Trip Gould
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Anyone have any experience with B&H Filmos? There are a few on ebay with lenses for less than $400.
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I also am a firm believer in the “it’s the filmmaker not the equipment” sentiment. The first feature film I ever worked on was NOVEMBER. It was shot on a first generation DVX100 and went on to win best cinematography at Sundance. It certainly wasn’t the “prettiest” picture when compared to 35mm or HD stuff that was out there, but it told the story, and that’s what cinematography is about.
My intent for these projects would mostly be to telecine and finish in post. I am an editor by trade; mostly docs, but some features and short form stuff. I’m really looking to study the film cinematography not because I think I could make money doing it (I’d probably do better off getting an EX3 for that), but just for a love of the art. I still shoot 35mm still film from time to time, despite the fact that I think DSLRs are fantastic (I’ll probably be picking up a 5D Mk ii someday soon). I also think HD is fantastic. I’m amazed at some of the stuff shot on even little cameras live the Canon HV30. I’m not anti-video by an means, just as I am not anti-DSLR. There are many situations where I would take video over film in a heartbeat and never regret it for an instant.
Anyway, as I said, this is more for the pure study of the art form. I appreciate all of the feedback so far and will definitely look into more of the Russian cameras.
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Okay. That’s what I’ve been working on. Thanks for all the thoughts.
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Also, assuming I do have to reconform things…what is my next step?
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What I am watching is the output to QT, which is our delivery format. I am using H.264 with a 6mb/s bitrate (per their request) and the framerate is matched to the sequence at 29.97. The JVC holds up well when it goes to QT, but the 1080i stuff becomes very mushy.
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I was told (or I read) that FCP could handle doing the frame rate conversion from 23.98 to 29.97 in the timeline. Is that incorrect? The interesting thing is, the motion looks fine in the timeline despite the mixed frame rates. Also, the final delivery will be for a flash based software program, so however good it may look on an HD monitor, it needs to look good on the computer screen. Also, the footage shot on the JVC (despite the on-the-fly frame rate conversion) looks amazing. Any thoughts? Thanks for responding, by the way.
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I agree. The ALEX (Avid Learning) site has some great free tutorials. I got up to speed enough in just a couple of days to be able to start a new editing gig having never used the AVID prior to that (except a brief look at the original Xpress lo those many years ago). You can even pay for some of their more advanced courses and advance your skills that much more. Definitely check it out.
https://learn.avid.com/content/tutorials/
https://learn.avid.com/alex/lms
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Just an update…I decided to go with the CalDigit S2VRDUO 1TB solution. It should be here in about a week. Thanks for all of your feedback.
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By the way, I just got through your “Getting Organized…” Master Series and I really enjoyed. Thanks for putting together a very useful series.Trip Gould
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I believe I didn’t properly communicate my intent.
My intention was not to capture to the partitioned RAIDed internal drives; I would be capturing everything to external media drives. The internal drives would only be housing different boot systems relevant to a particular program. That way, I can update drivers and OS for FCP, without having to do so for Avid (who tend to be very slow in updating their software to be compatible with the updates in Mac OS and QT). Each drive or partition would only have the OS and software suite for a program. In other words:
Partition 1: OSX and FCS2
Partition 2: OSX and Avid Xpress Pro Studio Toolkit
Partition 3: OSX and Adobe CS3 Production Suite
Partition 4: Media100 or possibly BootCamp w/ WidowsXPSince I wouldn’t be housing any of the media on the internal drives, and I always and regularly back up my projects to an external drive, wouldn’t that be pretty safe? If things crashed, I would only have to re-install the software and copy the project back over. Would it be possible to RAID1 or RAID5 four internal drives and then partition it so that each of the three or four suite partitions had a mirrored redundancy?
I guess the big question is whether or not I will even see a performance gain running OSX and the various NLEs on RAIDed partitions vs. just having three or four completely independent drives? If not, then it’s all pretty moot.
Thanks.
Trip Gould
Editor – Composer – Professor