[Christopher Wright]

I always just rent the lighting kits wherever I am shooting. It is very cost effective and it is so much easier that way. I know other people that just Fedex the lighting gear to a location if they just must have their own gear.

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[Christopher Wright]

I travel this way all the time. I carry on the laptop and HVX, and get a big enough suitcase to “house” (and properly protect) my Miller tripod. The large suitcase also “stores” my external Hard drives for archiving all my footage while on location.. It works quite well.

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[Christopher Wright]

I also have both the HVX-200 and the HMC-150. I basically got the HMC-150 as a 2nd camera for 2 camera shoots, and the footage from both cameras matches astonishing well, especially when using a Prores workflow. Since FCP makes it so easy to convert the 150 footage to Prores, this again is a non issue.
I find that I am using the HM-150 a lot more than the HVX-200 now, especially since the low light performance on the HMC is so much better. I also love being able to use $32.00 16GB SDHC cards for shoots. Because of this, it is one of the best “run and gun” type of cameras I have ever owned. Since I have never needed or used over/under cranking or HD-SDI outputs on a camera, the choice between the 170 and 150 was a very easy one to make. And compression or no compression, it is almost impossible to discern any difference in quality in the footage you get from the 150 and 200. As always, if you match settings on the cameras and light your sets properly, there really is no difference in the quality of the footage you are getting.

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[Christopher Wright]

It all depends on the type of shooting you are doing.
“Run and gun” – P2 cards
anything else – Firestore

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[Christopher Wright]

Boris,

I had the Continuum FX Plug 6 for FCP (Beta version) already installed and I bought the 5 to 6 upgrade two weeks ago. I also already have C6 for AE so that is not what I am asking…
I was given a serial number for the beta version Because it expired in the middle of a project I was working on) which unlocked the “trial version” before you had this announcement of the “official” FX plug 6 version being available. In other words I have been working with the unlocked version of the FXPlug 6 trial software for over two weeks now. So my question remains, is this “official” release version any different at all from the trial version you had the “public beta” on.

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[Christopher Wright]

Is this a different version than the C6 FCP FX Plug trial, or does it contain some bug fixes and other goodies??

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[Christopher Wright]

“Donald Trump no longer focuses on 3 story condo buildings. He’s moved on. He has a unique thirst to take it to the next level, ready or not. The creative people who have this desire become very successful, it does not even depend on skills often, its tenacity and drive.”

Boy you know you are in trouble when you start citing “comb over” as a good business model.
He was given everything by his father, has gone completely broke twice, gotten government bailouts both times, and is about to go into the sinkhole again. This time I hope they finally let him get what he deserves, complete bankruptcy. Let’s start bailing out the hard working people who deserve it, not egomaniacal blowhards.

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[Christopher Wright]

I was about to say, open GL has never worked in AE.

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[Christopher Wright]

Yes it is/was weird how they handled this “public Beta,” but I bit the bullet and bought Continuum FX Plug 6 because I was working on a project where I used a lot of the new filters. It works fine now without the annoying watermark. But you are right, it would have been nice to get an actual time frame before they made the trial expire./

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[Christopher Wright]

if everyone in this industry stopped letting clients walk all over them, it wouldn’t happen, plain and simple. Sure every industry faces similar pressures, but within the video production realm it seems to be getting worse almost daily.

Amen to that…
It is hard when even the old, good clients turn into “grinders.”

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