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Both being CMOS, the rolling shutter will affect bother cameras fairly equally. The difference in sensor size is also reasonably negligible according to the Creative Cow podcasts and a few articles- it doesn’t work anything like 35mm film, apparently that’s actually a bit of a selling gimmick, and I’ve read it’s not quite true. The reason for this is that 35mm film recorded the film frames onto the entirety of the film stock (ie the entire 35mm piece of film is exposed), but a 35mm sensor works differently and only a portion of the sensor is actually used. Crop factor is a consideration, and the 5D MK2’s sensor being bigger has inherent advantages, such as better low light capabilities and shallow depth of field, but I dont think its accurate to compare it to 35mm film, because it’s still only 1920×1080 and thats how much of the sensor is being used regardless.
Also an f1.8 50mm prime is a great lens for shallow depth of field without making the image too grainy. I personally think the 1.4 is a little overkill- in DSLR terms, 1.4 means the nose of a subject can be in focus and their eyes aren’t, so unless you want depth of field that shallow for some reason, its probably worth saving the money.
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Tom Morter-Laing
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That said though, you cant replace information. It wont be any better for green screen, it will only be better for rendering and it’s effectiveness within the machine.
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Tom Morter-Laing
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I’m with Clyde here- I dont understand how converting it will help with the actual Key. I get that it will be easier to render and nicer to work with when converted to, for example, Prores 422, and I understand that lighting etc are massive factors, but once you have shot in H264 420 converting it to 422 wont put any information back or improve the key in any way surely? At least, thats what I was told here a while back…
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
Sorry I dont think your logic follows though, I know Disk Utility very well, – I understand what portioning is, assuming that its just a synonym in this case for partitioning. In which case there’s no such thing as a drive which has two partitions, one of which is SS and one of which isnt. Or have I missed something?
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
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Hi Anthony,
Your answer has confused me a little- how can you portion a hard drive to be solid state and a standard SATA? Surely it HAS to be two separate hard drives?😀
Tom Morter-Laing
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http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
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Both will do the job, but I made the upgrade from an i5 to an i7 and found a noticeable difference. Hyper threading also means for things like compressing trough compressor, you can use more virtual cores, which definitely helps. So my advice would be if you can afford to wait, definitely do so.
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD. -
The i7 is a faster clock speed, but has a few other features which are DEFINITELY useful for things like compression, such as hyper threading.
Check this guy out for a better explanation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y90uKmREUlo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
He’s a little annoying but he does one of the best explanations I could find on the net. The i7 is well worth it, if it’s in your budget. Upgrade the RAM and you easily have a “pro speed” machine.
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor
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http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
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Also Peter: “Had to try a couple of versions, since the menu didn’t show up, when I hit the trashcan-button (seems to be a known issue), but eventually it worked.” Which version was that which did work and where’s it from?
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Tom Morter-Laing
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http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
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Sorry if this isnt quite the correct place to as this, but do you have to have a file on the SD card all the time? It mentions on the site you need the AUTOEXEC.BIN on the card for it to work- is that only for the install or does that mean every SD card I use in the future will need that file on it for it to work?
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Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
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The snow leopard upgrade you need is just the standard one (it’s 25 pounds here). You only need the “full” box set when upgrading from tiger (10.4), although the snow leopard disc is actually the same anyway, it’s actually to do with licence agreements (that’s something they don’t tell you lol). You don’t have to back up, it’s very straight forward it will just install and keep your mac as you left it, just with new snowy goodness. However it’s always worth backing up JUST in case something goes wrong. You should backup everything anyway, we had a hard drive specialist in the other day who said “the only thing you know for certain with a hard drive is that it will fail at some point”.
Upgrading to FCP is a tricky one; I can’t remember if you can do upgrades past a version (eg FCP 6 to 8) for the price of an upgrade disc or if you have to get the full version. If you need the full version youre better off getting the 7 upgrade disc so when 8 comes out you don’t spend as much- it would still probably work out cheaper that way believe it or not. To answer your question, FCP8 in feb is only rumpled and hearsay, and no one knows anything certain at all except people high in apple, but Id put money on it being another expensive upgrade- no way will it be a “free upgrade”, especially if it’s rewritten in 64bit.😀
Tom Morter-Laing
Freelance Editor
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
http://www.depictproductions.co.ukSony Z5, with Rode NTG2.
iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800), with Elgato Turbo H264HD.