[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Take a look at the Acer Predator. I’ve used Acer for 5 years.

Hope this helps.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

If I had to choose one or two lens mounts today that can fit almost anything, I’ll choose Canon EF lenses (Not EF-S) and Leica R glass. Leica R over EF.

Both of these are made for highly demanding still camera resolutions and will work excellently for video. The downside is that these lenses are not built for video – which makes focusing tough at large apertures.

Hope this helps.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Like Walter says, AE is not expected to have real-time previews. Adobe recommends at least 12 GB for average performance.

Also, make sure your read files are on a separate drive from the page/cache drive. This is also a bottleneck.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Maybe these posts will help:

https://wolfcrow.com/blog/dynamic-range-comparison-of-raw-vs-video-mode-on-the-canon-550d/

https://wolfcrow.com/blog/technicolor-cinestyle-vs-neutral/

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Movies are projected in 2K, which is very nearly 1080p.

If they were being projected in 4K, the difference would be very noticeable.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

+1 for the Samyang 35mm f/1.4.

I put together a rigging guide with lens suggestions here. It’s for the D800, but the lenses work well for DX cameras too.

You’ll ideally need f/2.8 and larger for low light. Shooting in ISO 800 is okay.

The disadvantage with larger apertures is pulling focus becomes tough – especially if you’re a one-man crew. Hope this helps.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Question: Will the Black Magic Hyperdeck Shuttle 2 record 12+ bit RAW video output from the Sony A99 camera? in a format I can use on a PC?

No.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Prores HQ is 220 Mbps or 100 GB/hour. A full project should fit inside a 2 TB drive.

Three streams of it is 660 Mbps or 82.5 MB/s. A consumer grade Hard drive at 7,200 rpm will give 100 MB/s, no sweat.

Now comes the big question: is your data on any project really big enough to warrant 2 TB of source material?

If not, then you’re better off with a 1 TB drive on each machine. If you want greater speed, then you can RAID 1 two SSD drives.

For your cache/temp/page drive, you can use a PCIe SSD or a couple of small 7,200 rpm drives in RAID 0 on each machine.

If yes, and you are doing heavy work with multiple reads and a few writes, then take a look at RAID 5/6, on a NAS.

What happened in school has nothing to do with the NAS architecture. NAS is fine. Here’s an example in RAID 1/5.

You’ll need a gigabit (1 Gbps) Ethernet network – it’s not a problem.

Just remember, RAID is not backup. You’ll still need to backup your files on separate drives, preferably off-site.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

What kind of RAID are you looking at? What kind of files will you be transferring? What kind of read/write speeds are you looking at? Are you planning on a gigabit Ethernet or just ‘Ethernet’ (100Mbps) or 10 gbE?

By using a NAS, you can eliminate the extra server, cause it’s usually in-built. It’s also simpler to trouble-shoot. What specific problems did you have with the NAS at school?

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Exactly what Peter said. Use the same settings.

Also try to use the same picture profile, WB and lenses – you shouldn’t be able to tell the difference!

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