Steven Bradford
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Wow.
This is the best Adobe can do? Adobe realizes how popular AVCHD is, right?Steven Bradford
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We do have lion for our server that we use. Just using it for file sharing right now.
We’ve already moved past FCPX.
I guess my question now is, If we’re not using FCPX, going forward, is there a reason to stick with iMacs and OSX?
Steven Bradford
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Well– There is also another classic: “History is Bunk.”
Steven Bradford
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I think this quote makes a point opposite of the one you intend.
Henry Ford claimed to “know” what was best for customers. And then General Motors gave the customers what they wanted in the 20’s and very nearly killed FMC. It took many decades for Ford to recover from Henry’s wisdom, and it never came close to regaining its once commanding market share.
Steven Bradford
https://www.3dstereomedia.com 3D company I’ve worked with since 1990
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Saw it mocked up at NAB. Lots of good changes, specifically a longer and wider lens, makes it more competive with the canons and sonys. 21x. Also will do AVCIntra recording, 10 bit 422. like it’s big brothers. No tape deck. Waveform Vector display. Has both Genlock and TC I/O. HD-SDI. HDMI. Under $6k I believe. Coming in the fall.
Steven Bradford
https://www.3dstereomedia.com 3D company I’ve worked with since 1990
https://www.seanet.com/~bradford/ my personal home page, find my greenscreen page there.
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The Cavision one is a total joke, and a waste of money. It doesn’t come with a groundglass, you’re supposed to somehow find one on your own then cut it and mount it. Like most of their products, which look good at first glance, than you discover some key component is made of cheap plastic, etc.
Steven Bradford
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I wish they included a transcript, so I didn’t have to watch the video to get to whatever conclusions or sample images were buried inside it. I got bored by the over the top title sequence.
Was there eventually any interesting information in this or was it all just silly eyewash?
Steven Bradford
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That’s right Terry. If this series doesn’t look good on someone’s large screen HD set, I don’t think it’s because of the decision to shoot 16mm. Something else is in the mix. Here’s the most up to date list of shows I have seen:
16mm Film:
Burn Notice – USA-
Chuck – NBC-
Crash – Kodak –
Degrassi: The Next Generation –
Eastbound and Down – HBO-
Eastwick – ABC –
Friday Night Lights – NBC-
Greek – ABC-
Heartland – CBC-
In Plain Sight – USA-
Lincoln Heights – ABC-
Men of a Certain Age – TNT-
The Middle – ABC-
Monk – USA-
One Tree Hill – CW-
Psych – USA-
Saving Grace – TNT-
Scrubs – ABC-And if you don’t like how the show looks, you should absolutely complain to your station! They want to know this.
Steven Bradford
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This is a standard technique. It has great advantages and some big disadvantages. It was used for Star Wars in the death star trench scene, and also I believe in parts of the speedbike scene through the trees in Return of the Jedi.
Anyways, it’s great for when you need to match sunlit backgrounds. It’s fantastic for doing model work of spacecraft, particularly larger models, as it’s can be difficult to get that perfect sharp shadow parallel source effect in the studio.
It’s also great because it’s really easy to get a perfectly even illumination on the screen, that’s the same intensity as on the talent. piece of cake really.
If your purpose is not to match sun shadows, it’s also great to to it on an overcast day. Or, use the sun as the back light and use the sky as your key on both the background and the talent. I did this once when I had to composite horses against a background. To take the rimlight down, we raised a large full scrim net behind the screen to drop the rimlight down a stop.
The problems, and why this isn’t done all the time, are pretty much the same for any outdoor shoot– the sun moves, weather, and audio problems.
Steven Bradford
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I believe this is your problem:
Output3 to ref video in
The TBC output should not go to the ref video in on hte deck.
Looking up a picture of the 810 I found on line, what you probably need to do is send a black signal to the ref in on the deck, and to the refernence composite video in on the 810. You could get this from a camera and loop it through the 810 Ref in/out to the deck.
That’s my guess from memory.
Steven Bradford
https://www.3dstereomedia.com 3D company I’ve worked with since 1990
https://www.seanet.com/~bradford/ my personal home page, find my greenscreen page there.
https://www.seattlefilminstitute.com the school I teach at.