Jason Jenkins
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After further investigation, it appears that I am a victim of the *Undo Bug. The Undo Bug will be hearing from my lawyer.
*In some situations, the Undo function in FCPX stops working and when that happens, any changes or edits you are making will not be saved.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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[Jerry Hofmann] “This sort of sounds like a corrupted project file. I’d be tempted to copy and paste the clips from the errant one to a brand new project.”
This is happening in 16 different projects; all in the same event. I don’t think it is a corrupted project file.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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So I redid the title changes, but the titler was responding very slowly, so I rebooted. When I opened the event all the title changes are gone again!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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[Joel Cotlhorpe] “Would it be fair to say though that this sharpening business is more unique to DSLR workflows than the higher end stuff? I, for example, would never sharpen my EX1 footage. It’s as sharp as a tack, and it should be shouldn’t it? I guess I just thought that DSLR stuff should have been as well if it was good enough for cinealta cameras to deliver that kind of image. Would you even suggest though that the nice clear stuff I’ve seen on the web from DSLR cameras has most likely been sharpened in post?”
FWIW, I’ve been in this business for 12 years now and the only time I’ve ever sharpened anything in post was when the focus was soft, and that didn’t work out too well; better to throw some b-roll over it if possible 🙂 I’m happy with what I’m getting straight out of my camera (Panasonic GH2), so you won’t find me making extra work for myself. I’m sure there are valid reasons for people to shoot flat and un-sharpened, but for me and my business it doesn’t make any sense.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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[Casey Petersen] “Another issue we have when we’re at roughly 1.8 is that the depth of field / focal length is so narrow that their eyes are in focus, but not their nose, or their ears…and if they sway back and forth (or forward and back), that screws up everything. It’s also hard to see the whole focal range on the little built-in screen…even with a magnifier…that even at 1.8 or 2.8, there is little forgiveness.”
Like Errol said, shoot at f2 or f2.8. Also, having an larger external monitor is essential, IMO. I use the SmallHD DP6. With the 1:1 pixel mapping I can ensure I have focus.
[Casey Petersen] “Does the amount of light make a difference in the amount of depth of field…bright sunny room vs. dark basement room…where 1.8 and same distance between subject and camera will give you 8 inches of focal range vs. 1 inch, depending on lighting (and ISO)?”
Your fstop makes the difference, but obviously that is influenced by the amount of light you have to work with. It would be advisable to at least have a small LED light you can use as a key. I recently picked up the Switronix TorchLED Bolt. It has tungsten and daylight LEDs, so you can mix your color temp as needed.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Very cool!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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Great tips, Todd; thanks! I’ve never really cared for the black limbo look and this seems like another good reason not to use it.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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[Casey Petersen] “It has worked well when the lighting is plentiful, but in low light and in dark indoor situations, I am having a heck of a time getting it to look good…even when ISO is bumped up to 1250, it is hard to get anything in sharp focus, even the things in focus are still not very sharp. Is this part of the problem?
Does anyone have any advice on what a good lens (or method) to use when shooting interviews, that allows for good bokeh?”
The secret to a good looking interview is lighting, not lenses. And good audio. I typically spend an hour setting up lighting and audio before an interview shoot. For this one I had a fluorescent key light, LED fill & back lights and a CDM fresnel on the wall. I had a shotgun mic mounted on a boom pole directly over the doctor. The lens on my GH2 was an old, inexpensive Nikkor, 35 or 50mm, set at f2.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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[Richard Herd] “Is there a link on this method? Was it discussed before?”
Richard, this is where I started: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_managing_disk_image_martin.html
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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[Bill Davis] “I’ve been moving projects around lately because, my 6 terabytes is maxed out and I’m doing so much new work that I’ve been running out of disk space in my system. I’m using the Duplicate and Move commands a lot – and I’m also spending a whole lot of time … waiting.”
I haven’t seen any kind of slow down in 10.0.3 yet, but so far I’ve only been working in a couple of events. One has 18 1 to 3 minute projects in it and the other is a 7toX transfer with several 90 to 120 minute projects. I’ve been using the disk image method of organization on my 6TB RAID 5. Each job has its own sparseimage containing the event, project, media, etc. I mount only the sparseimage I need to work on. When I’m done for the day, I use Carbon Copy Cloner to save the changes to my mirrored archive RAID. At that point, I have an identical sparseimage in 3 places. If I ever need to move a job, I just copy or move the appropriate sparseimage with the finder. I can work in FCPX while that is happening.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.