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  1. 7 minutes ago, ntblowz said:

    At the moment I m half Sony and half Canon which is E1, FX30, R8, R7 

    Problem with Sony is there no hybrid cam with non crop 4k60p and 24mp+ sensor with full mechanical shutter and do not overheat crazy for under $2000...

    On jobs that need both photo and video I have to use Canon cause the Sony i got is useless in that regards.

    What's your ratio of video to photo work?

    7 minutes ago, ntblowz said:

    Unfortunately I already have Canon flash system in place so going over to Sony system will be expensive 🙃  

    A convertor doesn't exist?

    https://www.amazon.com/Pixel-TF-334-Flash-Adapter-Converting/dp/B01LQ24CTA

    ??

    7 minutes ago, ntblowz said:

    and me coming from GH1 it always have a place in my heart lol.

    Same! 🙂

    I still own both of my GH1 bodies, although haven't used them in years

  2. 36 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

    D. Pair of Nikon’s plus a single Sony

    Still don't quite understand why you'd get a single Sony?? 

    You do mainly video or stills? (rarely both at once?)

    What do you do then on a video shoot, Sony FX3 plus a Nikon body? 

    On a stills shoot you'd never touch the Sony FX3 body? (unless in an emergency and you need to grab a backup due to one body failing. I guess that's why you wouldn't want to own only two bodies) 

  3. 13 hours ago, MrSMW said:

    Probably only a handful of people in the world, geeks such as ourselves know, and even less, care.

    There is a certain kudos to owning/using an FX3 just as there was with the S1H being the first Netflix approved mirrorless camera, but we’d be delusional if we thought by just owning these things, our work would look Exactly The Same.

    Agreed.

    They just had a bit different box capturing the photos and turning it into bits. 

    The impression I got is that the way they filmed The Creator wasn't that massively different to how "traditional filmmaking" is done (which covers a very broad scope of productions! Yes, they were at one extreme of it, but they were still well within "traditional filmmaking". For instance, I worked on a micro budget short film shot on an ARRI ALEXA Mini, that the DoP wanted to shoot only at golden hour. So we would split our days to cover both. Was this unusual? Yes, but we still more or less were doing "traditional filmmaking". That's what The Creator also did, they did "traditional filmmaking" but with one or two twists of their own. It wasn't radically different though to the normal way we always do things) 

    6 hours ago, kye said:

    I disagree - the budget is the budget - it doesn't matter the split between production and post.

    If I get my iPhone and walk through a shopping centre and record a 90 minute single take, then go home and spend $50M turning that clip into an action film by replacing everything with VFX, then that's still a blockbuster film, I still filmed it, and the question is relevant.

    So if your argument is that we're going to see the split of production vs post budgets shift towards a ratio that's even more heavier towards post?

    Not sure if I agree with that. But I reckon as AI and other advances makes post ever more powerful, then we'll certainly see even "more" done in post vs on location on the day itself. (even if the ratio of the budget splits don't drastically shift from what is normal now) 

    6 hours ago, kye said:

    You could start a thread asking if AI will use GMOs to fix poverty in sub-saharan Africa and we would discuss the camera used to shoot AI videos.

    I could talk for hours about using AI and cameras in farming... lots of potential there!

    One of my recent uni compsci assignments I was writing about exactly this, using cameras + AI (to filter and interpret the vast amounts of data coming in from the dozens/hundreds of camera feeds) to improve farming efficiencies. 

    6 hours ago, kye said:

    Interestingly, I watched this video which talks about how "No CGI" normally means "a shitload of invisible CGI".

     

    You have good taste Sir in your YT watching, or rather the same as mine! haha

    I watched this video last night. Waiting eagerly for Part 2!

    Wanted to watch more videos done by "The Movie Rabbit Hole", but surprisingly that's the only video on his channel! He's got over twenty thousand subscribers just on the basis of that one video?? wow 

  4. 14 hours ago, JulioD said:

    The problem is that the question is wrong.  It’s not a blockbuster.  The cost of production was more indie.  I’ve seen numbers like 7 million.  The rest of the headline budget cost was in post.

    Good point! It makes the question a little flawed perhaps. 

    As while the total budget was vaguely within the low to maybe almost average-ish range for blockbuster film, the actual production budget itself (i.e. excluding post-production) was squarely within indie budget filmmaking land. 

    14 hours ago, JulioD said:

    This is a very specific scenario with a particular methodology of a particular director.  

    Exactly! That's very much so what I've been saying all along. 

    14 hours ago, JulioD said:

    The real question is, could they have gotten the same results using a more conventional approach.  I think the answer is no.

    On this point though, we'll disagree. 

    Especially if we go with the hybrid approach I suggest above, where the bulk is shot with ALEXA Minis, with BMD Pocket 6K Pros supplementing it. 

    What change is really needed here at all? Upgrading a gimbal op to a steadicam op, and getting perhaps maybe one or two more ACs, and maybe another grip. Maybe. 

    These are rounding errors in their overall budget. 

    If they were shooting super ultra lightweight stripped down, with just Sony mirrorless cameras, relying up Sony's AF without any 1st ACs pulling focus, using the internal 4K 10bit and not external recorders, and not using any video transmitters etc either on their rigs, not using hefty anamorphic lenses, etc etc etc... then I think I agree with you!

    There would be a far too big a contrast between the way they shot vs ALEXA Minis. 

    But that wasn't the way they did it, if you look at images of how for instance their FX3 shoulder rig was set up, then it isn't much of a leap to how a more minimal ALEXA Mini set up would be. It's not a gigantic leap of galaxy sized proportions, but rather a baby step up. 

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    56 minutes ago, kye said:

    I'm pretty sure there are only 4 types of cameras:

     

      😆 😅 🤣😆😂

    To be fair, I think people who have a hefty amount of exposure to cameras (maybe has done a one year diploma in filmmaking, or has worked as a background actor, or their brother is a photographer/videographer) can vaguely tell the difference between the top and bottom of each category. 

    Canon T4i with a kit lenses vs Nikon D6 with a f2.8 zoom 

    Or, a fairly barebones Pocket 4K rig vs a fully rigged up ALEXA

     

    2 hours ago, zlfan said:

    I have personal experience confirming this. Once I shot a famous local scene site using 5d3 ml raw plus a b4 cine lens with a matt box. A group of travelers were very impressed and one of them said "such an impressive big camera". Notice them mentioned camera not lens not matt box.  

    I think for most people when they say "camera" they mean the entire rig. My IFB receiver I slap onto the camera rig is to them part of "the camera". 

  6. 12 hours ago, MrSMW said:

    I suspect that is it and it makes a lot of sense why you might be asked what tools you might bring to the party for a filming gig whereas nobody asks, or just assumes (that you have suitable tools) for photo work.

    At least I have never been asked in 23 years.

    Yup, there are a lot of projects in both video and photography where if you have the references and/or body of work then they will assume you're capable of doing the job. Without needing any extra specifics beyond that. 

    And while this true for both, I'd say this is more often true for photography than filmmaking. 

    btw, this true for being a Sound Mixer too. Nobody gives a sh*t what's in my mixing bag, they just care about if you can do the job (easy! No problem for me) and if I'm a likable fellow to be around (ha, working on that... I'm a bit of an introvert)

    5 hours ago, kye said:

    Hidden camera footage of how people react to a small lens being used...  the judgement is real.

     

    fun video! (and boy... he's really gotten older! I remember when he was just a kid, has been a while since I watched his videos)

    Was quite easy for me to immediately spot which lens was the "cheap" one. (I've got the same lens myself!) But it certainly highlights how much more difficult it is for "normal people" (and note... they're not even "normal people"! They're people in the film industry as well, just not in the Camera Dept. So they're still likely far more attuned to spotting differences in an image than truly average "normal people")

  7. 11 hours ago, MrSMW said:

    Option B. Swap the pair of Lumix for a single Sony. Probably FX3 so I can pretend I am in Thailand and capturing laser guns etc.

    1) 😆 😅 🤣😆😂

    2) why only a single Sony? Especially as you're open to using the FX30, and the FX30 is so cheap. 

    Go for a FX3 and FX30 with each having a zoom lens covering what you wanted. 

    For instance if I wanted insane range coverage I'd go with:

    Sony FX30 with a Sony E 70-350mm f/4.5-6.3 G OSS Lens

    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1502821-REG/sony_e_70_350mm_f_4_5_6_3_g.html

    Sony FX3 with a Sony FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS Lens

    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1369442-REG/sony_sel24105g_fe_24_105mm_f_4_g.html

    But I guess you want less extreme reach, and more speed. If so, then:

    Sony FX30 with a Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD Lens

    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1658158-REG/tamron_a058_35_150mm_f_f_2_2_8_di_iii.html

    FX3 with a Tamron 20-40mm f/2.8 Di III VXD (or Sony FE 16-35mm f/2.8, if you want extra wide, and don't mind having the gap of 35mm vs 50mm FF FoV when it comes to your FX3 vs FX30)

    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1723545-REG/tamron_a062_20_40mm_f_2_8_di_iii.html 

    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1338516-REG/sony_sel1635gm_fe_16_35mm_f_2_8_gm.html

  8. 7 hours ago, seanzzxx said:

    So I've been shooting some low light footage with this camera and I have to say ... I don't see what everyone is complaining about. Yes, this camera is noisey, but coming from Ursa's and a Pocket 4K/6K, it's MILES ahead. Very organic noise with little color, and importantly, colors of subjects hold up very well. I think people have gotten so spoiled with low light shooting recently, while I'm pretty blown away with the low light footage coming from this camera.

    I agree, I say as I'm shaking my fist on my front porch, these spoiled young'uns don't know how good they've got it these days!

    Remember, the P4K shared its sensor with the Panasonic GH5S, which was itself a low light beast for its time (which seriously guys, wasn't that long ago!)

    Even the original Pocket was regarded as being "pretty good at low light" (for its time, and for a cinema camera).

    I shot part of a vampire feature film (we never completed it 😞 Was a very low budget thing, ran out of steam) with my OG Pocket + my SLR Magic 25mm f0.95 + a friend's borrowed Voigtlander 17.5mm f0.95 

    Fantastic setup for super low light situations! We'd shoot outdoors at night, with simply the full moon and some small handheld LED panels. 

    I remember reading about a feature film shot a while ago with a RED Scarlet primarily, but all the night scenes were shot with an OG BMPCC instead because it did better low light than the RED!

  9. 17 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

    With video/filmmaking I guess it’s partly necessity and a bit of sobbery? “Oh, you don’t own 3 Buranos? We could not possibly consider you”.

    Ha! I don't think anybody owns individually 3x Sony BURANOs

    But if you're part of a wide production, say just shooting a few days on a doco or coming in as an extra camera on reality tv series or doing a pick up day on a feature film, then yes, what camera you are using is very important.

    As you're just one small cog in a bigger machine. (maybe that's one of the big differences vs a lot of photography, there is no "machine". Or if there is, the photographer is a much bigger cog in the machine, or even more likely the driver of it)

     

    17 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

    Photo I reckon it’s just expected but video sounds like they ask?

    It doesn’t affect me so not an issue but interesting…

    I'd say there is are two very different classes of DoP:

    Those who own a camera vs those who don't and just rent in the cameras for a project as is necessary. (although, anybody owning an ARRI ALEXA Mini kinda fits into that second category. Just the difference is whenever they want they can access "a free rental" of their Mini from the rental house where it is being stored. As they probably won't have it being stored at home, or at least that's been the case with people who I know who own one)

    And those in that first category are very much so are broken up into different tiers depending on what sort of camera they have. 

    Side note: there are people in the second category who own a camera, but still sit in the "second category" because that's how they portray themselves and do most of their work as. Their RED Raven or Sony a7S or whatever that they own is merely just their play thing, and something to do occasional passion projects with. So even though they own "the same" camera as someone in category one, they're still in a very different position, as their personal camera isn't one they daily work with. It's almost more like their hobby camera. 

  10. I'm just pointing out it was a rather unique mix of reasons, such as the director being a major push for it, that the FX3 was chosen. It's certainly not going to be a common decision choice moving forward at all, as still 99% of the time people will prefer other higher end cameras instead. Due to the many downsides of the FX3, and the relatively small costs aspect vs others being rather irrelevant. 

    Or to answer the subject title of this thread itself:

    "Will The Creator change how blockbusters get filmed?"

    No.

  11. wow, they're filming FOUR HOURS of content per 10hr day (ref: 22 minute in)

    That's fast paced. 

    Another note: 80 locations in Thailand

    31-ish minutes in he highlights how he's very comfortable with ARRI and that's his preference, and he points out how even an ARRI ALEXA Mini package can shrink or grow in size. So it wouldn't be hard to shrink down the ALEXA Mini shooting package to match a similar shooting style as The Creator has. 

    Shoot the vast bulk on an ARRI, and mix in a little bit from some other cameras. 

    You could do say:

    2x shoulder rigs for the ARRI Mini (easy to jump onto a tripod, or easyrig as well). 

    1x ARRI Mini full time setup for the steadicam

    1x Blackmagic Pocket 6K Pro PL stripped down on a gimbal. 

    3x Blackmagic Pocket 6K Pro PL for crash cams etc

    1x Blackmagic Pocket 6K Pro PL on a scissor crane (the poor man's technocrane, also, the vastly more portable "technocrane"!):image.thumb.png.ee2c4dfc0e887ed1d5d44b0918f388ea.png

    Oren Soffer mentioned they used this (well, not this particular model! They probably used a much more expensive one). As it is massively more portable than a technocrane, which they couldn't even get into some locations they were shooting on. 

     

  12. 3 hours ago, MrSMW said:

    In photography at least, for sure and no one ever asks you what camera you use.

    I think it does matter, but only at the very high end (which only exists in major cities, when shooting major campaigns for major brands). When they might expect certain medium format cameras. But I think 

    Oh, and also matters if getting hired as a sports photographer for major sporting events. Then there is an expectation you'll have say a Nikon D6 or Sony A9mk3 (or at the very least an older generation high speed sports camera, nothing less than say a Nikon D3S or Nikon D500, just to give a couple of examples). 

    Also, I guess at the low end too, but only when you're coming in as a second shooter say for weddings (or other event coverage), and the primary shooter really wants you to have the same brand (and probably similar-ish generation) as theirs. As they'll be doing all the edits for delivery to the bride, and they don't want to learn how to deal with yet another type of camera files. As they've got their speedy workflow dialed in perfectly for their particular camera model. If they're a Canon shooter, they want another Canon fanboy. No Nikons! (and likewise for Nikon shooters, they want another Nikon user)

    3 hours ago, MrSMW said:

    Until recently (last couple of years on this forum) I did not realise what a big thing it seems to be in the video/filmmaking world where you can be hired or not based in the tools you have.

    Indeed. There is a massive world of difference between a mirrorless camera owner vs Sony FX6 owner vs ALEXA Mini owner. 

    Unless.. they're a DoP who is at the level where they don't even own a camera, this all gets handled by the rental house and their ACs. 

  13. HA!! They did five days of shooting with a Sony FX9, because it was completely impossible to shoot it with the Sony FX3. As the FX3 fails at the task. 

    There are also a few shots in The Creator which was shot by the director himself on a Nikon mirrorless. (Oren Soffer, says the director used a "Nikon DSLR", but it's clearly obvious he got that wrong. And was just using "DSLR" as slang for a stills cameras. As he didn't mention exactly which one, but said "Z something", thus is must be a mirrorless camera if that is true. I'd hazard a guess it was a Nikon Z6 with external recording)

    Also it further confirms the FX3 was not the DoP's primary or even secondary choice (he'd never even heard of the FX3 before!), rather the FX3 choice was already a done decision

    Before he even joined the project, the FX3 was "set in stone" (his words! And something that made him go "really??", that he had to "get over". His words! I reckon it's very easy to read between the lines, that if he'd come in earlier on in the process, that perhaps another camera would've been chosen. Such as the Sony FX6 being an obvious choice, a barely marginally bigger/heavier camera, but massively more capable on a film set. Or even a hybrid approach, with a mix of FX6/FX3 cameras on the film set. As listen to the interview, he clearly was badly missing SDI & TC & more!). 

     

  14. 49 minutes ago, kye said:

    That's not a brutal business perspective.  This is a brutal business perspective - clients will absolutely be able to tell the difference between buying the better camera and buying the cheapest one and spending the extra on training.  Training on lighting, composition, movement, etc.  

    With the massive amount of free or low cost info online, not necessary to spend that much, or anything at all. 

    Instead spend a more minimal amount on gear, put the rest in the bank, so then you have the financial flexibility that you can take on those more creative projects to push yourself and learn more. 

    49 minutes ago, kye said:

    In terms of what is "better"...  in that much referenced blind test with the GH4 in it, many of the Hollywood pros preferred the GH4 over high-end cinema cameras.  Talking about the difference between two RED sensors is fine, but trying to apply that difference to the real world is preposterous.

    Indeed, nobody is putting up untouched images side by side, zoomed in, to compare against each other. 

    That's not how the final product is presented to the consumer. 

    49 minutes ago, kye said:

    The last one is simple error correction, and will be invisible.  

    Not necessarily so. I dunno what specific voltages they're using, but let's normalize it and presume you're talking about 0 or 1

    If you get 0.6, what do you do? You say it was 1

    But what if it was actually a 0?

    Error correction by definition won't be perfect. There are not enough atoms in the universe for that. All you can do is reduce down the odds so that it is low enough to be acceptable for your use cases. (two of my third year math papers were on error corrections! Well, that and other applications of graph theory and combinatorial mathematics, such as compression codecs. I took these: https://courseoutline.auckland.ac.nz/dco/course/MATHS/326 & https://courseoutline.auckland.ac.nz/dco/course/MATHS/328 That's basically what I did in my degree, Physics with an emphasis on electronics especially optoelectronics, plus also Mathematics which was a mix of more the Computer Science side of mathematics + Numerical Computing)

    49 minutes ago, kye said:

    If it's the first one, then it makes sense to do noise reduction, but (to be perfectly honest)

    Again I say, I feel "noise reduction" is bad terminology here. 

    Be more precise, unlike Joel who was being sloppy. 

    Are you meaning black shading calibration? That's not the same as noise reduction. 

    Maybe the calibrations they do at the factory are in the analog domain, but what the user does in the field would definitely be in the digital domain. 

     

    49 minutes ago, kye said:

    if you have 23 crossings in between your sensor and the ADC chip then you deserve to be fired from the entire industry, and probably would be because the image would look like ISO 10 billion.

    Deserved to be fired? Nah. Not necessarily. Depends on how well insulated and thus independent each pathway is from each other. Getting one error per hundred quadrillion? Nobody cares. One error in ten? Then yeah, go be fired, and then burn in the fires of hell. 

    49 minutes ago, kye said:

    This leaves the middle one, which is explicitly what ARRI are doing, so that's what I think we should be talking about.

    Everyone does that. 

      

    28 minutes ago, QuickHitRecord said:

    All of this being said, I enjoy owning the camera that produces footage that just looks right to me. And it will be ready to go when I finally helm another of my own passion projects.

    Yup, buy older REDs for yourself

    It makes as much sense as buying a Sony F35. 

    Or a set of golf clubs. 

    Or a Time Trail bike to race your local triathlon with. (oh hi me) 

  15. 3 hours ago, kye said:

    One thing I find a real challenge these days is the pace of real learning.  Once you've watched a few dozen 5-15 minute videos that explain random pieces of a subject (likely sprinkled with misunderstandings and half-truths) then going to a source that is genuinely knowledgeable is often very difficult to watch, because not only do they start at the beginning and go slowly, they also repeat a bunch of stuff you've heard before.

    I just watch everything on youtube at 2x speed 😉

  16. 12 hours ago, JulioD said:

    If you are BMD why would you bother supporting a legacy codec anymore. It’s not just KINDA supported.

    Nobody else than BMD makes cameras which do braw internally. 

    While ProRes is universal on just about everything at a certain level of production. Not just ARRI, even RED and Sony do it now. 

    12 hours ago, JulioD said:

    I think the main reason that people aren’t using BRAW more on other cameras is that they don’t like the recorders that Blackmagic make, not because they don’t want BRAW.

    I'd say it's  more because at anything above low budget level productions, then they'd rather not use external recorders in most cases. 

  17. I take the brutal business perspective from this:

    99.99% of clients won't be able to tell the differences in which a RED MX (or Dragon) image is "better".  (even assuming this is true... and not a placebo effect) 

    But just about any modern low / mid range cinema camera will:

    1) have better low light. (which means you can squeeze out an extra 30 minutes at the end of the day when you're sprinting against the dying sun. And you'll be able to use a lighting package which is half the size, which means lower costs and a faster moving production)

    2) will be more reliable

    3) more features 

    So why get an old RED??

    Also, 99% of clients won't want specifically an older RED. But what if you just want "a cinema camera" to impress them? (as appearances matter! You want them to feel special) For them, the bulk of those clients will be equally "impressed" with a Panasonic EVA1 / Sony PMW-F5 / URSA Mini / etc (or even a fully rigged out mirrorless!). And I'd take those in a heartbeat over an old RED. 

    The demographic which owning "a RED" appeals to them are low/no budget music video directors and indie features. And there is no money in those, are those really clients you want to be targeting? 

     

    41 minutes ago, kye said:

    That caught my eye too.

    The thing that made me really curious was that he said that on the BMPCC "that image signal crosses other things 23 times on that one board, and in those 23 crossings every time it crosses it gets a noise reduction afterwards because otherwise it would be a completely unrecognisable image afterwards".

    This makes no sense to me, from my understanding and experience in designing and building digital circuit boards, so according to my understanding the statement is completely wrong.  However, I trust that the statement is correct, because the source is infinitely more knowledgeable than I am.  There is obviously something there that I don't understand (likely a great many things!) and this is something that isn't talked about anywhere.

    My guess is that "noise reduction" isn't quite the exact term that should be used. 

    In digital systems we tend to think of everything flying around as either zeros or ones. But that isn't quite true! (in a very abstract sense it is true, which is why we think about it like this, as it makes the world a lot easier to understand and to work with)

    In reality, it's different voltage levels which are being sent around, with one voltage level being "one" and the other being "zero". 

    But what if you get a voltage that isn't either of those two voltage levels? (due to for instance crisscrossing paths resulting in some randomly rare interferences between them) Then you'll round it up/down to the nearest correct voltage level, and assume that is the signal that was meant to be sent. 

    This might be what he's meaning by saying "noise reduction". It's very much the wrong terminology (unless you're thinking in a very abstract sense? Such as the final image. But we're not, we're discussing signal flow here), I'd call this error correction or signal conditioning. 

    You have to remember that Joel has zero formal background in engineering/physics. He's got a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Painting.

    (however, this is very much the area of physics I did at uni. One of my mates who was my lab partner way back in first year even, that we then went through uni together, actually has now been working for Apple for the past decade as one of their camera engineers) 

      

    41 minutes ago, kye said:

    RAW isn't so RAW after all.....

    Never was. There are a lot of corrections / processing which it is better to do in camera.  (for instance at the fundamental level, you're always going to be taking an analog input and transforming it into a digital output. Once you've done that, is it truly truly "raw"? haha) 

  18. 3 hours ago, gt3rs said:

    S35: FX6 vs C300 III (C70) vs RED Komodo X

    FX6 is only large format (unless you drop down to HD). Unlike the FX9 which can switch between either LF or S35 mode. 

    Anyway, I'm guessing OP isn't too bothered by sensor size, and prefer to focus more on capabilities/features and the image itself. Which is a similar attitude to what I'd have too when deciding upon my next camera. (although, I'd have a preference for S35! But if the perfect camera I want is only LF, then I'll just have to live with it. Such as the Sony FX6, or the next Blackmagic 6K cine camera, if they bring out a "Pro" version with both L Mount and internal NDs!)

    3 hours ago, gt3rs said:

    I bet Canon will update beginning of next year the C300 and/or the C500 to move to RF mount as the C70. They just released the cinema primes in RF and now the new RF 24-105 2.8 power zoom so the road is clear. 

    I agree, I bet a new C200/C300/C500 is just around the corner with an RF mount. And I'm betting out of those three, they'll probably have it be the C300 they update first to an RF Mount. 

    3 hours ago, gt3rs said:

    A FF 8k/6k RAW camera with a photo lens will produce a sharper and provably a bit more HDR look than a S35 4k with a cinema lens....

    Nope, not at all necessarily true. 

  19. 5 hours ago, kye said:

    All those arguments could be made about shooting 1080p.  Good luck trying to hold back "technological progress"!!

    And guess what... you'll be surprised how many productions still shoot in 1080!

    I think I work on 4K productions more often than "less than 4K" productions (so including 2K for instance here as well). 

    But I'm honestly not sure!

    4K might be losing out. (but if 4K isn't in the majority yet, I get the feeling it will be soon. Can just depend on a bit of random chance, what type of productions I've been working on lately) 

    This just gives you an idea of how slowly things can change, it's certainly not 4K+ only and always being used everywhere. 

    And why ProRes is still the most popular choice, and won't be going away any time soon. 

    Things change slower than you think. 

  20. 5 hours ago, newfoundmass said:

    Yeah, I think BRAW is significantly trailing when it comes to ProRes RAW, or at least that has been my experience when dealing/talking with professionals that have a reason to shoot it.

    Even ones using lower end mirrorless cameras, I see Atomos Ninjas for RAW recording more than BMD Video Assists. I think it's to their own detriment that they don't support ProRes RAW if they are able to, especially as it pertains to Final Cut users who are increasingly getting fed up with how outdated the app feels and would switch to Resolve.

    Yup, and for everyone using mirrorless cameras recording raw onto an external recorder, well, that's an entire market segment which I rarely overlap with! As it's a bit too low budget to ever use a Sound Mixer much. 

    And that end of the market has less of a need to confirm to any particular workflow demands, or can be more flexible with their workflow in making changes to accommodate, or they just simply don't care

  21. 4 hours ago, Jedi Master said:

    I also learned that I was completely mistaken about ProRes support in DaVinci Resolve Studio. I was under the assumption that ProRes wasn't supported at all, but have learned that only ProRes RAW isn't supported. I've downloaded a bunch of ProRes footage shot on the Kinefinity and have noticed that it plays very smoothly in Resolve. Much better than typical H.264 footage and far far better than H.265 footage. No need for proxies at all.

    ProRes is is the widespread industry standard, I work on productions more often using ProRes than anything else!

    It is absolutely unthinkable that DaVinci Resolve wouldn't support ProRes

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