Recent content by RCHeliGuy

Graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 89. Visited the ML Factory in 1985 while I was a student there. It all seemed like magic back then. Back then they had the Statements set up with Threshold and Krell amps, California labs CD player.

BTW, I ended up putting all the audio stuff I was playing with to the side. I ended up with the Rode Wireless Pro system and it has been perfect for me. The lav mics are good, the internal 32 bit audio recordings are great and bypass my crappy in camera audio preamps. I'm also moving away from...

My latest experiment with linear bearings under my seat. Soup to nuts ( design, fabrication, assembly )

Hopefully the same goes for the whole car :)

Are you going to paint the splitter, or just consider it a consumable that you build up periodically when it wears down to a certain point?

I'm amazed at how bad the audio pre-amps are on some cameras. My Nikon D500 has very noise preamps, but with a wireless lav I can boost the signal into the camera and run the in camera gain down quite a bit dropping the noise floor a lot. My Panasonic has a better noise floor. My older XLR...

Markus is 61 now and has decades of experience. He does explain very clearly how audio is a huge part of video and if something doesn't sound good, people won't care how good it looks. And then he focuses on lighting because good lighting is both necessary for things to look right and allows...

I've own Vegas Video Pro and will edit things down in this traditional NLE.

Started getting back into videography a bit lately. This all started because I have a YouTube channel which I haven't taken seriously and my wife suggested that if I was going to be seen publicly, that it should look professional. So are started down a bit of a rabbit hole. I've had the 3...

I've also been getting back into videography a bit and started watching some of these videos. https://www.youtube.com/@MarkusPix

One I particularly enjoy is this one that follows the complete rebuild of a 100+ year old racing sailboat. The guy ( Leo ) bought it for $1 and then started rebuilding it from the keel up in WA state. I've been watching this for the past 3 years and it has been very interesting. He started out...

This is all just a personal preference. For PBS, I actually like to support them even if I don't watch much there. Otherwise, whatever. At one point I purchased the BD series for Orphan Black, because I didn't want to pick up yet another streaming service just to watch that again. It's a...

I got the Planet Earth III UHD HDR disks today and they do look pretty amazing and much better than any TV I've ever owned. I'm not suggesting my TV can outperform an OLED TV. It goes very bright, but nothing competes with the dark blacks of OLED at least not yet.

Personally, I don't care. I do watch Prime content enough and I pay extra not to see commercials on Hulu etc, so Oh well. Netflix is still probably my favorite. Really enjoyed Foundation, Ted Lasso, For all Mankind on Apple TV Plan to watch Silo and plan to watch a few others. Disney is...

Had to turn off that audio assistant FAST! Wow! That is some extremely annoying artificial sounding speed talking! It auto configured to send out HDR10+ and 4:4:4 4K 60fps and 7.2 surround. I tested out a recent BD and it seems to work well enough. Tomorrow Planet Earth III arrives and...