the long MPEG gop structure
(compressed) which is good for less HD passes through multiple. HDV can
be converted and importer as a PRO RES format HDV is suitable for interviews,
and some other types of subjects, but not preferred by many networks like
Discovery Channel,
National Geographic,
and some other networks. HDV cameraman/videographers or HDV camera crews
are fairly popular among corporate video clients and producers. HDV is
not advised for green screen work due to color compression often resulting
in chroma keying problems. The hdx 900, CineAlta, HDCAM, XDCAM or digital
cinema HD cameras are more ideal for green screen shoots than HDV cameras.
Videotaping with HDV has advances of smaller camera sizes.
Blue
Ray HD is shot (also known as recorded) in XDCAM HD format
cameras. It is a optical laser disc technology ideal for network, and
network news camera/production crews. XDCAM HD is popular for news cameramen
or camera crews due to network infiltration made by the XDCAM HD format.
Unlike HD videotape the XDCAM cartridge is similar to a recordable DVD.
Blue Ray HD players, burners & recorders all use a non cartridge disc
Filming:
when a director of photography, cameraman or camera crew operates
a motion picture film camera. Filming is often nicknamed for videotaping
as well when clients need to 'film something' and refer to it instead
of videotaping.
Videotaping:
when a cameraman, camerawoman, videographer or camera crew operates
a video camera to records video onto tape known as videotaping. More information
on Videotape formats at www.wikipedia.org.
HDX900:
Is a DVCPRO HD videotape format camera shooting DVCPRO HD M size
tapes and will also shoot DVCPRO HD signal either in PAL or NTSC. 720p
or 1080i/p. 24P, 30P and 25P are also available HD formats the HDX900
offers. Our cameraman Nick, and his crew are veteran owner/operators of
the HDX900 camera among other formats, and early adopters of the HDX900.
Cameraman
Is a broad term for a camera operator who operates, aka shoots,
with a video or film camera. Camerawomen are also in the business as well.
There are particular genres of cameramen from network news, sports, ENG,
EFP, corporate, reality show, documentary etc. As a Colorado cameraman,
I and my crew have covered virtually every type of television, and many
film productions throughout Colorado and beyond.
Director
of Photography or DP. Originally known as a cinematographer
who operates a film camera camera for motion picture production. DP has
also been assigned to video and HD video camera operators, and digital
cinema format cameras as well. As a cameraman and DP I am also
proficient at lighting, set construction, and managing production environments,
talent direction and other needed production skills necessary to set your
video or film production to professional broadcast standards.
Camera
Crew Comprises 2 or more members from a cameraman/camerawoman,
producer, director, sound person, PA, grip, gaffer. And executive producers
often drink coffee and eat donuts on location as well (HA!) Our Colorado
HD crew covers Denver, Colorado Springs and the suburbs locally and I
provide single HD cameraman services throughout these areas
Videographer
: A camera operator (cameraman or camerawoman) who operates a video camera,
also known as, videotaping. Videographers videotape many types of subjects
and are often also known as photojournalist ( a photojournalist videotapes
news, and some photojournalists record news with tapeless cameras like
XDCAM HD, and P2 HD). My videographer/y local service areas are Denver,
Colorado Springs, amy suburbs of these cities, and can arrange videography
throughout Colorado. Many videographers including our Denver and Colorado
Springs videographer Nick are now shooting HD
HD
Crew: A video or broadcast television production crew comprising
of a HD cameraman/camerawoman and another crew member, such as a additional
cameraman, sound mixer, producer etc. HD camera crews can also produce
documentaries, sports broadcast, cable programming, and all the other
types of HD program production
ENG -
Electronic news gathering. ENG Crew is a news crew or electronic news
gathering crew. There are many types of the ENG cameraman or ENG news
crew, from news magazine like 60
minutes, live shot cameramen
or camerawomen or camera crews, EFP/ENG crews where short form news packages
(news stories) or news documentaries. As a native ENG Colorado cameraman
Nick has shot for many of the networks like CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS,
FOX, APTV and many other american broadcast networks as well as foreign
networks. Networks have shifted for the most part to some HD variant from
HDV (1280x1080, 1440x1280 or 720p) DVCPPRO HD 1080 tape HD, 720p HD in
tape or P2, or full raster HD, HDCAM from 1080i or P full raster, XDCAM
PMW EX shooting on solid state HD discs or PDW series HD blue ray cameras
or F series HDCAM HD cameras
TV
Crew or Video Crew: Typically a cameraman, along with another
camera crew member providing another production role shooting video either
HD video or SD video. HD being high definition, and SD being the earlier
standard definition video. Full raster high definition at 1920x1080 is
double the resolution. Our TV video crews shoot both formats, and many
of the high definition formats. There are a few other HD resolutions our
cameraman Nick offers from various HD format cameras: 1080 (1080x1280
NTSC), 1280 or 1440 (1280x1440 PAL or NTSC), 720P (720x1280 NTSC or PAL).
Other hd formats cameraman Nick offers 4k, 3k, 2k with RED ONE.
Local
Crew: This is a service area, city or sometimes state where a
local area or service area is considered to a camera crew. Most defined
as a camera crew or video crews state sometimes as well, but typically
a city or area of the cameraman or crew.
Remote
Crew: Referred to by typically a production company needing a
cameraman, camera crew or dp, TV Crew for a production outside their state
or city or country. Remote crews are often referred to as local crews
or freelance camera crews by production managers. Remote is also termed
for a production by a cameraman, camera crew, remote tv crew and sometimes
sports or news crews for a production away from the production companies
or networks facilities or on a news or broadcast
satellite truck. Remotes crews can comprise of small 2 person crews,
larger crews, or mid sized camera crew. Film crews term remote crews as
crews producing and shooting on locations from the studio/production set.
Remotes can also be referenced as productions or profiles, stories etc
produced by a non-local cameraman, camera crew etc for a television show,
documentary, reality show, news story or even remote sports production.
Network
Cameraman: Typically a news cameraman or camerawoman (assume
all references to cameraman or videographer also include camerawomen).
Network cameramen can also be a assigned cameraman to a particular broadcast
network, or a freelance cameraman working for a broadcast network.
Network Crew or Broadcast Camera Crew: Comprises many camera
crew members including a cameraman, producers, location sound, and camera
technicians or video engineers among other camera crew members. Network
crews are often smaller 2 man crews (nickname) or 2 person crews - cameraman
and sound person, or cameraman and producer. Most networks are hiring
freelance HD cameraman as opposed to SD now as of 2008
Why
Shoot HD? High definition is a standard for many networks now
for the show to hit the air. Many networks hire HD cameraman or HD crews
or the production companies who produce the programs have HD camera crews
or hire freelance HD camera crews to shoot the production. High definition
video looks better than older SD video, and can be used for film production
as well. Movies like Collateral, Miami Vice, Star Wars Trilogy (from the
Phantom Menace onwards) among others have been originated in high end
high definition video cameras. Now that HD camera crews and cameras are
plentiful there are networks requiring a particular HD master format from
HDCAM, DVCPRO HD or XDCAM HD. HDV is accepted as a HD format from some
networks, however less preferred. Why is the hdx900 our most popular HD
cameraman and HD camera crew hire? The HDX900 is a full sized 2/3 CCD
HD camera using 4-2-2 color sampling shooting 720p, and 1080i/p NTSC and
PAL. The camera can simultaneously videotape and output HD video and audio
to FireStore firewire drive. The HDX 900 accepts a wide variety of HD
2/3" lenses making ideal for all shooting situation and subjects.
Our HD cameraman Nick and his DVCPRO HD crew prefer this camera over many
of the other 2/3" CCD HD cameras, and the smaller HD format cameras
for a variety of high definition production needs.
DVCPRO
HD Crew: DVCPRO HD has variants in DVCPRO HD tape cameras, and
P2 HD cameras. These HD cameras also record to a firestore drive as a
alternative by HD firewire port. DVCPRO tape are in M and L sized tapes.
M DVCPRO HD tape fits the HDX900
and the AJ HD-1200A or AJ-HD-1400 DVCPRO HD decks. The L size DVCPRO HD
fit the VariCam, and HD-1200 or HD-1400 DVCPRO HD VTR. The HDX900 and
VariCam are the most popular high definition cameras in this class by
cameramen and camera crews for remote eng crews, efp crew, field crews
and some hd format crews. The P2 DVCPRO HD format shoots to removable
media cards and have smaller to larger sized CCD's and camera body sizes
and some news networks & other networks have embraced P2-HD for high
definition video acquisition. DVCPRO HD is often searched for as dvc pro
hd or dvcpro hd or DVCPRO HD or p2 hd. They are all similar
HDCAM
Crew: A high definition cameraman with camera crew shooting with
Sony HDCAM series cameras like the HDW- F900, 750, 730S or 700A HDCAM
tapes cameras. HDCAM cameras are made exclusively by Sony. Sony has recently
made the XDCAM HD cameras in a different class shooting blue ray HD disc
like the F330 XDCAM, F350 7 PDW-700 XDCAM. Other classes of HD XDCAM are
also available like the PMW EX1 HD XCAM. As a Denver/Colorado Springs
cameraman I have operated the following HDCAM: HDW F900, 730S, 750 and
700A.The most recent XDCAM HD models are: PDW-700,
PMW
EX1, PMW EX3 which were preceded by F330 and F350
XDCAM CineAlta high definition cameras. HDCAM is often used
as a generic term to refer to high definition cameras. hdcam
is technically a Sony HD tape based format, and people often search my
cameraman services as hdcam searching for HD (aka hd or high definition
formats). As a colorado cameraman, I shoot hdcam throughout denver, colorado
springs and colorado with the tape based hdcam sony f900. hdcam or HDCAM
is technically the Sony tape format, however producers, camera crews,
and production companies often use it like a generic hd term.
HDV
Crew: HDV is a videotape format using small Mini DV/DVCAM sized
tapes recording a more compressed HDV signal. Currently Canon, JCV, and
Sony and making HDV cameras. HDV crews typically consist of the cameraman,
plus at least one producer or camera support crew member. HDV is also
termed as hdv as well and often searched for as hdv cameraman, hdv camera
crew, hdv crew, denver hdv, colorado springs hdv or colorado hdv when
searching for a crew
Camera
Man: This is a misspelled word for cameraman or camera operator.
Camera women or camera woman is correctly spelled and a synonym for camerawoman
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