[Gary Huff]

[Thomas Kaufman] “Waiting around the set for the footage to transfer is a drag. I want to replace my USB 3 laptop with something that’ll give me 10gbps,”

If your drives are slow, this will not help you one iota.

[Gary Huff]

[Bob Cole] “I’m in the market for a 4k camera, and would like to ask questions that cover several makers”

What are your questions?

[Gary Huff]

[Mike Tyler] “Maybe it’s also due to the fact, that don’t have the most recent version of Final Cut ?”

This. Also, Final Cut is faster because it renders out to ProRes in the background, and then uses the ProRes to generate the renders. Premiere goes back to the originals for rendering instead of intermediates. I think that will be coming in the next big update for it, as it can be a killer feature, especially if you go off to get coffee and the system starts rendering out those intermediates while you’re gone.

The reason it’s near instantaneous is because ProRes is Intraframe and can literally be cobbled together from multiple files into a seamless video, then rendered from that.

[Gary Huff]

[christina rule] “how I can do a timelapse with Canon Cinema EOS C300 Mark II”

Recording/Media Setup->Recording Mode->Interval Recording.

[Gary Huff]

[Todd Terry] “if even with the ND filtration set to zero, and even with the iris wide open, if you aren’t getting adequate exposure then you can start clicking the gain up.”

If he’s going to be shooting a movie, then he should add light before clicking up the gain. Upping the gain should be the last resort.

[Gary Huff]

[Johnny Laty] “Will that work for my tapes?”

Unless you’re shooting SD only, you’ll want an HDV deck, not MiniDV.

[Johnny Laty] “I’ve read somewhere that the xlh1 is not good in low-light situations. “

You won’t be able to purchase a camera that is substantially better in low-light situations for less than $1000.

[Gary Huff]

[daniel chupinsky] “Hey Shane. Would probably do most work at 1920×1080. “

Are you transcoding? Simply setting the sequence settings to 1920×1080 will not help you because Premiere will still have to decode the 4K video.

[Gary Huff]

[Johnny Laty] “Or you think my best bet is to fix the xlh1 cause nothing else would be as good quality for that price?”

You might be able to purchase a HDV tape deck on eBay cheaper than to fix the XLH1 or buy a new camera.

[Gary Huff]

[Bob Cole] “With Face Detect, can you select a particular face and have the camera track it, changing focus as that one face moves closer to the camera? If the person walks behind an object for a second, will Face Detect hold its fire and keep the focus at the setting where the face disappeared from view?”

You can pick the face you want to use. It will highlight all faces it detects and you use the joystick to swap around which face is targeted. Unfortunately, if it loses the face, the DPAF resorts to the adjustable targeting reticule, and it currently does not target where the face was last detected. So if you had targeted in the lower third of the frame, and the person whose face you are detecting turns their head to talk to someone behind them, it will immediately switch to the DPAF target and focus on whatever is there. I have asked Canon to fix this so that the DPAF target is adjusted to be where the last area of face detection was, but this has yet to be implemented.

You can tell the C300 Mark II to only use Face Detect, and so it does nothing when it loses the target, but then you’ll have to disable AF and go manual if you need to focus on anything else. And to switch it back to normal DPAF operation, you have to go through the menus, so it’s not ideal.

[Gary Huff]

[Todd Terry] “In a perfect world there’d be a very wide range cine zoom that is also very fast and lightweight… and affordable. “

Unfortunately, that defies the laws of physics. Fast, lightweight, and with a useable range. Once you start making it heavier, that means more materials. Once you start making it more useable wide open, that’s more craft in the creation of the glass. More materials needed and precision in the glass means its more expensive.

I’ll take what Canon is doing with the f/4 Cine zooms as a fine trade-off with the modern sensors that have greatly increased sensitivity.