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fascinating, an example im not familiar with, ill have to look it up~! of course i know what you mean, but would you mind elaborating? youre sayin, they were both shot on alexa with different lenses, yes...? i feel like im missing a bit of your insight 

colors lookin good

blackmagic has made progress

omg cool!! mattias how do you like that crazy thing?? whats it like?

oops sorry mattias i screwed up my quoting. i meant to copy this ^

using your wacom for video editing is fascinating to me, i do it too but i figured i might be like the only person on earth lol

a mouse can be a pain figuratively and literally. i have terrible carpal tunnel/nerve issues partly due to years of using a mouse 24/7 and for me just not doing that is pretty important tbh. my wrist is a hot mess lol. anyway i bet a lot of other ppl here have had issues like that, but have a continued need to work w computers, and anything besides a mouse – touchscreen, stylus, trackpad – is probably going to be way better for you in the long run, sure is for me

i feel you. i hate to say it but tbh i think all the shit tim cook says is a shoot* about them believing in ios and osx being separate companions – like he called surface "diluted" or something the other day? i was like rlly? ppl like that thing

right??? thats my plan for my ipad pro tbh

storyboarding is THE thing that id LOVE to be able to do on a tablet with a screen

i have to storyboard every shot of my entire f------- feature which is pretty challenging – storyboarding is hard

for me, i see everything very clearly in my mind, but theres something about the act of going from words on a page in a screenplay to a sketch that suggests space, camera angles and movement, lens focal length.... 

its like trying to remember a dream where, the more you think about it, the memory of it just disappears

idk if anyone can relate to that? storyboarding deserves its own thread~!

how do you make your storyboards, aarronchicago? stylus? what app? also, as a chicagoan, do you know cm punk and/or colt cabana? and cubs or white sox?

*shoot is a professional wrestling term, essentially meaning real. from wikipedia: A shoot in professional wrestling is any unplanned, unscripted or real-life occurrence within a wrestling event. The name does not originate from "shooting in" for a takedown, as in amateur wrestling, but rather, it is a carny term shortened from "straight shooting" which originally referred to a gun in a carnival target shooting game which did not have its sights fixed (terminology such as this reflecting the professional wrestling industry's roots in traveling carnivals).[1] This term has come to mean a legit attack or fight in professional wrestling and its meaning has broadened to include unscripted events in general. The opposite of a shoot is a work.

i find this very interesting as well...!

thats the advantage of, say, imovie on an ipad pro: its a touch based interface, if thats what youre looking for. v intuitive vs pointing and clicking

but the idea of stylus as a mouse substitution is completely legitimate for most desktop software as far as the existing UI, u kno? 

im really hopeful about the astropad/ipad pro combo. on paper seems like it could work

also fwiw i think that developers will eventually get on the "power apps" for ipad pro bandwagon, simply since apple is encouraging it. but its like a new video game system to write for.... itll take awhile lol. apple is clearly not leading the way by example there

as far as the hard drive... im with you, but dont hold your breath~!  although, as far as speed goes there is this so who knows

im 100% with you that ipad "apps" arent the same as desktop software. i wish they were more competitive, but its nice to see apple moving in that direction.

i dont see the ipad pro as a replacement for anything. im not trynna use mobile apps – even the ones that are part of my CC subscription – to edit photos... ever. like i said, for me, ipad pro w pencil would be a digital sketchbook – which is a huge deal. easily worth $1k to me just for that alone given the alternatives. im not a big iOS fan, but im not a big windows fan either... is there something that im missing about surface? im open to whatever... sell me on this

if an app like astropad or another solution could allow me to use scale and opacity control with brushes in photoshop on an ipad, thats icing on the cake (a lot of icing)

mmmmmm....... icing

this is a v cool idea for a thread i like this

WHO IS EXCITED ABOUT APPLE PENCIL????
HAVE YOU USED IT YET???????

as a stylus enthusiast i would love to start a discussion about this topic to get some feedback from you guys~!!!!!

who here uses a stylus????

DO YOU LIKE STYLUSES????

i do, theyre indispensable for me.

of course we’re talking about electronic styluses that work with computers and mobile devices!!!!!! not an actual pencil, paintbrush, or piece of vine charcoal (natural media which i will return to later in this electrifying post)

anyway, i found myself talking to TWO other artists at once today, random coincidence, where all three of us were bitching about the wait time for an Apple Pencil…so im clearly not the only one interested in this thing~!

ive found that i mainly use an electronic stylus for two main things: photoshop and taking notes

the photoshop part is ancient, ive been using a wacom tablet with photoshop for longer than id like to admit

the notes part is newer – something that ive always wanted to do, write notes and sketches on a mobile device~! the samsung galaxy note has been around for a while now but my first one was the note 3 and now i have a note 5

although ive used wacoms cintiq draw-on-screen devices, i havent spent enough low key time with one to be conclusive about those in relation to their screenless tablets, although the experience was very good, what i expected. anybody here use one?

from what i hear the microsoft surface has a stylus. you guys using that? looks like it has some nice features

ipads have had styluses that work with them for some time, and although i know many artists who have mind blowing sketchbooks made with them, the experience has never been enough for me. pressure sensitivity like im used to with my intuos wacom just isnt there, but considering ipads historically have never been designed to work with anything other than a finger… i actually find their third party styluses pretty impressive. not something id personally use, but a lot of folks do amazing work with them

tbh i havent really used an electronic stylus very much for the one thing that apples new pencil/ipad pro is all about: naturalistic analog drawing. but id like to

ive had a chance to use apples pencil (not to be confused with the product made by 53) a little bit and my first reaction is that its great – and the price point of an ipad pro isnt v close to a $2500 cintiq companion 2 so thats nice. i need more time with it in a real drawing app like procreate to be sure how good it is tho

but for me so far its the best electronic naturalistic 'real media’ drawing experience that ive had yet. saying this as a mac user who has NEVER owned an ipad: i would buy an ipad pro right this hot second if i didnt have to wait a month for pencil (its ‘backordered')

the thing is, dunno how this works outside the states, but in the US apple is in their holiday return period so instead of the usual two weeks, you have until January 8th to return or exchange stuff that you buy other than contracted phones (fyi!!!). that would give me almost two months to make sure i love it… but whatever ::sigh::

lastly, if i wanted my dream tablet to do something in addition to this "naturalistic drawing experience”, it would undoubtedly be what my wacom already does very well: pressure sensitivity in photoshop. im simply talking about brushes where you change their size and opacity through pen pressure

although an ipad pro sure as hell wont run photoshop, http://astropad.com/ipad/ is a thing that im very curious about. anybody tried it?? p amazing if it works, which ive heard it does, but never seen it in person. anybody use astropad???

WHO IS INTERESTED IN THIS TOPIC, DO YOU WANT AN APPLE PENCIL, DO YOU USE A STYLUS, DO YOU CARE, FAIR WARNNG IF NO ONE COMMENTS I WILL CRY

i love all that stuff. to me if youre going for a pretty, dreamy, cinematic feel, vintage lenses and highly resolving contemporary camera bodies are a match made in heaven

and, if you want a harder edge, you can definitely do that in your grade. i mean more so that its a painters brush paired with a surgeons scalpel ~ for the good

slightly off topic, but i just bought a bunch of these (and all of them work?!) from amazon

super cheap, uses all kinds of batteries including sonys and AAs, [somewhat] dimmable, gelable, lousy build quality but so lightweight you can tape them to anything, and hey theyre borderline disposable at $30~!

i just needed a bunch of rim lights for an outdoor shoot i did recently, and amazingly, they worked out great~! everyone got a kick out of the box lol

good to kno about the grip!!

Every A7S video shot in S-LOG/S-Gamut I've seen that's been handled by a professional colorist has looked great

could you post an example? i suspect that this is a subjective difference in opinion 

i was banned from czwfans

v impressed but this. super analogue-y. excellent motion cadencemo

disturbing how much i like this 

so goth

this is good feedback.

i say: great, youre keeping the 5d3, definitely try magic lantern raw like these guys said if you havent before. see if youre as blown away by the naturalism and color as people like me are, and if not, all good, shoot video with a highly capable a7s~!

i appreciate cost being an issue, so why not get that used a7s, spend time with it and see how you like it, and if you love it you could sell it and put that $ towards an a7sii in the near future~! who knows, after you use the a7s, you might not even be in a hurry to upgrade  

i like all your ideas. after some contemplation, i would say that ecstasy isnt particularly visual, but its something you feel very deeply, in an emotional and moreover physical way, and so an aural approach to this sounds good to me (sounds lol)

im not suggesting that the visuals shouldnt get "trippy", cuz they should, but id really play with the sound design as far as deeeep resonant sounds, where you can feel the vibrations through a good sound system. p much try to make a $400 pair of beats headphones explode lol

visually, i like where youre going like i said, my thought there is that if it was my piece id experiment with after effects to create a bit off a buzz, a vibration, focused around the focal point of the shots, particularly intense when people are speaking...

something fairly subtle, but a visual effect that gives a sense of vibration... a pulsing, humming... buzz. hmm im at a loss for adjectives atm but hopefully that makes some sense??

Hi Rand!!! omg just to be clear those comments totally werent directed to you at all~!!! just the first one

im with you 100%!!!!

when i was brand new to this and i was like LUTs what are LUTs? i was confused by reading stuff where users would refer to luts as a thing like an instagram filter that just colors your dslr footage - not that theres anything wrong with that lol - versus a log conversion process that is of course very different. confusing if all this is new to you! thats what i was talkin about

in goth news i just finished a new fine art piece thats basically a four foot tombstone with my name on it. it came out p good!!! its not 100% done actually but the couple people who have seen it both said "Beetlejuice!" and thats totally what i was going for so thats great. anyway it was raining outside so i had to bring it indoors and its next to me towering over my bed right now in my room and its goth af lolol

i like how you mentioned sound bc thats huge, id really go deep with that

have you ever been on ecstasy? do you want more specific feedback?

i dont mind saying: the only benefit of surviving a life of drug addiction is that you can SPEAK ON SHIT LIKE THIS

i have NEVER seen a film about heroin addiction that depicts that experience at all realistically smh. but, ykno, trainspotting was based on someone elses book etc etc

Hi Rand!!!! do we have a new goth?? hi????

yeah so, i feel like for new readers there could be some confusion after perusing this thread regarding the dichotomy between a discussion of subjective color grading, "looks" if you will, and the potential for pleasing color from the new a7sii [using slog3]. two totally different things, for the uninitiated 

also ~ a lot of these lut looks are reductive in nature in terms of color; fewer, flatter colors, which in my experience is definitely the case natively with slog2&3 relatively speaking, so the two have really gotten along swimmingly since the a7s blew up. not saying thats good or bad, thats another discussion

that being said, im gonna take a positive stance on the new a7sii slog3 footage and say that it looks ~WAY~ better than slog2 from the a7s

RIGHT!!!!! imagine this: a civilization advanced enough to harness the power of a star. how smart are THEY? 

hopefully theyre nice, i wasnt very nice to the ants that invaded my kitchen recently

if theyre anything like us that is definitely true lol

i think people can handle the news now but undoubtedly not in the past. if i was president during the height of the cold war and a ufo crashed on the white house lawn id have a press conference where id march out my press secretary wearing a ridiculous alien costume to mock the whole thing and id call it a weather balloon and be done with it

WOW. wth 100% agree same same same!!!

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2.5k for 1080p on youtube i like it  

yeah this is a rad camera. my friend has one, got to use it for a bit – loved the build quality, just fit in my hand really really well, surprisingly lightweight tho? and super for stills

anyway the bitrate vs results makes zero sense what the heck is going on there lol

also, @Mattias Burling - this is crazy~!

wow??!? 

true story... ::sigh:: its p disappointing... and i never go above 800 iso, learned not to quickly 

or the lens 

honestly when i first started using the cam i had this subconscious thought that i didnt rlly wanna acknowledge and tried to bury that was like 'Hope i can sell this thing before the lens or lcd breaks'

of and fwiw ive been using rec709 for gamut w slog2 and custom settings... i fought with pp7 quite a bit and finally gave up. wish i had some awesome insight on slog2 color but sadly i do not smh

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