Adobe Creative Suite 3 - How to Use the SureShot Camera Setup Module

So if you are doing this with your own camera, you need to get out the SureShot cards that came with Production Premium. So navigate to your Desktop to the Project Files folder and then double-click the Chapter 1 folder. Inside the Chapter 01 folder, you will see a file called Test Shot.

Now you want to make sure that the DVR is visible below in the OnLocation interface. The DVR is the component right down here, it says DVR-1500 on it and the black space beneath it is where you are going to drag-and-drop that clip. So let's go back up to the Chapter 01 folder, take your Test Shot clip and drag it and drop it into the DVR and there it is. And now click on the OnLocation interface and what you can do is Playback the shot with me as we go through the exercise.

Now one of great things about the SureShot Camera Setup module is it's self-explanatory. It shows you exactly what to do. So the first thing you want to do as you can see is frame the card and you can see in our clip we have got our friend Bracey standing there with the focus card.

So if you are following along with me go ahead and playback your clip. Now once it's zoomed in on the focus card you want to use the Area Crop Slider right here to click-and-drag until the focus card is contained within that yellow box and now click number 2 Focus and what you will see is as you get more into Focus that white line is going to go more and more to the right.

Now we are having him turn over his card and we can see the Chip Chart. Click on number 3 and now what we are doing is adjusting the iris on the camera. So what you want to do is adjust the iris until those lines were about centered and balanced and that means that your iris is set correctly and again you can read the text here in the SureShot Module and also you can look below at a little thumbnails to tell you what to do.

Now let's click on 4, White Balance and you can see that we have Bracey holding up a white card and then you just hit the White Balance button on your camera and you can see the blue line shoots up showing you that you are white balanced and now we will pull out and you can see the corrected shot, perfectly focussed, perfectly iris adjusted, and perfectly white balanced.


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