Digital Video -
if a picture is worth a thousand, make it move...

Unites my creative passion and storytelling gifts with a yen for things technical. DV production has become a vehicle for telling not my story but the unique and powerful stories of people and ministries that communicate God's love in our hurting world.

Heart and Soul has become more than a name for me - it's an expression of my life mission: to touch, inspire, and release the Spirit in all God's children. Behind the camera, and in the production room, I get to pay extraordinary attention to the miraculous way God's love and grace flows through us all.

Touch - Inspire - Release

Heart & Soul production rates (your final price will depend on our consultation and your budget - and will be guaranteed in a written proposal that itemizes the concept and treatment and film, production, and delivery schedule.

I've also compiled a list of questions to help with your project planning.

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Production Gear

Post-Production Studio

Software

Production - cameras, lighting and sound gear

Sony DSR-PD 150 Online camera tutorial

The PD 150 is a souped-up VX-2000 that adds the following features: black-and-white viewfinder (easier to focus), settable time code, XLR audio adapter, 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio, miniDV or DVCam recording and 12 bit or 16 bit audio recording.

It features three newly developed 1/3 inch 380K pixel CCDs that allow two scanning modes: 480 progressive (for still) or interlaced (for video). These new CCDs also provide high quality acquisition with increased resolution and sensitivity at reduced noise and vertical smear. The DSR-PD150 also features complete Professional Audio functions with two built-in XLR inputs.

It features a built-in slot for a flash memory card or MemoryStick for still image storage. Up to 988 JPEG pictures can be stored in one 64 MB MemoryStick. The stored images can be mixed or keyed to the live image allowing logo insertion and/or mix effects. The built-in electronic zoom lens features Autofocus and SuperSteadyShot with a high MTF 12X high MTF quality optical lens with manual Zoom, Focus and Iris control.

A high resolution (500 lines) B&W viewfinder and a color swing out bright color LCD panel are included to make shooting a breeze.

Sony 3-CCD TRV-900

You This 10.1 Megapixel digital SLR camera produces stunning stills I enjoy using in productions where I cannot capture video.

4000 Pro and Smoothshooter Vest & Arm kit

Camera Image stabilization system (for the PD-150) that enables me to film on the run (literally) with a look that floats.

I use it with an L4-PRO 4" active matrix TFT LCD monitor and BP-L4P Battery Pack.

Dual channel camera mount (hot shoe) wireless microphone system - 200UPR 63 channel UHF receiver (uses 6 AA batteries which last 8 hours) and 2 10BT Body pack transmitters with EX-503 Lavalier microphones (1 9V battery lasts 8 hours).

A low frequency roll-off switch further reduces low frequency noise due to hum, wind etc. The provided UM3 power supply provides phantom power with a single 1.5V AA battery or external phantom power source. The UM3 provides a standard 3-pin XLR output connection to mixers, preamplifiers, cameras etc. The mic comes with a 6ft line.

The Sennheiser ME 66 is a shot gun microphone capsule designed for use with the K6 and K6P powering modules. It is especially suitable for reporting, film and broadcast location applications and for picking up quiet signals in noisy or acoustically live environments as it discriminates against sound not emanating from the main pick-up direction. Too large for the TRV-900, this is my all-purpose go-to microphone for the PD-150.  It's incredibly versatile, unobtrusive and provides excellent sound quality.

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The heart of any NLE (Non-linear editing) system is a fast computer with lots of fast-accessing hard drive space. I use an AMD dual CORE processor computer (Athlon 64 X2 4200+ MP 2.2 GHz processors) fitted out with a Canopus DV Storm editing system, 140 GB of system storage and 480 GB of media storage (4 RAID configured 120 GB Western Digital Hard Drives). The computer runs on 2 GB of DDR ECC Registered RAM. In 2007, I added a 1.5 TB Maxtor external hard drive (Firewire) for a total 2 TB storage for digital media.

The Media Drives are where you capture, store, and play back raw digital video. At 4 megabytes per second, DV burns up drive space very fast and requires flawless data throughput from the system to capture and playback properly on a computer. Any NLE system should always have drives separate from the "Primary Drive" to write and read video files to and from for optimal performance and reliability.

My system uses 4 ATA 100 RAID configured Western Digital 7200 RPM ATA 120 120GB drives for all "Secondary" media access and storage. These units allow for ATA100 RAID configuration in a 480 Gigabyte size. Standard DV requires approximately 16 GB per hour of storage space. So each 120 GB drive has over 7.5 hours of video storage capacity.

Canopus DVStorm2  Real Time PCI Bus DV Capture Card employs Canopus's Scalable Technology Architecture to provide more features and increased performance as CPU power increases. DVStorm uses its onboard DV codec only to compress rendered effects so that DV can be continuously output via IEEE-1394. DVStorm offers more than realtime “previews” because the timeline can be played directly to 1394 output.

Tech Specs: NTSC 720x480 @ 30 frames/sec (CCIR 601), 5:1 DV compression, 3.6MB/s

A Hardware Encoder Daughter Card mounts directly onto the DVStorm. This unit compresses raw video into MPEG1 and MPEG 2 (for DVD) at 1:1.

Sony WV-DR7 DV Deck

This is a double-deck VCR that combines the two most popular prosumer formats—DV and S-VHS—in one machine. The WV-DR7 is designed to facilitate work in both a DV and analog video world and to maximize quality when converting from digital to analog and from analog to digital. Product literature says the deck introduces extremely high-quality duplication from DV to S-VHS (and the other way around). This deck accepts both mini DV and full-size DV cassettes and records to standard play and long play modes.

The DV deck is DV in/out (4-pin firewire/i-LINK) with up to 500 lines resolution. It uses the DV standard 4:1:1 sampling with a 5:1 compression ratio. The audio is digital PCM sound with the choice of either two 12-bit stereo tracks (32khz) or a 16-bit (48Khz) track for high-fidelity DAT quality recording with 90db or better dynamic range. The S-VHS deck is NTSC color, EIA standard, and 400 lines resolution. It offers S-VHS ET for recording S-VHS quality video on a VHS cassette. The audio is a HiFi stereo recording system. Additional features include a jog shuttle, control L (LANC), and crystal clear freeze frame.
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Dual NEC MultiSyncFE991 SB 19" Flat Screen Monitors

MSI NVIDIA GeForce 6600 128 MB DDR PCI-Express Graphics Card

One card supports two VGA monitors (converting one DVI connector to VGA).  Also has S-Video out for HDTV signal.  Dedicated video hardware reduces CPU utilization and improves overall system performance. PCI Express (x16) support accelerates video editing by speeding up data transfer rates (compared to AGP 8X and PCI buses).

The Ti4600 ChipSet becomes the 3-D rendering engine for Canopus Xplode 3-D transition effects package. You save rendering hours using Xplode's pre-built transitions instead of Adobe After Effects for complex 3-D transitions.  Back to the Top

 Sony PVM-14N6U Production Monitor

Since picture quality displays differently on a computer and TV monitor, a production monitor allows you to see what you're producing as you produce it. With new features such as a picture improvement IC and a short cut operation menu, Sony's PVM-14N6U 14" (13" viewable) Trinitron Color Monitor is a great small studio choice. Other features include 500 TV lines of resolution, compatibility with four color standards (NTSC/PAL/SECAM/NTSC 4.43), on-screen menus with a choice of five languages: English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish, beam current feedback, a metal cabinet, universal power supply 100-240V (UL listed for 120V/50Hz only), and 4:3/16:9 switchable aspect ratio.

Behringer MX802A Eurorack Mixer

This ultra-compact eight-channel mixer is ideal for project studios or club gigs, or can be used as a MIDI mixer, sub mixer, monitor mixer, or as a tool for level and impedance matching.

The MX802A gives you 4 mono channels with microphone and line inputs plus peak LEDs and 3-band EQ. The 2 additional stereo channels are ideal for keyboards and MIDI equipment. And your 2-track machine can easily be connected via the RCA inputs. Two aux send/return (you can choose pre-fader or post-fader operation for aux 2). Low-cut filters allow you to remove almost entirely low-frequency noise, without losing too much bass in your mix. 

Monsoon MM1000 Near Field Speaker System

Sony MDR-7506 Studio Headphones

Large diaphragm foldable headphones. Very good sound and very durable.

These pro-quality headphones let you hear it all. Premium 40mm drivers reproduce every musical nuance. Closed-ear design gives a tight bass response, practically eliminates external noise, and snuggles over the ears for hours of comfort. Frequency response is a flat 10Hz to 20kHz so you accurately hear what's on tape. Gold-plated connectors prevent rust and corrosion, and a UniMatch plug is provided for both 1/4" and 1/8" jacks. Phones fold for easy storage. Includes soft case.

Headphone features include: rugged design, folding construction, 40mm driver unit, closed ear design, gold connectors and oxygen free cord, frequency response (10Hz to 20kHz).

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