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About Troy Smith
Expertise
I can answer questions on professional or amateur filmmaking and questions on Final Cut Pro, video cameras, lighting, sound recording, scriptwriting, storytelling, directing, producing, editing, multi-camera productions, shooting sports, picture to video, using DTE hard drives, using video cameras and editing in a very creative way and some 16mm filmmaking. I can't answer too many questions on 35mm filmmaking.

Experience
I have been a professional filmmaker since 1995 and a film teacher since 2000. I am publishing a textbook for beginning filmmakers called "the New Filmmaker's Adventure". I have experience in the area of low-budget feature filmmaking, I am the co-owner of the production company called Imminent Entertainment, I have worked on hundreds of videos, TV shows, multi-camera events and low budget, professional productions, corporate and consumer videos, Final Cut Pro, scriptwriting, directing, videography and cinematography, sound, lighting, editing, and producing. Organizations Independent Feature Project - Chicago Education/Credentials Western Michigan University '95 BS in film production Magna cum Laude Maine Media Workshops '02-07

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Making Films & Videos - shooting television and computer screens

Expert: Troy Smith - 10/21/2009

Question
hi Troy,

when i use to produce industrial videos we'd use beta sp cam packages and if we had to shoot a computer screen there was a button we'd hit so that there would be no lines on the computer screen.

I'm planning on getting a 3 ccd HD camera according to your advice, but the script i'm planning on shooting has a lot of shots of a television screen and some computer screens. i was wondering if there was something that had to be done on the digital cam so that there wouldn't be any lines?

Thanks for your help, joe

Answer
Sorry for the delay. The way that I have always done it (and the TV station that I worked for) is to set the monitor refresh rate to 60 hertz. That cycles the same as the signal in the camera. I have not done this with HD cams, but it's the same idea. I have heard of people adjusting the shutter speed, but I have never had to do that because setting the monitor to 60 hertz has always worked.

Hope this helps!

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