Almanac

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Read craft first. Exposure in noon sun decides whether a face is readable. Wind on a lake path decides whether the voice survives. The land manager’s permit page decides whether the take is legal. Cameras and the uplink come after those three. Fees, insurance, and drone rules stay on the live city and state pages the day you look.

Florida daylight is a hard overhead key. At 24 frames per second a 180-degree shutter is 1/48 of a second — 1/50 on some bodies — and noon will try to push you faster unless a variable ND is already on the lens. A polarizer is a different filter: it cuts glare on water. White balance at 5600 K unless the room is tungsten. Get this when the iris is already as closed as you want it and the face is still clipping.

A shotgun with foam only is still naked in Florida wind. Foam is an indoor plosive cap. Fur goes on next, then you move the capsule out of the gust, then a high-pass if the rumble is still wind. Get this before the encoder starts.

A live take on city property is a land-manager question. Open the City of Orlando Office of Special Events page — the city door that names film productions. The Florida Film Commission (floridafilm.com) posts statewide contacts and notice windows. Confirm fees on those pages. Fees stay on those pages.

Heat is the number printed on the camera spec sheet. Canon, Sony, and Panasonic publish operating-temperature ranges. Condensation is the walk from air-conditioning into wet air: bag the body, wait, then take the cap off. If the sidewalk is already over the temperature printed on the body, the take waits. The live hop — RTMP/S, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, bonded cellular — is a separate lesson.