Shawn Miller
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[Bobby Mosca] “A business should not operate for the interest of its employees, but for the interest in its customers.”
US corporations are required by law to act in the best interests of their stockholders. The legal obligation for these companies to make money quite often puts the interests of employees, customers and the general public at odds. It’s a tough balancing act, to be profitable AND conciencous of your impact on people (employees,customers, the general public)… but it can be done. Obviously, some companies are better at it than others.
Shawn
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[Bobby Mosca] “Oh, and read some Rand already.”
Uhh… what exactly are we supposed to learn from a woman who idolized William Edward Hickman?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edward_Hickman
Shawn
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[Jim Giberti] “That I wouldn’t know, we never work with blu-ray files. We transcode everything to Pro Res but I tried working natively with camera h.264 files and was surprised at how well X did with them.”
The Canon 5D Mark II shoots in AVCHD @ 17Mbps (I belive)… h.264 High Profile 4.1 for Blu-ray tops out @ 36 Mbps. I could be wrong here, so hopefully someone will correct me if I’m mistaken.
Shawn
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[Tim Wilson] “It’s worth nothing that Adobe was way, way out in front on this with Acrobat. There’s an article in the COW library talking about the uses of this for video (marking up frames, adding notes and the like) something like 6 years ago.”
Yes, Adobe Clip Notes. It was in the CS4 Suite for Premiere Pro and AE. It was a useful function… I’m not sure why Adobe killed it.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/Clip_Notes_1.php
Shawn
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[Kevin Patrick] “I didn’t come across anything (I probably missed it) on Adobe’s Technology Sneak Peek: The Future of Collaborative Editing presentation that they showed during NAB.”
I haven’t see this, I would love to see it at some point.
[Kevin Patrick] “Although, I don’t know why Adobe would show something like this in a public forum. I can understand the importance of getting customer feedback..”
As David pointed out, Adobe does this pretty often. I remember a technology demo a few years ago where they showed an application that did 3D tracking and camera mapping. As ususal, they stated that it was just a demo and that they didn’t know exactly what they were going to do with it… apparently, that technology made it into AE (surprise).
“I’m not sure why they would not do it under an NDA and in front of all your competitors.”
Good question, I’m inclined to agree with DRW here. I think it’s partially about differentiation, and partly about keeping people engaged in what Adobe is doing. Personally, I think the tech demos are great… I wish all the big media creation software companies had something like Adobe Labs.
Shawn
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[Lance Bachelder] “Act of Valor was cut on Media Composer once they brought in a high-end Editor.”
Fair enough, though Monsters was cut in Premiere. 🙂
But to what I believe was Walter’s larger point, Premier Pro can be found in high end workflows and on very large projects, so it does seem strange (to me at least) that Terence Curren had a hard time finding someone in film or TV using it… maybe no wanted to admit to using Premiere in their workflows? 🙂
Shawn
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[Lance Bachelder] “But nine of these shows was “edited” in Premiere, it was just used in the workflow – big difference.”
Oops, should have mentioned. Both Monstes and Act of Valor were edited on Premiere Pro. I didn’t know about “Girl with the Dragon Tatoo”. I’ll have to check that one out.
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/customer-stories-video-film-and-audio/monsters/
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[Patrick Jenner] “Not a camera for me though, I’m a PC user and thus can’t use HPFS or HFS or whatever it’s called.”
Macdrive will allow you to mount HFS volumes to a Windows machine. I use it when I get footage from MAC users, it works really well.
Shawn
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[Monty Wentzel] “The FIRST thing I look at on a new camera is the sensor size and I’ll tell you why. In most rooms of a home in a car or even on the street you can’t get the framing you want because you have to be so far away from the subject. Plus shallow focus etc…this is the look of and features of a full sized sensors and I won’t go backwards.”
So, based on the above stated criteria… the Canon 7D MkII is a better camera than the ARRI Alexa, the Sony F35 and the Panavision Genesis – and any camera with a ‘4k’ sensor will be ‘better’ than any Super 35 sensor on the market.
At this point, I don’t think any of us know how good the BlackMagic sensor is, but I am anxious to find out.
Shawn
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[Martyn Greswolde] “To obtain the same DOF on a 1.3 APS-H sensor as you get from a full frame sensor you need to shoot a full stop wider.”
Yes, comparing APS-H to Full Frame stills. Comparing Academy 35 (22×16) to Micro Four Thirds (17.8×10) it’s about a 1/4 stop. The BM sensor, being roughly the same size as the AF100 @16×9 should be pretty close DOF wise. At least, that’s what makes sense to me. Truthfully, that’s one of the things I prefer about the AF100, DOF seems much easier to control vs. the 5D. Of course, that’s on’y my opinion.
Shawn