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Sounds like a pretty professional setup @Marci. The type of work I do wouldn't warrant what I would need to charge. To be honest, the average parent is delighted to get a some nice close ups of their little angels and to be able to hear what they are saying. I admit to leaving the locked down cameras on autofocus. If it drifts a bit, I just don't use it. The autofocus on the HD Canon is so good, it rarely happens. I agree about the whitebalance and one thing I insist on is the lighting guy knocking the house lights off and giving me some stage lights. Also, I ask to see their spotlights on maximum and then see if they will wind them down a bit. I don't do blueray yet and I create an iso image from encore and then use imgburn to burn the dvd. I have too many instances where encore has errored on the burn and wasted me hours! Using imgburn speeds up the workflow and the results are just as good. It's all very time-consuming though. I try and avoid doing any work in my own school. The staff seem to think it's just a case of pointing the camera and then copying it to a dvd.

I do a fair bit. I use a Canon XM2 as the A camera and a Canon HFS200 as the B, which is locked down on wide angle. I edit with Adobe Premier CS4 in Standard Definition but record on 1440x1080 on the B camera. This allows me to edit motion without losing resolution, so it looks like the camera is operated. Sound is quite difficult, especially with kids. Some bellow and some squeak! CS4 has a dynamic sound compressor which lets you balance out the loud and the quiet. I put a radio mic. directly in front of the stage and a shotgun on both cameras. One of other problems is lighting. School productions tend to work on the principle that they will throw everything they have at it and trying to correct this can be a nightmare. One final thing to remember is that if the school has purchased a production, there is normally an additional charge if you produce dvds.

The brother of an acquaintance of mine was arrested yesterday! He was a deputy editor for NOW

@losojos If you are really stuck, I can loan you a class 4 Sandisk 16GB card. I'm just down the m5 from you.

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I use a CD Marker pen, that last around 12 months

Windows 7 I suppose.

SLT want us to get a set of 8 netbooks for each of the three year groups, using Open Office. The idea is that there will be an access point with each set and the teacher will plug that into a port in their classroom. Is anyone using a similar setup and are their any pitfalls.recommendations?

There's nothing better than a plam rest under the shade of a plam tree.

What's not working carina2011? It is probably the input/output settings are incorrect.

I sometimes get a similar thing on my side sometimes and I use anti-athlete's foot talc.

What happened with Button's steward's enquiry into the wheel nut thing? I turned over to watch the Tour de France, only to see the driver of a French TV car take out some riders. Knocked one poor bod into a barbed-wire fence but he still managed to finish. He looked like an Egyptian mummy after they patched him up. Tour de France - French TV car causes shocking Tour crash - Yahoo! Eurosport

If you get in to work on a typical Monday morning and see a funny that really picks you up, isn't that worth a word of thanks?

It's the I-Can 2851T £49.95. Seems to do all one would hope. The epg is good and picture quality stunning. It has an ethernet port, so I'll have to try streaming iPlayer when I can connect it to my router.

I returned some faulty stuff yesterday. The returns label said DHL but the person who took my call was from Yodel. She was from "up north" and I had to ask her to repeat everything at least twice. Think I prefer Mumbai!

Sorted, it was a crappy Toshiba webcam setting!

I've just set up skype on a teacher's laptop and all is fine except that the image from the webcam has a starry frame around it. Anyone know how to turn it off please?

ALDI - Sunday Special Buys 10th July 2011 Not much help to Rabbie if he is in Oz though!

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I've just been asked to do exactly the same thing. I've set up skype on a laptop with a webcam. Unfortunately, it's our sports day today, so I don't know if I can get away.

The problem with that is quite often an answer is useful to others and they may want to offer their thanks.

Alarm clocks reminded me to put an important meeting with the HT in my organiser. Got distracted at the time and forgot.

I suppose in a strictly PC world, Irish/blonde jokes would be taboo but then they wouldn't be funny. I love Ireland and the Irish and I've loved a blonde or two as well. I would hate to offend them, or anyone else for that matter.