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I understand the situation that you pose, I live in a country where human rights are trampled by the state, despite the visits of the UN, Amnesty International HRW, it is increasingly difficult to register these violations, the state and its police, you They chase, destroy your equipment and harass you. I am currently working on a project to denounce these acts and I am evaluating the same alternative, beyond the use of a pseudonym, it is about avoiding pressures, jail or harassment of your family. I personally believe that documentary cinema has a commitment to historical memory and is a small act of cultural resistance.

To spare the expense of buying one, I think you could use a single GH2 if you wanted a video challenge with it.
Start with someone who doesn't mind being parted with it for a while, they make a film over two days with it and then they post it on to the next person who does the same over two days and then sends it on etc until it gets back to the original owner.
Even for people who don't own any MFT lenses there are plenty of adapters on eBay for under £10 so its not going to break the bank to take part.
As forum members are spread out all over the world, it would be quite an interesting project even if the subject was just "one day where I live".
If no one fancies parting with their own GH2, it wouldn't exactly be difficult to throw £10 each into the PayPal account of someone trusted to group buy one off eBay.
I know of a cheap one for sale in Cairo.

I'm not buying anything, not once again!

It depends. The Vimeo network is really good. I’ve connected with a lot of really interesting and talented people through Vimeo. I’m sure people could say the same about YouTube.
The player / embed also looks way more professional on a website. 
I’ve always had really nice luck with the quality of their player. ProRes LT uploaded to their site handles film grain wonderfully. I never see macro blocking like I do on YouTube. 

Have you ever heard of the HTML <video> tag? The times where you had to embed players (back in the days, via Adobe Flash) are gone for 10 years now.
What exactly is the "video player issue and the standard on page display issue"?
I tell you what: they don't exist, and you're just making up nonsense, like you always do here, because you are a full of shit.
"I build and maintain a lot of wordpress sites" - yes, and you also hire and direct DPs from Disney and have internal connections to Canon, among many other things that you wrote here before.
Your postings are not only bullshit, they poison this forum (and people looking for advice) with wrong information.
Can somebody please check your Egyptian IP address?

Youtube compression doesnt like grain(facebook compression is the worst though), so I cant skip vimeo. Too bad the alternatives are so limited.

Nothing changes, everything uploaded remains online. I know this because I have done this (also asked their support before stopping to pay).

I see videos on vimeo that i enjoy more because I follow those directors/dps/producers etc. there than I see on youtube. On Vimeo you follow those people and
on Youtube you have commercial accounts and youtubers. Vimeo is for people who do videos I look up to and youtube is for everyday videos, gear reviews, tutorials and "general culture". But I no longer consider vimeo as a viable payment plan. Their user experience is too bad to recommend.

I second that. I can no longer recommend Vimeo. In the last few years, I've had terrible viewing experiences when I don't have that issue on youtube. Vimeo is only recommendable for "community" but even that is no longer the case as it once was.

Most of it will be blocked/be no longer visible and only be unlocked when you renew the paid subscription.

Yes ditch. Yes YouTube is the only viable alternative.
Welcome to the fucked up US monopoly of internet services

Handbrake/Vidcoder's decomb and Bob does a pretty solid job on most things. It's probably the easiest unless you're familiar with something like AviSynth. 

I work with a lot of SD footage still and I never "stretch" it. I do, when mixing it with HD footage, upscale and crop sometimes but only if there's not a lot going on in the clip and the framing looks OK, like a talking head. I usually pillar box it if there's action going on. Depends on the project. 
If you're just remastering stuff I'd do it in it's native aspect ratio. If you're putting it on YouTube I'd probably upscale it just so you get that bump in bit rate, but definitely keep the 4:3 aspect ratio. 

Yes. I would never stretch anything. 

If you put a link here I can make a Premiere project for you (Providing FCP3 projects open in FCP7)

Based on the link below, I'm thinking that the conversion from FCP7>FCPX is not a necessary step, seems that the FCP7 XML file should import into PPro with a few caveats (mentioned in link)...
FCP 7: Move Projects to Premiere Pro | Larry Jordan:
https://larryjordan.com/articles/fcp-7-move-projects-to-premiere-pro/
...read the comments if moving to PPro CC.
Curious how big your FCP7 project is, and where you're located? (i.e. how do you envision providing someone with the project and all of the media files to make this happen?) Also, NSFW or SFW? (Need I mention why?!) :)

Yep. I use this for sharing projects with mixed versions on Premiere Pro. 

You could just do FCP7 - XML - Adobe PP
You'll lose any keyframes / opacity / audio work etc. - but the base edit should still translate fairly well.

Wow @sanveer maybe take it easy with the name calling, finger pointing and fascism? Your last post is truly vile and I don’t think you want to go down this route in this forum.

I don't think you're going to make any money going that route. if money isn't a goal, that's fine. but even if it's to be seen, the film will be buried so deep in their libraries that almost no one will even accidentally stumble upon it. a good avenue for indies that want eyeballs and decent money (that aren't picked up by a mini-major for distribution) is still cable VOD. it outperforms all other platforms. not that you shouldn't also get it onto itunes, netflix, prime, hulu, etc. but cable VOD will account for the majority of revenue. the last time i released a feature, it was 79% of revenue. itunes was about 15%. all other platforms combined made up the remainder.
my advice is to submit it to small distributors that have strong relationships with cable providers across north america. do a day and date theatrical release of at least 15 north american cities, and make sure the cable providers know you're doing it, so that your title is listed under "new release" and "now playing in theaters" on their VOD systems. Otherwise you run the risk of going in as a library title where no one will find you unless they already know you title and browse alphabetically for it. a day and date theatrical release will give you premiere placement on cable VOD system resulting in 5-10x more revenue.

If the EOSHD site was solely about cameras, and that was it, full stop, then I say a ban on politics is fine. 
However, Andrew's site has always been a place that is non-corporate and "unsterile," if you will.  He's not afraid to drop his opinion and that's why I stick around.  If I want bland regurgitated information, there's plenty of on-line options for that.
Crossing the line is something all of us but the most rhetorically disciplined have been close to doing, but erring on the side of staying respectable isn't too hard to do.
And, ultimately, EOSHD is a site that prioritizes gear, but also exists as a refuge for aspiring filmmakers.  Filmmakers should have passion.  Otherwise, what are we?  Just content creators?  That's okay for some I guess, but standing for one's ideals with integrity and rationality should be a filmmaker's or artist's ethos.
One of the most influential people in my life was a high school teacher that was willing to engage us students.  He would talk about the world and encourage us to participate in it as productive citizens. His lectures were fascinating revelations about his value system and why it worked.  Often times we would stray from that semester's syllabus and spend the whole hour just chatting about ideas.  We were a room of equals simply by the way he behaved and respected us, a bunch of dumb high-schoolers that really didn't deserve such treatment... but there he was giving us agency when every one else in the system, it seemed, wanted to make sure we stayed in our place.  
Funny thing was, he was an auto-shop teacher.  The other funny thing was that he was a staunch conservative.  An 'all-in' Reaganite; can't even count how many times he went on about Thatcher either, to give you an idea. 
I thought his ideas about society we're complete and utter rubbish.  Still do.  But the fact that he didn't beat me down with ad-hominem attacks because I disagreed with him, and encouraged me to debate made him the best teacher I ever had.
I still can't do a valve job properly and fix a timing chain, but he let me realize how important it was to have integrity, a slightly more important lesson.
Meanwhile I had a liberal English teacher so far up her own ass you couldn't say one thing to her sideways without her feeling insulted.  And she was teaching writing for god's sakes!
So there you go.  My anecdotal response.  Whoopie-de-doo.  Bottom line, conservatives ain't all bad, but some are.  Liberals ain't all bad, but some are.  Be kind and try to ignore the true jerks that just don't want to respect you.

I am not French but live in France...
A couple of weeks back, when we lived in a free sane world where we earned a living and toilet paper was not a topic of everyday discussion, I was at my chiro and he whilst he was twisting my neck at angles I would not myself, he said, “so what do you think of French men?”
Not sure what he was asking or why, I gave some kind of non-commital response.
”Zey are arrogant!” he said in his thickly accented English, “yes, Frenchmen are like pigs, we think we are ze best...and I can say zis because I am a Frenchman!”
So there you are, it is official.

The world is in a really dark place at the moment, but I think we need some hope.
Let's assume by July or August, we'll be through the worst of it and have a Canon EOS R5 to play with.
Maybe Fuji will surprise us with an X-H2 by then and Sony with an A7S III.
And hopefully some sport will be back on as well. I was going to film some of it!
So I think we should have one thread for the virus crisis, where we share tips about staying safe, hygienic, etc. and are free to discuss our fears too. Many will lose their income streams and they will need a place to talk and get help.
But I think my role now is to boost the camera side of the forum, get some camera related blogs out and stop my own coronavirus worries taking over from that. It's very hard to turn off the news when you have loved-ones in high risk groups and places. I will now try to do that and get back down to business.
Good luck to all who are trying to stay positive and trying to work without so much negative distraction in the world.
I salute you. 👍