[Mark Smith]

Candles are much warmer than incandescent light. If you go for a 3200K white balance your candle light should look about right warmth and color

[Mark Smith]

BRING IT!!!

[Mark Smith]

I bought an original Mac Mini M1 which has served me well in the edit department. I am mostly cutting 4K and some 5.7 k and of course everything under those specs. When The M1 mini came out I was long overdue for an upgrade so it was a solid purchase. I also havE a 14″ MPB M series. Since I do shoot quite a bit having a desktop in addition to something I would take on location is a need in my case. The newer generation M1 ‘s are beasts so I think they are good for a number of years. One thing I have learned with the M1’s is that fast storage makes a huge difference in performance. If I have a small project using a 2 TB or 4 TB SSD drive like a T7 makes a huge positive difference in performance.

[Mark Smith]

So it’s ok for color finale to build a FCP plugin to render braw into prores in conjunction with fcp which is a bit short of handling braw natively in FCP.

[Mark Smith]

Its not a big leap to jamming TC between audio and video. While you may not have it for this project you should go down this path for your next one, as it makes life so much easier and better to have some redundancy for syncing files.

[Mark Smith]

I find Physical stabilization whether gimbal, Wescam, stedicam, steadicam gimbal hybrid almost always better than stabilization with IBIS or optical. frame rates, as Joe points out are also a very big factor.

[Mark Smith]

59.94 isn’t bad, the 23.98 definitely has mush coming into the clip from the stabilization. I have found that the worst thing is additive stabilization ‘Mush’ so if you use IBIS with lens optical you have to be really careful. I came across an example of this on a recent project, and admittedly the shooting situation was fringe – hand held from a motorcycle with both IBIS and optical, in some cases the combined camera and vehicle movement swamped each stabilizer resulting in MUSH. In the same situation a C300 Mk2/18-80 Canon with optical on and no IBIS was vastly better.

[Mark Smith]

I agree that it might be the situation that BMD uses Braw to purposely frustrate FCP users. Also agree about track based editing, my editing experience is just better with FCP because I feel like its tilted towards facilitating creative editing process, aside from having great organizing tools. I’m not going back to track based editing anytime soon. Stability and speed of FCP on my M1 mac mini is another huge plus. I’ve had very few issues, the software and hardware combo just works, allowing me to focus on the edit.

[Mark Smith]

I have both color finale and CFT transcoder – I like them and use them both .

[Mark Smith]

I’ve long thought that the BMD pocket cameras were the gateway drug to Resolve, you get a camera with a lot of bang for the buck and a free pass to Resolve which is a way to siphon people out of the FCP or Premiere world. I have Resolve, but rarely use it, FCP just suits me better, though I have to say Resolve is quite a package.