[John Davidson]

[Glenn Grant] “They have something close to that. Instead of the spouse you get an ex-wife and it’s called alimony and the ex gets it all.
“

The worst part is you can’t use the ex after you cancel.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I don’t think of AVCHD as complete garbage. My take on it is that to use it professionally you just have to know exactly how you want your footage to look when you shoot with it, set the camera accordingly before you hit record, and don’t have a ‘fix it in post’ mentality.

It’s a lot like working with HDV. You just have to get it right, right from the start.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

No external recording in the past – but we have an Atomos Shogun on backorder with B&H should that product ever actually get released. We have in the past used an AJA Ki Pro with a Sony F55 and it worked great.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

As this is a still camera and video camera, are you sure you’re not trying to import off the photo side? I think Aperture/iPhoto will see one director and FCPX will see the other.

The bitrate for the FS700 is stupid. Something like 20Mbps. That’s why it needs an external recorder to get the good data rate.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Our FS700 uses AVCHD files and works fine natively with no transcoding.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

For what it’s worth, there’s an ability to remove the related videos if you’re embedding a youtube on a wordpress site:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-youtube-related-videos/

We use Vimeo Pro for our work clients, always embedded in a wp page so clients don’t know who is hosting the video.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

If you might one day put it on Youtube at 4k, then stay in 4k. if you are positive you won’t ever go past 1080p, then work in 1080p. This gives you the option to do cool camera moves, pushes, pulls, etc., with the 4k footage. Hopefully you shot wider than normal since it’s all 4k.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Just tested it – works great.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I use option+right bracket (or left, depending on your needs) constantly with things like this.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

When you drop it in, if you want to reframe, etc., without accidentally going in too far, change spatial conform of the dropped in clips to “none” instead of “fit”. Then when you go to 100% you know you’re at maximum resolution/zoom.

I got that from Jeremy Garchow, so I’m not taking credit for it.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.