Tony West
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[walter biscardi] “Planet Earth series”
That’s a pretty extreme show, the far majority of shoots that most people work on are not anywhere near running from giant snakes : )
I don’t care what job you are on, you need to white balance the camera. That’s gonna get you in the neighborhood.
Then it just comes down to exposure. Pick the right amount of ND to get close. I would be curious how much they ran in auto iris for something like that.
They used the Varicam mostly.
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It’s a very nice product, let me say that right up front, but I had to smile at that example he used in the demo with that blue footage.
Come on now, who is out there shooting footage that poorly and getting paid to do it?
I’m old enough to remember B and W viewfinders and folks would get in a hurry and not want to take a 9 inch with them, forget to balance and bring back something like that.
No excuse these days to bring back anything that looks like that.
Yes, he is trying to show an extreme example, but the standards have really gone down.
On this level, at best you should be slightly adjusting.
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Can you send it back to X the same way?
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[Tim Wilson] “So let’s ask the question, what did APPLE do wrong that has allowed Adobe Premiere to gain a foothold so quickly?”
Apple made the decision to streamline the editing process for non-fulltime editors.
When you look at Adobe’s latest video the talk about how you can mix audio like an experience audio mixer.
Who are they speaking to with that line? Yes, less experienced editors. They are doing the same thing now.
What Apple did “wrong” was they were the first to do it (as Scott pointed out they could afford to do it)
What Adobe did right was copy the tools that X has that people like and keep the old structure.
In fairness Adobe has come up with some really nice tools themselves and they have a very solid product, but they have to now. Gotta justify the extra money they are charging you.
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I guess I’m old school. I want my shots as close to pro in the filed as I can get them. I’m looking to just tweak in post, but different strokes.
The matte box just gets in my way as I’m changing primes. It just slows things down.
[Michael Gissing] “I live in an SDI world and even external monitors I have are SDI. “
Me too mostly, but I have the Paralinx system that’s HDMI so when I want to fly this thing I can’t give the client a monitor. I’m sure I could find a convertor but wouldn’t need to if they put it on the camera.
I’m sure you are going to get some really good stuff out of this camera. I was happy with the footage. I didn’t see any noise in the blacks that I heard folks talking about. It was very clean.
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[Michael Gissing] ” what features you are missing Tony.”
I would like built in ND filters. I can use a matte box but I’m use to just rolling the ND when I go from bright sunlight on the field to maybe someone in the tunnel or dugout. I just want to control light faster.
I like having A and B WB on the side of the camera. I want the option to cheat the color temperature
and click back and forth to the producer. A B A B A BThere’s no WB on the camera. You just dial it in (5600k) I don’t really want to do that. Sometimes there are multiple sources of light coming in and I want to see what the camera thinks that looks like on a WB
I like the option to dial but I also want the WB.
You also have to go into the menu to dial up a WB and you lose the picture in the flip out while the menu is up. I want to see the color temp as I change it.
You also can’t step through thumbnails of your clips. You can’t just delete one clip to make room on the card or playback a certain clip.
I’m sure some one will correct me if they have a different experience with the camera.
No HDMI out.
I get it, they want to make it affordable, but dang. It’s like it’s a sensor in a shoebox.
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[Michael Gissing] “my 4.6 “
I have been shooting with that camera myself Michael and some of it’s missing features make it a challenge to shoot with (at least for me). It’s a good price point for the image you can get out of it, but I’d like a few more basic features.
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When it comes to syncing, count me in the waveform category. I appreciate his video but since X came out I have not jammed TC in the field for anything that I am going to cut.
I don’t really worry about drift with the waves. I don’t see how a wave can drift. A boom is a boom.
His example of volleyball being challenging to wave, kind of confused me. I have shot a lot of volleyball over the years, all the way to the Olympics, and it’s a sport where the crowd is mostly silent waiting for the point to end to yell. During that time you have the sound of the smacking of the ball loudly. Sync that.
As far as TC notes in the field, yeah, I remember that back in the day. You would have your wireless TC send to the reader and a person sitting there. Let’s keep it real, that job has largely been eliminated to save money these days. I wish is weren’t true. I hate seeing jobs lost, but that’s what I see out there now.
I watched Thomas Carter’s video and I don’t remember him speaking that much if any about TC as he assembled his shots. It looked more visual and that’s how I work. the notes say good take but on a large screen with time to really concentrate, there is a bobble in the pan or something in the shot. Gotta look at it anyway and when I do I favorite. I’m going by my notes after screening on a big screen in a quite room that I can really hear in.
I think Jeremy is right, there are separate conversations going on here and his makes sense. I hope he gets it, but I think it’s going to be a business decision like all others. If they get a ton of people asking for that they will likely add it, if they get a few they likely won’t.
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I also like the idea of only paying for what I use.
i’m sure Sync N Link is nice, but I don’t need it right now. -
[Andrew Kimery] ” also risky because as a web series coming from them this would most be a slam dunk but going the feature route introduces a lot more uncertainty.
“If they decide to four wall, what’s really helped me take the risk out is to pick up a sponsor or two.
Since my film is about nuclear workers I have two groups that help workers that have gotten behind me.
I also have a environmental group.
Maybe have them look at their subject and see who would want to back them.
Have those DVD’s ready to sell after. That$ huge. or you-uge: )
The biggest challenge is dealing with chain theaters that make it hard for independent films to do basic business.