Andrew Reid

I believe this is a Resolve issue. Looks like you have an older version of 9 Lite. Update to the latest v9.1.4 download on their website.   http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/detail?sid=3948&pid=11735&os=mac

  Focus is crazy unforgiving, fraction off and you have 1080p!

  It deeply concerns me as well. Unfortunately there are people in society who not only expect a constant stream of free stuff, they expect it to be of high quality. The two are not mutually compatible. If you don't put money into the creative industries, you won't get quality back out.   I've even had one guy accuse me of profiteering 'off the back of Magic Lantern'. By that logic, anyone who installs Magic Lantern and uses it in their paid filmmaking is profiteering off the back of free work by the ML community. Total nonsense. A book, like a film, is a work of original content and if some idiot thinks that can all be done for free, they will get the creative industry they deserve in the future - one completely devoid of quality people and quality work. And completely unviable as a career if they ever swap from consumer to content producer, i.e. choose to enter the industry they helped kill.   Some people even think $5 is too expensive for software now, because they are used to free iPhone apps and 99 cent blockbusters like Angry Birds. It's ridiculous and not sustainable for anyone but the already big and powerful.   I'm preparing a blog post which will be published next week, which sets out my opinion very clearly on this new culture of doing everything for free which is oh so wonderful and altruistic… Not… Every time someone works for free in order to get that nice client on their blank CV or to get a leg up with their career, they kill the very industry they want to make a living off.

I'm being attacked by a minority of idiots suggesting I shouldn't be making money from my OWN WORK!!! I won't lose much sleep over this. It's nonsense.   Furthermore, to suggest anything related to Magic Lantern has to be given away is total crap.   Rarevision should give away RawMagic when it goes gold?   GoPro should give away Go Pro CineForm Studio?   What about pros getting paid for 5D Mark III raw footage? Profiteering off the back of ML's achievements? Really!?   I edit ML footage in Resolve - by that logic oh how disgraceful that Blackmagic are allowed to make a profit off the back of ML! If it wasn't for ML I wouldn't be editing 5D Mark III footage in Resolve!   There's no end to the latitude of some people's stupidity. Get real.

  No, actually it just prolongs the nonsense. I've stopped responding and started deleting when something is obvious troublemaking and doesn't contribute to the debate. And Jon, I suggest to stay on topic.   The book is 100% my own research, but I'm part of the community so of course it wouldn't be possible without their achievements and yes I do encourage people to donate in the book, but ML are not accepting donations 24/7, only when required for an engineering goal.

Put it in AVCHD 1080p at 24p or get the A65 which has 1080/60p for slow-mo which would be far more interesting for your skateboard stuff.

It's around 25 minutes on the 128GB cards.

  Thanks Jim.   That is the idea really - a one stop. It is getting harder and harder to read the spider web of forum and search engine info. The stuff in the book is my own hands-on research. I sat for like 2000 hours solid in front of software and cameras to make the guide and the $19.99 goes towards the 99% of what EOSHD outputs on the blog - which is FREE.   Cheers

  It won't be out of date. They are mostly bug fixing not dramatically changing or adding - and same goes for the workflows. The guide has to assist people and their needs TODAY, it's pointless to wait 6 months before the dust completely settles (if indeed it ever will).

  You don't need CineForm studio on your Mac if you're converting to CineForm in Windows with a virtual machine (VMWare preferable). Just install the codec (free decoders).

Yes, I believe the Mac CineForm side is being worked on by David Newman and co. At the moment, it helps to run Windows in VMWare Fusion. I love that software. VMWare Fusion that is, not Windows :)   Ginger Plugin for FCPX - Here's what John says...   To answer your question, FxPlug support is on the todo list.  The problem is that I just have too much to do and not enough time.  And I tend to get distracted by things like, you know, RAW support for canon cameras coming out of nowhere.  (-:  I'd like to support  FxPlug, as well as OpenFX, but I don't want to make any promises because there are a lot of things to do first.

  80% of it will, but not the specific 5D Mark III stuff like maximum resolutions, performance, etc. Also make sure you choose the 5D Mark II version of Magic Lantern on the download page. Apart from that and a few other small bits, the rest all applies, and the workflows are the same.

  Most the improvements to the workflows from now on come in the form of bug fixes with new beta versions, then final release versions of some software. All you need to do is to download the latest versions of the apps. The workflow itself doesn't dramatically change so the instructions remain relevant but I'm keeping a close eye on things and if there is a huge change in one the workflows I'll update the book. As it stands they are bang up to date and will give you pristine CineForm, lovely uncompressed DNG, and get you editing in Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut Pro X immediately.   The Ginger plugin for native raw editing is amazing!

  Cheers Andy hope you have a good reading session!!

Yes but which Lanparte cage? :)

  Not sure I comprehend sir :) The shooting tips are in the 5D Mark III guide. Two chapters - first practical advice on shooting raw, then the cinematography and composition tips.   If you want to go deeper into the specifics of anamorphic composition on the other hand, that is in the anamorphic guide of course.

  The GH3 Shooter's Guide is under development and it is completely new material.

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10% profit margin on $1 billion? Nuts. Maybe the solution is to make cheaper movies, and be more creative. Maybe the situation as we know it now is the last gasp of the old guard, and daylight will break through the clouds.

  It's a camera that has little to do with Nikon really. It's got an F mount. That's about the only link. It's a JVC video camera. I don't know why people who read Nikon rumours are even discussing it.

JVC have launched a "large sensor 4K" camera with Nikon mount. We saw a prototype of this camera a long time ago, reported here on EOSHD one and half years ago, the form factor and specs of the final model are remarkably similar to the prototype. [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/10602/jvc-launch-a-4k-camera-with-nikon-mount-which-gets-almost-everything-wrong]Read the full article here[/url]

  A good job they didn't have a hand in Django Unchained's distribution.

  It's the other way round.

As for Sam Raimi's advice in that clip… Erm!   Tarantino's advice is far better. MAKE A FUCKING GREAT MOVIE AND SHOW IT ALL OVER PLANET EARTH!!

  It's happening everywhere! I went to a popular independent cinema in Barcelona last September. By April it had gone!   Huge loss in my view.