andrgl

2 hours ago, Dimitris Stasinos said:

I just did a quick search on dedicated servers & pricing. Prices start from 8 bucks/month to 100 for a dedicated server (dual core Atom, 2 TB of storage and unmetered traffic for the cheapest option) and there is also the solution of a virtual machine where your data are being copied to different machines and stay intact in case of a hardware failure. You can rent a virtual machine with 18 bucks/month for 100GB of storage (again with unmetered traffic and 100mbps speeds). 

It seems like a solid solution. A little more expensive than vimeo but definitely cheaper than Wistia, Vzaar etc. You can always split the cost between associates.

We just did a test by uploading an HD clip on our site's host and playing it through a free video plugin for wordpress and it worked fine. The video plays instantly (i can't say this for vimeo) and you can upload three different versions for different devices.

 

I'd take this a step further an investigate how competitive $$$ a dedicated server is versus using cloud storage from the big 3: Amazon S3, Azure Blob and Google Cloud Storage.

Managing a dedicated machine can become a PITA if you're responsible for security patches and updating software.

I do have some personal experience with all of this. Am currently using Google for my hosting...

and, back in the old days, 2006-2010, I used to run a website that streamed videos. This was before Amazon AWS was mature enough to use, so I was running my "CDN" on dedicated linux servers. It was expensive, even with aggressive targeted advertising. It took a few years to simply break even every month. Good learning experience: bandwidth is expensive, videos are large files and visitors always expected things for free. 

@Dimitris Stasinos

I took closer look at this.

Dropbox does not re-encode your videos. So you get whatever quality you want, BUT, you have maximum bandwidth of 20 GB free and 200 GB paid, per day, for entire account.

Elite Player method for streaming Gdrive videos is bad. Can't do large files and your videos stop streaming arbitrarily due to exceeding an unknown amount of bandwidth. You'll be seeing a lot of this... (edit: actually you won't, the videos will simply not stream.)

7 minutes ago, Dimitris Stasinos said:

The developer of Elite player gives some workarounds on their Envato support page plus you can buy the Wonderplugin which is a direct link generator for Google drive. This is by far the most cost effective solution for hosting videos on your low traffic page. It may not fit Andrew's needs for EOSHD but it is good option for building a portfolio page. The suggested alternatives here look way overpriced, at least for my needs.

Those videos are re-encoded on upload, no different from hosting on YouTube.

A user would have to download the file from a Google drive link to actually get the original quality.

8 minutes ago, Kisaha said:

Ursa is too big!

I have expressed my opinion about my most preferred camera, a Canon C100 mini/XC something, with XC15 form factor, EF-M mount and improved ergonomics for 2-3000€, and then Canon released the C200 which is almost a 10.000€ camera, and realized that Canon don't really gets it. 

While C100 and C300 dominated the market for years, FS5 and FS7 cameras have been the norm in most productions I am working lately, and BM is starting to be relative in productions.

After the R release, I do not expect anything of them, and I have to move on with a plan B. So, right now, it is Sony, or BM, and I do not particularly like the FS5 or the Ursa that much to spend 6-8.000€ for one of those. So, I would rather spend 3.000€ to rig a Pocket4K at the moment!

I do not like adapters, and m43 sensors, the specific dual ISO - slightly bigger - sensor offsets makes it more appealing for a video camera (I would never use a small megapixel camera for pro photography), but still I would spend double the money for an S35 small video camera. 

If BM can make an amazing m43 one for 1350€, why not a similar one S35 for 2499 or 2999€??!! Still it would be half the price, and size, of Ursa.

You have about a 5 year wait for the next pocket camera.

14 hours ago, Christina Ava said:

elite video player and private hosting is a solution.

https://codecanyon.net/item/elite-video-player/10013114

we can host in googledrive or MEGA, and link the the player directly embeded in our websites.

that way you are not putting your work in the whim of greedy executives

Google drive direct linking has been dead since 2016.

You used to be able to hotlink to media files but now you can only share the file, which means whatever link is generated, takes you to the google drive page.

23 minutes ago, Mokara said:

You can plug a SSD into it?

I'm pretty sure that the Ninja will outperform the BMPCC. The point of such a system would be the fact that it is modular, so you could do things such as switch out sensors of different sizes relatively easily. You could use whatever memory size works for you, whatever battery size works, etc. All you would need is a bracket to house the recorder, with a dumb hotshoe for attaching mics and such. The bracket would house the sensor, which in turn can be controlled through the proprietary data interface on the V. 

So, to do something like that they would need to make a bracket, a controller module (which slots in the battery mounting) with a cable to plug into the sensor to supply power and control things such as aperture/focus adjust/gain, a sensor module and a lens mount module (so that you can mount a variety of lenses). If any part of the system fails or has a significant upgrade, just replace it and keep the rest.

Never ever going to happen, too niche, no profit to be made. Also Blackmagic couldn't even make this work with their original URSA turret scheme.

Why would you want to swap sensors when the recorder/body is out of date in 16 months?

@Andrew Reid

Don't do it.

You run the risk of being permanently and ubiquitously blacklisted by Google.

Fighting DMCA strikes without a physical contact at YouTube is risky.

There are instances of channels being demonetized for using music the creators had paid to license.

I'd also stear clear of royalty free and public domain. Lots of abuse in the past of entities claiming control and stealing revenue.

Safest way is to pay for an original piece or do it yourself.

In my region the original c120d is being heavily discounted. Best price since they were launched.

Full Frame sensor in a C200 body with RF mount. ?

@Ed_David

Both these cameras look great! How did the file sizes match up?

3 hours ago, John Brawley said:

It’s not to do with getting focus at infinity at all.

See this is why I'd like to have @Brian Caldwell reply. I was forced to study optics for a semester specifically for microscopy.

Brian could maybe tell us what specifically changes quantitatively. Instead of just "performance".

Can't really fathom what else would change besides the angle of refraction.

3 hours ago, mercer said:

So a P4K specific speedbooster may be introduced to reflect the exact mount and filter thickness of the camera.

@Brian Caldwell

Can we get you to weigh in on this?

As far as I understand, filter stack thickness varies between m43 cameras, yet no m43 camera has problems focusing native lenses to infinity.

Which leads me to believe the camera manufacturer offset the distance of the mount to account for their filter stack to prevent this issue from ever occuring.

20 minutes ago, mercer said:

Panasonic has even done the most baffling of protectionism by protecting a lower model (the GH5) by keeping IBIS out of the more expensive GH5s.

you mean like valid technical reasons that were covered ad nauseam 6 months ago?

1) it's a cinema camera, free floating ibis sensors tend to vibrate on car rigs, etc

2) heat dissipation is greatly improved with a non ibis sensor, helps the gh5s shoot cleaner at high isos

1 hour ago, webrunner5 said:

Hey I am not a big fan of them either. But this is 2018. Everyone is trying to make a buck on the old Inner Web. Unless a person is willing to do all that research and type all that shit out you are going to have Links like it or not, or not have shit for information.

Even people on here have links to their channels or websites. You want to ban that also? Shit where do you stop? Info is info and somehow you are going to pay for it. Either you, or me, or someone else is going to have to work their ass off to find and present it. I am lazy, so I will have to look at links, Oh by the way I Don't have to click on them, or sit here with my thumb up my ass waiting for incredible info to be typed on all that is new.

you linked to a website that shows up as the first result on google

linking garbage helps their seo, which incentives these types of websites to pump out more BEST X 2018 GUIDES

can you explain to me what authority this guy has to recommend the olympus 400mm?

otherwise, that website is just a bunch of copy and pasted specs.... why not just link to a B&H search result? provides even more valuable (((info)))

@kye @jonpais @webrunner5

lol yeah this dude's site is totally not a moneygrab for emarketing spam.........

Andrew totally tries to get us to subscribe to his newsletter and sell us guides to filmmaking

I'm glad Mr Reid pumps out articles on his blog to recommend us lenses he's never used for cameras he's never used.

lmfao

@Andrew Reid

Can you add a blacklist for forum links? You should seriously consider blocking URLs for sites like wolfcrow and 43rumors, et al.

They don't add any value to discussion.

1 hour ago, webrunner5 said:

I know some of it is basic stuff for beginners, but there is some really good info in this about lens choices for the PK4.

https://wolfcrow.com/blog/the-best-lenses-for-the-blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-4k/

it's literally a list of affiliate links, dude pumps out garbage clickbait

notice how he only lists lenses that are available on B&H and amazon

where is this supposed good info?

2 hours ago, DBounce said:

Almost bought the motion kit last time around, but got discouraged by the bad reviews. I will be curious to learn how this one works out.

Edelkrone units never quite deliver, there's always wobble or sag problem with their designs, but you get what you pay for: real moco is expensive.

I used a Edelkrone slider and motion control kit extensively 3-4 years ago when I was a DSLR shooter.

If you're based in North America I'd suggest Kessler Crane.

5 hours ago, Z_Cunningham said:

For sure, brother.

I botched my first shoot with the C200. You have to pretty much calibrate the camera for every shot. Canon calls it "Black Balance" and it fixes FPN in the lowest IREs. Still need to crush the last 1/2 ish stop of blacks to kill the bad noise. The chroma dies usually when it's uploaded thankfully.

16 minutes ago, Savannah Miller said:

you can generally get an idea of what dynamic range is like.

Disagree. The chips added by the camera manu determine how well the signal is processed: FPN removal and other denoising implementations determine how many usable stops a camera has.

camera =/= only sensor

ProRes 4444 XQ or DNxHR 444.

Cineform is interesting but the encoder hasn't been included with FFMPEG yet.

How accurate was the repeatability and how much clean up in post to line everything up?

On 7/10/2018 at 4:50 PM, jlabscreative said:

Based on the dimensions it will fit comfortably on the Ronin S.

Three months ago I was salty about not getting a Micro 2. Now I'm ready to upgrade just for that 4k60!

Hey @John Brawley can you pass feedback for future cameras? Me and some happy BM owners would love to see a Micro Pro with a positive lock MFT mount, SDI out and swappable rear battery plates. I know we are a niche market but those things would make the Micro v2 epic. 

50 minutes ago, kye said:

but the cost of developing a camera would be absolutely huge.

Imagine how much cash they burn through just that stage alone. Overhead, salaries, development hardware, etc. Six months, a year, maybe two later: now you have to source your BOM, have the camera certified a half dozen times, ramp up production, package, ship...

By the way, your first run of 1,000 units has a faulty LCD ribbon cable. And a prominent YouTuber just shit all over your product in a review video. What do we do?

I would never invest in a company manufacturing cinema cameras. Market is too niche, upfront costs too high for little profit.

Neither of those are good choices due to massive throttling of their GPUs. Get a portable gaming laptop. Reddit is a good non-biased source to use to find the right one.

1 hour ago, Mokara said:

Real life does not have grain, so why would high quality imaging have it? Grain is an artifact of inadequate technology, both now and in days gone by. Eventually it will be gone. The presence of grain does not make footage "superior".

And cinema ain't real life.

FPN, chroma noise and rolling shutter make film grain look far superior.