Tommy David
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Well as long as it won’t burn out my macbook pro it’s fine. I have two of them so I’m thinking of doing it on the older one. it’s still powerful enough. its’ like this one it just isn’t retina.
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Well, that’s what I’ve always done. But I was reading forums where these guys were speaking of doing it the other way around. Understand that I am a photographer, I am not new to video, I’ve been doing video since the 5D Mark ii. But I’m still learning certain things. It seems that I know a lot more technical aspects about video rather than the simple things sometimes.
With photography I shoot RAW so there is no need for any white balance card or doing anything like that.
Now with Go Pro Raw, I have to choose the white balance in post with like the single color corrector right? Why doesn’t lumetri have a white balance picker?
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He said he’s a beginner and you think the c100 is in his budget? I use both DSLR’s and pro camcorders. DSLR’s are much harder to shoot with. I am pretty good at it but I’ve been doing it a while. If you are going to be doing most stuff hand held then go for a camcorder 4k with full manual controls with built in ND filters. Look at the Sony AX100 for example. 1500 dollars now, went down 500 dollars. Nice Zeiss lens, backlit sensor that is bigger than most camcorders, performs well in low light, good image stabilization, has 4k in camera, full manual control. If you then get good at it and want to get a DSLR/Mirrorless like the Sony A7Rii or Sony A7S, you will be able to edit the footage side by side and make it look the same as you learn color grading. I do it myself, while people in forums say it can’t be done. No one can tell the difference if you know how to edit and grade. I use the DSLR/Mirrorless only for shallow depth of field shots as they have full frame sensors. Other than that, I use the AX100. The Ax100 performs better than a lot of pro camcorders I’ve messed with, however it doesn’t have custom picture profiles. That really isn’t a problem if you use Adobe Speedgrade or a program similar. These things do take a while to learn. I’ve been doing it about 6 years. But with all the tutorials on YouTube within a year or two you’ll be able to make about any camera useable as long as it has manual controls. If it doesn’t have manual controls it will throw up the gain higher than it needs to be, because it doesn’t understand that you can turn it up in post, it will change the shutter speed around to compensate when you don’t it to, etc.
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I do all of that and turning the sharpness down does help but it is still sharp man, real sharp. How are you transcoding your footage into pro res or are you using native? My computer does it better with pro res and I’ve had to run it through FCPX to transcode it and then put it in premiere and I’d rather not have told to do that.
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It does that. It told me I was out of memory a few minutes ago just from editing a text template in premiere and I’m someone who edits 4k footage all day now. Also the 3 way color corrector, if I mess with the secondary color correction it will usually crash. I got it to auto save every 5 minutes now. It was on 20 minutes and I lost a whole sequence I put together over that.
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Do you have Final Cut Pro X? The transcoded media works much better and smoother for grading and playback than regular XAVCS 4k. But it’s wrapped in an .mp4 container. Apple compressor won’t do change it to Pro Res, Adobe Media Encoder won’t change it to pro res.
So, even though I don’t edit with final Cut pro, it’s on my computer, so I import it into final cut pro and for some reason, it will transcode it to Pro Res 444 there. The file is much larger but that’s what you want for editing purposes. I then go into the Final Cut Pro project and move the transcoded video files to premiere. It does it quickly too. I also do this with Go Pro footage, not because I have to do it that way but it’s just way faster for some reason.