Gary Huff
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[Aaron Star] “When you shoot DSLR and do not record to an external recorder, the DSLR shuts off the HDMI output.”
There is no way for the camera to differentiate a monitor from an external recorder. Her 5D Mark III will be fine.
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[Lance Bachelder] “I visited an Apple store Sunday for the first time in a while and was saddened that there a lone Mac Pro and a coulee of iMacs against a wall and the rest of the store was all devices.”
I am in the market for a Mac Pro, but I want a refreshed model, not the 2013. Be a sad year if that doesn’t come into existence.
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[Alan Lloyd] “You might have noticed that it was a (regional) public TV project, not a recurring gig.”
I did notice, which was why I was confused as to why you thought it an appropriate rebuttal to my point.
[Alan Lloyd] “We’d have been better off if the jib had stayed home while we were out on the road for the two weeks production took.”
Unless you came across an opportunity where a jib shot would have added an amazing moment, yet it was left at home. If you cannot think of any potential way to utilize a jib shot within a shoot, then perhaps it’s not the jib itself that’s the problem.
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[Suzin Daly] ” smallHD is right here in NC. I can actually go to their manufacturing company. “
I think the SmallHD 501 is exactly what you need. It’s large enough without being too much, has a great screen, good tools, and uses your LP-E6 batteries from your 5D. Get refurbished if you can, and add a Sun Hood to it and you’ll be good to go.
[Suzin Daly] ” What would be important to me that I can trust what I see in the monitor would be close to what I would see on the timeline.”
You really can’t do that without being able to calibrate on your own. I would do tests at first, you may find it’s close enough, but you should always, instead, manually white balance if you want to be sure that the colors will be accurate, or, at the very least, toggle between 3200 and 5500k when under tungsten or daylight balanced light.
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[Mark Suszko] “They won’t save a crap script or bad acting or direction.”
But that’s a highly subjective view on what is a bad script, bad acting, and bad direction. What you think is, your client might not agree, or even care. You can’t solely rely on that.
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[Alan Lloyd] “In fact, I have a couple very specific examples to cite.”
And in both of these examples. the directors were never asked back for further work? Because that was the point being made.
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[Jeff Kirkland] “(For some reason I can’t edit my own posts so apologies in advance for the stupid mistakes and bad English that I can’t go back and fix)”
Ditto. This functionality really needs to return.
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[Joseph W. Bourke] “The production house which doesn’t know how to tell a good story, and instead relies on the hottest new FX/Techniques, doesn’t get results and thus, doesn’t get the client back for a second project.”
Nonsense. If the shots look good, that’s what the client cares about. You can smirk at everyone else all you want, but in the end, clients are not dropping “production houses” because they use the latest FX or techniques but failing at some generic definition of “story” that you’ve concocted in your head. I bet you don’t even have a single actual example of this to bring up. You can go ahead and break your own arm patting yourself on the back, but maybe you should instead focus on how to increase your skill set and creatively think up ways to make these kinds of shots actually matter?
As for the OP, clients are continuously asking for drone footage acquisition or wanting to incorporate third-party drone footage into their pieces. You can argue with them all you want, or you can figure out a way to do something that reflects your own creativity and sensibilities.
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[Andrew Kimery] “once the Lumetri Panel made an appearance in PPro (and SG didn’t get a mention) I had a feeling SG wasn’t long for this world.”
Ditto.
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[Duke Sweden] “And then, just like that”
Just like that after you trashed your preferences like people kept referring to?