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  1. * The Wall Street Journal * JUNE 12, 2009 Lawmakers Make Noise About Loud Commercials By FAWN JOHNSON Some members of Congress want broadcasters to turn down the volume on television commercials. A bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D., Calif.) would require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to "preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany." Broadcasters say they are addressing the problem already. "The major television broadcast networks, including ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, are each, individually, implementing policies that attempt to control loud commercials," said David Donovan, president of the Association for Maximum Service Television, a broadcast industry trade group, speaking at a hearing Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications Subcommittee. Mr. Donovan said Rep. Eshoo's bill could slow TV stations' voluntary efforts to control commercial volumes because any FCC proceeding would generate debate and uncertainty. "I can assure you that the industry is motivated to act," said NBC Universal Principal Engineer and Audio Architect Jim Starzynksi, also at the hearing. Final review of an industry standard on commercial volume is expected in July, and broadcasters could begin implementing it by fall, he said. Write to Fawn Johnson at fawn.johns
  2. Red breakout box with real 3XLR connectors and operators headphone level ASL - RIP Kit - Remote Interface Panel for RED - Cine Gear Expo wolf
  3. these people are polite, I get presented with one choice nowadays... and its not mine
  4. Automatically Sync Dailies in Final Cut with Sync N Link Matt Armstrong March 3, 2009 Source: Studio Daily At the latest Alpha Dogs Editors' Lounge, post production guru Philip Hodgetts from The Assistant Editor and Intelligent Assistance demonstrated his new application for Final Cut Pro, Sync N Link, for synchronizing sound and picture shot dual-system. Sync N Link does what Avid's Auto-Sync function does, plus more. Footage and sound files with the same timecode can be automatically synched with a few clicks, either before or after the edit. http://www.studiodaily.com/main/training/richmedia/10569.html I have no personal experience with this
  5. Spectrum use: Here some worldwide frequencies in use find them for your area: http://www.sennheiserusa.com/frequencyfinder/default.asp (ref. Scott F) http://www.lectrosonics.co.uk/lectroeurofreq.htm A sample database of USA TV channels pre digital is at http://www.globalcommnet.com/operators/tvoperator.asp Enter your location and TV channel and all licensed transmitters (TV, AM, FM) at a specified distance will be listed with full site maps. Of course, it’s of little use, as you are not allowed to use Modulus in the US and loads of TV and freq. Info: http://tvtower.com/Commercial%20Television%20Frequencies.html World TV systems list: http://www.kropla.com/tv.htm also http://www.alkenmrs.com/video/wwstandards1.html for world radio stations and internet stations go to : http://www.tvradioworld.com/region1/ca/tv.asp?m=los All TV channels and frequencies in the US http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/News_Releases/1998/et8002a.txt And http://www.soontai.com.tw/tvtab1.html Good little antenna lesson: http://www.professionalwireless.com/antenna.aspx LECTROSONICS WEBSITE FOR WIRELESS FREQ: http://www.lectrosonics.com/cgi-bin/tv_form.pl SHURE WEBSITE FOR WIRELESS FREQUENCIES: http://www.shure.com/scripts/freq_app/default.asp SENNHEISER WEBSITE FOR WIRELESS FREQ: http://www.sennheiserusa.com/newsite/mat_dev/frequencyfinder/Freqfinder-open.asp TV & RADIO CHANNELS AROUND THE WORLD: http://www.tvradioworld.com/ FCC TV CHANNEL LOOK-UP SERVICE: http://www.fcc.gov/mb/video/tvq.html Want to find out how to coordinate frequencies on the set? Here a computerized approach: http://www.professionalwireless.com/ias/Demo/index.html Digital transition consumer info: http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx http://www.dtvanswers.com/ http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php http://www.hdpictures.com/stations.htm http://www.shure.com/ProAudio/PressRoom/WhiteSpaces/index.htm white space info Find all digital stations within 80 miles of a zip code: http://www.rabbitears.info/search.php
  6. great effort by Peter Grey http://petergray.org/lockits.html wolf at wolfvid.com
  7. James Dehr and Pete Albert have been teaching a class at West LA college that enables students who "pass" to get on the Hollywood Producers roster and then they can buy their way into any of the unions. Glen Berkowitz and I teach a college "prep" class on sound to "Inner city film school kids" a summer long class for the "good" kids from inner city schools. None of their parents make more than approx. 36K a year ( Ca poverty level) - I find this very uplifting - to be in front of smart kids from lousy schools and difficult family situations eager to learn. THis is financed partially by LA city funds. Senator Mike Mikels (Sp.) has been teaching a college level sound course for years at some Pasadena Art school. He took over from Steve (?) Fox who ran out of union healthfund money and died of throat cancer. There is a pathetic attempt at teaching at the expensive well equipped LA film school, its just sound slavery for little $ to help rich kids make showreels. USC has a good sound dept under Tom Holman (?) who published several "teaching" books. I just try to get 2 ideas across: The mike is like a flashlight shining on the performers tonsils. Learn to listen and understand what you hear. 3.) Be prepared. my 2 cents wolf if you teach advanced classes here are some free books: http://wolfvid.com/html/lit.html
  8. I have given away lots of jobs and clients to folks I barely knew and that I have never seen again. Then there are a few good folks who I know a little who refer me repeatedly and I try to return the favor as much as possible... even though its been slooooooooow. NOW in the slimy video assist world I was forced to pay 10% of the rental rates I collected for my gear to many operators when it was their client, their job. THIS RATE IS 50 % now !!! It makes for a nasty atmosphere of hustlers hustling video labor and gear. There is a movement on the video YAHOO group to "out" the really cheap sound guys who sell sound gear, mixer, boom, video guy and gear for ridiculous package rates for endless hours. The slime emanating from some music video productions has video assist certainly on a race to the bottom. Often these are union shoots. There are some video folks who get big jobs and pay their operators in addition to the payroll just so they wont go independent and also to shut up about the quality of the gear. And then there are the camera assistants who make extra bucks by providing video gear to production companies... Ohh and while I am at it there are several DITS who record HD and a second video assist recorder. Everything is being practiced somewhere and labor has no organization protecting jobs or jurisdiction. GAWD help us all. It's slimy out there most places. wolf
  9. we make only complicated cables with Lemo and Hirose. We stock all the film ones. ( don't get the cheaper aftermarket imitations from China- only Swiss or Japanese will do) - for simple stuff go to Pacific, but nothing there is crimped and soldered! For Sound stuff go to the Sound houses LSC, COffey etc... Red cables we will add, unfortunately they use mini XLR cheap fragile shit. Call us in Marina Del Rey 310 822-4973 also check my constantly changing pages with unusual sound stuff: http://wolfvid.com/datasheets/Specials.pdf wolf
  10. Wolf, I'm not sure if you were at the Quarterly Membership meeting? === no I was not. What’s the sense of bitching about a bad vote in retrospect? However you feel about the current board, you were not present at the last E Board Meeting === I am not on the BOD and there are never visitors, the dates are not publicized, secrecy prevails in effect. And all I can say is that there were lots of opinions expressed on the contract issue. === Who cares what “opinions are expressed” privately in a BOD meeting that noone reports on? All it does is vents for a few folks, the BA still uses his unchecked powers to support a anti-membership contract. Did the opposition on the board get even ask for third of a page in the mailing? NO they were silenced by JO. It seems JO has learned that scare tactics intimidate enough folk so they vote with him and keep paying his $ 160,000 salary. "If members don't vote in a new board of directors that care" The word vote is important, because if more members had voted in the ratification ballot, rather than the anemic 36%; perhaps L695 would have been the only local to turn down the contract. ==== Perhaps the BOD should at least publicize its debate in a mailing. Maybe a variety of ideas would involve a few more members. The BOD has let itself become an invisible rubber stamp. I totally agree with you that nothing will get done unless more members get involved, speak up, run for the Executive Board and at least vote. ==== The BOD has an obligation to involve people. Instead members are stuck with an absentee President and a burned out BOD and an illiterate BA. We were the only local that did not have even an “informational” meeting before the vote. --- SHAME! Who prevented this? J.O. of course . ----- why does the BOD not have a policy of PROXY attendees standing in for absentee members. That PROXY person should be appointed by the absent member an have a VOTE !!. This would involve a few more folk. ==== sorry I am so blunt, but NOTHING seems to get thru the hierarchy of L695. And the IATSE is just rewarding itself with our dues for delivering a submissive workforce to the conglomerates. ==== PS: Note how easy it can be to kick out the old time CEO of GM! These structures that we held to be self-evident can be changed… of course if the employees of GM had voted in a new CEO things would really be different – Obama is just a different color oligarch, so the substance stays the same… ( ohh I know I am gone get it now :-) bitterly?? wolf (knowing full well this post will only engender hate by JO) Michelle for ‘16 and ’20
  11. only 2 members of the 695 board of 15 ( or so) made their views known. The unelected BA acted against his members interests. If members don't vote in a new board of directors that care, and if folks with opinions don't organize phone trees, we get NOTHING, the producers share of Hollyweirds growing pie is getting larger. Talking to like minded on bulletin boards in NOT ENOUGH. wolf
  12. Pete Albert asked me to post from the Yahoo board for video assist folk: Here’s another reason to vote NO to ratification of the most recent IATSE contract. ( Send in by Wednesday) Many of you may not know that the means in which a production is initially intended to be distributed is often (not always) the basis for which contract is used. For example, if a production is intended to have it’s initial release as a made-for-TV movie, a “feature” or “theatrical release” contract would not be sought after by the producers, but a TV contract would be. Keeping this theory in mind, and keeping in mind that the “New Media” portion of the new IATSE contract is complete sell out and offers us not even basic pay rates, read the following blurb I found online today from the N.A.B. rss newsfeed. Given the statistics noted, I would not be surprised to learn that the networks and producers will intentionally plan to have TV shows "initially” released on the internet FIRST, thereby producing the show under the “new media” provision of the contract. A day or two after the Internet release, then they would air it on TV, thereby avoiding the more costly TV contract. You and I know, someone is going to be producing a show this way. Perhaps even a well established, highly ranked show. - Pete Albert ============= United Press International - March 16, 2009 ABC is dominating its U.S. TV network peers when it comes to online offerings, having nine of the top 10 most-streamed series, the Nielsen ratings group says. Nielsen said in its February VideoCensus report that ABC's "Lost" topped all other series last month with 2.5 million unique viewers online and 48 million total streams, MediaWeek reported Friday. The series' unique viewers tally for February marked a 41 percent increase compared with January, while its total streams represented a 20 percent jump. ABC also managed to top 1 million unique viewers in February with "Dancing with the Stars" and "Grey's Anatomy." Other top ABC shows in terms of online streaming last month were "The Bachelor," "Brother & Sisters," "Scrubs," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Desperate Housewives" and "Private Practice." MediaWeek said NBC's "Saturday Night Live" mitigated ABC's dominance on the list, coming in eighth overall in total February online viewers. Here’s the link to the newsfeed: http://nab365.bdmetrics.com/NST-2-50203882/story.aspx?utm_source=addthis&utm_medium=addthis&utm_campaign=addthis Or http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/Entertainment/20090316/1199810.html
  13. I toured with Willie Nelson in the late '70s thru a bunch of Texas radio stations and "pikniks". most radio was AM mono. I had the "large" music board - 16 CH Stevenson (?) and the great luxury of an early IV-S no TC but blooplight. ended up in Austin where Courtney did the intercom... we shot+recorded 3 days and nights straight thru ( I got some shuteye in the "press" - trailor). Bob Primes and others shot film... (never released) Today Willie still does the same thing with 2 REDs fueled by lots of "herb" traveling in a caravan of buses thru the South and the rest of the USA. go Willie wolf
  14. mail your ballot on MONDAY !!!! its a simple majority vote L 695 could not get it together to call a meeting before the vote.. they will announce the vote though it's like a Russian dictatorship: don't discuss anything in public just come to be told what was decided. sick fucks... burnt out Board of directors, unstable B.A fighting windmills again wolf
  15. the key is to get folks to mail in their votes http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-iatse4-2009mar04,0,2698321.story >From the Los Angeles Times LABOR Conflict erupts inside theatrical stage employees union Leaders defend benefit cuts in a proposed pact with Hollywood film and TV studios, but critics say they go too far. By Richard Verrier March 4, 2009 Although much of the entertainment industry has focused on the civil war inside the Screen Actors Guild, another powerful Hollywood union is wrestling with its own internal conflict over a proposed contract with the studios. Leaders of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, whose members include 35,000 who work behind the scenes on film and television sets, are facing a high level of dissent from the rank and file over a contract that includes modest pay increases but also deep cuts in the union's coveted health and pension benefits. The union's brass says the cuts are necessary to plug a projected $580-million deficit in the health plans largely due to rising medical costs. Critics say the cuts go too far and will force thousands of union members and their families to lose their health insurance. Under the proposed three-year contract, members would be required to work 400 hours every six months, up from the current 300 hours, to keep their benefits. Concerns about work hours have grown as production activity has slowed to a crawl. Many of the union's members are still struggling to recover from the losses sustained in the writers strike last year and by the uncertainty caused by the SAG contract talks. Last year, the studios rushed to wrap feature films by June 30, causing a severe drop in production during the second half of 2008. The credit crunch has caused studios to further scale back production. "At a time when our nation is increasingly concerned about the growing number of people who don't have health insurance, this is the wrong direction to be going in," said Doug Knapp, a camera operator with the union's Local 600, who helped launch a website called 400hours.com to fight ratification of the contract. Knapp estimates that roughly 10% of the union's film and TV members -- 3,500 -- will lose health coverage as a result of the 400-hour requirement. The new threshold is a divisive issue for many union members, who've tended to accept lower pay increases in exchange for preserving their health benefits, for which enrollees don't pay premiums. Unlike most actors and writers, the union's members don't earn direct payments from prior work on TV shows and movies. Instead, payments that would be earmarked for residuals are funneled into a fund for health and pension plans. Union President Matt Loeb declined to comment. In a message accompanying the "memorandum of agreement" mailed to members last week, Loeb strongly urged members to support the contract, warning that a "vote against ratification is a vote to authorize a strike." Ballots are due back March 18. Despite the opposition, it is unlikely the contract will be shot down. The leaders of the union's various locals have given their blessing to the contract. Indeed, the union is known for having friendly relations with the studios and has long advocated early contract talks, reasoning that it helps foster labor peace. So few were surprised when the union announced an agreement in November -- eight months before the current contract expires. But when details of the agreement dribbled out, guild leaders faced a hostile reaction from union members such as Knapp. "I only had 287 hours in the last six months," said the camera operator, who worked on the Warner Bros. TV series "Moonlight" before it was canceled and the TV movie "Merry Christmas Drake & Josh." richard.verrier@latimes.com ============================================================
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