[Ryan Freng]

It’s a scopes issue for me too!

Thanks for the tip, it was driving me crazy…

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Shoot smart.

Owner/Director
Backflip Films
http://www.backflipfilms.com

[Ryan Freng]

We just ran into this issue. Here’s what happened:

1) Started project on Windows computer A.
2) Continued to work on project on MacBook Retina w/ mercury playback.
3) Opened project successfully on Windows computer A
4) The preset message pops up
5) When you try to save the project it FREEZES and stays stuck, have to CTRL+ALT+DELETE and kill process
6) Open project on Windows computer B (with Mercury Playback Engine)
7) Preset message pops up
8) Project saves successfully!

So we have two issues, the first being the preset notice that pops up and the second being the non mercury playback GPU computers can’t save the project.

Once we finish the edit on computer B I’ll try the ‘reactivating’ or ‘reinitializing’ Premiere on computer A and report back! Hopefully this will help alleviate the second issue as well.

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Shoot smart.

Owner/Director
Backflip Films
http://www.backflipfilms.com

[Ryan Freng]

Comping/camera tracking is certainly the least of what you can do. AE CC can even import c4d files thanks to the new interchange in AE CC. The camera tracking in AE is great as long as you don’t have more than two types of movement, ie: pan+tilt+dolly=bad, pan+tilt=good, tilt/pan+dolly=good. For those more complex moves you’ll need mocha or boujou or another camera tracker.

Shoot smart.

Owner/Director
Backflip Films
http://www.backflipfilms.com

[Ryan Freng]

With the mark II you can only use one: lcd or external output. The mark III allows the lcd to stay on when an external hdmi source is connected. The mark II just doesn’t have the horse power to run two video sources. An option you may consider is an hdmi splitter. That way you could run hdmi out to the splitter and then one line to a monitor attached to camera/rig and the second line you can run to a client or video village.

This also ignores the fact that the recording framerate of video out is 480p :/

Shoot smart.

Owner/Director
Backflip Films
http://www.backflipfilms.com

[Ryan Freng]

Cinestyle is a great start but here’s a few tims and things you still want to keep in mind:

1) Grade: pull blacks back down and your highlights back to white as well as set your gamma (nice setting to change depending on look). Shooting cinestyle helps you NOT lose your blacks or highlights, ie less noise in your shadows and highlights.
2) Post-production sharpening: because of the sensor size and camera speed the 5dmii image is a little soft. The camera has a sharpen setting you want at 0 so you can sharpen in post, which looks MUCH better.
2) The camera shoots skin tones a bit red. I’m sure I could find the digital explanation for this, but trust me it’s ok when you see those red skin tones, you’ll just have to pay attention to secondary color correction.
3) Fast glass low iso: this is going to give you the crispest image you can get with the 5dmii. If you need a dark scene don’t forgo lighting just compensate in camera to darken image
4) Shutter speed of 48 or faster unless you want significant motion blur

Once you get going with the camera you would probably figure these things out quickly. If you’re really wanting to push your 5dmii to the limit you should install the Magic Lantern firmware and shoot on raw. You can read more about raw shooting on the 5dmii on a blog post that I created: https://www.backflipfilms.com/2013/07/using-raw-on-the-canon-5d-markii-5dmii/

Shoot smart.

Owner/Director
Backflip Films
http://www.backflipfilms.com