Charlie

Hi all, Up to now I have been making shorts for festivals and modelling / music videos just for the fun of it!! A company contacted me recently after seeing my website and have asked me to make a video for them. They are like "Escape Room" where people play a game that is some kind of mystery. I have never been but you may know what I mean as these kind of companies are all over the world. The video they want is to be shown during one of the games, at the beginning, middle and end. It is three parts that help/or not, the players during the game. Each part is a monologue with an actor giving advice or instructions. They are hiring me as Director, Cinematographer and Editor, basically they want me to do everything, BUT they will arrange the location and set design. I have already told them they will need a sound recordist on set who they will have to organise and pay separate. (I know someone and they have his details). At the end of it all, I will provide them 4 video files - The three separate monologues. One teaser video for web promotion. It can be shot in one day I think, no problem. At a guess I will need three full days to edit/grade etc. - So 4 full days of my time, skills and equipment. I am trying to get by filmmaking business off the ground and this is a great opportunity! What would you charge????....and what should I need to make sure is in the contract? I honestly would be so grateful for some guidance here. Thanks!!!

Cheers Cinegain I would take the colour as you show, normally. However, I am making of modelling videos set to music right now and the music to this video is very dark instrumental hip hop, I want it cold. The only saturation I want is with her eyes and blue hair. Any ideas??

Hi all, its been a while! When I mask the skin on this shot the vector scope tells me i am way off, however, i referenced the models skin from one of her professional photographs that i liked. Im happy with the look, but technically its wrong?? What do you think?? Cheers!! ?

To be honest, im not blow away by it so far. My 32GB 3000mhz RAM, for example, currently only runs at 2133mhz. Many people are having this problem, especially with Corsair RAM apparently. Ryzen is new technology, im sure things will improve with bios updates etc. I came from an old i5 2500k processor and was expecting much more of an improvement overall. Don't get me wrong, it is much, much faster. But its buggy. I'm not fan of Windows 10 either but you have to use it for Ryzen as they are not supporting Windows 7. With all that said, im not an expert on optimising, overclocking etc. Im sure others are getting much better results than I am. I need more time to test different things.

I have a new Ryzen 1700 system. It will not playback 4k 10bit GH5 files smoothly without creating proxies. I have not tried 8bit footage.

Man I think ive got a headache!!!! sounds like there is really no benefit of moving away from proxies. I dont use Resolve....way more functionality than I need

Cheers!!.....that should free up space on my hard drive, hopefully!....

If I transcode rather than using proxies, can I then delete the original MOV files? If I cant then I might as well stick with the proxy workflow in Premiere.

OK, so I should see major improvements in rendering speed, adding multiple video fx etc....but not in real time playback? The proxy workflow in Premiere CC 17 is fantastic but those proxies sure add to the overall size of the project.

H264, yes SSD. I thought moving to this system would mean I would no longer need proxies or to convert to prores or whatever. I could already edit with proxies in my old core i5 system. Surely I haven't spent all this money for nothing??

I just got my Ryzen system built yesterday and went into a Premiere project, switched off my proxy files expecting playback of 4k files to be butter smooth but....No....its not!! I am thinking i must have something set up incorrectly cause the system should sufficient - Ryzen 7 1700, 32GB RAM, Radeon RX 480 Nitro 8GB. Any ideas??? Cheers

I totally agree, that professional colourists produce amazing results on these big films. They have the skills, knowledge and systems to correctly utilise log footage (although my examples were shot on film). How many low budget filmmakers even have a computer that can properly edit 10 or 12 bit log footage? Not many I would guess. Im pretty sure most consumer graphics cards can't even output 10 bit colour. Then you need a monitor that can display it. At the bare minimum. What im saying is that there seems to be be some sort of idea going round that shooting log is going to give you cinematic results when it wont.

Alicante doesn't even have a camera shop, my only suggestion would be El Corte Ingles. Failing that the closest decent camera stores are in Valencia or Murcia. Alicante sucks for many things!!....it does have amazing weather, beaches and women though, maaaan the women!!! Lol. Im never going back to blighty ? I agree by the way, you should try and get the colours you want in the camera, by getting your locations and lighting how you want it to look in the film, or a close as possible.

It seems these days everyone is crazy about log footage, more specifically, making sure "detail is kept" in the shadows and the highlights arent blown out. Every video I see on colour grading you have people saying to check your "skin tone" line on the vectorscope. Then you have a million Luts available to just slap on your footage......blah blah blah. Is it just me or is anyone else tired of this trend? More and more films, more often short films end up looking the same...washed out, no contrast, desturatred, flat and boring. I myself got obssessed with checking scopes every minute while grading and to be honest i have found it taking the fun/creativity out of the process. Some of my favourite films have crazy colour work (City of God, Man on Fire, Oldboy to name few). Sometimes the colour is completely unreastic but this is film, not life. Why does it seems many people are so obssessed about having realistic colours at all times. I even see people masking faces to make the skin colour natural in unatural lighting!!...what is this madness. If you are sat next to a green light your skin will not be rosy pink! When I made my last short (below as example) I didnt know anything about scopes, luts, log, whataver, I just changed the colours by eye to something that I liked and thought fit the mood. I have decided to take that approach and the film I am currently editing. If I blow out a window, crush blacks, have unrealistic skin tones, I dont care. Sometimes all this technology curbs creativity, dont get me wrong, I want V-Log for the GH5 and will use it. I just dont like this trend of approaching filmmaking like a science. Rant over! What do you think? am I talking out of my rear end!!

I have no idea if it is the most powerful solution, most likely no way, but it is a very powerful solution for the price. Depends what you need ?

Just done the same, here is my full spec.......... AMD Ryzen 7 1700 MSI B350 TOMAHAWK Socket AM4 AMD Ryzen 7th Gen Athlon DDR4 USB 3.1 ATX Motherboard Sapphire Radeon Nitro Plus RX 480 OC 8GB GDDR5 Corsair 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) Vengeance LPX DDR4 Memory Kit Fractal Design Define R5 Black ATX Midtower Silent PC Computer Case OCZ 600W PSU ModXStream Pro Series Samsung EVO 500GB SSD Toshiba P300 High Performance 2TB Internal Hard Drive The above cost me just close to £900. (Minus the last three items in bold which I already had from my existing PC) The Ryzen 7 1700 comes with a good cooler too!! See my spec above!

Its an OCD thing!!!......I dont like to have to much going on in the same project file. Hurts my brain....hahhaha. Ive been following this guys workflow method on Youtube, he has the best tutorials ive come across. Straight info, no waffle!.....great channel

That is exactly what I have done!....The new Pluraleyes panel is great. That screen grab show the pluraleyes timeline with the scratch audio replaced. Created automatically by Pluraleyes.

I was using the electronic stablisation in that clip.

Cheers, I shouldnt need to ADR. Its just, depending on the take, one channel might be better than another, so I suppose I could copy the best takes onto a new channel then just mute the main 3 channels, if you understand what i mean!!

I'd have to disagree on the IBIS, I think its great...here is a take from a film I am currently editing, shot with a zeiss distagon 28mm lens (unstabalised lens obviously) I am actually blown away by this camera in every way!!!

Hi all, Im pretty new to premiere and just wanted to know how other people deal with multiple audio sources of dialogue. I am creating a project for each scene, then I am creating audio synched sequences and then merging the audio with the video. I will later import the edited scenes in to one master project. My sound guy used two lavs and a boom for most set ups, do i just pick the best audio and delete the rest??? Cheers!

Thanks!

My two cents. GH5 easily No overheating, screen doesn't dim when record, hardly noticeable rolling shutter, better body design, 10 bit, the list goes on. The auto focus is poor on the GH5 but I dont care. I make films, not family videos.

I found the peaking to be the same as you describe on the G85. I sent it back.