Steve Crow
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I wonder if both of you used a 3rd party picture profile like Cinestyle, Marvel etc – but of course you still have two different sensor but it may get you in the ballpark, try it out and let us know. Failing that, just set up a small test with the two cameras shooting the same scene from the same place at the same time and fiddle around with the settings until you get something close, probably I’d go for the neutral settings on both cameras as a starting point, but I’m just thinking out loud here!
Steve Crow
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Have you tried a sync tool like plural eyes to do all the syncing automatically for you in post?
Steve Crow
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Heres an article you might like on budget 4k options
https://www.thevideomode.com/equipment/best-4k-video-cameras-500-2348/
Steve Crow
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I would seriously consider looking into iphone cinematography – feature films like Tangerine are now being shot with them. Check out my Flipboard magazine (free) on the subject called Mobile Journalism & Filmmaking.
Steve Crow
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See an example of how Dave Dugdale solved this problem with a c-stand and extender arm on this video:
https://www.learningvideo.com/a7sii-and-a7rii-tutorial-jam-sync/
Steve Crow
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Hi Chuck,
What you are experiencing is one of the realities of filming video with DSLR cameras. While some lenses and camera combos do have autofocus capability many are very slow and will hunt and seek before picking something to focus on. There are a few camera bodies that are recognized for having especially very good autofocusing capabilities – these are sometimes known as dual pixel auto focus systems but can go by other marketing names as well, names vary by brand.
Cinema lenses are almost defined by NOT having any autofocus capability at all, they are totally manual focus. In cinema circles auto focus is almost looked down upon; “a true cinematographer would never allow the camera or lens to try and focus their shot for them” is a common idea. When you have larger crews and maybe even a very skilled someone whose whole job it is to focus the camera for you (a “focus puller”) then the camera operator does not have to worry about focus – most of us don’t live in that world.
DSLR lenses in particular are notorious for being very very sensitive when it comes to getting focus, just a small turn can result in big focus changes – hence the popularity of follow focus gears (again too pricey for me right now but would love to have a setup like that)
So if you are filming with a DSLR and maybe have a full frame sensor and very shallow depth of field, then it can be quite the task to keep the subject in focus and that’s on top of keeping an eye on everything else. Camera or external monitor firmware that offers nice things like focus peaking are very nice to have, perhaps along with a follow focus unit on the side of the camera.
So you may have to make a choice, playing it “safe” with deep depth of field on subjects that are prone to move around and then saving the shallow depth of field stuff for your beauty shots where you have more control and things are more static. (Either that or train yourself to get very very good at nailing focus, perhaps by filming cats or children or children playing with cats)
Steve Crow
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Oh and in terms of sharpness or “crispness”, I hope you know about the Phillip Bloom technique of doing all the sharpening during editing (it’s far better quality than the in-camera sharpening) – experiment with shooting all your video “flat” and bringing it back to life in editing, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNNqUm_nSXk
Steve Crow
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This technique is even easier – using just the sync and not the multicam clip (he doesn’t mention until pretty far in that when you select the clips to autosync they can be audio or video files – fcpx syncs them all) – plus this clip has a very pretty girl in it so….enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L79TgzlHZg
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Nope, it sounds like you are still making it too hard. You simply select the raw master audio file and all the video clips (angles) with their low quality audio and bring them into one multiclip, this will automatically sync all the video clips together using the master sound file as the reference.
Watch these videos (the first one is better even though it is very old), but there are many others on the Internet as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFmyXWaQHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKYGbEqwBDw
Steve Crow
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Fcpx will sync the audio to your video automatically, like Plural Eyes does
So start learning about multiclips in fcpx and relax, its SO much easier than you think
Steve Crow