[Brian Betz]

Thanks Tomas… Yes all internal drives and a laptop specifically designed for content creation. I’ve had fantastic luck with this company in the past (ADK) and my last workstation came from them. Support was outstanding. Here’s a link to the specific model:

https://www.adkvideoediting.com/adk-9710cl-173-laptop-2

17.3″ Laptop
Processor: Intel Core i9-9700K 9th Gen Coffee Lake 8-Core 3.6 GHz (4.9 GHz Turbo) 12MB L3 Cache
RAM: 32 Gigs (2x 16gig) DDR4-2400 Sodimm
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce™ RTX 2060 GPU with 6GB GDDR6
Hard Drive – Operating System: Samsung 500G 970 EVO NVMe M.2 Internal SSD
Hard Drive – Video Storage: Samsung 1TB 970 EVO NVMe M.2 Internal SSD
Cashe Drive – 1TB Samsung 860 or 2TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD

[Brian Betz]

Hi Tomas,

I do lift weights and am in excellent physical shape. Nevertheless, seriously, I must say I am a bit taken by the larger display. The specs for the 15 inch say the weight is 7.5 pounds and the 17 is 8.6…I realize without HD’s and such. I guess that because my travel typically involves being in one place for a relatively long time I am willing to put up with size and weight in transit for the larger screen.

Brian

[Brian Betz]

So sorry…Tomas not Thomas….

[Brian Betz]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your post! I originally was going with a smaller laptop, but the one I currently use is 15 inch and I find it difficult working with After Effects with such a small screen. Also my travel is a bit unique. One is from the den to the living room in my house….simply thought it would be nice to work on material while in the living room at times…thus, not size/weight not that much of an issue. Second, I travel from my house to a cottage we own. Thus, would be just loading the car. Third, when I do fly I tend to stay in one place for a long time. I know this will be a big heavy laptop, but I will just have to “rethink” my carry on. I would rather trade more weight for a larger screen size. Not ideal, but I believe it will serve my purposes best.

Brian

[Brian Betz]

Thanks!

[Brian Betz]

Walter,
Thanks so much for the info! I missed that bit of info and as I am currently a CS6 user, I do not receive updated information from Adobe.
Brian

[Brian Betz]

Thanks Chris! I was hoping my reasoning on this had some logic to it. I hope prores says around for a bit or my equipment keeps working as I am still shooting with my Ninja 2 as a recorder. This sudden, at least for me, news of the lack of support for quicktime is quite shocking.
Brian

[Brian Betz]

Hi Steve,

I’m capturing the video on a Ninja 2 and, thus it is uncompressed, and really high quality. Even with the great video the still images are noticeably different and that is even after doing color correction and compressing the final footage…I’ve experimented with putting footage on a Blu-ray and uploading online. I can still tell the difference between the stills and video….thus, it would be nice to have them match up. In some respects if he stills didn’t match up exactly I could live with that as I am applying some time warp and echo effects in After Effects, but it would be nice to start with a close match.

I have a performer who is quite skilled at Chinese martial arts and I am taping him doing various moves. Below is an example, of what I am going for…not my footage, however. I see After Effects rotoscope and motion tracking were used.

I had thought with the D800 there might be some mathematical formula to use for approximating image and video stills…for example altering the focal length.

Thanks for the input!

Brian

https://vimeo.com/88632150

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[Brian Betz]

Thanks for the explanation Steve! I was hoping to use the still images, however, as they are higher quality. Essentially I have a fast moving subject that I record with video. I wanted have this person repeat the movement and then take a series of still images and use those as a a “freeze frame.”
Brian

[Brian Betz]

Hello all,

So after much research I’m currently looking at the Nikon 5300. It shoots 1080p at 60fps and this is exactly what I was looking for. But as I want the video uncompressed the issue of an external recorder became an issue as I found the Ninja 2 would only do 720p at 60fps. Long story, but I actually could live with this with having the footage at 60fps dropped into a composition that is 1080p. (The 60fps material is only one element that will be in the final project.) Nevertheless, I see that the Odyssey 7 is slated for release at the end of March for around $1,300 and it is advertised to capture 1080p at 60fps. The Nikon 5300 is currently selling for a bit over $1,000 (with a Nikkor 18-140m lens). I haven’t researched the lens yet and may decide to upgrade on this. In addition, I will wait until I see some reviews on the Odyssey.

Nevertheless, the cost of all of this is looking within my budget and much thanks to Ted for the DSLR suggestion! If anyone else has any thoughts, please do not hesitate to chime in.

Brian