newfoundmass

10 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

The social media abuse is one thing but I'd like to bring this topic back to what Canon Rumors guy says in his actual tweets above.

I am interested to hear all your opinions on this more so than anything else.

50K ad guys

CR guy falling out with YouTubers

Gannon at DPReview (who writes all the clickbait on the news feed)

Industry is turning into a cess pit and it isn't much fun to be involved in it.

Unless the audience and consumers turn away from this and stop watching, stop clicking, stop endorsing, the problem of cronyism is going to get worse.

Why aren't we on Roger Deakin's forum instead or taking lessons from other top DPs?

The sad reality is none of this is shocking, and could be seen coming for years. That most YouTubers and reviewers are enthusiasts at heart and never intended to be impartial, they were easy pickings for these brands. It's almost comical how little it costs to do, too. 

Before to market your product you'd have to spend millions to advertise. Now all you have to do is email a 100 YouTubers, send them free stuff, and then watch them shill the products. The real brilliance is all the other YouTubers that then will follow their lead without even getting the products for free because 1. They want those hits, too. 2. They too want to get the attention of these companies and get free stuff, so they too shill in hopes of one day getting one of those emails. And all these companies had to do was pay for postage and the production cost of whatever product they're sending. Even when they were flying people out to exotic locations for camera announcements, it was a drop in the bucket compared to what they used to have to spend. 

These companies will continue to try and co-opt anyone they can. All we can do is hope that those that have ethics will continue to do things the right way. 

17 hours ago, Robert Collins said:

Somehow I think the logic is back to front here. I have always felt comfortable telling my friends that 'I think they are talking absolute garbage' when I think they are. It would shock me if I subsequently met them in a 'grocery store' (full stop.) But if I did and I enquired about their family, I would be pretty surprised if they told me to 'fuck off'.

 

Knowing someone and being friends with someone are two completely different things. But if you run into someone you know at the grocery store, or somewhere else, it's pretty common to be friendly, say hello and ask how their family is doing even if you're not particularly close to the person. It's just how things are in small towns like mine where you've known these people your entire life. It doesn't stop some of them from being absolutely awful on social media, saying something disrespectful and then being friendly to you like nothing happened when you see them out and about in town. These people think they can behave a certain way online without repercussions. It's awful. Telling them to fuck off is being too kind for a lot of people's behavior online. 

On 2/5/2022 at 5:15 PM, Xavier Plagaro Mussard said:

Until a couple of years ago. Now people with their full name and with a profile picture of their family, posts in FB wishing death to someone else. It is sad, more than anything.

But adults are turning into rabid teenagers with zero responsibility.  

Yeah, I'll see someone I know say something incredibly disrespectful to me because we disagree on politics, but then when I see them at the grocery store it's all smiles and asking how my family is doing, etc. When I tell them to fuck off (quite literally) they act shocked and confused.

I don't mean to paint all older folks with the same brush, but people that didn't use the internet much all the sudden became super connected once smart phones took over the market and immediately became the shittiest users on the internet. Now your 60 year old aunt spends most of her day shit posting and making casual racist comments on Facebook but wonders why things are now awkward with you on holidays. 

Yeah, social media has become such a detriment to society at this point. I'm constantly blown away seeing adults, some in their 50s and 60s, acting like children and reveling in their ignorance. It's frustrating and depressing all at once. 

The lack of ibis really hurts this.

13 hours ago, Andrew Reid said:

Tokina had a tiny increase as well.

Otherwise it looks to me as if the release of so many Canon EOS R cameras and lenses in 20-21 did take business of nearly ALL the other brands.

Really like the look of those small Angenieux

Why are people so Canon obsessed?

It's what people know / started with, I think. I know so many people who don't even consider trying out other brands. It's strange. 

Sony seems to be doing this in quite a few areas, including their Playstation business. They've slowed down / stopped production of PS4 controllers due to shortages, for example. You can't find them in stores here, and they're sold out on Amazon and Walmart. 

Seems like they're redirecting their resources into their most valuable products, at least for now. 

I'm so sorry for your loss @Danilo Del Tufo

4 hours ago, Matt James Smith ? said:

Hang that, it actually looks like the AT8022 does allow 3.5mm - interesting!

I was just about to say that I believe it has a battery option! I just wish there was more examples/quality reviews. If you decide to try it maybe you can do one? 🤔😉

It really depends on how much you're looking to spend. I've used a Zoom H1 into a camera before, and currently use two Tascam TM-2X into my GH5 and G85 for sporting events where I want crowd noise. Both those two are pretty budget friendly and are "good enough" though I'd love to eventually upgrade. 

I've heard good things about the Sennheiser MKE 440 and is probably what I'll end up upgrading to. Audio Technica also has the AT8022 and the more expensive BP4025 but there aren't a ton of reviews out there for them. 

I'm still unsure what you were expecting him to do with a shot like that? I'd kinda understand if you were criticizing him for not getting a better shot, but as far as a grade for that specific shot I'm not sure what else he could do to it. As stated, it's Alberta in late November on a cloudy, gray day. Where I live it's pretty much like that too, from November until April or May. 

This just seems petty. 

DR is great but also really overrated. It's one of those things that really only matters to us video dorks. 

It's Canada in late November. I'm not sure what you're expecting from that shot... I suppose he could've made it look unrealistic? 

I'd be more critical of his shot choice than his grading of Alberta when everything is gray and muted. 

10 hours ago, Emanuel said:

I (obviously) agree with both of you as user but I'd say it is because of their segmentation coming from their business model :- )

If they were THAT concerned with segmentation they wouldn't release a camera that can double as a cine camera, including RAW. 

Why not just make it so people can choose between gain or iso? 

Are there any examples of any of these broadcast cameras BMD has released being adopted by any broadcasters? 

What's auto focus like? That would be useful for a broadcast camera. 

It's wild what $4k can get you these days. 

Accessing the data over wifi and transferring it to an SSD for editing would work, assuming you have a good router, but I think you'd run into issues if you just imported the files from your NAS and tried editing off it. You're not just limited by your wifi speeds but also your NAS drives speeds. You'd probably want to set up a wired home network for something like that, I think. 

1 hour ago, tupp said:

Folks, Fresnel lights on set generally have a continuous "focus" range of beam angles from "spot" to "flood."  The range of those beam angles varies with each fixture.

I can't recall all the times I've seen someone illuminate a diffuser with a Fresnel light, but almost always they focused the light to "full flood" to completely illuminate the diffuser

My fresnel attachment that I use on my Godox COB lights doesn't really do a good job in "full flood", though it works great when in spotlight (which is my primary use for it.) I imagine you'd get better results from a nicer one then? 

I'm not on major sets, just small commercial ones, and I've never seen a fresnel attachment being used with diffusion, so I find that interesting. I still feel like the op would be better off using more lights instead of a fresnel attachment. Not to say he shouldn't get one, as they're very fun to play around with and good to have in your kit, I'm just not sure that it's the solution he'd want to go with for diffusion?

4 hours ago, barefoot_dp said:

He literally says in that video that the light is too harsh on its own. 

I own and use a couple of 1x1s and they are simply not large enough for a soft key. They're great for backlights, quick 'n' dirty portable/field/battery setups, or even as an eye light outdoors, but if you want soft light they come nowhere near competing with a COB light pushed through a softbox or scrim (at equivalent prices). Of course you can use a panel with a scrim or reflector too but most simply do not have the power. It's fine for his indoor setup, where he doesn't have to balance any ambient light and has a fairly tight frame so the light can be just a few feet from his face, but I doubt the setup he's demonstrating in that video would work in very many real scenarios (eg setting up an interview in front of a window in a cluttered office space).

I thought you meant an LED panel to use with diffusion, my bad. 

2 hours ago, barefoot_dp said:

I'm yet to find an affordable LED panel that offers the same size source/softness as a 4x4 diffusion frame (let alone a larger butterfly!).

Caleb reviewed one recently. https://youtu.be/EaYebQm3CpY

39 minutes ago, scotchtape said:

If I've learned anything about softlighting it's that nothing beats more power.  The most effective way to get more soft light is to literally get more lights.

Yes, the bigger the light the better. 

1 hour ago, barefoot_dp said:

does this mean a COB LED would give more output with a fresnel pointed towards say a 4x4 silk, than it would just mounting a softbox directly on to the light?

I don't think you'd get the spread you'd want / need since the light would be concentrated in one spot on the silk, though I've never tried it and never heard it being done. 

SSDs have come down in price so I archive footage to SSD drives now. I'll only use an M-disc if I'm mastering a DVD or Blu-ray that I know I'll need to copy in my duplicator in the future for small distribution runs.

On 11/3/2021 at 12:36 PM, BTM_Pix said:

If you don't mind a paid option ($49.99) then have a look at EditReady for transcoding them into ProRes which FCP will be happy with.

Free trial available too so you can make sure it works with your fancy new machine 🙂 

https://www.divergentmedia.com/editready

 

I was hoping to skip transcoding but looks like it's necessary for these files. 😞

On 10/30/2021 at 8:25 AM, newfoundmass said:

I have a client that, no matter what I ask, will upload spanned mts files separately and not the entire folder, so I have to merge them myself instead of letting the editing program handle it. 

On Windows I used TSmuxer. It wasn't perfect but it did the job to seamlessly merge the files, though I'd have to sometimes run the process a couple times to get it right. I think there's a version for Mac but I was wondering if there was a better option? I don't mind paid software as long as it's not too expensive and will be able to merge them seamlessly. 

My new MacBook Pro arrives Wednesday so I'm just trying to be ready for when it arrives 🙂

Oh and still looking for any recommendations for this. I tried TSmuxer but the output files make Final Cut Pro chug slowly for whatever reason. Any help would be appreciated! 🙏🏻