jgharding

Another Aputure user here. Great products and good price. agreed though, they are only a lighting Blackmagic in terms of features for price. Other than that the comparison is unflattering :0

It's not for earlier Red cameras, just DSMC2 series, but it's a great thing! A shame it hasn't been added to the old ones.

Plugin in Premiere. Too slow for real-time playback so I switch it off if I want to edit, or just export a LUT and bring it back into Lumetri, then it runs realtime. Then use seperate grain.

Sorry, I just meant C100 iii with 4k it's coming, not it's coming for NAB 2016

I preordered the HTC Vive, but it's more for gaming TBH. I may try making a first-person film for VR though... At the moment clients are 360 video bonkers. It's a bit of a fad though. VR on the other hand is here to stay this time.

Shooting in Iceland at sunset is officially cheating

I know many are huge fans but the GH line never made me happy. Even those crazy high bitrate hacks on thew GH2 and the GH4 even with log. I just felt there was something baked-in about the shadows that limited how you could manipulate it in post, so after demoing loads of footage I gave then a miss. I've seen decent stuff made with them though, especially using speed boosters, so I'm interested to see what happens with the next model. I hope they don't do a Canon and stangnate specs. I don't think they can really afford to...

That's the main point of frustration isn't it? It's a laudable effort on your part to attempt to fix these things in such great detail, but they could make it all so much easier if they just used level 5.2 high and just cranked it out in 422 10-bit, for example, or used high-level HEVC H265. They are designing some incredibly innovative sensors, and then hobbling them with trashy delivery codecs, the goal seemingly being "how much can we squash it before it's unusable" rather than "how much data can we save and still keep file size reasonable". But then they have a broad sweep of products to protect. Compare their "high" bit codecs to Canon C100 AVCHD for example and most of them are poor. I don't know how they implement this stuff, but it's not really working.

It's really interesting in theory, and the theoretical price is very low. I can't say I'm early adopter these days. The last time I did and was and was happy was Canon 550D release, I kept using that for years. Of course, I just bought it in a shop, I didn't have to pay for an idea. So I shall just wait and see what happens! In the past I had preorders down on various BMD cams and cancelled them, so now I just keep doing what I'm doing until we all know the score. My respect to those who do take the risks! Your service to your... craft... is appreciated. It would be a shame, but not unsurprising, if this the world of cameras end up similar to how everything else has gone recently: people using crowd-funding to give ideas a go, often resulting in real losses for funders. I do like the idea that Jim of Red is behind it, making a spin-off company to target the very lucrative prosumer market. I've a feeling it's not the case though. Red make everything themselves, including sensors, and to be honest I think it would have a very different style to it if it were their spin off. Also, it would have Redcode in it, as that's their trump card. And it's probably be called a Red. Anyway, will watch with interest!

Well I made my decision and can't say I'm unhappy. Made a little noise torture test with Scarlet X, latest firmware, sensor newly calibrated. For those unfamiliar, ISO is set in post with raw, while the exposure meter gives a preview of what your post settings will achive, as well as bars for total noise and clipping so you can see how much lights you're getting into the thing. This is at effective ISO 25600 (12800 is max selection in Premiere, with 1-stop of FLUT push), shot at 10:1 compression (!) Here you see the noise unprocessed, then with Neat Video, then unprocessed again. watch it in 4K a couple of times to get a good idea. The image is far far brighter than real life, it's a little shadowy corner with a tiny amount of natural light. The joy of raw! As I test more I'm working out how best to use ISO to set where your dynamic range lives. In future I'd do all shots intended for high ISO at lowest compression just to get every bit of detail i can. I love that when it pans over to the leaflet you can read it all so clearly. Magic! I knew it would be good but this is just... silly. Don't worry though, I still love my Canons The camera is extremly heavy with an Anton Bauer battery on the back, and with a Redvolt the battery life is abysmal, plus the footage is big and the media are nauseatingly expensive, so it'll never be as convenient as a C100. But god damn, tis pretty. Can't argue with 16-bit colour even when you're attempting to destroy it... Neat Video 4.1 is a great update. It makes full use of powerful GPUs and has brilliant temporal settings that assist with low-frequency noise across time. Great stuff!

If we could have a Windows MOV rewrapper that just rewraps to MXF that'd help any top coder out there

Ah sorry, seems I've misunderstood the problem! still, it doesn't change the fact that most people just aren't going to uninstall it, because they use MOV i use MTS, MXF and R3D most of the time, but the fact that Alexa and Amira use MOV means most of us can't just remove it and cripple our systems. it needs to be taken out into the crowd-Dev sphere really, to make a proper conversion of 64bit QT for win

Leave it installed for now, you'll be fine. the current vulnerabilities are in the player, which no one uses, Adobe software and so on uses other components. So even Install QuickTime and just rename the exe for the player or delete it if you like. all the software vendors will create workarounds, I fact everything has been a workaround for years because there's no 64 -bit qt for Windows. ive been moving away from QT for years because of this looming issue, using DNXHD MFX OP1 (catchy name) for master exports and so on. but you will need it installed to work with QT formats, so there's no point blindly following instructions and removing it, just think it through. theyre now obliged to make it all native or likely start losing users its a shame software vendors buried their heads for so long...

LOUD NOISES! I think C100 iii will actually include 4K 300mbit 8-bit, it will have the record modes of the XC10. thats my bet. It'll be great, though probably expensive.

It's right that you don't need 4K for delivery at the moment... but it's great for stabilisation, compositing, tracking, reframing and so on... And hard to let go of absolute need and reasonable desire aren't the same, but the latter can often swing a decision

I find massively pushed-up black levels irritating! They work when there's a big light source in frame as then it's contextually relevant, but otherwise they're a sort of Instagram affectation... the colour palettes is nice though

The RED EMOXXX BILBO EDITION has a technical maximum frame rate rate of ∞FPS AT ∞K because IT DOESNT SHOOT FOOTAGE!!! It only captures RAW EMOTION straight from your BRAIN to FLOPPY DISKS! DO EVERYTHING IN POST!!!!!!!!1111!!1one! *** do consider the C100/ninja 2 combo though. It is a bargain and grades excellently. This was shot that way, in DNxHD 220X. It's 8-bit out of the camera, but still brilliant due to Canon voodoo.

From what I've read, there are two flaws at the moment. You'd need to actually execute malicious code to fall foul of them. of course now it's not supported I'd guess any number of vulnerabilities could appear, though I'm no expert.

It's a combination ain't it, if you have good lighting etc, your scene will look even better shot with a top end camera. Of course you can shoot anything on anything, but if you can make your scene you've lit beautifully and worked hard for look it's best by shooting on a cinema camera, hey, why not? I love the Canon XC10 as a little shot getter, but I'm not gonna say it looks as nice as red. It just don't! It has its use though.

Sorry, my fault, poor paragraph order, research and clarity! Let me clarify. the old red one has 4 mini XLR but is in general just an older bigger more cumbersome to use thing than newer reds, but is cheaper. the Scarlett has two mini jacks so you need an external solution to add XLR, I was simply wrong about phantom power, it provides it over 3.5mm jack which I didn't know til I dived into the manual, so that was the fault of my poor research/understanding there, apologies! ive always operated Epics on shoots with no sound or seperate sound so not had to deal with audio on them.

I'm getting an old Red because every time I look at images it goes Alexa/Amira then Red then the rest. Actually Panasonic Varicam looks to be stunning but it's new and outta price range. a 2nd hand scarlet X can be had for half the price of a c300 mkii. Less convenient yes, but the picture is amazing, redcode is a genius raw codec and it's got an EF mount. if you can be bothered to deal with a Red One MX it's even cheaper. no built in NDs, no XLRs or phantom power (EDIT: both have phantom power, sorry), expensive accessories and... A world class image. then all that's left is to become good enough at lighting/directing/storytelling to justify owning the bastard if you want a cheap good image that's easy to use, a second hand C100 with a Ninja 2 is excellent. Only 1080p but absolutely excellent, and very easy to use.

Bringing FULL SD DIRECT TO TAPE! you can CAPTURE IN INTERLACED AVI! /LOL/ those were the days...

It's aimed at a certain market, and in that market it will cause a stir as it's a reasonable price and adds another use to the C system. It means the C bodies can be used by amatuer film-makers, cinematographers and for ENG style use alike, though for the last you'd need a mount to reposition the handle and so on, which you can gat from Zacuto.

It looks great, but they should make and HDMI version as well! Or one with both plugs...

If I had a pound for every time I'd read "wait" and "Black Magic" together in the same thread, I could buy and Alexa 65.