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Working with a laptop only

Working with a laptop only

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Working with a laptop only

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- Rich, in my mind, there's no excuse these days for not checking your footage on set. I've heard of way too many sob stories of people getting back to their studio and going, oh, I just didn't know it was like that, or I didn't know the white balance was so screwy. Everybody has a laptop on set these days, I mean from the client, to the DP, to whoever, we've got computers. The simplest method of sort of previsualization or visualization of your footage, is to simply pop out the memory card of your camera, which we did on camera here on site, you can see this little still life scene we're shooting, I'm going to take this card, and just pop it into my computer. - Now, the thing you want to be careful with is if you're doing this on set, and there's data on there, make sure that your laptop can properly read the card. So, if your camera using some proprietary format to the card, you might need to install a driver, or you might need a special card reader, after all, not all camera's are…

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