Adobe On Location

Its always been on my computer, never knew what it was, what it did or anything about it. It was only when I connected up my firewire to my video camera. So when it suggested to view in Adobe On Location, I thought I might as well check it out to see what it was.

In On location you can, use professional on-set monitoring tools to calibrate your camera, set levels, and monitor signals to obtain high-quality video and audio and help avoid time-consuming and potentially costly problems. ( Adobes own description)

So basically this software, is used for at the time of actually filming footage. By connecting your camera to the computer, allows A director or other members other than the camera man to see whats on shot, so that they can get the cameraman to correct itself. The program cleverly detects lighting levels, focus levels angles etc. The software allows for higher quality shots in the end product. The software is also useful for live green screening. E.g. doing the weather as you can replace the chroma key with an image live, without having to do any editing!.. Another key point to it, you can save shots straight to the computer, from filming and order them in to different scenes, takes etc, so the director can quickly watch clips whilst not taking the camera out of action.

If we were to have a laptop on location with this installed this could be very beneficial and time saving for us, so that we can see shots quickly on screen and sorting it out. Also as the cameras we use have a very small screen it would only be the camera man judgement if its a good shot, and the camera screen doesnt always show the full picture as it would be when editing.

wonderkid MS