Jason Jenkins
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Great info! Thanks for that link, Mark.
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You can hope and pray that a candle falls over and catches the wall on fire. That way you can get some well lit footage as they run screaming from the building. Seriously though, I think the HVX is the wrong camera to be using in this scenario.
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[Todd Terry] “Jason, the “gotta shoot wide open” biz is largely a restriction to some of the lower-end adapters.”
Agreed. The very ones that the “masses” can afford; thus the proliferation of narrow DOF shooting
[Todd Terry] “Redrock sent me footage with their M2 stopped down to f/16. No grain.”
The original M2 may have been able to do that, but it also ate so much light that it would have only been feasible in bright sunlight or in “a room full of fairly high-wattage HMIs”. The latter case effectively putting the capability out of the range of the low-budget masses. The new M2 Encore apparently loses only 1/2 stop of light. It’s funny how none of these low-end adapter companies tell you what the limitations are. You only find out after the purchase. It’s been worth it for me, though. Coming totally from the digital video side, it’s been a lot of fun learning about lenses and film-style shooting.
It’s great you have that flexibility with the P+S Technik –that’s how it should be. Too rich for my blood though, so I’m waiting on this next generation of low-end adapters.
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[Steve Wargo] “This thinking is extremely narrow minded. They have this train of thought that every shot needs to have almost everything out of focus and they all stand around and pat each other on the back.”
Steve,
The problem is not necessarily with the people shooting, but with the gear. The lower end DOF adapters that most are using are limited in their ability to stop down. For instance, with my Letus Extreme adapter I can’t stop down past f4 without seeing the grain of the ground glass. This resigns me to a pretty narrow depth of field all the time. That being said, I love the look and my clients love the look. However, I am frustrated by the limited control over DOF. The newest generation of low cost DOF adapters may remedy this, though. The SGPro Blade, the Redrock M2 Encore and something soon from Cinevate perhaps, all have the ability to stop down further without seeing grain. So perhaps we will soon see more control and restraint exercised in the use of depth of field.
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[Aaron Cadieux] “Some (not all) of the first responses to my original question immediately became personal shots. Go back and read my first post, and then read the immediate responses. You can’t tell me they were personal.”
Aaron, you are likely referring to Bob Zelin’s post. Don’t take it personally –all of his posts are like that. Once you get to know Bob’s personality it’s actually quite funny and refreshing to read his posts.
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[Bob Zelin] “do you know why Walter is busy. Because he is GOOD. Because he and his little shop can outproduce and outedit dramatically larger facilities. He works his ass off, and learns everything.”
You can be the best and know everything and still fail. Schmoozing, marketing, networking, selling yourself, making connections and being in the right place to ‘get lucky’ is all more important than than being good and knowing a lot, IMO. (Of course, if you have all that together, it’s a bonus!)
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As you have discovered, you really can’t make any judgment calls on the sharpness of the footage based on the NLE’s on-screen viewer. You need to output to a broadcast monitor or, at the very least, a TV.
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As much as I like talking to myself, I figured I would continue this one man thread! Here is a link to the first cut of the video with the 3D Layer Warps animation. (The animation is at 1:10)
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Turning off multiprocessing seems to have done the trick. I am rendering without errors now. It doesn’t seem to have affected render times either! Software… gotta love it. Each chunk of code has it’s own temperament and personality.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!