Peter Rzazewski

Hey all. Thank you for your comments. After much research and posts on multiple forums, I went with the OWC 16tb thunderbolt and configured it to raid5 using soft raid. It seems to be the best bang for your buck with good user ratings. So far, working on it a few weeks, it has been an absolutely god send. Editing is no longer a pain. No need for proxies, especially coupled w the iMac 5k + 32gb ram and internal SSD. NOW I can work uninterrupted!!!!!!

Hey Aaron. I was looking for a portfolio of your work to see if you have what it takes, and it took some searching but I did find your site. I wouldn't be surprised if others are interested in the same. You have some very nice work in your portfolio. Why not establish some credibility on the kickstarter page and link to it? I'd love to help you with pre-production, and possibly production if you'd like to collaborate remotely. Cheers.

For modifiers I use this small kit on 80% of shoots: http://www.adorama.com/djfkpb.html

Most LEDs and small lights have absolutely no throw, and can only be used as fill lights, in smaller spaces (cars, tiny rooms, etc etc). The problem with more affordable lights is that their color temperature is unique to them. hahaha


Try these:
http://www.amazon.com/Aputure-Amaran-AL-528S-Video-Light/dp/B00LC0OVEI#Ask
 
or these:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1081927-REG/switronix_tl_bt220r_bolt_220r_dimmable_led.html
 
or these:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1123056-REG/rotolight_rl_neo_rotolight_neo_on_camera_led.html
 
 
Check them at a store close to you, and then decide which ones to pick up. try not to pick up too many different lights, cause then your colour temperatures will look different every few feet. Also, please post your own experiences with the lights.

Good luck

There was a little discussion on lights a little while ago, maybe it's of any use to you: http://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/8033-led-lighting-fresnels-redheads-etc/ .
From the recent NAB 2015 one of the highlights seems to have been the Wescott Flex: http://www.fjwestcott.com/led-lighting/flex .
Can't really give you any recommendations as all I got myself is some low-end stuff: Aputure AL-H160, AL-198 & AL-198C LED video lights with 2 stands (König KN-LS10) & 1 ministand (PhotoSEL ST121) and one eBay ringlight softbox.

Are you using Premiere? I've done this in FCPX with "optical flow" (same as Twixtor).
 
I may be reading your post wrong, but do you need to tell your NLE to actually conform the footage after dropping the 50p into the 25p timeline? You have to do this in FCPX, otherwise it just converts the 50p to 25p and it plays at normal speed. That's not what you want.
 
So, conform first so that your footage plays at half speed, and then add Twixtor and slow it by a further 50% (i.e. interpolate every other frame). That should work. Otherwise I'm missing something.
 
The description on this video explains how I did it in FCPX, albeit with 60p conformed to 24p so the %'s will be different to yours ...
 

I just sold the GH4 and upgraded to the C100 Mark II. Aside from not having 4k, Im thrilled with the C100 so far. I won't go on about it here but it's freaking amazing (built in nd, dual slot recording proxies, log profile, 60p, small but high DR files, wifi, xlr,)... ill stop now.

I just sold the GH4 and upgraded to the C100 Mark II. Aside from not having 4k, Im thrilled with the C100 so far. I won't go on about it here but it's freaking amazing (built in nd, dual slot recording proxies, log profile, 60p, small but high DR files, wifi, xlr,)... ill stop now.

I edit on a dual-core late 2013 macbook pro laptop. I can edit GH4 .mov H.264 files natively without problem. I can also edit 4k ProRes 422 HQ without a problem. I use a G-Drive 2-drive RAID enclosure, thunderbolt. It wasn't cheap, but not as expensive as the Pegasus. I use it in RAID 1, for drive redundancy, so don't get the benefit of RAID 0 speeds. 
However, I can also easily edit off a single G-Drive USB3 external, if I'm only doing one stream of GH4 H.264 4k or ProRes converted footage. 
But, this is all in Final Cut X. Premiere Pro is vastly slower, and a serious pain in the ass to use. It can't be hard drive speed because the data coming off the drive is the same. So I would say your system itself is probably not fast enough. Firewire 800 is easily fast enough for most video streams (800 mbit/sec is faster than the 220 mbit/sec of 1080p ProRes HQ and not quite enough for the 960 mbit/sec of 4k ProRes HQ but since most ProRes HQ doesn't need the max bitrate you'd be likely to handle a single stream on FW800 just fine in the real world), so USB3 or Thunderbolt wouldn't be absolutely necessary (although really nice to have). 
My point is that you're not likely being held back by your hard disks unless they are USB 2.0 or FW400 and also internally very slow (5400 rpm or something). You're much more likely to be limited by your GPU/CPU with Premiere, and possibly by RAM although I have 16GB and again, no issues at all.
If 4K is essential to you, you need a much faster system. Otherwise, I'd strongly recommend transcoding on import to 1080p 422 ProRes standard (not HQ or LT). It's a perfectly good codec, much much easier on your CPU/GPU, and your hard disks are likely plenty fast enough to handle the increased bitrate and take some of the load off your processors.

GH4 4K files dont have that big a bandwith compared to prores for example - that would put more stress on the hard drives.

However since they are encoded in H264, they require a lot of cpu power.

Thunderbolt is just the connection type so unlikely to make much of a difference here, an SSD would be the only thing you could possibly look into that might help but most likely is your processor cores or RAM is maxing out (see whats happening in activity monitor when premiere stalls)

I edit on a Mac Tower w Nvidia graphics card so it will be faster than any laptop.  But I've been able to do quick edits on my Macbook Air with the GH4 4K files.  The 4K files are really not the problem, you'll get the same performance if you shot 1080P 200mbits. 
 
Like I said in my post before, I use the Final Cut Pro XML option between Premiere Pro and Resolve.  If you really want proxies, you could just render in ProRes422 Proxy at 1080P, then render, edit in Premiere Pro, replace the footage in Premiere Pro and export the XML to Resolve.  I've never done it that way, but it's worth a try.  To replace foorage in Premiere Pro, click on the footage you want in the bin, then click the timeline footage and pick replace -> footage from bin.  So you have two sets of footage - original 4K from GH4, 1080P ProRes422 Proxy.
 
I really hope this helps out!  Good luck on your project!

What I do is edit everything in premiere pro.  I use the scale option in the motion section of the effects for the clip, then copy it to every clip.  After the edit is done, I duplicate the timeline, select all clips and pick "remove effects" which will remove the scaling.  Then I export the XML.  Import into Davinci, set the frame size, and then scale the clips to the frame size. 
 
BTW I think you should use Davinci at the end for color correction.  I find it way more powerful than any of the tools in premiere pro.  Just my thoughts, I hope this helps!

It's a combination of an unsmooth pan and judder from panning too fast for the distance to your subject.
 
Explanation here:
 
http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/908/cpsid_90843.html
 
See the "seven second rule"

I was limited by the speed of my card so I could not record any higher than I did.
What I meant by full hd is the ability to record continuously, not super short clips.
I based that statement off this chart:

 
but things move very fast in magic lantern so maybe with the mlv format the capacities have been extended

Thanks, I'm not the one to ask for magiclantern workflows as I have only used it once in that vid.
 
But I can tell you that the new .mlv module is very handy.
You can preview your files in camera and watch them on your computer with the mlv player.
So that is a big improvement over the old .raw format.
 
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=7122.0
 
Regarding post-production workflow I always use the same.
I have a creative cloud subscription so I always use; premiere, speedgrade, and after effects.