[Shawn Miller]

[Tim Wilson] “If anybody tried to make the case that the most common use for the Vision Research Phantom HD camera is NOT super slo-mo cat video, I’d laugh in their faces. Needless to say, nobody is trying to make that case.”

LOL, sad but true… cats, breaking glass and exploding water balloons. @ $995, I think there will be a plethora of ‘test’ footage from this camera on YouTube, much like the bevy of skate videos shot with the GoPro… I also think the BM Pocket Cinema Camera is going to become a staple in the professional shooter’s camera bag… like the GoPro. 🙂

[Tim Wilson] “My theory is that the first BMD camera was running late because of sensor supply issues. I wonder if that’s the one part of the supply chain that was beyond their control? And now that the logjam is busted, they can more reliably MEAN July when they SAY July.”

That’s what I understood as well. If BM can make good on the release dates in big numbers, we may be seeing the end of h.264 cameras for professionals.

Time will tell. 🙂

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Craig Seeman] “Heck for the $995 DSLR like shaped super 16 sensor sized camera…. you’re going to see a lot of nicely graded cat videos on YouTube. ;)”

Too true! I think this also has the potential to become the other go to b-roll camera in every shooter’s bag (next to the GoPro). I’m seriously considering ordering two. 🙂

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Steve Connor] “I’m no expert on Speedgrade but it seems very fast with dng files, faster than Resolve on my system. However it doesn’t seem to have the RAW control that Resolve has”

That’s helpful, thanks Steve. Now I just need the camera… waiting for MFT production numbers to ramp up. 🙂

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[David McGavran] ”
Speedgrade already supports CinemaDNG from BlackMagic Cameras.”

Ah, good to know. It seems like most people are going into Resolve or Lightroom, then to PPro. Glad that SG is also an option… though it would be nice to have the option to drop c.DNG directly onto the timeline like .R3d. 🙂

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

Very sad indeed. One of the few critics whose work I enjoyed.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Steve Connor] “How about cinema dng support for the BMD camera and proper RAW control in Speedgrade? I like Speedgrade a lot and would like to use it more.”

Good question Steve, I really want to know this too… Kevin, will 12Bit CinemaDNG be supported in the next version of PPro and SpeedGrade?

Thanks,

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Steve Connor] “I can’t find any detail on how this is implemented, whether you can transcode on import or in the project.”

Good question. I assume this done through Prelude… but I guess we’ll have to see.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “thats a bit of a deal really – mostly in terms of people’s perception of the software, but thats a biggie – so presumably that means if we’re pro res on the timeline, and pro res on export, we don’t get the render hit.. and the sequence can be parcelled off to resolve nicely?”

Hopefully, I’m always in favor of faster renders. I also like the native support for DNxHD in MXF, it should make footage from the Black Magic Shuttle easier to work with.

Truthfully though, I’m a lot more ecxited about the new AE/Cinema 4D intergration… C4D Lite now bundled with AE… AE now uses the C4D render engine… HOLY CRAP! This makes the Creative Suite ridiculously powerful.

https://landingpage.maxon.net/?lang=en

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Steve Connor] “[David Cherniack] “That to me means DNxHD as an intermediate codec.
”

I hadn’t understood it as that, but if it’s true it would be a big step”

It’s in Adobe’s NAB 2013 Premiere Pro preview document.

“Mezzanine codecs, native formats
Industry-standard mezzanine codecs are built right in with Adobe Premiere Pro. Edit across platforms
using Apple® ProRes (encode on Mac OS X 10.8 only). Support for encoding and decoding MXFwrapped
Avid DNxHD files is available on both Mac and Windows. Natively edit even more formats
thanks to new support for Sony XAVC, Panasonic AVC-Intra 200, and others.”

https://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/events/nab-2013/Preview_PremierePro_NAB2013.pdf

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Joseph Owens] “The first part of the demonstration illustrates the definition of splined shapes to start isolating the objects of interest.”

Fair enough, but I don’t think that’s a capability unique to Mocha. You could make the same comparison to Silhouette Roto or Nuke’s roto tools.

[Joseph Owens] ” The rest is layering on key separations and it would appear rotobrush is essentially a boundary definition that is likely parented to the first shape and is still comparing and matching pixel areas.”

I agree with this in a very broad sense. Where roto bush seems to diverge from every other roto tool is in its ability create splines based on textures or user defined areas of interest. Mocha can track textures, but it won’t create splines for you… I don’t know of any other roto tool that will.

EDIT: I don’t think there is another tool on the market that will automatically create feathered masks either. 🙂

I am interested in seeing what the new version of RB can do though… I hate rotoscoping. 🙂

Shawn