Tom Sefton
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This – 100 times this. Video walls for trade shows and multi projection screens have been bread and butter for us and high resolution footage looks incredible when you can maintain quality all the way from concept to delivery.
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Would you take the challenge to spot arri footage against red with the new IPP2 colour science? We’ve got both red and arri and with blind tests it’s hard. Very hard. Some of the in camera LUTs for in camera processing bring prores images that are jaw dropping.
I wouldn’t say one is better than the other, just has subtle differences. Arri is gorgeous for skin tones – the new blade runner looks absolutely incredible too. VFX work is, in the U.K. at least, more red based, along with most that has been shot in 3D or VR. Majority of marvel or comic book films tend to be too.
The major difference is the versatility and resolution, coupled with more fps. If the argument goes that resolution doesn’t matter as much and the colours and quality of pixels are more important,, why would arri bother with the 65.
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Arri wins for most features, red wins for VFX based work and for Netflix/amazon.
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It’s a camera aimed at cinema and high end, not corporate. Arri has released the 65 and red has responded with this. Future proof, push boundaries and win the market – red know what will come next and that is higher resolution TV and cinema. Especially with the frame sync ability of red compared with Sony a7 etc for VR shoots
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I think what is going to be the key issue is offering a machine that can edit and grade 8K raw and a different story for 8K prores. The new HP machines are aiming at 8K raw performance, but with an eGPU, the razr, new MacBook Pro and iMac are probably able to edit 8K prores if the storage is fast enough. I’d predict that the new Mac Pro will have a giant single GPU inside that is upgradeable but with thunderbolt 3 and an egpu it could be doubled up
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Well although it’s a stunning new release from red, with a new sensor that performs much better in low light than ever before, it’s not the first 8K camera from them. The first was the epic-w and was released in autumn 2016.
Certainly 8K will become a new standard for editing, but with the advancing clamour for VR, expect multistream 8K editing to be an aim for most hardware manufacturers, especially once red figures out how to make the 8K cameras smaller and lighter…
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Your first contract was to deliver the films for a set price.
Your client then took work from you to reduce your workload and have someone else complete the translations.
I can see why they might feel their invoice should be reduced or why you should pay for the translations but unless this is in the contract then you are not obliged to pay or reduce your fee.
I would suggest that if you want to maintain a relationship and work with this client that you should negotiate a compromise – what about offering a credit note for future work to the value of the translations?
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We own a lot of macs and a couple of new custom built PCs. There’s nothing between the 2013 Mac pros and PCs in terms of speed, but the PCs aren’t thunderbolt compatible which is a massive bind because we’ve got 5 portable raid drives that are all thunderbolt only. Irregardless, we work more on Mac, personally, I prefer everything about working on them. I wouldn’t describe myself as an Apple fanboy, but colour me Apple if you want – we work cross platform and my preference is for everything OSX.
Having said that – the new HP Z8 machines look cooooool
I have quite literally zero interest in debating Mac vs PC with you Andy.
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