Steve Crow
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Is it too late to return those screw on lenses? You would have been sooo better of by purchasing the Canon 50mm 1.8 for $99-$120
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Hmmm having read Sareesh’s advice – it makes a lot of sense to me since you can always recreate the ProRes files. I view the ProRes files as being of higher quality which is why I suggested deleting the H.264s if you had to choose one or the other but I can see the other choice makes sense
No chance of getting another hard drive?
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In that case, if you feel you have to delete, I’d delete only the H.264 files that are NOT used in any project assuming you are saving the contents of the whole card which I do as well
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When you say “raw” are you talking about simply the camera originals or are you talking about true RAW video files like those produced by the Red cameras? If you are talking about the footage shot by the camera in some compressed format like H.264 then I wouldn’t be so concerned if you deleted them since you have a ProRes version which is much less compressed.
On the other hand, if your camera is shooting true RAW format video files then in no way would I ever consider deleting them.
In either case make sure you have a good backup procedure in place – if you aren’t backing up but merely archiving the past footage away then I would not delete a single thing and I would make sure to get a backup procedure going ASAP
All the best!
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Do a google search for 3-2-1 backup strategy, I did it for you here:
I am told the top link from Dpbest flow is pretty good. This backup strategy comes comes from Peter Krogh’s “The Dam Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers”. … Leo Laporte and Alex Lindsay from PixelCorps are always talking about it
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Apparently there are other ways to accomplish this besides a cable, for instance InfraRed remote shutters can trigger more than one camera at a time and I also read that pocketwizards can be used to control shutters remotely.
This Google Search proved helpful:
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I have only been working with ProRes files for the past several years and it doesn’t do what you want, in fact it increases the file size by quite a bit. Just as a best practice I would suggest you save your camera raw video files PLUS any transcoded versions…yes we are again talking about taking up MORE storage space not less but the whole point is you want to preserve the best quality possible, not the smallest file size.
I don’t recall what other lossless codecs do re file size, you could always create a one minute clip and then try saving it in different lossless formats to see what file sizes you end up with.
Generally what I do is export a ProRes version of the completed movie off my FCP timeline and save that as my master. I also like to save all the assets used to create the final version and sometimes all the assets period…ooops here I go again increasing your storage requirements! 🙂
Also, don’t forget about backups – how many you make is up to you but a lot of pros save the orignal files plus TWO copies – each copy stored on a different medium. LIke one backup copy on DVD data discs and another copy on a hard drive or online or something.
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Probably a high frame rate, hand held shot, increased sharpness (as opposed to the normal suggestion of turning the sharpness off or way way way down) and then maybe adding a jitter effect which may not be obvious if the subject is moving a lot anyway. Just my thoughts
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Since the person on camera is some kind of performer, I’d look for images of film, tv or commercial sets where you can see cameras, lights, flags and other production gear in the background to give the idea that he is taking a break from his filming to make the video you are editing. Try Google search for Creative Commons images, try Flickr for Creative Commons images – or buy an image from iStockPhoto or a similar place – you can easily darken an image if that’s what you need.
Steve Crow
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Ha ha I’ve never actually used this particular tool but I’d first try holding down the “alt” or “command” key or if that fails I’d go find a tutorial video on YouTube, there are tons of great ones, just do a search!
Steve Crow
Crow Digital Media
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