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Shooting Projected Images

A common element of all kinds of live events is projection…and it’s always a pain in the butt. There are a few challenges to successfully capturing video or slides being projected on a screen that you must resolve if you want to have a professional-quality video, rather than something that looks like what someone’s mom shot from the fourth row of the theater. Specifically, these challenges are that the image on the screen is way brighter than the live shots of the speaker, so both can’t be exposed well simultaneously. You are not sure exactly when the video projection is gonna start or stop, so you may miss part of the projection. You have a mic on the person onstage, but the projected audio is actually coming ...

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