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listening to music through youtube is like eating the best french cuisine from a dumpster. youtube was quite fun 10 years ago,before the ads, the wait till i load crap, the killing of anonimity, blackmailing you to sign up for that google+, keeping histories of what you browsed plus the bad sound-image quality lag and sea of trolls trolling trolls. i dont think i have uploaded any videos there, and although i lose clients, i prefer to re-direct them to vimeo. check this about google blackmail: http://digg.com/video/google-is-going-to-blackmail-you p.s check this interesting chart about the % of indy music from phonofile.com/

There are close to one million books published globally, every year. There are over 40,000 full-length audio releases. If you want to check each one out it would take your 53 hours per day (weekends included). Want to watch every movie? 32 hours per day. In short, artists produce more content then anyone can keep up with. Again, that's just listening/watching once to see if you like it. Then there are magazines, TV, art shows, lectures, etc. All this content has a simple effect on many people--it makes them anxious. Big companies grow on the back of that anxiety. They select a few (if even using political methods) which gives people MORE time to enjoy that art, and less time trying to keep up with all the artists vying for their attention. There are only so many hours in the day. Art hasn't changed since the dawn of time. From my favorite poet on the subject of the artistic way of life, from H. S. Mauberley, by Ezra Pound (1920) Here are a couple of selections: MR. NIXON In the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht Mr. Nixon advised me kindly, to advance with fewer Dangers of delay. "Consider "Carefully the reviewer. "I was as poor as you are; "When I began I got, of course, "Advance on royalties, fifty at first," said Mr. Nixon, "Follow me, and take a column, "Even if you have to work free. "Butter reviewers. From fifty to three hundred "I rose in eighteen months; "The hardest nut I had to crack "Was Dr. Dundas. "I never mentioned a man but with the view "Of selling my own works. "The tip's a good one, as for literature "It gives no man a sinecure. "And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. "And give up verse, my boy, "There's nothing in it." ... Beneath the sagging roof The stylist has taken shelter, Unpaid, uncelebrated, At last from the world's welter Nature receives him; With a placid and uneducated mistress He exercises his talents And the soil meets his distress. Yes, no one at sight knows a masterpiece and most artists' work is pissing in the wind--I can tell you mine is ;)

Like to share this one shot acoustic Music Video I created for Arctic Chanteur, North Star Blues singer, ex Madrugada frontman Sivert Hoyem. Shot with a Kowa Anamorphic. Tokina Diopter. Redstan Clamp. Canon 50mm FD 1.2

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"Making of" MiniCyclops - First Outdoors Test (14x14 inches "sensor" size Motion Camera)

"Making of" MiniCyclops - First Outdoors Test (14x14 inches "sensor" size Motion Camera)

If your lens is really a 1.6 stretch then you will want to shoot with a ratio of 3:2 or wider. 3:2 with a 1.6x squeeze will give you a 2.4 aspect, 4:3 will give you a 2.13 aspect and would be non standard unless you crop. With ML you have so many choices for resolutions and aspect ratios that I would personally choose the settings that require the least amount of cropping. Cropping can be useful but you will be maxing out the potential of the camera so every little bit of savings will help, ML raw is very data intensive. If you shoot 3:2 at 1600 resolution that will be about 68 MB/s at 24P, this will be continuous with MLV and sound even with Global Draw on so you can use focus peaking, magic zoom etc. I haven't used ML raw lately but it was a little unstable with Global Draw on - dropped random frames. I am not sure it that has been fixed in the last few months or not, worth checking into. After that is 1728 resolution and that will pull about 79.7 MB/s which will not be continuous allowing maybe 10 seconds before dropping frames. Not worth it IMO. So, I would personally shoot 3:2 - 1600px at 24P with MLV and sound using global draw if you have no external monitoring and if it is now stable enough (may require some testing on your part). Even if you are recording externally I would record audio in camera as well. It helps tremendously for audio syncing and can be done automatically using plural eyes. For now I would test and experiment as much as you can. ML raw is awesome but it is data and time intensive and will really slow down post.

This is how it works: "Pirates" open the harbours and lands (in this case the realms of creativity) under the flag of creative/information freedom - they destroy in the process the idea of creative ownership and/or that people should pay the artist for what he/she does - they attack the "old industries" and call them "content mafia" - they "sell" the pirated content by building a coalition with the advertising industry and later with the labels which run for cover under the attack (you can also call it extortion) - they keep the most of the money and get even bigger ... and the moment they are big enough (now), they put the pirate costumes away, bring out their pin-striped suits, send their lobbyists to town .... and then they kick us all in the behind, having become mega-industries themselves and show all of us the finger. Brave new world - 2.0.

panny GF3 has a x2 crop , so are you referancing Full Frame equivilants? is that what you mean ? 14mm on a GF3 is wide = FF 28mm

As you know the Russain lenses aren't perfect, but that's what gives them their character. And yes, you get [some of] that character back with this type of cheap speedbooster simply because you have a reduced crop factor - its still m43 size, but its better than S16 in terms of how much of the lens is used. For video they are perfect & i'm not an anal pixel peeper, so i haven't even bothered trying to see if they are soft at the edges. They probably are a little bit, but i don't care as the images look lovely & no one ever looks at the edges of a shot/screen anyhow.

Does Cuesongs come pretty close to accomplishing that? http://www.cuesongs.com/

Gonzalo, quando crear version para steadicam? Haha. :P Es increible, awesome work. And what a massive monster! Cyclops es nombre perfecto. (Sorry for my bad Spanish.)

Right click on the clip in your bin or your timeline and go to "Source Settings" You get RAW controls for exposure, tint, and color temp. LUTs can be loaded with Lumetri. I'm getting pink highlights when I pull the exposure down on BMPCC and ML RAW footage, but this is still pretty great.

That's shit, though. Part of the reason I got into filmmaking is so I can make videos for my band without having to worry about some flakey videographer/filmmaker (and I'm shooting one tonight and another in the morning). I want to make music, not promote. I want to perform, not worry about distribution. I want to get in the van and ride to bumfuck Indiana so I can play in front of 8 people for no money, because it's what I enjoy doing, not play phone tag with the venue or two dudes putting on the show with a couple local bands that no one locally cares about. Same thing with films, right? Do you want to make films, or do you want to spend all your time trying to sell them? It's like that dude with the script. He's so busy trying to sell it, he forgets to write another one. If your band is already well-established, like trent reznor, for example, going the full monty direct distribution route is feasible. If you're joe blow just trying to make it, having a good label behind you can be the difference between going "somewhere" or just spinning your wheels. There's an art to it. From a consumer perspective, I like labels because they curate their music collection. I can be assured that music coming from a specific label, while I'm not guaranteed to like it, at least is in the general ballpark of the stuff I do like. That's the value of the label to me as a consumer: They listen to 10,000 shitty bands and pick out the couple that have potential, so I don't have to. From a band perspective, the label gives us good/reliable contacts in other towns to help set up shows. They handle the pressing and distribution of the recorded product and I don't have to have 100 boxes of 7" records laying around my tiny apartment. The label sends out the records to the various fanzines and college radio stations, and all we had to do was get in the van and drive. We sold a lot of merch, but with gas at $4.50/gallon, that was a break-even proposition. I don't know what the actual answer is other than to try and weather the storm and see how it shakes out on the other side, but direct distribution isn't the 100% answer 100% of the time. EDIT: I will add that we also don't pay to record our music because our singer is an audio engineer in his day job (I'm a software dev). He has a nice recording studio built in his backyard, but that wasn't free to build or maintain. It doesn't cost the band anything to record, but it's far from free and is typically subsidized by charging other bands to record there, as well.

playing the devils advocate google-youtube could say that the costs of maintaining servers and giving access to millions of people worldwide to your music is a highly valued service...bs i have quit using youtube a long time ago as a medium, one of the courses i studied was internet privacy, google is the original robocop company of a dystopian future. all engrossing monopoly all seeing eye, panopticon. i think we as users should kill it. log off go for the wild horse..

the state of the music industry---self explicatory by the oatmeal http://theoatmeal.com/comics/music_industry

A must watch for all students of film. (Not shot on a GH4 or A7S)

These are my favs!!

they must be the ones that shot the winnebago man... now this is a major client,

Jc, your parents look so young. just kidding. I could see why they achieved the million plus views. She's a babe and he's a hunk. Brad and Angelina better watch out as there is a new Mr. and Mrs. Smith around the corner. Cheers.

First Outdoors Test - MiniCyclops - 14x14 inches "sensor" size camera.

They've set the bar sooo high, makes me wanna give up!!

well, I know I personally picked up several good new ideas from this. thanks, jcs.