Vince Becquiot
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Hi Steven,
None of the cameras you listed can be remotely operated (at least not easily). They are not designed for live broadcast.
You could look at the Sony HXC 100 with a studio kit, that will get you the RCP box to paint remotely via Triax.
You should expect at least $1200/day from a rental house. They are really solid cameras.
You can record on KIPROS (I like the rack version better) or the PIX units from Sound Devices.
Switching really depends on what you need. The simplest would the Panasonic HS50N and you can go up the line for more advanced features.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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Yes, right click on the clip, or select all affected clips. Go to Modify> Interpret Footage.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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It really does depend on the machine / playback software. Prores is almost always better with PlaybackPro, smoother playback on pans and rushes.
That’s on an iMac / MacPro with dedicated card.
But if they are playing back on a Macbook Air / Mac mini, it can get sketchy. If anything, keep the encoding in H.264 as CBR.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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Yes, definitely Prores over H.264. Not only will you retain full quality, but It’s much better for color correction. It’s also kinder to processing.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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Have you checked this?
https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/online-training.asp
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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Hi Alex,
Unfortunately, that’s the nature of 4K H.264. It’s just that processor intensive and the iMac is fairly limited when it comes to processing. The way GoPro compresses the footage also seems to be much worse than other cameras when it comes to playback. Then you add color correction and downconversion and you might have well take a short vacation.
My advice would be to throw all your raw footage into Media encoder and convert to ProRes, then start editing.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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It’s usually either a problematic plugin, corrupted / incompatible footage, or too little ram.
Too little ram would usually cause a crash at random times. You can also try dumbing media cash and rendered previews.
As a workaround, try exporting in smaller segment to Prores or uncompressed, and them combine the files again in a new sequence for a final export.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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The problem is that I don’t think anyone really makes a controller that will handle all that unless you have a studio camera. Good pan / tilt systems are also expensive. Cheap ones often have one speed, or they move very roughly. You could also look into jib controllers but again that would mean one controller per camera and they are not designed for DSLRs.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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I do have experience with higher end PTZ. You are correct that you are not going to get DSLR looks from a PTZ camera. While you can get a tilt / pan remote head and controller that will work with any camera, getting any other function to work for a one man remote operation is going to be close to impossible without engineering your own.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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Hi Jacob,
At this point you are looking at PTZ or Robocams. Sony and Panasonic each have their lineup. A single controller can control up to 8 cameras usually.
The expensive part is the camera, but it depends on the quality you are after and what you’re e shooting.
You’ll have to balance quality and smooth control vs budget. I personally prefer the Panasonic controller because of its rocking zoom control vs Sony’s approach which is built in the joystick.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area