Shawn Miller
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Shawn Miller] “If the BMD cameras shot in TIFF sequences, would you feel the same way?”
No, I’d still throw it the lake! :)”
I take it that you won’t be adopting the Ursa mini? 🙂
Shawn
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[Walter Soyka] “[Shawn Miller] “that and image sequences, seem like odd things to leave out support for. ”
Is the BMD workflow DNG image sequences, or is there some kind of container?”
Nope, it’s just an image sequence. It’s one of the things that first attracted me to the BM cinema cameras.
Shawn
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Well, shoot. Street cred’s all we have in the post game! hahaha!”
No doubt. 🙂
[Jeremy Garchow] ”
It’s true, but that’s like saying Adobe should write all their own filter plugins and not rely on third parties.There’s an actual camera importer API that Apple has created. There’s a new format that comes out nearly every day. I can see Apple’s stance. Avid has somewhat offloaded this responsibility too, with AMA.”
I see your point. Still, it does seem odd for Apple to depend on a direct competitor to add support for an open format. If the BMD cameras shot in TIFF sequences, would you feel the same way?
Shawn
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Shawn Miller] “But these cameras seem to be more popular with indie filmmakers”
So is FCPX popular with indie film makers, and does that make up a bulk of Apple’s users, do you think?”
Yes, I see a lot of FCPX users on the BMD forums. I get the sense that most of them are debayering their raw footage in Resolve though. Lightroom seems to be a popular option for doing this as well.
[Jeremy Garchow] “MXF is an open source standard, too. It took FOREVA for Apple to support MXF. I think that if BM really wanted to, they could write an importer and make it happen. Instead, they are writing their own edit and color correction tool with full support.”
Yeah… truthfully, I thought that was strange too…. that and image sequences, seem like odd things to leave out support for.
I don’t disagree that Blackmagic could probably write a cDNG importer for FCPX… but so could Digital Bolex or Kinefinity. But why would they do that? Apple has way more engineering resources than any of them.
[Jeremy Garchow] “And by the way, just for the record, most people I talk to around town, and the people that they talk to, are going with Pr CC. Everyone looks at me like I’m that guy that actually likes FCPX. It’s allright, i can take it. :)”
lol – I sympathize completely. I was using Vegas years before a lot of editors even knew what it was… it didn’t do a lot for my street cred. 🙂
Shawn
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I haven’t seen a BM camera in the wild. We are full service production, and hire a smattering of DPs, I don’t know anyone that uses it is all I’m saying.”
I know a handful of folks who use BMD cameras for corporate work, including me from time to time. But these cameras seem to be more popular with indie filmmakers. Even then, I think most people shoot Prores though. I think you might see greater uptake of the Ursa Mini. If the 4.6k model ships on time with few issues, I think it has the potential to dominate it’s niche.
[Jeremy Garchow] ” I don’t know how high on the list CinemaDNG is. It seems like Blackmagic could be able to write their own import plugin and codec, just like Red does, but who knows?”
Cinema DNG is an open standard though. It seems weird to my that Apple doesn’t support it.
Shawn
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Thanks Walter,
I’ll tune into a few presentations tomorrow.
Shawn
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Thanks Noah,
I’m not a FCPX user, but I’ll check it out. 🙂
Shawn
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I really want to try the face tracker. I probably don’t have a real use for it yet… but it looks like fun.
Shawn
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I just finished a 10 week course on Fusion via FXPHD (which I highly recommend), partly as a refresher, partly to get a new perspective on the software. I think I’ll probably use it for certain kinds of VFX tasks – composites with a lot of components, which might require a lot of experimentation. I also think I’ll be on Ae for a long time to come – for complex animation and quick, relatively simple composites. As much as I like Resolve and Fusion, I just can’t use them as hub applications (for the time being), so Pr and Ae it is until I find something that better suits my budgetary and creative needs.
Shawn
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I’ve been waiting for them to expand their line of production monitors. I would really like to see some 7″ on camera monitors and stand mounted 10-15″ monitors; built in waveform monitor, battery operated, 6GB HD-SDI, ability to load 3D LUTs, I think they would really clean up there.
Shawn