Robbie Carman
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This is one of the bags I have and love it
I get 5D/7D in there my 70-200, 24-70, 100 macro, and 50 in the main compartment. Above I can fit flash, card reader, tripod collars, zfinder and other small things and laptop and ipad go in the back. Obviously cant pack hand held rig. But I have the little Tamrac tripod attachment for the bottom of the bag
Robbie Carman
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[Noah Kadner] “ooooh got it- how about no lens at all then. Shoot right onto the sensor. Very funky look. “
Brilliant! Dust on the sensor helps with that film grain emulation 🙂
Robbie Carman
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Do you have a back up of the original media? I doubt you overwrote the original media since you have work at it at a bit in compressor because of the way it names files by default.
Obvious question are you positive your original media has audio?
When you say you chose pro res you choice an apple preset? So Advanced Format Conversions > Apple Codecs > Apple ProRes 422 for Progressive material (either HQ or normal)? The thing about those presets is that they’re pass through for both frame rate and audio so did you create a new ProRes preset and not do audio pass through?
Robbie Carman
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another option if your in FCP is the nattress film effects (about $100 for the entire package) a little more complicated (more options) then the AE workflow RIch suggests (which works great btw) I’ve found it does a very good job
Robbie Carman
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Another option with some of the older lenses (or really any lens) is to get them converted to a cine style lens. You can the focus ring going in the right direction, de-click the aperture ring so you can do splits etc. Some of these guys will even press fit follow focus gears onto the lens. Lots of companies doing this these days. Check out these guys https://www.ducloslenses.com/Duclos_Lenses/Main.html. I know several people that have used them to convert old nikon primes to cine style lenses
Robbie Carman
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Thanks for buying the books!
From Still to Motion is the newest and most germane to this forum. It talks about DSLR video production for pre-pro through final finishing. While aimed at photographers making the switch to video it has a little bit of everything.
Video Made on a Mac is all about integrating Adobe Creative Suite and FInal Cut Studio to accomplish powerful workflows.
Final Cut Worfklows is a few years old now but fills a void in FCP books as its not a button pushing book, its more of well a workflows book. We talk about everything from video hardware and decks and compression, to review and approval, and finishing. The last part of the book are all case studies written in narrtive that put the rest of the book in to action. We hope to revising this book soon
Robbie Carman
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Colorist and Author
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Video Made on a Mac
Apple Pro Training Series DVDSP
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Yep you can’t get raw files into FCP (or any other NLE that I know of) Your best bet is to convert them to a lossless format like tiff or psd to use in your project. The reason you can’t open them in your version of photoshop is you’ll need to go download the latest version of the Adobe camera raw ( I think its v. 6.1). I’m pretty sure that’ll work with CS3.
Just keep in mind its in the raw conversion where ideally you’d do most of your color correction and tweaking. Also keep in mind if you’re going to be using Apple Color to do a final grade of your project the max frame size that color supports for stills is the max frame size of the app which is 4096 x 2304. You’re stills would need to be that size or smaller to work in Color if you go that route for final grading of the project
Robbie Carman
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I have the 70-200 f/4 IS. Which I got before the new 2.8 came out. In my opinion comparing the old 70-200 2.8 and the f/4 IS I felt the F/4 was sharper. True its slower put in outdoor shoots or under studio lighting it works great. Plus it has up to 4 stops of IS compared to the 3 on the old 2.8.
I haven’t had a chance to work with the new 2.8 yet but from everything I hear the new 2.8 is super super sweet
Has others have said the $500 is worth it for IS is your looking that f/4s. The real question is if you want to spend $1200-1500 extra for the new 2.8 IS? If you have it I don’t think you can go wrong with the new 2.8
Robbie Carman
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Thanks Michael!
Our book covers a lot plus there is 6+ hours of additional video training demo footage and other things on the DVD and we have a pretty interactive facebook page you can find here
https://www.facebook.com/DSLRVideo
I will say that do enjoy the DVDs that Philip has done too!
Robbie Carman
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Colorist and Author
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Video Made on a Mac
Apple Pro Training Series DVDSP
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I have the 24-105 and if I had one lens to carry around for photos that would be it. As far as video goes its still an outstanding lens. Though you won’t be able to get “as shallow” DOF from say 2.8 or faster you can still get it esp on the 5D sensor especially at the tele end of things. While the zoom is great giving you more framing options if I had only one lens to choose for DSLR video it would be the 50mm 1.2 which I have and love! but almost double the price of the 24-105
Robbie Carman
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Colorist and Author
Check out my new Books:
Video Made on a Mac
Apple Pro Training Series DVDSP
From Still To Motion