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"Lights, Camera, Action."  Maybe in an old Mickey Rooney film, but that's not quite how we do it on a real set. Learn the proper sequence of commands for shooting a scene, whether on sprocketed film or electronic media. Here is the infromation contained in the powerpoint lecture (see Presentations) that summarizes how we roll camera, sound, and slate.

We apologize if you have tried to email us at FilmTVsound.com over the last 48 hours or so. Due to server migrations in our email accounts, some of the emails addressed to us may have been bounced back to the senders.

Be assured that this was only a temporary glitch; and we expect everything to be back to normal by the end of Monday, Feb 26 (or Tuesday). Apparently, the techs who have to press the enter button at the other end of the internet (to complete the migration) were not on duty over the weekend!

If any emails to us were returned to you, please resend them to us after Tuesday.

Thank you for understanding.

Your team at FilmTVsound.com

During the Fall of 2017, I spoke with some of you asking about a fix for video engine failures in Pro Tools running on a PC with the new Windows 10 (Creators release). No one knew of any solutions at the time.... I had also combed the internet looking for postings related to the issue; again, to no avail. Our resident AVID Tech in our department at CSUN tried everything suggested on the AVID site; and even our Pro Tools master instructor & textbook author could not solve it.

Video files that used to run under QuickTime no longer worked. Codecs were up to date, QuickTime was up to date. But Pro Tools kept indicating "video engine failure" and inability to recognize codecs -- even though these same exact files used to run flawlessly prior to Windows 10 (Creators upgrade). I tried using different programs to convert older files to DNxHD, which should have fixed things, But even they did not play.