Cool Eminence Factory Tour Vid
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Very informative, especially the section about "voice coals" ;^).
Very informative, especially the section about "voice coals" ;^).
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Paducah, Kentucky.
One of the take-aways was how long the interviewed employees have been there... lots of experience in the craft of building loudspeakers. Another surprise is that they don't make cones in house, but almost everything else is.
Also not obvious is that the magnets are not magnetized until the assembly is complete. Much easier to center a pole piece and back plate that way.
And Art, don't go gettin' all unwound about the voice coals...
Paducah, Kentucky.
One of the take-aways was how long the interviewed employees have been there... lots of experience in the craft of building loudspeakers. Another surprise is that they don't make cones in house, but almost everything else is.
Also not obvious is that the magnets are not magnetized until the assembly is complete. Much easier to center a pole piece and back plate that way.
And Art, don't go gettin' all unwound about the voice coals...
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It surprised me to that the cones and spiders are out sourced considering everthing else is done in house down to the terminal strips.
I would have turned off the auto focus on the camera, there were places I could see it hunting for a focus target. But I realize some of todays lower end pro cameras don't offer much control for manual focus or iris. I don't think any consumer cameras do.
The last pro video work I did was about 10 years ago with an Ikegami, docked to Betacam SP deck with a real lens you could put you hand on. I did fun stuff like TV commercials, industrial documentary videos such as a chicken processing plant!
It surprised me to that the cones and spiders are out sourced considering everthing else is done in house down to the terminal strips.
I would have turned off the auto focus on the camera, there were places I could see it hunting for a focus target. But I realize some of todays lower end pro cameras don't offer much control for manual focus or iris. I don't think any consumer cameras do.
The last pro video work I did was about 10 years ago with an Ikegami, docked to Betacam SP deck with a real lens you could put you hand on. I did fun stuff like TV commercials, industrial documentary videos such as a chicken processing plant!
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Mike, we may be thinking of different shots but, I think the focussing tricks were part of the 'art' in this video. There were a few clips where it seemed like they decided to use the focussing on purpose to give what would have otherwise been a static shot some 'movement'. I'm sure it made the videographers job a little more interesting but I'm not sure that constantly going in and out of focus is a viewer favorite. That said, the transition at 5:00 is pretty cool since it introduces another segment of the video.
Mike, we may be thinking of different shots but, I think the focussing tricks were part of the 'art' in this video. There were a few clips where it seemed like they decided to use the focussing on purpose to give what would have otherwise been a static shot some 'movement'. I'm sure it made the videographers job a little more interesting but I'm not sure that constantly going in and out of focus is a viewer favorite. That said, the transition at 5:00 is pretty cool since it introduces another segment of the video.
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At 5:00 was defiantly a planned and very good "rack focus" effect for the voice coil transition segment. Having watched that again I would say their camera did have a manual focus control option. The shot that jumped out to me was about at 10:00 with frames and magnets, there moving and at first the one in the foreground is in focus then they focus on the frame getting the magnet placed on it (that was good) then as it was moving the focus kinda of jumped around.
I just realized I'm sounding like some of the clients that would sit in with me during what were sometimes very long edit sessions!
I would have taken producing a video for a speaker factory any day over a chicken processing plant had I had the choice!!
At 5:00 was defiantly a planned and very good "rack focus" effect for the voice coil transition segment. Having watched that again I would say their camera did have a manual focus control option. The shot that jumped out to me was about at 10:00 with frames and magnets, there moving and at first the one in the foreground is in focus then they focus on the frame getting the magnet placed on it (that was good) then as it was moving the focus kinda of jumped around.
I just realized I'm sounding like some of the clients that would sit in with me during what were sometimes very long edit sessions!
I would have taken producing a video for a speaker factory any day over a chicken processing plant had I had the choice!!
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I'm thinking about how to combine them together. Speakers and fried chicken doesn't sound too bad?
I'm thinking about how to combine them together. Speakers and fried chicken doesn't sound too bad?
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The chickens at that plant went through every process you could imagine except frying!
The chickens at that plant went through every process you could imagine except frying!
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I guess I am just still easily impressed by HD video still. I was kinda thinking they used DSLR cameras with manual focus based on the depth of field stuff. It was better looking than some of the others I have seen that appeared to be converted from a VHS tape,compressed and uploaded to youtube.
I guess I am just still easily impressed by HD video still. I was kinda thinking they used DSLR cameras with manual focus based on the depth of field stuff. It was better looking than some of the others I have seen that appeared to be converted from a VHS tape,compressed and uploaded to youtube.