Sean Simms
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I looked up the G3 and it has no hmdi output…..but the gh2 has one….did you mean that one? or have any experience with it?
Sincerely,
Eros Salvatore
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Disregard the last post…I just found the answer…I was using qt on a computer that didnt have fcp so that setting didnt show up….
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I have QT 7 and it does not have that selection….
here is a screen shot of it……
Thanks,
Eros Salvatore (another victim of creative cow’s “real name” policy”)
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I am a writer, director, producer and production designer for my films.
I’m shoot with DSLR’s 5D, 7D or 60D.
I like making narrative films with beautiful backgrounds so I want them to show up in the film.
I shoot under low light because I create a mood that is part of the beauty of the film.
If you want an example of something I shoot and why a short depth of field didn’t work you can see my film “Tasha’s Dream ” here. https://youtu.be/Zao_eGAZGSc
It’s a ten minute short with an incredible background that is a cinematographer’s dream but in some scenes one just doesn’t see the details of the “art work”/production design because of the narrow dof.
(EX: In the first scene the girl is in front of a mirror but the beauty of the mirror frame is blurred)You will also notice that their are places where the characters are in shadow with no detail.
And finally, I have been shooting with a high ISO (usually around 800) to compensate for the low-light but I did get more grain then I wanted.
My DP was young 21 (though he was making a living shooting commercials for people) and had seen my previous work so was willing to work for peanuts. (the total budget of this film was only $1,000) so I got something good for a little bit of money but next year I will be making a feature film version of Tasha’s Dream (my first feature) and I want to get this low light shooting problem worked out before production.
I did not think of shooting with a “normal” HD video camera……like a sony z1u or maybe a E3 because I thought that the low light capabilities of the Cannon 5D (with its adjustable ISO and full 35mm frame sensor would pick up so much more).
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Thanks Todd….so it seems I’m better off with a wide as angle lens as I can use in the given situation because I want a rather deep depth of field in low light……getting a fast lens won’t help because I would be using f stops that are going to be 4.8 or greater?
I’m trying to understand all of this because I just shot my first really good film and my cinematographer was shooting moving characters in low light who went in an out of focus….I wasted a lot of time reshooting as I didn’t have enough money to get a good focus puller nor shoot additional days……if I had known this before hand, I would have paid for a wide-anlge lens…….or gotten a different cinematographer….as he should of known this was going to happen…..
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I can’t find “fc color compatibility” in qt preferences……
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thanks, I will try both filters…..
Thanks,
Eros Salvatore (another victim of creative cow’s “real name” policy”)
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Sounds good…i actually thought my back up plan would be to open up one of the sequences from the autosave vault from before this happened and copy and paste my current sequence into it….
but I’m gone from the editing studio until July 5th…..so we’ll see what happens then…..
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oddly my clips are all dvcpro 23.97 but the the sequence settings all say dvcpro 60….I tried changing them but no luck…..unless i’m doing it wrong…..also i didn’t have this problem when i began the project so i don’t know why it would come up now……my settings haven’t changed at all….
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Maybe you are at the end or beginning of those clips and there is no room to do some transitions like cross-dissolve…etc.