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    DJI Announcing Something New On The 28th

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    20 minutes ago, DBounce said:

    Yes, but it’s not ideal. Let’s assume you do this indoors and then go outside... it manual aperture and iso are selected, there is no way to adjust them directly from the pocket.

    cool. sorry if I ask twice to be sure because english is not my native language and I have difficulties: if you detach the smarphone does the osmo pocket return to automatic settings or it retains the latest manual settings you had when connected to the smartphone app? thx a lot!

    which are pros and cons of proxy video: editing, color correction, color grade and crop

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    6 hours ago, fuzzynormal said:

    The "pro" that typically goes unmentioned, but I rather like, is the fact I can put all my source files, and all my proxies, on a single cheap ($99) external 4tb drive --and work easily with the proxies until the whole thing is about 90% complete. 

    (I triplicate copy the drive for backup purposes)

    This is really great for budget editing.  And, honestly, so much of editing work is perfectly viable with proxies.  A good editor is concentrating on storytelling, not pixel peeping technical stuff, so watching the most pristine  video during an edit is pretty irrelevant in my mind.

    Heck, I'll even do the majority of the color grade with proxies. 

    Only when I'm doing the final tweaks do I turn off proxies and really analyze what the colors look like with the camera source files. 

    Even then, it's just minor tweaks. 

    Did they ever fix this?  I was all set to go full-Resolve two years ago, but my test project crashed and burned during the "optimized media" stage and I just couldn't commit to the product. 

    is it possible to create proxy raw video files? which max resolution could handle a normal external drive with those proxy raw video files? thx!

    2019: Are we Finally There???

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    1 hour ago, sanveer said:

    Not 8k, but 5k and 6k, perhaps. Mostly because the delivery standard has been set at 4k by Netflix and so many others. 5k and 6k only add more flexibility in framing and other things. Also 5k RAW or 10-bit could be great for high speed sports and action photography, especially on smartphones (most flagships of which currently hover around 12MP). 

    Thx. For curiosity is it a difference noticeable if in some shot I crop a 2,5k Into a 4k frame than upscale to 4k again? Would they spot it easly?

    Which all in one mic/recorder?

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    The problem is this. This setup to buy is not for me it is for a friend of mine. 

     

    1) He is alone, he does camera operator and mic operator at the same time.

    2) His camera doesn’t have a hot shoe mount and mic input

    3) This is his first mic and he have no experience with audio studio. 

    4) He don’t want to use lavaliers because he needs to speak with a lot of people on the go, and he don’t want a dynamic microphone because he do not wants the mic to be seen in the frame of the picture. 

    5) this is a christmas gift for him so he can’t tell me how much his friends are going to spend for it.

    I told him: buy a camcorder as soon as possible (you will have at least a hot shoe mount and a mic input) other that good video features for a documentary . Buy  a shotgun mic now as Christmas gift, and mount it on the camera later when you will buy the camcorder. 

    Do you have better suggestions please?

     

     

    Which all in one mic/recorder?

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    Hi I need a microphone for video interviews I’m searching something that have a nice audio quality and narrow “field of view” because if too open it can keep unwanted noise. The microphone needs to have an SD slot to record the audio tracks, and the possibility to connect a phantom powered external mic for future buy. Do you have any advices please?

    will we ever see the rise of the global shutter cameras?

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    7 hours ago, IronFilm said:

    There is countless tv shows or movies with multi million dollar budgets and I'll see quite severe rolling shutter in them on some specific certain shots. 

    But so what? Almost nobody in the viewing audience but myself and a few other geeks will ever notice it. 

    Imho people notice geometry changing in those situations they get distracted, maybe film industry should make a survey about that

    Imho when there is a clean panning (no vertical jumps) it's a mistake of the DOP if we see rolling shutter artifacts even with those cameras: they could put the camera in vertical, and shoot that scene in vertical to avoid rolling shutter, than crop and reframe the scene in post production loosing resolution, but less artifacts.

    with a ultra HD 3840×2160 pixel camera we would have width: 2160px  height: 1215px image

    in any case it's far better than full hd and may be right for one scene. now you remember AAA movies with rolling shutter, and those movies are probably shot with camera with higer resolution, they could trade pixels for "fake global shutter".

    will we ever see the rise of the global shutter cameras?

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    3 hours ago, newfoundmass said:

    Rolling shutter went from being one of my biggest concerns to something I don't even think about these days. The only cameras I notice having bad rolling shutter these days are the Sony a6xxx cameras. Every other camera has made huge leaps, to the point that global shutter doesn't interest me at all. 

    I can only see rolling shutter being an issue on blockbuster films, like the Top Gun sequel where they're going to be shooting fighter jets at insane speeds. 

    if I need to use "80mm" for a close shot portrait in a car and I want also background moving can I be confident that actual rolling shutter is not a problem? I need zero distortions on the background it ruins my audience attention, it's a poison for the scenes

    Blackmagic Pocket 4K media & power thread -- the best alternatives

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    10 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0087BV56W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_iyOaCb5Z3CMHJ

    The battery locks into the holder so is secure.

    The camera end is on a locking connector so is secure that end. You could lock the barrel at the battery plate end quite easily.

    Its worth bearing in mind that the external battery is also simultaneously charging the internal battery so you do also have a backup from that point of view.

    You could fabricate a simple barn type roof to cover it if you wanted to with regard to keeping the elements out.

    Although I have to say that if you are operating the camera in those sort of conditions then the camera is going to be more of a problem than the battery.

    Again though, I would repeat that if you want to make something from scratch, then you would also need to have some circuitry in there so you are going to have to factor someone in to design that aspect as well.

     

     

     

    thx for the link, yes I'm not interested to make something from scratch I just wish to see te best solution to keep togheter external HDD and battery pack.

    if I need to use a gimbal which is it the best configuration to keep everything togheter on the camera for example?

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