Tom Sefton
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Eric, you have just crystallised my experience with Blackmagic so far, aside from hellish experience with audio quality in DaVinci.
If there is a good monitoring system from Ultrastudio 4K I will be made up.
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This is more like a VFX shoot with reference frames being used on an external monitor to help with continuity. Shoot the time-lapse at 1fps, then use a reference monitor to align and shoot the dissolve to your 25p footage afterwards.
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BMCC has never been a good camera for low light, even with lenses that go as fast as 1.4 and ISO up to 800. Use more light. You can always reduce this down in post.
Even Red needs lots of light – the best cameras for extreme low light are 5DMkIII or the C100/300/500
The shots you googled probably had some clever soft lighting and reflectors.
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If I could afford the plane ticket, hotel, unforgiving looks from my wife and the time (which I dearly wish I could), I would be checking out the Red booth to see what the new Weapon is going to look like, checkout if there is a shared thunderbolt RAID solution is coming, see if anything could be found out about an upcoming update to the Mac Pro, stopping by at the FCPXworks stand, having a look at the new arri, going for a cigar and a rum and coke at the Rhumbar at the Mirage, and having a huge steak at Prime.
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As soon as I can, I will go into specifics. There have been 2 cases. One for repeated crashes that I contacted support for via email and received phone support within an hour of my original email. That was resolved quickly.
The next has been something else, but I can’t go into too many details at the moment. They have been very attentive, asked for system logs, system reports and a few more specifics from us about the type of projects we are working on.
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I’ve always found it a massive pain in the arse to deal with Adobe. So far apple have been great with FCPX.
The plugin manufacturers I’ve worked with have been mixed. Some aren’t interested, others like Thomas Szabo at Primaries Exporter have given up spare time and been available for email and Skype whenever it has been required and gone above and beyond to solve issues and provide beta versions for testing – fantastic.
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Unfortunately, this is absolutely right and not what you wanted to hear.
That music was another artists baby, and their art, and they have the right to approve its use with whatever project they choose. If they decide nothing, its up to them.
I’d suggest harvesting some tracks from a site such as premium beat and finding the closest possible match to your piece and using this instead. Or you could find a talented musician and see if they could create something that sounded similar, but not exactly the same as your preferred piece….
Just out of interest – which track was it and which artist holds the license for it?
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So you and your father have no experience in post production, your business partner has none either and won’t mentor you because you don’t have a good relationship, and you are employing one specialist to do all the work? Is this right?
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There is a piece out there somewhere on barefeats which compares Mac pro models when rendering from Resolve, FCPX and RedCine X. It mostly looks at encoding r3d files to ProRes but shows almost to the dollar how much benefit you get from the upgrade from 6 to 8 to 12 core, as it shows the huge gulf in encoding times between each model. Although the top of the range is a lot more expensive you are literally saving hours per week, which if you only have one machine it’s worth the extra spend. It’s horses for courses, but if you are going to work in 4K regularly, and encode from raw to ProRes or similar, the extra money on a Mac pro is always worth it. You can also get up to 128GB RAM in a Mac pro now by purchasing upgrade kits from 3rd party resellers and getting a model with the lowest possible stock ram which is gold for most tasks.
Just my tuppence.
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Would have been really nice to see the specs of both machines before the test.
In our experience, a 6 core with d700s has been faster than his benchmarks for exporting ProRes and H264 material, but I suppose it depends on storage drives and destination drives.
I am really looking forward to seeing what apple brings to the market for the new, new Mac Pro though….
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