Greg Barker
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Thanks Craig. And that’s what I get for looking at the Blu Ray spec on a chart on Wikipedia. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc
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Hello BG. I have to shoot a couple of events again tomorrow and I’m curious about your comment to keep the neutral density filters off. Is that because you need all of the light you can get at 1/2000th shutter speed or have you found some other adverse reason to using the ND filter? Thanks.
– Greg
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Hi Rich. I’ve had really nice results for football and soccer using 720p60 at 1/250th on bright clear days. Really nice crisp frames without the Private Ryan effect you mentioned. Nice clear pans and zooms. I tried 1/60th but it was too blurry when I was tracking the action. I’ve also tried 1080p30 shutter off (not smooth enough for the action I was tracking) and 1080i60 looked a little too soft during quick movement. Hope that helps.
– Greg
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I have the Buffalo burner and so far I think it’s a decent burner. It does have a fairly cheap plastic housing and comes with USB or eSATA connectivity (no Firewire). The software is also PC only but that wasn’t a big deal to me since I use Toast for my burning on the Mac. I just received my 6x media so I haven’t had the opportunity to burn anything faster than 2x at this point.
I also own the LaCie 2x burner. That unit is built like a tank so that may be a consideration if you plan to tote your drive around often (it also “matches” the color of a Mac Pro). The LaCie in my opinion is going to hold up a lot better if you intend to carry your drive from place to place. On the other hand, the Buffalo is generally cheaper in price and I’m sure will hold up just fine if your going to leave it in one location. Hope that helps.
– Greg
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Very helpful Don. Thanks!
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Hello David. I don’t know if you’ve found your solution yet but I’ve seen some really great footage that Gary Adcock (from the FCP Cow Forum) shot on an early EX1. I can’t remember if it was glass blowing or jewelery making using a flame but the footage was great. Unfortunately I was admiring the composition and capabilities of the camera and wasn’t necessarily paying attention to what it was… You may want to try to track him down and ask him the question.
– Greg
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Thanks for the advice Don. I think ultimately I want to shoot the best format possible for the occasion provided I’m not causing myself too much of a headache in post. Keeping in mind that I want to leverage the EX3’s capabilities as much as possible.
The majority of my projects are short-form ranging from 1 minute to about 6 minutes in duration. My strategy would be to determine right now what formats will be used for what type of shooting generally, because I don’t want to have a bunch of footage in a hodge podge of formats when it comes time to repurpose clips for projects if I can help it. Especially in the broll department because that is where the majority of our reuse, occurs.
Is the best format (without using direct HDSDI capture) for green screen going to be 1080p 30 and then upconverted to ProRes 422 HQ as was suggested?
Also, I would really appreciate any “avoid this scenario if possible” or “this generally works well” with regard to mixing formats in the timeline. Like when Stephen stated above that he shoots 1080p 30 and mixes Panny footage from the HVX and that generally works out okay. Thanks.
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Thanks for the info Stephen. I’m just starting to experiment with the different formats. I don’t know how much chroma key work you do but I was thinking in terms of my green screen work I might start shooting progressive for that footage. I think I read that I should be able to get slightly better keys using progressive?
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Excellent, thanks for all your help.
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Thanks Jeremy. I captured the first interview (at least the usable soundbytes) in 422 HQ and they averaged slightly over a GB/minute. One of the clips was exactly 1 minute in duration and it was 1.02gb. Looks like the codec may scale some, either way it looks like the way to go. I can live with a gig per minute.
Did you have an opinion as far as sticking with interlaced at 29.97 rather than transcoding to a progressive frame rate? I can always deinterlace on the back side but I was just wondering if it’s better to take advantage of the hardware transcode on ingest? Thanks again.
– Greg