Gary Huff
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[Bill Davis] “This is what we used to call “damn good advice.””
Used to? Still! 😀
My advice is always keep the footage in the format it came off of on the camera. Master it in that format if possible, if not, ProRes/DNxHD.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that Apple does to ProRes what it did with ALAC. I don’t see how making it open-source would hurt them in any way.
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[Steve Eisen] ” You can use Log and Transfer with the Canon plug-in to transcode footage to ProRes.”
I’ve had that method result in a few corrupt transcodes before, just FYI.
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[Oliver Peters] “On a particularly bad weather day, the DIT on set was doing all of his work from a laptop in the back of a Smart car! Now, THAT was far more impressive ;-)”
Was he doing transcodes too?
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[Oliver Peters] “While this is true, you might want to take a look at the production and post workflow that Fincher’s team set up for “Zodiac” and “Benjamin Button”. Pre-RED and pre-Light Iron. I would suggest that it was quite a bit more elaborate.”
On top of that, the workflow from Light Iron is not new…it was happening before Ender’s Game started shooting.
And there are other carts that work exactly the same from companies other than Light Iron too.
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[Brett Vanderbrook] “Can’t imagine doing this one by one.”
They do. It costs $50 or so. ClipWrap is the same. Grinder is part of the Magic Bullets Shooter Suite in case you have that.
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[Brett Vanderbrook] ” It must be the H.264 format that’s binding up the works.”
Yes. Use a utility like 5DtoRGB, ClipWrap, or Grinder to convert your DSLR footage to ProRes LT and you will notice a night/day difference.
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Canon 24-105 f/4. I use it on my C100 and it is my go-to lens 90% of the time.
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[Todd Terry] “In the Star Trek clip, while that might have been multi-camera (who knows?)”
Since Into Darkness was shot on 70mm, I would bet it is single cam.
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[Ken Bennett] “I’ve been talking with Mac users for several months now and I hear things like, “I’ve had my iMac since 2008 and never had any problem”. And this producer edits music for several major bands and movies on it. Everyone tells me the same…. “I’ve had mine since 2006,….. 2010….. no problems…””
Not to stir the pot too much, but they all say that and they all have problems. They just conveniently forget those problems (I’ve been there, hearing someone say, “My Mac has never had a problem.” when I just pulled them back from the brink of hardware death a few months prior.)
I have a desktop that I built myself since 2006. The only thing that goes wrong is hardware going bad. iMacs are self contained, so if your Fusion (or SSD) drive happens to go, off goes the entire unit back to the Apple store, and hopefully they can get you back up and running soon. My desktop I could go to Fry’s or Best Buy, purchase a new drive, and have a backup image start up my machine again within an hour.
But that’s a level of “know how” that not everyone has or needs to have. And when my video card burned out a few weeks ago, I got tired of dealing with it (a GTX285 purchased in ’06 or ’07).
Both Macs and Windows are PCs and both will have people who have had very positive experiences and very negative experiences. The nice thing about Apple is that their hardware maintains it’s value quite well vs any name brand Windows machine (aside from, perhaps, some high end HP or Dell workstations). You can still run Windows on an iMac if you want to, and the new iMacs are some very nice hardware under the hood (plus, you get a great screen). Just pick the hardware you think you can live with for the longest time (definitely upgrade to the i7) as you can’t just swap something out if you ever need the extra horsepower or storage.
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[James Culbertson] “And pretty right on the mark a lot of the time,”
Not been my experience.